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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
David J. Critchley, Tom Hickcox, Bob Heuman, Joanne Conman,
Richard Campbell, Rick Heli,Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a bit of a slow week ...
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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A major Neanderthal site in Spain:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/09/23/inenglish/1348403145_969956.html
(in English)

And now we’re back to humans and neanderthals interbreeding:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2210403/Neanderthals-human-lived-side-Middle-eastern-caves-interbred-research-finds.html

Europeans didn’t get their pale skin from Neanderthals, however (apparently):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22308-europeans-did-not-inherit-pale-skins-from-neanderthals.html

Pondering whether Neanderthals were human:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/are-neanderthals-human.html

An academic minute on the Australopithecine diet:

http://wamc.org/post/dr-darryl-de-ruiter-texas-am-university-australopithecine-diet

Marking the centenary of Piltdown Man:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19685013

More on Neanderthals and feathers:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/09/do-feathers-reveal-neanderthal-brainpower/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/09/18/caveman-couture-neandertals-rocked-dark-feathers/

More on early humans hunting meat earlier than previously thought:

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-anthropologist-date-humans-meat-million.html
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AFRICA
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More on Madagascar’s ‘founding mothers’:

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/20-madagascar-settled-tiny-group-refugees-distant-lands
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Luxury Neolithic (and other era) objects from Tzipori:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=285944
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.timesofisrael.com/beads-etched-ostriches-among-prehistoric-remnants-uncovered-in-northern-israel/
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/in-tzipori-dig-israeli-archaeologists-uncover-luxury-objects-from-stone-age.premium-1.466430
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/734902.shtml

A very interesting demotic papyrus has been ‘deciphered’ and gives
clues about fiction in ancient Egypt:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/25/cult-fiction-traced-to-ancient-egypt-priest/

A Babylonian temple and other artifacts from a site in Southern Iraq:

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/25/240117.html

Evidence of another synagogue in Lycia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists-discover-second-lycian-synagogue.aspx?pageID=238&nID=30857&NewsCatID=375

A major project to map all of Israel’s sites west of the Jordan is coming to an end:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/mapping-israel-one-foot-at-a-time.premium-1.467472

An Academic Minute on that synagogue find at Huqoq:

http://www.wamc.org/post/dr-jodi-magness-university-north-carolina-chapel-hill-ancient-synagogue-unearthed

Not sure why this radiocarbon dating project seems to have a ‘Biblical timeline’ focus:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept12/DendroNSF.html

A pile of articles about Qumran:

http://asorblog.org/?p=3258&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=qumran-month-comes-to-a-close

Interesting posts at the Temple Mount Sifting Project blog:

http://templemount.wordpress.com/


The damage to Aleppo’s cultural features has become shocking:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/activists-deadly-fighting-in-aleppos-historic-old-city-sets-fire-in-medieval-souks/2012/09/29/679f4978-0a12-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_story.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20120925-syrias-archaeological-heritage-falls-prey-war
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C09%5C25%5Cstory_25-9-2012_pg4_7

Apparently there is no evidence implicating Hosni Mubarek in the transfer of
antiquities as gifts (or whatever):

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=568121&Itemid=1

Interesting story of a High Holy Day prayer book:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5819

… and Talmuds in the attic:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5890


Pondering prostitutes in early Jewish and Christian literature:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-holidays/recipes-for-the-jewish-high-holidays/2.499/of-prostitutes-and-prophets.premium-1.466746

Israel plans to restore the Jordan river:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-to-pump-life-back-into-sacred-river-6280293.html

More coverage of the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/manuscript-claiming-jesus-had-wife-is-a-clumsy-forgery-vatican/article4573996/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/jesus-wife-papyrus-hasnt-been-rejected-by-harvard-journal/2012/09/27/b9343bb0-08df-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-religion-jesuswife-idUSBRE88R0NT20120928
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Vatican-newspaper-weighs-in-on-Jesus-Wife-3899082.php
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57988
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20120927vatican-newspaper-weighs-jesus-wife.html?nclick_check=1&sf6308488=1

