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explorator 20.04 May 21, 2017

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If you're having problems getting 'the whole issue', read Explorator
online at:

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo,

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman,David Critchley, Rick Heli,

Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Tying the spread of homo sapiens to the development of grassland:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/asu-gbf051117.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-grassy-earliest-homo.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170515111616.htm

Studying the diet of early hominins in east Africa:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5555-170516-ethiopia-climate-change

Feature on the Shanidar 3 skeleton:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/05/17/at-night-at-the-museum-a-neanderthal-skeleton-comes-out-of-the-vault/?utm_term=.c137e1ccbcbf&wpisrc=nl_science&wpmm=1

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AFRICA
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Latest from the Tombos (Sudan) site:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-archaeologist-excavation-tombos-sudan-nile.html

Meanwhile Sudan and Egypt are scrapping over some sort of Angelina Jolie
movie possibly in the making (I don’t quite get this):

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39972853

Tunisia is seeking Heritage Status for a Jewish pilgrimage site:

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Tunisia-to-seek-UNESCO-World-Heritage-status-for-Jewish-pilgrimage-site-490761

Seeing the tourist potential of Islamic sites in Africa:

http://www.theafricareport.com/North-Africa/archaeologists-seek-to-promote-tourism-in-africas-old-islamic-sites.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A stone inscribed with the cartouche of Nectanebo II was recovered from an
illegal dig:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/new-discovery-stone-block-dates-back-30th-dynasty-king-nectanebo-ii-sohag/

http://www.livescience.com/59181-egypt-stone-pharaoh-found-looting-hole.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5564-170518-egypt-abydos-cartouche

Tut’s funerary bed is on the move:

http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/tutankhamun%E2%80%99s-funerary-bed-finds-new-home-976130

Egypt is officially registering its Jewish sites/artifacts:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/05/egypt-jewish-cemeteries-registered-ministry-neglect-heritage.html

Pondering the ‘politeness’ of Ancient Egyptians:

http://asorblog.org/2017/05/16/ancient-egyptians-polite-exploring-politeness-late-egyptian/

More on the mummies from Minya:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/05/14/cachette-cemetery-non-royal-mummies-newly-discovered-el-minya/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/14/egypt-archaeologists-find-17-new-mummies-in-necropolis

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/14/528368929/photos-17-mummies-unearthed-in-egypt
http://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/Archaeologists-Discover-17-Mummies-in-Egyptian-Desert-422175543.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/17-mummies-discovered-central-egypt-140637095.html
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/38017/20170515/rare-discovery-17-mummies-unearthed-in-ancient-burial-site-in-egypt.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5551-170515-egypt-mummy-cachette

… and the 3800 years bp ‘princess burial’ from Dashur:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/burial-chamber-royal-princess-possibly-150300171.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/egyptian-princess-may-have-been-buried-newly-discovered-pyramid-180963288/

… and the ‘mongoose on a leash’:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tomb-drawing-shows-mongoose-leash-142300393.html

… and the funerary garden:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-evidence-ancient-egyptian-funerary-garden-found-luxor-180963252/

More on Egypt’s increased tourism hopes:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/discovery-of-ancient-burial-chamber-ignites-hope-for-egypts-struggling-economy-20170514-gw4qzi

More on Egypt’s plans to crack down on antiquities smuggling etc.:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/05/egypt-approve-amendments-antiquities-law-violators-tomb.html

Feature on the dig at Khirbet Iskandar:

http://menafn.com/1095481939/Khirbat-Iskandar-reveals-crucial-time-span-in-history-of-Jordan-%E2%80%94-Italian-archaeologist

I think we mentioned plans to look for remains of the (underwater) city of
Ayla:

http://www.livescience.com/59176-underwater-search-for-ancient-city.html

In case you’ve always wanted to live like a Hittite (?):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/life-of-hittites-to-be-revived-with-village-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=113303&NewsCatID=375

A 9000 years bp stone used for starting fires from near Ramat Beit
Shemesh:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4283

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-unearths-ancient-fire-making-stone-in-time-for-Lag-Baomer-490694

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/rare-prehistoric-slab-discovered-on-highway-38/2017/05/15/

Rethinking dietary restrictions in Leviticus:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.788626

Feature on Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.789492

More on those WWI finds from Israel:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4281

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4959675,00.html
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=42305
http://www.livescience.com/59049-wwi-artifacts-found-in-israel.html
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/05/11/remnants-of-wwi-battle-found-in-archaeological-dig-in-central-israel/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5543-170510-wwi-weapons-israel

Redating the Al Badiyah Mosque:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5559-170517-al-badiyah-mosque

ISIL’s latest damage appears to be a Dura Europos:

http://syriatimes.sy/index.php/don-t-miss/30653-isis-terrorists-destroy-antiquities-in-dura-europos-site-outside-der-ezzour

Prague’s National Museum is the latest to help Syria restore ancient
artifacts:

http://praguemonitor.com/2017/05/16/prague-national-museum-help-syria-restore-ancient-artefacts

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Mycenean burial from Kastrouli isn’t getting nearly enough attention:

http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/uc-san-diego-researchers-discover-human-burials-and-artifacts-ancient-mycenaean-tomb

A ‘hunchback’ burial from a Roman necropolis in Spain:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hunchback-torrenueva-unearthed-roman-cemetery-southern-spain-1622094

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/16/ciencia/1494971794_081718.html

A theft of a ‘door ornament’ at Pompeii:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170518/thieves-steal-6th-century-ornament-from-pompeii

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-ancient-ornamental-stud-stolen-pompeii.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/ancient-ornamental-stud-stolen-pompeii-site-closed-47486952

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2017/05/18/sixth-century-bc-relic-stolen-at-pompeii-2_06e113a8-2f36-4f88-8750-729abf717e3d.html

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2017/05/18/pompeii-theft-injures-italy-osanna_e482652e-e1de-4d7a-a88c-5f8463dbf796.html

On plans to search for York’s amphitheatre:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15287091.The_hunt_for_York___s_Roman_amphitheatre/

Plans to restore the stadium at Perge:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/perge-stadium-returns-to-its-heyday-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=113206&NewsCatID=375

… and some hype for the mosaics at Perge:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/perge-mosaics-as-magnificent-as-the-ones-in-zeugma-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=112943&NewsCatID=375

Latest warning about the Campi Flegrei:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/campi-flegrei-supervolvano-eruption-vesuvius-naples-pozzuoli-christopher-kilburn-a7737886.html

They’re cleaning the Great Bath at Bath:

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/great-bath-roman-baths-been-64960

Concerns about a rock opera about Nero being performed ‘on site’:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/18/anger-rome-rock-musical-based-life-emperor-nero/

An AIA grant for Göksel Sazci:

https://www.archaeological.org/news/grants/24788

Honours for Brian Sowers:

http://bcexcelsior.com/bc-classics-professor-wins-feliks-gross-award/

Plenty of press coverage as a Google Doodle marked the anniversary of the
founding of the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/05/17/Google-marks-the-discovery-of-the-Antikythera-Mechanism-with-new-Doodle/7311495016082/

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-doodle-antikythera-mechanisms-discovery-analog-computer-bronze/#ftag=CAD590a51e

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/805587/Antikythera-mechanism-Google-Doodle-discovery-anniversary-ancient-Greek-computer

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/travel-tech/25345-google-doodle-elects-ancient-greek-artefact-%E2%80%98antikythera-mechanism%E2%80%99.html

… and there were some good features on the device:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2017/may/17/the-antikythera-mechanism-the-worlds-first-computer-video

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.789893
http://www.livescience.com/59144-antikythera-mechanism-discovered-115-years-ago.html

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/05/17/actualidad/1494973005_194869.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A prehistoric henge of some sort from Newbold-on-Stour:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-39985586

A Shropshire church may preserve the UK’s oldest sacred site (not
Christian, obviously):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/18/shropshire-church-found-uks-oldest-sacred-site/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-39981488

Possible Pictish sites from Burghead (maybe medieval):

http://www.northern-scot.co.uk/News/Dig-may-have-uncovered-Pictish-properties-in-Burghead-18052017.htm

A 13th century Teutonic castle from Poland:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5552-170515-peace-of-torun

14th century Tudor pottery from a Grimsby ‘school’ dig:

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/14th-century-tudor-piece-of-pottery-unearthed-as-29-students-join-archaeology-dig/story-30340446-detail/story.html

Searching for Spanish Armada wreck(s) off Co Sligo:

http://www.thejournal.ie/archaeology-spanish-armada-ireland-streedagh-3396385-May2017/

17th century artifacts from a Dublin site:

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2017/0515/875408-dublin-dig/

Studying the human remains from the Mary Rose:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-re-constructing-crew-mary-rose.html

Rethinking why medieval graves may have been reopened:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-medieval-people-reopened-graves-honour.html

Feature on bog bodies:

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/all/bogs+became+miracle+those+seek+understand+prehistoric+past/13376510/story.html

Plans to excavate a ‘country house’ in Perthshire:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/427036/archaeological-dig-will-uncover-ruins-of-country-house-of-many-names/

Plans to investigate a 17th century English earthwork associated with the
Civil War:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5563-170518-civil-war-prince-rupert

Plans to search for tunnel(s) beneath Derry’s walls:

https://www.derrynow.com/news/experts-set-explore-hundreds-year-old-tunnel-exists-derry-walls/163627

On Anglo Saxon queens’ marriages:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/medieval-mothers-had-marry-and-murder-get-their-way-180963282/

More on archaeological sites delaying gasline construction in Albania:

https://seenews.com/news/albania-halts-construction-on-tap-section-over-archaeological-discovery-568210

More on the find of one of the first books printed in England:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/caxton-book-first-printed-england-discovery-university-reading-a7724476.html

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence of coastal occupation of Australia some 50 000 years bp:

http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/atlantis-of-the-south-earliest-evidence-of-aboriginal-life-found-in-wa-cave-20170519-gw8nhg.html

http://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-pilbara-coast-occupied-by-australian-aboriginal-50000-years-ago/news-story/e8f2d71534ad24c3d6841f7df0e6881e

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-evidence-earliest-occupation-coasts-australia.html

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/19/indigenous-australian-life-cave-wa-50000-years

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-aboriginal-australians-left-behind-210842027.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5565-170519-australia-island-cave

This week, we’re learning about what Penang Woman ate:

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/05/19/archaeologist-stone-age-penang-woman-a-meat-eater/

Assorted Neolithic sites from Northern China:

http://zeenews.india.com/science/archaeologists-discover-neolithic-relic-sites-in-china-2006648.html

2000 years bp astronomical inscriptions from Inner Mongolia:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/19/c_136299149.htm
http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-20/258314.shtml

A 1400 years bp temple site from Linzhang:

http://zeenews.india.com/world/relic-site-in-china-is-1400-year-old-royal-temple-2005899.html?pfrom=article-next-story

What 1000 years bp tomb murals tell us about Chinese fashion:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chinese-tomb-murals-paint-colorful-picture-1000-year-old-fashions-180963173/

Evidence of fifth-century human sacrifice from a Korean site:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-ancient-human-sacrifice-korea.html
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170516000966
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/ancient-human-sacrifice-found-south-korea/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5557-170516-korea-wolseong-palace

Much coverage over ‘what to do’ about Mohenjo Daro:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-pakistan-lost-city-mohenjo-daro.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/researchers-desperate-to-save-lost-city-of-mohenjo-daro-and-let-it-claim-its-rightful-place-in-history/news-story/3450d5d3afd39ff27c13005736da051c

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/17/05/2017/Saving-Pakistan-s-lost-city-of-Mohenjo-Daro
http://artdaily.com/news/96063/Saving-Pakistan-s-lost-city-of-Mohenjo-Daro

… and they decided to rebury it:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/lost-city-pakistan-mohenjo-daro-5000-years-buried-protect-people-weather-archaelogists-a7742451.html

On 19th century Calcutta:

https://scroll.in/magazine/834289/what-19th-century-calcuttas-street-cries-revealed-about-its-food-and-politics

Not sure if we mentioned this Buddha idol find from Odisha:

http://odishasuntimes.com/2017/05/17/1400-year-old-buddha-idol-unearthed-in-odisha/

More on remains of a 2000 years bp settlement in Uzbekistan:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/05/16/2000-year-old-town-found-in-uzbekistan

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5556-170516-uzbekistan-silk-road

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http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Assorted items found at an ‘Old Halifax’ site:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1468410-remnants-of-old-halifax-unearthed-at-queens-marque

Testing a Revolutionary War era musket ball for human blood:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5567-170519-revolutionary-war-shot

17th century (maybe) remains from Alexandria:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/centuries-old-human-remains-found-at-alexandria-waterfront-excavation/2017/05/19/2b6b2d9e-3cc8-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html

Digging a Civil War site in Newark:

http://www.nottinghampost.com/big-dig-in-newark-could-unearth-civil-war-past/story-30338971-detail/story.html

Interchange construction in Virginia has revealed some Colonial artifacts:

http://wtkr.com/2017/05/19/colonial-artifacts-discovered-while-surveying-site-of-i-64i-264-improvement-project/

http://www.kansas.com/news/business/article151746197.html

Latest on the burials found during construction at UGA:

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-05-16/bones-unearthed-uga-site-hold-clues-about-lives-those-buried-there

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5560-170517-athens-georgia-graves

Studying high elevation sites in Wyoming:

http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/archaeologists-uncovering-ancient-peoples-widespread-use-of-mountains/article_b589afe6-194b-58d7-a1b1-7442b8c10220.html

Plans to ‘go deeper’ into Paisley Cave coprolites:

http://around.uoregon.edu/content/scientists-deploy-new-technique-one-oregons-paisley-caves

Feature on the Fort Ville-Marie site:

http://montrealgazette.com/feature/375-years-later-montreals-lost-fort-ville-marie-resurfaces

Feature on Chaco Canyon:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chaco-canyons-ancient-civilization-continues-puzzle

Robert Kennicott’s bones are on display at the Smithsonian (interesting
story):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/03/this-smithsonian-scientists-death-was-a-mystery-150-years-later-his-skeleton-helped-solve-it/

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/14/528185050/smithsonian-solves-150-year-old-mystery-death-of-collector-and-puts-bones-on-dis

https://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Objects-of-Wonder-5999

More on lost cities in Kansas:

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/10/527817921/kansas-archaeologist-rediscovers-lost-native-american-city

More on lots of ‘asylum’ burials on the Mississippi State campus:

http://www.livescience.com/59045-7000-bodies-under-university-campus.html

More on the Hopewell culture’s meteoric beads:

http://www.nature.com/news/beads-made-from-meteorite-reveal-prehistoric-culture-s-reach-1.21990

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/beads-made-meteorite-show-ancient-trade-network-180963343/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Trying to figure out who did what over time in the Andes (that’s a bad
description):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/asu-rii051717.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-archaeologists-cultural-shifts-ancient-society.html

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2017/resurrecting-identities-in-the-andes

Evidence of ‘shared governance’ among the Olmecs:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-evidence-ancient-mexico.html

Looking for evidence of the Moche diet:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/05/12/micro-fossils-show-moche-munched-on-marine-meals/#79b3f01e33d3

Studying cranial deformations in Costa Rica:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2436737&CategoryId=13003

More on the recent finds at Tiwanaku:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2436357&CategoryId=14919
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5553-170515-bolivia-tiwanaku-citadel

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On prosthetics in the ancient world:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-severed-limbs-wooden-feethow-ancients.html

On coffee, chocolate, tea and medicine:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-coffee-chocolate-and-tea-overturned-1500-year-old-medical-mindset-180963339/

Evidence of Leonardo’s mother:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/20/leonardo-da-vinci-orphan-mother-caterina

They’re still arguing over the authenticity of that purported Caravaggio
from an attic:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-art-caravaggio-french-attic.html

Suggestion that early farmers engaged in ‘unconscious selection’:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5562-170518-domestication-seed-size

Remains of a Spitfire were found:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/cockpit-door-the-top-find-as-spitfire-excavation-completed-35714022.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39906984

… and there are plans to search for an airplane associated with one of the
Tuskegee airmen:

http://www.aviationpros.com/news/12334672/uno-archaeologist-to-lead-excavation-of-possible-site-of-downed-tuskegee-airmans-plane

Ringling Brothers is down to its final shows:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39930337

Some St Nicholas relics are headed from Italy to Russia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39960384

Digitizing a massive atlas:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-royal-atlas-gets-digitized-180963220/

Big bucks for a Picasso:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39929706

Review of Cline, *Three Stones Make a Wall*:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/archaeology-review-three-stones-make-a-wall-20170511-gw2f5u.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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All the World is Here:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2017/05/17/fascinating-harvard-exhibit-explores-rise-anthropology/FfwQlPYEpN3QqwbBxlp8aL/story.html

Splendour and Beauty:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1047597.shtml

James Madison:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/columns/montpelier-exhibit-challenges-the-myth-of-a-founding-father/article_6b654d35-6939-5cf1-be62-685fe3a4b199.html

How 3d technology is changing how we interact with things at museums:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/05/19/five-new-3d-models-of-ancient-artifacts-that-are-changing-how-we-interact-with-museums/

Most of the headlines tout this as a ‘massive Viking camp’ find, but it
seems to be hyping a Virtual Reality display at a Yorkshire museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/17/virtual-reality-brings-ninth-century-viking-invaders-camp-to-life

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-viking-army-uncovered-archaeologists.html
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15294156.Viking_camp_brought_to_life_through_virtual_reality_at_museum/
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/viking-army-camp-discovery-research-lincolnshire-1.702544
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5566-170519-viking-army-camp

Some Egyptian mummies from the BM are going on display in Hong Kong:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/15/c_136286255.htm

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Cautions about use of GIS in archaeology:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/dgo-g-051817.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-canadian-archaeologists-credibility-gis-methods.html

A technique for studying human teeth:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170518140323.htm

More on dating ceramics:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/art/2017-05/11/content_29303276.htm

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Genome research suggests the ‘Beaker Culture’ invaded Britain:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bronze-age-ldquo-beaker-culture-rdquo-invaded-britain-ancient-genome-study-finds/

http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-genome-study-finds-bronze-age-beaker-culture-invaded-britain-1.21996

… this seems to be the same story:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/20/dutch-invaders-stonehenge-ancient-britons

There’s a shared genetic history stretching from Sicily to Cyprus:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/mpif-sgh051717.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-populations-eastern-mediterranean-coast-genetic.html

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2017/sicily-to-cyprus-show-shared-genetic-heritage

Article on the speed of genetic mutations in humans:

https://elife.elifesciences.org/content/6/e24284

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Machu Picchu:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/travel/machu-picchu-cheap-easy-day-trip-cuzco.html

Ancient Ruins in North America:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/tour-these-ancient-ruins-in-america-you-never-knew-existed/ss-BBArSYZ?srcref=rss

Burgin ruins:

http://m.jpost.com/app/article/492121

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CRIME BEAT
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Plenty of coverage of a new Council of Europe convention targetting
smugglers:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cyprus-convention-targets-illegal-antiquities-dealers-47457028

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article150964882.html
http://famagusta-gazette.com/cyprus-leads-effort-to-stamp-out-trade-in-blood-antiquities-p40438-69.htm
http://omanobserver.om/nicosia-convention-targets-trade-blood-antiquities/

… semi-related feature on the extent of antiquities smuggling:

http://www.wellesley.edu/news/2017/node/117601

Not sure where, exactly to put this thing about Maori skulls:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a-group-of-far-right-grave-robbers-could-be-digging-up-sacred-maori-sites

Libya put out notice of some looted antiquities:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/culture/libyan-authorities-issue-international-circular-looted-antiquities-libya

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/15/c_136286159.htm

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/05/culture-crime-news-8-14-may-2017.html

More on that bust in Hebron:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-authority/stolen-antique-coins-jewelry-seized-in-arab-village/2017/05/11/

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

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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Feature on dogs on ancient coins:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/dogs-on-ancient-coins/

Award for saving a Roman hoard:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15287910.Museum_wins_top_award_after___30_000_rare_coin_campaign/

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15296294.Museum_that_battled_to_keep_hoard_of_Roman_coins_wins_national_award/

Feature on Robert Freeman:

http://www.laweekly.com/news/rob-freeman-was-one-of-the-countrys-biggest-ancient-coin-dealers-then-he-broke-bad-8234006

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n20.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n21.html

AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2618-audio-news-from-archaeologica-7-may-2017-13-may-2017

Latest Strata looks at the Bronze Age Polada Culture:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity/2617-strata-may-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Garrett Fagan:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-garrett-g-fagan

Doug Weller

unread,

Jun 18, 2017, 9:46:14 AM6/18/17

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explorator 20.08 June 18, 2017

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, Richard Campbell, David Perlmutter,
Don Buck, Adrienne Mayor, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent

for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Encroachments on Dashurís necropolis have been removed:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/270971/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Encroachments-made-since--removed-from-Egypts-Dahs.aspx

Plans to use robots to explore lootersí tunnels in Egypt:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/these-robots-will-explore-tunnels-dug-by-looters-in-egypt

More on those child burials associated with the construction of Amarna:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0617/ancient_egyptian_juvenile_graves.php3

More on that Hellenistic tomb from Alexandria:

http://observer.com/2017/06/egyptian-tomb-artifacts-discovered/

A monumental mikveh from Herodís palace in Jordan:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.795720
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/hungarian-archaeologists-unearth-herods-fortress-ritual-bath-east-of-jordan-river/2017/06/15/

Multispectral imaging revealed some lines of 600 BCE Hebrew on chunk of
pottery found 50 years ago:

https://www.aftau.org/news-page-archaeology?&storyid4677=2335&ncs4677=3
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/afot-mir061417.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-multispectral-imaging-reveals-ancient-hebrew.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170614160504.htm
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Advanced-imaging-reveals-rare-Hebrew-inscription-from-First-Temple-period-496878