More on Egypt reopening some tombs to tourists:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/9561485/Egypt-reopens-ancient-tombs-after-renovation.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/travel/a/-/more/14953279/egypt-reopens-serapeum-of-saqqara/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Hellenistic coin hoard from Bulgaria:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2012-09-29&article=40141
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=143614

Latest finds from Tai Cochion/Anglesey:

http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/116320/important-roman-find-on-anglesey.aspx

Possible Roman/prehistoric site from Tezze di Arzigano

Analysis of a Roman die in a Gloucester Museum suggests it is
made of elephant ivory:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-19698105

They’re going to restore Telmessos’ ancient theatre:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-theater-in-center-of-city-undergoing-restoration-process.aspx?pageID=238&NewsCatID=375&nID=30671

In Our Time was looking at the Druids:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mqq94


One of those ‘why Stoicism matters’ pieces:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kareanderson/2012/09/28/five-reasons-why-stoicism-matters-today/

Latest CSA newsletter:

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#fall12

Turkey is trying to repatriate the bits of the Mausoleum from the BM:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bodrum-seeks-return-of-mausoleum-pieces.aspx?pageID=238&nID=30854&NewsCatID=375

More on that mosaic find at Antiochia ad Cragum:

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/article_d80ecfa8-06ca-11e2-954a-0019bb30f31a.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/work-begins-to-unearth-roman-mosaic-in-turkey.html?ref=science

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of a 35 000 years b.p. ivory workshop from Zeitz:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120926092620.htm


A 4200 years b.p. fortification system at La Bastida (Spain):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120927091542.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-archaeologists-unearth-year-old-fortification-unique.html


Very interesting fabric from a 2800 years b.p. burial in Denmark:

http://news.discovery.com/history/grave-fabric-denmark-120928.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120928093717.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-ancient-nettles-reveal-bronze-age.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uoc-asn092712.php

A 5000 years b.p. oak trunk from a bog/farmer’s field:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-19722595

Pen nibs dating from the time of Bulgaria’s Simeon I:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n288661

A medieval well from Bury St Edmunds:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19704177


Possible find of the church where John Balliol abdicated:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19731574

In the wake of all that Richard III stuff, there are calls to excavate
the remains (or find them) of Henry I:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-19725972


A feature/video on the destruction of Cyprus’ cultral heritage:

http://www.orthodoxie.com/actualites/europe/la-destruction-de-lheritage-culturelle-orthodoxe-de-la-partie-occupee-de-chypre/

An academic minute on courtly love in Tudor times:

http://wamc.org/post/dr-elaine-treharne-tudor-courtly-love

Marking the completion of a ‘Heather and Hillforts’ project in Wales:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-19761483

On Britain’s forests:

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/hugh-thomson-britain-forests-myth/


Trying to secure funding for the site of the Battle of Worcester (1651):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-19743140


That Wenlock jug that was stolen a while back has been returned
to the museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19742452

More Richard III:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/23/richard-3rd-third-iii-leicster-bones

More on that beeswax filling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/a-beeswax-dental-filling-that-lasted-6500-years.html?ref=science


Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A Tibetan statue is made of meteoric iron:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/statue-brought-to-germany-by-the-nazis-made-of-meteorite-a-858414.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19735959
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/tibetan_alien_statue_discovered_by_nazis/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/iron-man-carved-meteorite-230821139.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120926104255.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-buddhist-statue-nazi-meteorite-reveals.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58022

Artifacts from Alamparai are now on view:

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/tracing-the-origins-of-the-regions-earliest-mint/article3939437.ece

Latest on the Buddhist site in Afghanistan that is threatened by a copper mine:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/afghanistan-buddha-site-mine/index.html?hpt=hp_c1


Studying Song Dynasty ceramics:

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-professor-protocols-ancient-wares-technique.html

More on those Phillipine tombs:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/philippines/120923/unusual-ancient-tombs-found-philippine-jungle

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-heritage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Construction work in San Francisco has revealed the foundations of the old
city hall:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-City-Hall-ruins-from-1906-quake-found-3891123.php
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=8824934#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-8824934

Archaeologists have found the battlefield of the Rogue River Wars:

http://news.sou.edu/blog/2012/09/sou-archaeologists-discover-lost-indian-war-battlefield/