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.796024
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4975905,00.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/revolutionary-technology-reveals-dazzling-hidden-text-on-biblical-era-shard/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/history/multispectral-imaging-reveals-ancient-hebrew-inscription-undetected-for-over-50-years/2017/06/15/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/science/send-more-wine-pottery-archaeology.html

http://www.newsweek.com/scientists-transcribe-invisible-2500-year-old-hebrew-inscription-request-send-625946

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5663-170615-ancient-hebrew-inscription

The stone tower at Gihon Spring is about a 1000 years younger than
previously thought:

http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/jerusalem-tower-younger-thought
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-jerusalem-tower-younger-thought.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/wios-jty061517.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170615120635.htm
https://www.livescience.com/59519-ancient-stone-tower-younger-than-thought.html

A pair of antiquities thieves were caught in the act (by a hiker) at
Tzipori:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-nabs-antiquities-pirates-at-archeological-site-496617

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/israeli-arabs/antiquities-robbers-caught-in-ancient-galilee-town/2017/06/12/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hiker-helps-stop-antiquities-robbing-gang-in-northern-israel/

More on that Crusader-era ëescape tunnelí:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.795692

Feature on how cuneiform was used:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39870485

Lawrence Schiffman on the Magdala Stone:

http://lawrenceschiffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/magdala-stone.pdf

Saudi Arabia is hosting an antiquities forum:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1114231/saudi-arabia

Training folks to restore mosaics in Jordan:

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/preserving-jordans-heritage-italian-expert-has-trained-50-locals-mosaic-restoration-985

Review of McGovern, *Ancient Brews Rediscovered and Re-created*:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/liquid-time-capsules-1497571568

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Getty is returning a statue of Zeus to Italy:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-getty-repatriation-20170613-story.html

Why London is where it is:

http://londonist.com/london/features/why-is-london-here

Sarah Bond wrote a piece on the need to see the colours in ancient
statuary:

https://hyperallergic.com/383776/why-we-need-to-start-seeing-the-classical-world-in-color/

Ö which was spun in various ways for political purposes:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448501/white-marble-sculpture-white-supremacy

Ö and resulted in her getting death threats:

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2017/06/16/ui-classics-professor-receives-threats-after-online-essay-statuary-race/403275001/

Meanwhile, she also penned a piece on the crocodile hunters at the Roman
games:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/06/12/the-ancient-crocodile-hunters-that-helped-to-supply-the-roman-games/

What John Younger is up to (possibly misquoted in this):

http://news.ku.edu/2017/06/09/art-religious-artifacts-support-idea-minoan-matriarchy-ancient-crete-researcher-says

An interview with Tim Whitmarsh:

https://conatusnews.com/professor-greek-culture-tim-whitmarsh/

Honours for Jack Davis:

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/albaniaaward.html

What Caius Mergy is up to:

http://lymeline.com/2017/06/local-resident-caius-mergy-graduates-from-middlebury-college/

Mapping Greek ceramic production:

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/project-maps-greek-ceramic-production-over-five-millennia

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-greek-ceramic-production-millennia.html

About that Nero rock opera in Rome:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/06/16/532243973/atop-ancient-ruins-a-rock-opera-about-emperor-nero-leaves-some-romans-unimpresse

https://knpr.org/npr/2017-06/atop-ancient-ruins-rock-opera-about-emperor-nero-leaves-some-romans-unimpressed

http://wfit.org/post/atop-ancient-ruins-rock-opera-about-emperor-nero-leaves-some-romans-unimpressed

On comparing Trump to Julius Caesar:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-no-orange-julius-but-he-does-share-traits-with-other-tyrants-of-rome

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/opinion/the-trumpiest-roman-of-them-all.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Ö related:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/opinion/a-julius-caesar-for-the-trump-era.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

On Thucydides:

http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-thucydidess-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war-71550

On some ancient doctors:

https://blog.oup.com/2017/06/famous-doctors-ancient-world/

On recreating Roman wines:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/roman-vineyards-reopening-eastern-galicia-wine-makers-tasting-ribeira-sacra-guimarovaldeorras-adega-a7790436.html

On the Roman propagandistic legacy:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/jemimah-steinfeld/what-romans-did-for-us-on-age-old-art-of-propaganda

On the inspiration(s) for Wonder Woman:

https://www.bustle.com/p/the-real-life-female-warriors-who-inspired-wonder-woman-62228

http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/trilogy-of-films-on-ancient-women-warrior-tribes-announced

Ö and a popular joke in the movie:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/to-clitorize

Marking the 90th anniversary of the Swedish Mission in Cyprus:

http://famagusta-gazette.com/sweden-marks-th-anniversary-of-swedish-archaeological-mission-in-cyprus-p40800-69.htm

More on the Catacombs of Domitilla:

https://www.livescience.com/59424-paintings-of-christ-in-roman-catacombs.html

https://www.livescience.com/59428-roman-catacomb-frescoes-photos.html
http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/17050/20170613/lasers-art-art-restoration-ancient-artifacts-laser-ablation.htm

5000 years bp tools found during construction in downtown Moscow:

http://tass.com/society/951717

Iron Age and Bronze Age finds from Parliament Hill:

http://camdennewjournal.com/article/archaeological-dig-finds-prehistoric-humans-enjoyed-heath-barbecues

Remains of some Bronze Age roundhouses near Cornwall:

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/15346250.Bronze_Age_discovery_on_Helston_housing_site_raises_questions_over_its_future/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5658-170614-england-cornwall-roundhouses

A Viking ëchiefí burial from Iceland:

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/archaeologists-n-iceland-discover-viking-age-chief-buried-ship-his-sword-and-dog

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2017/06/16/iceland_viking_grave_a_bigger_find_than_we_believed/

Ö and then another:

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/second-viking-age-ship-burial-found-archaeological-site-n-iceland

Both:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5662-170615-iceland-boat-burials

We also are hearing of four ëpagan gravesí:

http://icelandreview.com/news/2017/06/16/important-archaeological-find-north-iceland

A medieval sword from a peat bog:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414626,lubelskie-medieval-sword-discovered-at-a-peat-bog.html

Evidence of ëskinning catsí in medieval Spain (various spins put on this,
of course):

https://www.livescience.com/59443-medieval-farmers-skinned-cats.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/medieval-farmers-skinned-cats-for-pagan-rituals/

Excavating a possible medieval royal hunting lodge in New Forest:

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/15349070.Archaeologists_excavate_royal_hunting_lodge_in_New_Forest/

Ö and a medieval longhouse near Seathwaite Tarn:

http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2017/06/15/second-longhouse-excavation-gets-underway-duddon-valley/

A 14th century abbey wall from Canterbury:

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/archaeological-excavation-in-canterbury-uncovers-14th-century-abbey-precinct-wall-1-5060380

Remains of a Minton pottery factory:

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/historic-minton-kiln-found-under-a-stoke-town-centre-car-park-destined-to-become-student-flats/story-30394324-detail/story.html

More witch markings from Wookey Hole:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-40262004

Some ëmysterious vaultsí were found by stonemasons working at Blenheim
Palace:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-40264213

Finds from excavations at Auckland Castle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-40232402

Latest visitor centre saga is at Cliffordís Tower:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-40221432

UNESCO doesnít like the Stonehenge tunnel plan:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-40286120

On fixing damage to artifacts done in last yearís earthquake in Italy:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40264695/restorers-battle-to-fix-thousands-of-pieces-after-last-year-s-quake

Interview with Christopher Ferguson:

http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/q-a/14062017-q-and-a-christopher-ferguson

More on the Montem Mound:

http://www.sloughexpress.co.uk/gallery/slough/116448/has-the-mystery-of-the-montem-mound-finally-been-solved.html

More on ëFirehengeí near Avebury:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/excavations-near-avebury-uncover-mysterious-firehenge-800-years-older-than-stonehenge/news-story/5c77e180d84d2ca6bfc04a5d465ad845

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-wooden-fire-monument-older-stonehenge-180963642/

Suggestion that a Shigir idol may have been carved with beaver teeth:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/beavers-teeth-used-to-carve-the-oldest-wooden-statue-in-the-world/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5661-170615-shigir-idol-beavers

Early Warring States period (or earlier) tomb from Hebei:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/13/c_136362094.htm
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-06/15/content_29756205.htm

Studying the remains of human sacrifice victims at the Shang Dynasty Royal
Cemetery:

https://www.livescience.com/59513-ancient-china-human-sacrifice-revealed.html

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ancient-human-sacrifice-victims-faced-124900148.html

Excavating a 19th century Googong schoolhouse:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-15/19th-century-googong-school-house-unearthed/8619050

Australiaís history textbooks still have problems:

http://theconversation.com/history-textbooks-still-imply-that-australians-are-white-72796

Feature on restoring the Great Wall:

https://www.voanews.com/a/great-wall-restored/3902900.html

More on the ëdisappearanceí of the Jenny Lind:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/famous-19th-century-shipwreck-vanished-152800007.html

More on the possible rediscovery of the Pink and White Terraces:

http://www.newser.com/story/244152/researchers-say-theyve-found-lost-wonder-of-world.html

Searching for evidence of New Hampshireís oldest occupants:

http://nhpr.org/post/digging-evidence-new-hampshires-earliest-inhabitants#stream/0

The UW-Madison dig at Aztalan Park:

http://www.dailyunion.com/news/article_614fb63c-5055-11e7-a4a4-0b2032816bcf.html

I think we mentioned this piece on Ohioís Hopewell culture benefitting
from
immigrants:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170611/archaeology--immigrants-aided-creative-boom-by-ancient-ohioans

19th century remains from a Luzerne County dig:

http://wnep.com/2017/06/13/archaeological-dig-unearths-an-interesting-past-in-luzerne-county/

Coverage of a dig in Shreveport:

https://www.ktbs.com/news/there-s-an-archaeological-dig-in-shreveport/article_239c332e-50af-11e7-a9fa-8b998111b1d1.html

Excitement about a possible ëunderground tunnelí in Halifax:

http://globalnews.ca/news/3528108/underground-tunnel-rumours-fueled-by-discovery-of-old-halifax-sewer-line/

Ö that turned out to be a sewer pipe:

http://www.thetelegram.com/news/regional/2017/6/15/structure-initially-thought-to-be-possible-halifax-tunnel-just-a-sewer-pipe.html

Looking for Sitka remains in Alaska:

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/06/14/woman-with-small-shovel-finds-a-clue-to-sitkas-paleo-past/

Possible shipwreck debris from an Oregon beach:

http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20170615/possible-shipwreck-debris-uncovered-in-cannon-beach

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/06/debris_that_could_be_from_a_10.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5665-170616-oregon-coast-timber

Not sure if we mentioned this find of the wreck of the McCulloch off the
California coast:

https://www.livescience.com/59488-historic-shipwreck-mcculloch-discovered.html

https://www.livescience.com/59491-photos-century-old-sunken-ship-found.html
http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/17103/20170614/historic-shipwreck-spanish-american-war-discovered-southern-california-coast.htm

Plans for a dig at the St George River:

https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/dig-seeks-signs-of-elusive-fort-generals-estate-african-presence/1658176

The ShÌsh·lh Archaeological Project has some interesting features:

http://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/vibrant-culture-archaeological-project-reveals-faces-of-canadas-past

What Metin Eren is up to:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20170617/NEWS/170619811/ksu-prof-is-an-archaeological-wunderkind

On the history of interracial marriage in Virginia:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/11/before-loving-v-virginia-another-interracial-couple-fought-in-court-for-their-marriage/

Feature on Mesa Verde:

https://www.livescience.com/27360-mesa-verde.html

On French art and the American Republic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/arts/design/french-paintings-america-collects-bazille-national-gallery-review.html

More on Chumash relics from Santa Rosa Island:

http://www.independent.com/news/2017/jun/14/ancient-chumash-artifacts-found-santa-rosa/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A ëvolcanicí theory about the El Volcan pyramid in Peru:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mysterious-volcano-shaped-pyramid-discovered-peru-hosted-celebrations-honour-solar-eclipses-1624111

What weíre learning about the Guanacaste people:

http://www.vozdeguanacaste.com/en/articles/2017/06/16/pre-columbian-guanacastecans-wore-their-deads-bones-and-cut-their-enemies-heads

A number of funerary urns from a site in Tiscapa (Nicaragua):

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=14323&SEO=nicaraguan-experts-discover-archaeological-site

Feature on Tenochtitlan:

https://www.livescience.com/34660-tenochtitlan.html

Feature on Tordesillas:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170615-the-town-that-split-the-world-in-two

More on the Aztec temple excavation in Mexico City:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/science/aztec-temple-mexico-city.html
http://observer.com/2017/06/500-year-old-aztec-temple-discovered-mexico-city/

https://www.livescience.com/59468-aztec-temple-in-mexico-city.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/aztec-temple-discovered-mexico-city-ehecatl-tenichtitlan-templo-mayor-a7790901.html

More on that mask from Argentina:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mask-challenges-theories-origin-metalworking-south-america-180963630/

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-3-000-year-old-copper-mask-could-rewrite-the-history-books

Someone recreated the Sutton Hoo helmet:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15341423.Sutton_Hoo_helmet_recreated_in_stunning_silver/

The ëlast line of defenseí role of archaeologists:

http://www.hcn.org/articles/archaeologists-protect-ruins-from-destruction-Southwest

A painting from the Scott era was found in Antarctica:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40245227
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5657-170614-antarctic-watercolor-painting

On promoting the humanities:

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/06/13/scholars-unconvincing-case-about-value-humanities-essay

On the word ëidiotí:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/opinion/trump-and-the-true-meaning-of-idiot.html

On Shakespeareís ëpoliticsí:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/06/13/the-trump-family-shouldnt-fight-shakespeare-theyll-lose/

Some Juneteenth coverage:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/dining/juneteenth-food-slavery-abolition.html

An 18th century botanical colouring book:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/us/coloring-book-trnd/index.html
http://www.botanicus.org/title/b11968564

We may have mentioned this forger before:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/the-forger-who-fooled-the-art-world/
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/master-forger-who-fooled-world-used-mates-face-in-roman-sculpture/news-story/073eecd879b282991269d5c9ba042fd8

On some cultures that practiced human sacrifice:

https://www.livescience.com/59514-cultures-that-practiced-human-sacrifice.html

The stolen brain of St John Bosco was recovered:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/16/stolen-brain-st-john-bosco-found-kettle

Latest Polynesian vessel recreation and its trip:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/traditional-polynesian-vessel-complete-round-world-journey-180963734/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40316930

On how Pasteur changed chemistry:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/science/louis-pasteur-chirality-chemistry.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience

Feature on Ignaz von Dollinger:

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/06/13/man-who-fought-papal-infallibility

Review of a biography of Machiavelli:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/books/review/be-like-the-fox-machiavelli-biography-erica-benner.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Age of Empires:

https://hyperallergic.com/374312/from-a-jade-burial-suit-to-terracotta-warriors-a-blockbuster-display-of-chinas-ancient-treasures/

Pompeii:

http://portlandtribune.com/pt/11-features/362885-241681-pompeii-the-exhibition

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/06/omsi_pompeii_comes_to_portland.html

Roman hoards:

http://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2017/06/13/roman-hoards-exhibition-opens-at-nantwich-museum/

Hyping the Hatay Archaeological Museumís soon-to-arrive mosaics:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hatay-to-welcome-worlds-largest-mosaic-collection.aspx?pageID=238&nid=114274&NewsCatID=375

Feature on the items at the San Giovanni metro stop in Rome:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rome-san-giovanni-metro-museum-artifacts-unearthed/

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Studying ancient weapons with xray and neutron technology:

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/archaeology-x-ray-neutron-15062017/

Feature on the techy side of the multispectral imaging technology used to
reveal that Hebrew writing:

http://forward.com/fast-forward/374823/israeli-scientists-read-invisible-words-ancient-pottery-digital-camera/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Another piece on using DNA to track migrations:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-dna-could-unravel-mystery-prehistoric-european-migration-180963702/

Italian libraries:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/travel/italian-libraries-hidden-treasures-books-architecture-art.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/travel/what-to-read-tour-of-italian-libraries.html

Machu Picchu:

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/machu-picchu-and-the-sacred-valley-peru/index.html

Dartmoor:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/jun/17/discovering-dartmoor-devon-on-patrol-landscape-detective-mary-ann-ochota

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CRIME BEAT
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Native American objects stolen from a Durango storage facility:

https://durangoherald.com/articles/165517-native-american-artifacts-worth-thousands-stolen-from-durango-storage

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/colorado/articles/2017-06-14/native-american-artifacts-stolen-in-colorado

Ottoman era Qurans seized at Cairoís airport:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/271103/Heritage/Islamic/Qurans-from-Ottoman-era-seized-at-Cairo-Internatio.aspx

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/06/culture-crime-news-5-11-june-2017.html

The American University in Cairo returned some items:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/270845/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/AUC-hands-over-Egyptian-artefacts-from--excavation.aspx
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/7659/AUC-returns-5-000-artifacts-to-Antiquities-Ministry

http://www.egyptindependent.com/auc-hands-over-5000-artifacts-fustat-excavation/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5655-170613-egypt-cairo-repatriation

Meanwhile, Cambridge is refusing to return some artifacts to Australia:

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-06-17/cambridge-university-refuses-to-return-aboriginal-artifacts-to-australia

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-aborigines-idUSKBN1980A6?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n24.html

Ö and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n25.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Iím really not sure what to do with all this Trump/Julius Caesar stuff
that
has been clogging my mailbox this week Ö focus varies:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/opinions/caesar-free-expression-opinion-maltby/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/theater/julius-caesar-shakespeare-donald-trump.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/06/16/calpurnia-as-melania-octavius-as-jared-the-public-theater-goes-full-trump-with-julius-caesar-in-central-park/

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/06/17/trump-activists-interrupt-caesar-play-jpm-orig.cnn

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/theater/julius-caesar-central-park-trump-protesters.html

La Mere Coupable:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/arts/an-operatic-rarity-picks-up-where-mozart-and-rossini-left-off.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2625-audio-news-from-archaeologica-4-june-2017-10-june-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Anne Pippin Burnett:

https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/06/12/anne-pippin-burnett-renowned-scholar-greek-poetry-1925%E2%80%932017

Rudolph Masciantonio:

http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20160924_Rudolph_Masciantonio__75__retired_foreign_language_director_for_Philly_schools.html

Ben Finney:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/ben-finney-dead-hawaii-tahiti.html

Philip Gossett:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/arts/music/philip-gossett-scholar-who-brought-operas-back-to-life-dies-at-75.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

Chana Bloch:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/books/chana-bloch-died-poet-and-translator.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Doug Weller

unread,

Jul 2, 2017, 11:18:57 AM7/2/17

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explorator 20.10 July 2, 2017

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, Wilfried Zankl, Rick Heli, Richard

Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Short feature on the Scorpion King:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/The-Scorpion-King-is-real-here-s-what-this-11245445.php

A pile of stone blocks stored near Luxor are now shown to be from a temple
of Thutmose I:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414739,polish-egyptologist-identified-fragments-of-a-lost-egyptian-temple-in-a-storage.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5703-170630-egypt-thutmose-i-temple

On the West’s obsession with ancient Egypt:

http://theconversation.com/the-mummy-what-the-wests-obsession-with-ancient-egypt-reveals-79519

More on those 5200 years bp ‘pre hieroglyphs’:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-archaeologists-earliest-monumental-egyptian-hieroglyphs.html
https://sputniknews.com/society/201706261054989902-egypt-expedition-discover-new-hieroglyphs/

More on that prosthetic toe:

https://hyperallergic.com/387047/the-sophisticated-design-of-a-3000-year-old-wooden-toe/

Plenty of coverage of evidence of a ‘neolithic skull cult’ at Gobekli
Tepe:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/aaft-itc062617.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-skull-fragments-deliberate-lines-gobekli.html
https://www.livescience.com/59643-carved-human-skulls-found-cultic-site.html
https://www.livescience.com/59644-photos-carved-human-skulls.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/28/turkish-site-evidence-of-neolithic-skull-cult-gobekli-tepe
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.798498
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/first-evidence-of-skull-decoration-discovered-in-gobeklitepe.aspx?pageID=238&nid=114947&NewsCatID=375
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-apos-skull-cult-apos-190305957.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-human-skulls-mysterious-carvings-reveal-11000-year-old-skull-cult-1628150
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-skull-cult-cuts-20170628-htmlstory.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/remains-from-skull-cult-discovered-at-worlds-oldest-stone-monuments/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/skulls-cult-turkey-archaeology-neolithic-gobekli/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/06/28/carved-skulls-flesh-out-neolithic-cult-evidence/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-temple-shows-evidence-stone-age-skull-cult-180963877/
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2017/first-evidence-of-a-neolithic-skull-cult-at-gobekli-tepe
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5700-170629-turkey-gobekli-tepe-carved-skulls
http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/06/28/ciencia/1498673023_981204.html
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/6/e1700564
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/6/e1700564/tab-figures-data

First bodies (dating to 4200 years bp) from Gezer:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.798934

Earliest evidence of plant-based dye use in Israel:

https://www.aftau.org/news-page-archaeology?&storyid4677=2340&ncs4677=3
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179014
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/afot-3ta062817.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-year-old-textiles-earliest-evidence-chemical.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231730
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/evidence-of-plant-dyes-found-in-king-solomon-era-textiles/2017/06/28/
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.798329
http://www.timesofisrael.com/what-color-blue-did-king-solomon-wear-new-evidence-tells-us/
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1307258/photos-evidence-use-plant-dyes-textiles-dating-era-kings-david-solomon.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2017/plant-based-textile-dyeing-found-at-copper-smelting-site-in-the-levant

An interview with Gabriel Barkay:

https://www.worldpittsburgh.org/resources/renowned-biblical-archaeologist-dr-gabriel-barkay-6-3-17/