Budget cuts threaten access to Georgia’s state archives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/us/budget-cuts-to-limit-public-access-to-georgia-archives.html

Slideshow of child labour photos from the early 1900s:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-10013924.html

History of New York in fifty objects:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/nyregion/to-the-50-objects-that-define-new-york-add-15-more.html?ref=samroberts

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Brief item on finds from a shipwreck off Argentina:

http://www.theprovince.com/life/Argentine+officials+show+bounty+recovered+from+18th+century/7309816/story.html

Coverage of a conference about the Mayan long count calendar:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58025

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Archaeonews podcast 214:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2012/archaeo-news-podcast-214

Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Latest American Journal of Archaeology (TOC):

http://www.ajaonline.org/toc/1164


A younger Mona Lisa?:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57957
http://news.discovery.com/history/a-younger-mona-lisa-120927.html
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre88p1bd-us-art-monalisa/
http://www.arthistorynews.com/articles/1671_Mona_Lisa__the_prequel

Some ‘fake’ Turners have been authenticated:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/three-fake-j-m-w-turner-paintings-authenticated/?ref=design

They’ve called off the search for Leonardo’s ‘Battle of Anghiari’:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/search-for-lost-leonardo-halted/?ref=design


Historical examples of “indirect aggression”:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925102502.htm

Discussing repatriation, the black market, and related antiquities issues:

http://today.duke.edu/2012/09/whoowns

On the concept of ‘underdog’:

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/underdogged/

On fighting over depictions of the divine in American history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/opinion/fighting-over-gods-image.html

A flea market found Renoir may have been stolen:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/flea-market-renoir-may-have-been-stolen/?ref=arts


Feature on sites found with Google Earth:

http://mashable.com/2012/09/29/google-earth-amazing-discoveries/

Feature on sites which have been destroyed:

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13085064-sufi-saints-tomb-destroyed-in-mali-adds-to-long-list-of-ancient-sites-destroyed-worldwide


On rising Arctic temperatures:

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-high-arctic-tops-year-high.html

Coverage of a conference on medieval sermons:

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-discussing-medieval-sermon.html

A number of articles on underwater archaeology:

http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/09/tech-week-introduction/

On the importance of Magna Carta:

http://www.historytoday.com/ralph-v-turner/meaning-magna-carta-1215

Studying the lifespans of Korean eunuchs:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-eunuchs-outlive-men.html

More languages threatened with extinction:

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-european-languages-danger-digital-extinction.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Caesarea:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/all-hail-caesarea/2012/09/27/75ae98f4-01dc-11e2-b260-32f4a8db9b7e_story.html

Excerpt from Patrick Fermor’s travelogue in Southern Greece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/sep/28/patrick-leigh-fermor-mani-peninsula-greece?newsfeed=true
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Boston’s MoFA has a new coin gallery:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57944
http://www.artandcointv.com/blog/2012/09/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-debuts-only-gallery-dedicated-to-coins-at-a-major-u-s-art-museum/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n40.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n41.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Bronze:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9571941/Bronze-at-Royal-Academy-Seven-magazine-review.html

Pompeii:

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/British+Museum+aims+show+ancient+Romans+behind+closed+doors+with/7289610/story.html


Quinnipiac University is opening an Irish Famine museum:

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20120929irish_famine_museum_opening_at_connecticut_university/srvc=home&position=recent

A nice gift for the Princeton University Art Museum:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/a-4-5-million-gift-for-princeton-art-museum/?

The Louvre’s Abu Dhabi project seems to be finally getting under way:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/world/middleeast/27iht-m27-gulf-louvre.html?ref=arts

The Chesil Iron Age Mirror is to be sold:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-19728077

More on the Louvre’s Islamic Art wing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/arts/22iht-melikian22.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Juliette:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/arts/26iht-loomis26.html?ref=arts

A 1913 article about the debut of ‘Rites of Spring’:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/17/arts/dance/rite-of-spring-1913.html?ref=dance

…. in a similar vein:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/arts/art-shock.html?ref=arts

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
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Brian Dobson:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/archaeologist-shone-new-light-on-hadrians-wall-20120927-26n1o.html

Maurice Keen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/books/maurice-h-keen-dies-at-78-redefined-chivalry.html?ref=books
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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