Pondering where Israel’s antiquities should be kept:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/where-do-israels-antiquities-belong/

Latest from the Western Wall saga (seems to be a few things going on):

http://www.jpost.com/jerusalem/Article.aspx?id=498096
http://www.timesofisrael.com/there-is-already-pluralistic-prayer-at-the-western-wall-heres-what-would-have-changed/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/some-critics-of-western-wall-plan-still-unhappy-after-freeze/

The US Supreme court will hear that long-running case involving Iranian
antiquities being used for compensatory purposes:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/supreme-court-takes-dispute-over-iran-antiquities-terror-case-n777106

Feature on some 1000 years bp ‘lost’ Arab poetry that lives on in Hebrew:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170616-the-1000-year-old-lost-arab-poetry-that-lives-on-in-hebrew

Suggestion that “70%” of Palmyra can be rebuilt:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2017/06/28/archeaologist-says-70-of-palmyra-can-be-rebuilt_1003e771-b64b-4c8e-83b8-0a4aa7f362b5.html

Follow up on the Mosque of al Nuri:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40441936

What ISIL did in Nineveh:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/07/02/This-is-what-ISIS-has-been-doing-to-ancient-artifacts-in-Iraq-s-Nineveh-since-2014-.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Very interesting 3rd century (maybe) dwelling remains preserved in a fire
near the Caelian:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-subway-uncovers-pompeii-like-scene-rome.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/26/rome-metro-excavations-unearth-3rd-century-pompeii-like-scene
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/subway-digging-uncovers-pompeii-scene-rome-48284401
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/your-brisbane/roman-gladiators-were-war-prisoners-and-criminals-not-sporting-heroes-20170627-gwzqfk.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/1800-year-old-mini-pompeii-unearthed-during-rome-metro-line-excavations-1627949
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/06/26/mini-pompeii-found-in-rome-metro-dig-4_741983a8-7812-450f-8c19-0f0229243101.html
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/mini-pompeii-found-during-rome-metro-c-works/
https://www.thelocal.it/20170626/mini-pompeii-found-in-rome-while-digging-metro-line
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-3rd-century-dog-found-rome-180963846/
http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/06/26/news/roma_come_pompei_scoperta_casa_romana_distruttta_da_un_incendio_intatti_parti_di_solaio_mobili_mosaici_e_affreschi-169103421/#gallery-slider=169150376
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2017/06/28/03004-20170628ARTFIG00148-un-nouveau-pompei-decouvert-sur-le-chantier-du-nouveau-metro-a-rome.php
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-3rd-century-dog-found-rome-180963846/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5686-170626-rome-burned-building

… and some recent excavations in Pompeii (apologies for the paywall … I’m
trying to find more on this):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pompeii-dig-reveals-more-about-roman-ancestors-from-tuscany-b72kpxk5g

South East Glazed Ware found in the South West:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-rare-archaeological-unique-pottery-south.html

A Late Roman gold hoard from Lienden:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/06/dutch-gold-coin-hoard-discovered-in-orchard.html

The search is on for remains of a monastery near Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/180917/Bulgarian+Archaeological+Expedition+Will+Try+to+Find+the+Largest+Early+Christian+Monastery

The 2017 excavations at Akrotiri have come to an end:

http://in-cyprus.com/archaeologists-wrap-up-2017-excavations-in-akrotiri/

Studying skulls from the necropolis at Portus:

https://www.livescience.com/59670-ancient-roman-skulls-distinct-local-looks.html

Not sure where to put this one … evidence of ‘backgammon’ gaming from
Tripolis:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/artifacts-in-ancient-tripolis-show-that-backgammon-dates-back-2000-years-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=114900&NewsCatID=375

Plans to map the sunken city of Akra:

http://tass.com/society/954191

How Sparta became Spartan:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbahr1/2017/06/30/how-sparta-became-spartan-plutarchs-life-of-lycurgus/

What Kristina Kilgrove is up to:

http://wuwf.org/post/uwf-researcher-study-ancient-skeletons-near-pompeii

Victor Nuovo continues his look at Machiavelli and Livy:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201706victor-nuovo-machiavellis-discourses-livy-part-ii

On Roman surveying techniques:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/28/romans-roads-which-direction-build

On gladiators *not* being sporting heroes:

http://theconversation.com/roman-gladiators-were-war-prisoners-and-criminals-not-sporting-heroes-80065

Feature on shoes from Vindolanda:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/huge-shoe-find-reveals-what-13243936

Feature on ‘dormouse fattening jars’:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dormouse-jars-glirarium-rome

Feature on the ‘Claudius Gateway’ tourist attraction at Colchester:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/local/15377774.REVEALED__The_exhibit_set_to_be_opened_on_the_remains_of_Britain_s_largest_Roman_arcade/

On ancient Greek pessimism:

https://thewire.in/151976/ancient-greeks-good-old-days-better/

Reviewish on Hannibal’s crossing of the alps:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hannibal-crossed-the-alps-180963671/

Digitizing historical images of Rome:

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/06/29/new-digital-archive-showcases-historical-images-rome/

More on that chariot mosaic from Akaki:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40402816/cyprus-reveals-rare-roman-horse-race-mosaic-in-akaki
http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/06/26/a-rare-mosaic-is-unearthed-in-remote-cyp?videoId=371968281&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=OddlyEnough&videoChannel=4
http://in-cyprus.com/restoration-work-starts-on-unique-cyprus-mosaic-video/?title=Restoration%20work%20starts%20on%20unique%20Cyprus%20mosaic%20%28VIDEO%29

More on pre-Roman Ippleden:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5696-170628-england-devon-rural-settlement

Review of Man, *Amazons*:

http://theartsdesk.com/books/john-man-amazons-review-real-warrior-women-ancient-world

The coverage of the White House obsession with Thucydides continues:

http://www.gq.com/story/steve-bannon-ancient-greeks

A Neolithic figurine from a Polish village:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5697-170628-poland-neolithic-figurine

A Neolithic burial from Silsden:

http://www.keighleyonline.co.uk/community/news/885-exciting-prehistoric-artefacts-unearthed-at-silsden-dig.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5702-170630-england-neolithic-funerary-urn

A ‘hidden square’ at Avebury:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-secret-square-beneath-world-famous-avebury.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/28/avebury-stone-circle-weird-square-archaeologists-find/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-40431673
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/29/avebury-stone-circle-contains-hidden-square-archaeologists-find
https://www.livescience.com/59668-avebury-circle-once-a-square.html
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/15377443.New_discovery_at_Avebury_may_answer_century_old_questions/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/highly-unusual-square-monument-found-within-avebury-stone-circle-surveys-show-35877091.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5699-170629-avebury-square-formation

Digging a hillfort at Oldbury-on-Severn:

http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/15375035.Archaeologists_unearthing_secrets_of_ancient_hillfort_in_Oldbury_on_Severn/

Remains of a Saxon church on Holy Island:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/britain-oldest-churches-lindisfarne-holy-island-archaeologists-uk-monastery-st-aidan-gospels-ancient-a7817006.html
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/first-new-church-found-holy-13241445
http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/saxon-church-uncovered-during-dig-on-holy-island-1-8617307
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5691-170627-england-lindisfarne-church

An 8th century site found prior to road construction in Bratislava:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20570116/impressive-archaeological-site-revealed-under-planned-bratislava-ring-road.html

Assorted sherds from Newport’s medieval kiln:

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/15376770.Sherds_shed_light_on_town__39_s_pottery_past/

Plans to dig a ‘mysterious site’ near Paisley Abbey:

http://www.renfrewshire24.co.uk/2017/06/26/archaeological-dig-to-explore-a-mysterious-site-near-paisley-abbey/

… and plans to dig a Bronze Age site on the Isle of Man:

http://www.isleofman.com/News/details/83287/archaeologists-to-study-isle-of-man-s-bronze-age-history

… and plans to excavate and conserve the Invincible:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15376159.Bournemouth_University_archaeologists_to_excavate_historic_warship_Invincible/

Wondering where King Harold is buried:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/25/king-harold-buried-hertfordshire-churchamateur-historians-try/

Marking the 35th anniversary of the raising of the Mary Rose:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/business/raising-the-mary-rose-s-history-1-8033182

Criticizing a planned bridge to Tintagel:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/30/bridge-to-tintagel-raises-philosophical-and-practical-objections

Interesting headstones from the UK:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39508229

More on the Neolithic/Bronze Age finds at Bryn Celli Ddu:

http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/177669/neolithic-and-bronze-age-cairn-discoveries-at-anglesey-s-bryn-celli-ddu.aspx

A huge altar from Xinjiang:

http://www.newsweek.com/china-religion-archaeology-629719
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/xinjiang-sun-altar-ancient-china-archaeology-spd/

Renewed/ongoing interest in sites in the Russian Arctic:

http://tass.com/economy/953261

A prehistoric Alutiiq fish trap from Kodiak Island:

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/06/26/low-tide-reveals-alutiiq-fishing-method-in-kodiak/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/prehistoric-stone-fish-trap-discovered-alaska-island-48338257
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11883852
http://www.cbs46.com/story/35773962/prehistoric-stone-fish-trap-discovered-on-alaska-island
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5690-ancient-fish-trap-discovered-in-alaska-3

Studying a clam garden site on Russell Island:

http://www.cheknews.ca/archaeology-team-works-with-local-first-nations-to-determine-age-depth-of-ancient-clam-gardens-342283/

Finds suggest the history of St Louis’ founding needs a rethink:

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/story-st-louis-beginnings-becomes-more-complicated-new-archaeological-findings#stream/0
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5704-170630-st-louis-founding-artifacts

A Colonial-era brass lock from Michigan:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5684-170626-michigan-colonial-lock

A Revolution-era musket ball from Charleston:

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/tiny-lead-ball-confirms-archaeologists-are-digging-in-right-place/article_4e92c066-5d02-11e7-b92a-47d8da82a83c.html
http://abcnews4.com/news/local/a-1780-bullet-was-found-during-archaeological-excavation-at-aiken-rhett-house
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5705-170630-charleston-revolutionary-war-trench

… and a Revolution-era shipwreck off Florida:

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/27/florida-frontiers-american-revolution-era-shipwreck/433868001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

… while bridge construction threatens the excavation of the Luna:

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/2017/06/29/uwf-pensacola-bay-bridge-construction-threatens-1559-luna-shipwreck-excavation/439319001/

A Civil War map of Gloucester Point:
http://www.dailypress.com/features/history/dp-nws-evg-civil-war-fort-map-20170630-story.html

Excavating a Jesuit church in Shreveport:

http://www.heraldsun.com/living/article157894194.html

A time capsule from a Confederate monument in St Louis:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/us/confederate-monument-time-capsule/index.html

Suggestion Lost Colony settlers moved to Hatteras Island:

http://pilotonline.com/news/local/history/artifacts-show-lost-colony-settlers-moved-to-hatteras-island-lived/article_5031be6a-e3b5-5531-9401-f63701e278d9.html

Feature on the Erie Canal:

http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/06/erie_canal_at_200_how_a_ditch_transformed_the_empire_state.html

Feature on the site of Canada’s first parliament:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-344-tomson-highway-the-hidden-site-of-canada-s-first-parliament-top-albums-for-canada-150-and-more-1.4178586/remnants-of-upper-canada-s-1st-parliament-sit-buried-under-a-toronto-car-wash-1.4178589?cmp=rss

On Downton Abbey’s role in the formation of Canada:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-40463909/downton-abbey-s-real-life-alter-ego-s-role-in-founding-canada

A legal battle is shaping up over the Franklin artifacts:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/lawyers-circle-over-the-franklin-searches

Colonial court documents show up on eBay:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-colonial-court-documents-found-ebay-180963864/

More on that 1000 year bp canoe from Louisiana:

http://navajotimes.com/wires-wp/index.php?id=1736099644&kid=Bvx4wT1TuMhUhryg

More on recreating Native American water bottles:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-water-bottles-may-have-exposed-native-americans-toxic-chemicals-180963875/

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A 7000 years bp high altitude site in Peru:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uow-rde062617.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-document-early-permananet-human-settlement.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170628095929.htm
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-humans-evolved-ancient-americans-adapted-live-mountain-environment-2558655
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5695-170628-peru-andean-highland-settlement

A ‘tower of skulls’ from an Aztec site in Mexico City is getting a lot of
press attention:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-archaeology-skulls-idUSKBN19M3Q6
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/01/tower-human-skulls-mexico-city-aztec-sacrifices
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world-0/tower-human-skulls-found-archaeologists-mexico-aztec-history-doubt-a7818841.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/94301544/Tower-of-human-skulls-in-Mexico-casts-new-light-on-Aztecs-culture-of-sacrifice
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/aztec-tower-of-skulls-unearthed-by-archaeologists-in-mexico-city/news-story/4a8102ed169135d5c3ed5f2e8847c185?from=rss-basic

More on those 1000 years bp burials in Nicaragua:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/pre-columbian-cemetery-found-nicaragua-spd/

A good Canada Day feature:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/world/canada/canada-150th-anniversary-celebration-indigenous-people.html

An Alexander Hamilton inspired fourth of July meal:

http://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/food/cooking/for-fourth-of-july-an-american-feast-inspired-by-founding-father-alexander/2328460

Looking at the history of maps:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-maps-180963685/

Acoustic archaeology and cave art:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-acoustic-scientist-cave.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/asoa-ass062017.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170629175551.htm
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sound-reflecting-shelters-inspired-ancient-rock-artists

On the sudden popularity of Pushkin:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40383837

On the original colour of the Statue of Liberty:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/acs-tso062917.php

On recreating ancient ales and the like:

http://nhpr.org/post/meet-indiana-jones-ancient-ales-and-extreme-beverages
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/30/532959384/meet-the-indiana-jones-of-ancient-ales-and-extreme-beverages

On digging while expecting:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/01/pregnant-in-the-field-blog-photography-have-trowel-will-travel

Much excitement in Russia over St Nicholas relics:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/why-more-than-a-million-russians-have-lined-up-tosee-one-of-theribs-of-saint-nicholas/2017/06/28/02aae204-5696-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html

Age of Empires:

http://isaw.nyu.edu/news/prof-lillian-tseng-reviews-met-exhibition-in-the-art-newspaper

Teotihuacan:

http://observer.com/2017/06/teotihuacan-de-young-exhibition/

Berlin Painter:

http://www.ocala.com/lifestyle/20170629/ticket-to-write-vases-by-ancient-greek-painter-can-bring-goosebumps

Gladiators:

http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/sponsored-content/museums/brooke-boland/gladiators-heroes-of-the-colosseum-brings-ancient-rome-to-brisbane-253994

Religion in Early America:

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/28/534765046/smithsonian-exhibit-explores-religious-diversitys-role-in-u-s-history

Gates of Paradise have been installed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum:

https://nelson-atkins.org/gates-paradise-installed-nelson-atkins/

It sounds like it should be honours for the Mytilene Archaeological
Museum, but I think it’s a talk:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/06/26/golden-crown-and-golden-wreath-to-be-presented-at-mytilene-archaeological-museum/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26007-golden-crown-and-wreath-presented-for-first-time-by-lesvos-archaeological-museum.html

The Louvre may lose its ‘most popular museum’ designation:

https://qz.com/1015412/new-yorks-metropolitan-museum-of-art-may-soon-surpass-the-louvre-as-the-worlds-most-popular-museum/

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A new bone identification technique:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-bone-identification-method-human-societies.html

A new xray technique for analyzing artifacts:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-x-ray-technique-ancient-artifacts.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uol-uol062817.php

Latest facial reconstruction is a 500 year bp Dublin man:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/30/researchers-produce-startling-3-d-image-of-a-young/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5693-170627-dublin-facial-reconstruction

… and more on reconstructing faces of First Nations people:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/beads-facial-reconstruction-museums-canada/

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Suggestion that mainland and island Greeks diverged genetically in the
Middle Ages:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.798089
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5692-170627-greece-dna-divergence

… while the South Caucasus region has had very little change over the past
8000 years, apparently:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-genetic-evidence-south-caucasus-region.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170629143015.htm

Southwest England:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/travel/southwest-england-avalon-tintagel-totnes-weird-spiritual.html

Acinipo’s Roman Ruins:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/jun/28/acinipo-roman-ruins-spain-andalucia

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Some funerary busts from Palmyra were recovered from ISIL:

http://en.abna24.com/news/middle-east/syrian-authorities-seize-four-funeral-busts-in-isis-former-centers-in-palmyra_839808.html
http://www.epa.eu/arts-culture-and-entertainment-photos/archeology-monuments-heritage-sites-photos/palmyra-statues-handed-over-to-syrian-general-directorate-of-antiquities-and-museums-photos-53619614

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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n26.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n27.html

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2628-audio-news-from-archaeologica-18-june-2017-24-june-2017

Doug Weller

unread,

Aug 22, 2017, 10:39:16 AM8/22/17

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explorator 20.17 August 20, 2017

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, Rick Heli, Trevor Watkins, Trevor
Ogden, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this

week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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A survey of petroglyphs from the Namib Desert:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5843-170815-namibia-initiation-rock-art

Concerns for Somali cave art:

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2017/0816/Finding-Somaliland-s-ancient-cave-art-is-hard.-Protecting-it-could-be-harder

https://www.yahoo.com/news/finding-somalilands-ancient-cave-art-hard-protecting-could-203710342.html

The chicken and black rat came to Africa via Indian Ocean trade:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-early-indian-ocean-routes-chicken.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/mpif-eio081717.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170817141533.htm

Feature on Ibrahima Thiaw’s work looking for slave shipwrecks:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-secrets-deep-senegal-slave-shipwreck.html
http://artdaily.com/news/98199/Secrets-of-the-deep--Senegal-s-slave-shipwreck-detective

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Three Ptolemaic burials from Minya (and possibly a large necropolis with
more):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/275381/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Three-Ptolemaic-tombs-uncovered-in-Minya,-contents.aspx

http://www.egyptindependent.com/three-ptolemaic-tombs-uncovered-minya-discovery-indicates-large-cemetery/

https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/08/15/three-ptolemaic-tombs-discovered-in-egypts-minya-suggesting-a-large-cemetery/

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/17421/3-Ptolemaic-tombs-discovered-in-Minya

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-egypt-archaeologists-tombs-dating-years.html
https://www.livescience.com/60164-three-ancient-tombs-discovered-in-egypt.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egypt-new-discovery-2000-year-old-tomb-sarcophagi-al-kamin-al-sarwahi-minya-a7895671.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40939274
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11906155
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/15/three-2000-year-old-sarcophagi-discovered-in-egypt

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-tombs-more-2000-years-old-uncovered-archaeologists-hidden-burial-651126

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.807195
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/ancient-tombs-uncovered-egypt-achaemenid-archaeology-history-spd/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5844-170815-egypt-ptolemaic-tombs

… I think this is the same story, with an overly ambitious headline:

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/archaeologists-discover-new-pyramids-southern-egypt-1010940

Also in Minya, a Coptic-era monk’s village of some sort:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/275588/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Possible-ancient-monks-complex-discovered-in-Minya.aspx

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/08/20/remains-residential-city-found-minya/
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/515432/World/Mena/Egypt
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/08/18/New-archaeological-discovery-of-churches-and-monasteries-in-Egypt.html

A report (which missed the rounding lesson) that some 32 000+ items have
disappeared from Egyptian museums over the past fifty years:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170817-egypt-loses-33600-historical-artefacts-over-50-years/

… which was denied by Ministry officials:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/antiquities-ministry-official-denies-robbery-32000-archaeological-pieces-museum/

The Ministry also pointed out how many sites it is digging at:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/08/18/antiquities-ministry-excavating-30-archaeological-sites-every-season/

Major funds for sites and museums in Egypt:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/08/18/government-spends-egp-2-5bn-develop-museums-archaeological-sites/
http://www.menafn.com/1095750704/Egypt-collects-EGP200mn-for-restoration-of-Islamic-Coptic-monuments

Feature on the Rosetta Stone:

https://www.livescience.com/60154-rosetta-stone.html

Latest finds (I think we’re talking 12 000 years bp) from Kortik Tepe:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kortik-hill-offers-thousands-of-artifacts.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116813&NewsCatID=375

Latest finds from Istanbul’s subway construction:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/subway-construction-excavations-fill-gap-in-istanbuls-history.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116851&NewsCatID=375

Vessels with the ‘tree of life’ motif from Domuztepe Mound:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/vessels-with-tree-of-life-motifs-found-in-turkeys-domuztepe.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116699&NewsCatID=375

The longstanding claim that copper was being smelted at Catal Huyuk some
8500 years bp is being explained with a bit more nuance:

http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/mystery-of-8-500-year-old-copper-making-event-revealed-through-materials-science

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uoc-mo8081117.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mystery-year-old-copper-making-event-revealed.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170815095111.htm
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mysterious-origins-metal-making-solved-by-analysis-8500-year-old-copper-1635123

Cf: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440317301024

A 2600 years bp Egyptian seal from Mugla:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mystic-egyptian-seal-found-in-mugla-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116812&NewsCatID=378

We may have mentioned this 3000 years bp female statue from Tayinat:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-archaeologists-uncover-year-old-female-statue.html

http://www.eurasiareview.com/12082017-turkey-found-3000-year-old-female-statue-at-citadel-gate-complex/

More on that stone vessel production site in Galilee:

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Rare-find-Galilee-excavations-reveal-a-2,000-year-old-stone-vessel-workshop.aspx

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archeologists-unearth-2000-year-old-stone-vessel-production-center-502056

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=44559
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5001775,00.html
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.806640
https://www.livescience.com/60131-jesus-era-stoneware-factory-uncovered.html

Interesting find (maybe) from a Dead Sea Scroll interpretation:

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.806283

An early Islamic-era house from Jordan:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5842-170815-jordan-umayyad-house-unearthed

Remains of a 1000 years bp perfume shop in Sanliurfa:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/19/1000-year-old-perfume-shop-discovered-in-turkeys-sanliurfa

I think we mentioned this 8th centuury CE mosaic workshop from Jerash:

https://www.livescience.com/60132-earthquake-reveals-mosaic-production-practices.html

Concerns for sites in Jordan:

http://www.menafn.com/1095742672/US-scholar-shares-concerns-over-preservation-of-archaeological-sites

We’re reading again of an upcoming antiquities forum in Riyadh:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1146586/saudi-arabia

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A Hellenistic temple from Umm Qais:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/first-its-kind%E2%80%99-hellenistic-temple-discovered-umm-qais

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5849-170816-jordan-hellenistic-temple

A Roman villa (re)find at Realmonte:

http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-uncover-sicilian-villa-ancient-roman-empire-2578815

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5846-170816-sicily-roman-villa

A metal detectorist found a Roman ‘measuring device’ (in the UK they call
them ‘dividers’):

http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/15466752.Metal_detectorist_mistook___39_find_of_his_life__39__for_rusty_tent_peg/

Roman finds from a dig in Bedford:

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/archaeologist-dubs-bronze-spoon-finding-from-roman-villa-dig-like-8216-sex-on-a-stick-8217/story-30487773-detail/story.html

Possible remains of a Roman temple in the Meon Valley:

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/15471916.Meon_Valley_dig_unearths_evidence_of_temple/

Not sure when this ‘near Spilsbury’ hoard was found:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/stunned-metal-detectors-discover-hoard-338853#ICID=sharebar_twitter

A Greek inscription from the Crimea:

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/ancient-marble-slab-inscription-found-crimea.html

Plans to excavate the ‘gladiator stadium’ at Laodicea:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/16/gladiators-arena-to-be-unearthed

They’ve found some interesting items (not necessarily ancient) in the
wreck
of Elgin’s ship:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/08/15/items-recovered-from-wreck-of-elgins-ship-off-kythira/

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26796-new-impressive-ancient-treasures-discovered-at-historical-kythira-shipwreck.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5848-170816-greece-mentor-elgin-excavation

The curator of the Cleveland MoA believes the Cleveland Apollo is a
Praxitelean original:

http://www.clevelandleader.com/cleveland-museum-art-curator-makes-controversial-claim-bronze-apollo-statue-greek-original/

Analysis of silver from Roman coins provides links to Hannibal’s defeat:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/gc-afd081117.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170814092835.htm
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-analysis-defeat-hannibal-written-coins.html
https://www.livescience.com/60141-ancient-coins-trace-rome-rising-power.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/13/roman-coins-show-evidence-hannibals-defeat-scientists-say/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/14/roman-coins-analysis-tells-hannibal-defeat-rome-rise

https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/roman-conquest-of-spain-written-in-chemistry-of-ancient-coins

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/2200-year-old-coins-record-hannibals-defeat-start-roman-empire-1634912

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/silver-composition-coins-confirms-story-rise-rome-180964513/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5811-170814-rome-silver-coins

Analysis of a tiny piece of pipe, claimed to be from Pompeii, leads to a
theory that antimony was a major health threat:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uosd-pwh081717.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170817110902.htm
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-ancient-pompeii-pipes-contaminated-toxic.html
https://www.seeker.com/culture/history/antinomy-poisoning-not-lead-may-have-contributed-to-the-roman-empires-fall

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pompeii-did-antimony-poisoning-lead-downfall-roman-empire-1635637

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5853-170818-pompeii-antimony-water-pipe

Cf:
https://rogueclassicism.com/2017/08/18/on-antimony-in-pipes-and-pompeii-yeah-about-that/

The upcoming eclipse spawned an article on the Antikythera Mechanism:

https://www.livescience.com/60144-antikythera-computer-predicted-eclipses.html

Feature on Cicero:

http://www.livelaw.in/cicero-greatest-lawyer-times/

Why study Classics?:

http://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2017/08/17/why_study_the_classics_110191.html

The SCS statement on diversity in the ancient world and misuse of
Classical
images:

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/08/15/classicists-condemn-use-images-racists

On the claim that all roads lead to Rome:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mythbusting-ancient-romedid-roads.html

In case you haven’t heard enough silliness this week, here’s a claim that
Caesar’s invasion of Britain was invented by Alfred the Great:

http://cphpost.dk/news/caesar-conquering-britain-a-9th-century-invention-by-alfred-the-great.html

What Tommye Lou Davis is up to:

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/higher_education/longtime-baylor-administrator-davis-out-as-vice-president/article_02f21ec5-cb98-53bb-b32f-244346b2443e.html

http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Longtime-Baylor-administrator-to-return-to-classroom-440934523.html

Stephen Fry will be dealing with ancient Greek myth:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/220935/article/ekathimerini/life/stephen-fry-takes-on-mythical-figures-from-ancient-greece
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26801-stephen-fry-takes-on-mythical-figures-from-ancient-greece-in-ontario.html

More on France’s ‘mini Pompeii’:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/archeologists-dig-frances-mini-pompeii-roman-town-frozen-time-fire/

More on citrons as luxury items in the ancient Mediterranean:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/afot-cfl081117.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-citrus-luxury-item-cash-crop.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170818092100.htm
http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Health-and-Science/Citrus-fruit-From-ancient-luxury-item-to-todays-cash-crop-502579

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/history/israeli-researcher-says-citrons-lemons-were-luxuries-in-ancient-mediterranean/2017/08/17/

Plenty of finds from an Anglo Saxon cemetery on Holy Island:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/complete-skeletons-anglo-saxon-cemetery-13474400

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5845-170815-lindisfarne-anglo-saxon-cemetery-skeletons

… and plenty of Anglo Saxon burials found during the Lincoln Bypass
construction:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/mystery-over-400-ancient-graves-346698

A metal detectorist has found a Bronze Age hoard of some sort from Thanet:

http://www.kentlive.news/a-cliftonville-man-has-found-a-gold-coin-and-a-treasure-trove-while-metal-detecting-in-thanet/story-30485584-detail/story.html

Cup and ring marks in Ilkley Moor:

http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/15479067.Intriguing_cup_and_ring_marks_discovered_on_archaeology_trail_on_Ilkley_Moor/

Searching for remains of a Pictish settlement near Blair Atholl:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/archaeologists-return-to-north-east-seat-of-pictish-kings-1-4536178

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15483296.Blair_Atholl_burial_dig_hopes_to_find_more_signs_of_Pictish_life/

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/search-pictish-settlement-11008380

A metal detectorist found a 6th century coin pendant:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-40962865

A 9th century Arabic coin from Svaty Jur:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20628379/unique-discovery-proves-contact-between-great-moravia-and-orient.html

A medieval church and burials from Lucerne:

https://www.thelocal.ch/20170815/medieval-church-and-skeletons-unearthed-in-lucerne-city-centre

A medieval coin hoard from Denmark:

http://cphpost.dk/news/archaeologists-make-stunning-treasure-find-in-denmark.html

Archaeologists have located and excavated Greenwich Palace:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/greenwich-palace-henry-viii-birthplace-remains-discovered-archaeologists-old-royal-naval-college-a7894331.html

http://artdaily.com/news/98204/Archaeological-find-uncovers-royal-palace-where-Henry-VIII-and-Elizabeth-I-were-born

Remains of Vilna’s 17th century synagogue includes a pair of mikvehs:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/history/two-mikvahs-exposed-in-vilnas-great-synagogue-70-years-after-destruction/2017/08/17/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234046
http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-uncover-the-heart-of-nazi-razed-vilnius-synagogue/

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.807434
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Discover-in-Lithuania-archeologists-find-ruins-of-Great-Synagogue-502804

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/great-synagogue-vilna-ritual-baths-that-survived-nazi-soviet-destruction-revealed-1635597

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5851-170817-lithuania-great-synagogue

Plenty of finds (including remains of the crew) during the underwater
excavation of the Rooswijk:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-40962097
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/17/lost-crew-18th-century-dutch-treasure-ship-found-coast-kent/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/18/treasure-and-intrigue-scientists-unravel-story-of-1740-kent-shipwreck

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/team-explores-secrets-of-18th-130720/
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/shipwreck-excavations-at-goodwin-sands-shed-new-light-on-voyagers-untold-stories-1-5154772

http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/dutch-east-india-company-ship-rooswijk-archaeologists-discovery-58436

http://artdaily.com/news/98194/Bones--silver-found-in-18th-century-Dutch-wreck-off-UK
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/shipwreck-rooswijk-dutch-trading-kent-england-artifacts-spd/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5852-170818-england-dutch-shipwreck

Evidence of a 200 years bp ‘refugee camp’ from Galway:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/archaeologist-finds-200-year-old-galway-refugee-camp-1.3190982

Excavating a 100 years bp Kilwinning cottage:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/secrets-100-year-old-kilwinning-10997665

Plans to dig Caithness’ brochs:

http://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/caithness-digs-deep-to-discover-secrets-of-its-brochs-1-4533401

Brief hype for a dig at Voden fortress:

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/08/16/422046/plovdiv-archaeological-excavations-at-voden-fortress-in-asenovgrad-continue.html

A brooch associated with Richard III is coming to auction:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-40961864

Moscow might be a hundred years older than previously thought:

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/moscow-58670

Interesting theory about the Uffington White Horse:

http://archaeology.org/issues/269-1709/from-the-trenches/5830-trenches-england-prehistoric-uffington-white-horse

By the time you read this, they’re probably already digging the Oxford
flood channel:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/15482834.Oxford_flood_channel_archaeology_digs_to_begin_within_days/

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15482834.Oxford_flood_channel_archaeology_digs_to_begin_within_days/

Rethinking some images associated with the Plague:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/18/542435991/those-iconic-images-of-the-plague-thats-not-the-plague

Feature on the Ballachulish goddess:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/who-was-the-2-500-year-old-ballachulish-goddess-1-4534045

Plans for the Globe Theatre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40972934

A 5000 years bp possible image of an eclipse from Ireland is being brought
up again for obvious reasons:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/18/this-5000-year-old-stone-carving-may-be-the-worlds-first-drawing-of-an-eclipse/

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/18/worlds-first-drawing-of-an-eclipse/

We mentioned this 4000 years bp dagger find from Slovakia:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/16/c_136530140.htm

I think we mentioned the reopening of Joint Mitnor cave, with 3d printed
replicas of items that were stolen:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/once-plundered-thieves-ancient-cave-reopens-3-d-replicas-stolen-fossils-180964455/

More on that circular Viking fortress from Denmark:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/thousand-year-old-viking-fortress-reveals-technologically-advanced-society

Neolithic remains from the Kashmir:

http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/stone-age-kashmiri-was-intelligent-skilled-burzahom-findings/257574.html

Evidence of a Vietnamese trading network which operated 4500-3000 years
bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/anu-aua081717.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-archaeologists-uncover-ancient-network-vietnam.html

http://citynews.com.au/2017/anu-uncovers-vietnamese-trading-network/
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/archaeologists-uncover-ancient-trading-network-vietnam

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2017/evidence-for-long-distance-neolithic-trading-network-in-vietnam-uncovered

Taking rubbings from a 1st century CE Mongolian cliff inscription:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2107500/archaeologists-discover-story-chinas-ancient-military-might

Possible evidence of a second capital in 8th century Osaka:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201708170055.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5850-170817-japan-ancient-capital-unearthed

A 1000 years bp royal burial from North Korea (!):

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/638688/north-korea-Goryeo-Dynasty-tomb-Kaesong-archeology-kcna-Suk-Jong

Conserving items in Ladakh monasteries:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/asi-comes-to-rescue-of-1000-year-old-antiquities-in-ladakh-monasteries/articleshow/60062684.cms

Not sure about this ‘Great Wall of Siberia’ item:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/discovered-the-great-wall-of-siberia-dating-to-1st-millennium-bc/

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/841374/Great-Wall-Siberia-discovery-Altai-Mountains-achaeology

Roundabout construction in New Zealand reveals an ancient Maori
settlement:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11903872

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11903872
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5855-170817-new-zealand-maori-settlement

Feature on life in colonial New Zealand:

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/08/16/42910/how-tough-was-life-in-colonial-new-zealand

The Chinese art market is sputtering, apparently:

https://news.artnet.com/market/2016-chinese-art-market-report-shows-market-in-doldrums-1050767

A history of Guam:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/brief-500-year-history-guam-180964508/

More on dog-eating rituals in Siberia:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2143891-ancient-warriors-killed-and-ate-their-dogs-as-rite-of-passage/#038;%23038;%23038;campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-

More on that well-preserved Siberian mummy:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/meet-the-mummified-polar-beauty-her-long-eyelashes-and-hair-still-intact-after-900-years/

https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/08/11/mundo_global/1502453125_358701.html

A 1500 years bp midden from Camarines Sur:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/923681/1500-yr-old-artifacts-found-in-camsur

Latest from the Fort Edward dig:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/nyregion/french-indian-war-fort-edward-new-york-18th-century-british-troops.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Archaeology-dig-on-NY-Colonial-military-site-11883012.php
http://www.njherald.com/article/20170818/AP/308189981
http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Archaeology-dig-on-NY-Colonial-military-site-wrapping-up-441005053.html

Digging the Sandwich site (near Windsor, ON):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/indigenous-monitors-added-archaeological-sandwich-roundabout-1.4251857

On efforts to save Mi’kmaq artifacts threatened by erosion:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/saving-mi-kmaq-artifacts-before-they-wash-into-the-sea-1.4251195?cmp=rss

Feature on Benjamin Lay:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/sunday/youll-never-be-as-radical-as-this-18th-century-quaker-dwarf.html

… and Josiah Henson:

http://www.somdnews.com/independent/spotlight/archaeologist-retraces-the-steps-of-an-underground-railroad-pioneer/article_d985d818-4190-53ff-849c-643fef767271.html

… and Martin Frobisher:

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/08/16/how-a-middle-aged-midwestern-nobody-made-his-mark-in-the-arctic/

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/maps-worldwide-were-changed-how-a-novice-explorer-made-his-mark-in-the-arctic-in-1860/wcm/17e974ec-1a1d-4bb0-b3c4-88d844ea34dc

Oldest known photo of a US president:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/arts/design/john-quincy-adams-daguerreotype-sothebys-auction.html

On the Russian presence in North America:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/russia-america.html

Latest on the demise of the Franklin crew:

http://gizmodo.com/new-clues-emerge-about-doomed-expedition-through-the-no-1797855047

In case you want to know about assorted Confederate monuments (varied
coverage):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-removed.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40966800
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40978515

Hopes for more study of a possible slave burial ground in Brooklyn:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/call-study-slave-burial-ground-brooklyn-article-1.3421089

More on that Pueblaon petroglyph which might depict an eclipse:

https://www.livescience.com/60129-ancient-rock-art-depicts-solar-eclipse.html

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A circular wall from Peru:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-3000yearold-circular-stone-wall-found-in-cusco-678217.aspx

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5809-170814-peru-circular-wall-unearthed

Feature on a ‘Mayan Pompeii’:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mayan-pompeii-offers-snapshot-ancient-village-frozen-time-by-massive-volcanic-eruption-1635133

On the history of department stores:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40448607

… and offices:

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/people-human-resources/from-medieval-monks-to-online-connectivity-a-short-history-of-the-office/

Assorted coverage of various eclipses throughout history and human
reactions thereto:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170811-why-do-we-associate-eclipses-with-the-end-of-the-world

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/science/eclipse-discoveries-science.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/science/solar-eclipse-myths.html
http://www.fox9.com/fox-content-hub/274567152-story
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/16/543532422/how-eclipses-changed-history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/eclipse-myths/
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/eclipses-show-wrong-physics-can-give-right-results
http://theconversation.com/how-ancient-cultures-explained-eclipses-79887
http://www.thedailytimes.com/columns/steve_wildsmith/eclipse-tips-prepare-for-werewolves-and-the-moon-serpent/article_1923e82b-71da-5b62-aed8-0de123d115f6.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-folklore-tells-us-about-eclipses-180964488/

How Switzerland transformed the idea of breakfast:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170808-how-switzerland-transformed-breakfast

Almost in our period of purview but of interest … a missing British tank
turned up at the Somme:

http://www.ntnews.com.au/technology/world-war-i-archaeological-dig-at-the-somme-turns-up-missing-british-tank-that-fled-due-to-cowardice/news-story/e9639bcaae9e2e75e3bbe5475a90eb14

… and not in our time period, but of interest is the find of the USS
Indianapolis wreck:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/researchers-find-wreckage-of-lost-wwii-warship-uss-indianapolis/2017/08/19/9b432b1c-8520-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html

http://www.journalgazette.net/news/20170819/researchers-find-wreckage-of-lost-wwii-warship-uss-indianapolis

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Researchers-find-wreckage-of-lost-WWII-warship-11944819.php

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/08/19/wreck-of-warship-uss-indianapolis-found-deep-in-pacific-after-72-years.html

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/19/researchers-find-wreckage-uss-indianapolis/

A possibly misleading translation in the King James Bible:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.807467

Feature on Machiavelli:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/political-animal/

Victor Nuovo is dealing with Locke and Hobbes this week:

http://addisonindependent.com/201708victor-nuovo-does-mind-always-think

A plea from archaeologists to stop hoarding bones:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stop-hoarding-ancient-bones-plead-archaeologists1/

Using archaeology to rethink osteoarthritis:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/15/543402095/creaky-knees

On torches and intimidation throughout history:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/08/15/a-short-history-of-torches-and-intimidation/

Review of a biography of Freud:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/books/review/freud-biography-frederick-crews.html

Pompeii:

http://eastpdxnews.com/general-news-features/pompeii-comes-to-life-at-omsi/

Feature on the Neanderthal Museum:

http://www.dw.com/en/is-man-the-eternal-migrant-neanderthal-museum-explores-history-of-human-movement/a-40094864

http://www.dw.com/en/two-million-years-of-migration/g-40095881

Suggestion that interactive museum features aren’t good for you:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/can-high-culture-make-you-sick/2017/08/18/4e0e997a-7dd3-11e7-a669-b400c5c7e1cc_story.html

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A 19th century murderer is the latest facial reconstruction project:

https://stv.tv/news/east-central/1395611-face-of-19th-century-killer-revealed-by-modern-forensics/

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40924617

Overviewish sort of thing on assorted technologies used in archaeology:

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/these-technologies-are-giving-new-life-ancient-world-ncna792921

Policy change to use VR to examine shipwrecks in the UK:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/19/no-mary-rose-style-excavation-ships-will-explored-using-vr-instead/

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Tracing apple DNA this week:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/15/geneticists-trace-humble-apples-exotic-lineage-all-the-way-to-the-silk-road

More on turkey DNA to track Puebloan movements:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Turkey-bones-may-help-trace-fate-of-ancient-cliff-11859231.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-turkey-bones-fate-ancient-cliff.html
http://www.fox19.com/story/36157874/turkey-bones-may-help-trace-fate-of-ancient-cliff-dwellers

http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Turkey-bones-may-help-trace-fate-of-ancient-cliff-11882471.php

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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In case you missed the Hercules sarcophagus repatriation story a while
back:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hercules-to-come-to-turkey-in-september-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116855&NewsCatID=375

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2017/08/18/hercules-saga-switzerland-to-return-relic

India is still waiting for the US to return some items:

http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/10577-india-yet-receive-200-artefacts-worth-100-million-us

More on the repatriation/reburial of those Native American children
remains:

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/harrisburg/106430-two-native-american-boys-remains-uncovered-in-carlisle-third-stays-buried

More on the Benin Bronzes:

https://qz.com/1054364/the-british-museum-will-return-bronze-sculptures-looted-from-benin-nearly-two-centuries-ago/

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Norman coins from Sicily:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-coinage-normans-sicily/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n33.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n34.html

The House of Government:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/books/review/yuri-slezkine-the-house-of-government.html

Feature on Beethoven:

http://www.wqxr.org/story/5-tales-complicated-life-beethoven/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2640-audio-news-from-archaeologica-6-august-2017-12-august-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Jo Draper:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/13/jo-draper-obituary

Robert Loder:

https://www.ft.com/content/9a24ab5c-81e2-11e7-a4ce-15b2513cb3ff

Paul Oliver:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/arts/music/paul-oliver-authority-on-the-blues-dies-at-90.html

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CONFERENCES
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Canada Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping (Nov. 2017)

https://independent.academia.edu/ConferenceCanadabeforeConfederationEarlyMappingandExploration14981763

Bones to Drones: Science in Archaeology (Nov. 2017)

http://cba-wessex.org.uk/cba-events/the-cba-wessex-annual-conference-women-in-wessex/

Theoretical Archaeology Group (Dec. 2017):

http://tag2017cardiff.org/

Hidden Cultural Heritage (April 2018):

http://www.cicop.net/hch/

Doug Weller

unread,

Sep 10, 2017, 2:11:12 PM9/10/17

===============================================================
explorator 20.19-20 September 10, 2017

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley, David Critchley,
Ken Fisher, Feral Boy, Richard Miller, Bill Kennedy, Allan Brockway,
Alfred Kriman, Frank MacKay, Ken Fisher, Feral Boy, Richard Miller,
Rick Heli, Allan Brockway, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent

for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of a New Kingdom royal goldsmith (and family) tomb find
near Luxor:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21778/Middle-Kingdom-era-cemetery-unearthed-in-Luxor
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/20185/Discovery-of-a-new-archaeological-necropolis-in-Luxor
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/276757/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Amunre-goldsmith-tomb-uncovered-in-Draa-Abul-Naga-.aspx
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21778/Ancient-cemetery-dating-back-18th-dynasty-unearthed-in-Luxor
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21853/Know-about-what%E2%80%99s-inside-newly-discovered-cemetery-in-Luxor
http://www.egyptindependent.com/pharaonic-tomb-uncovered-luxor/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/world/middleeast/egypt-archaeology-tomb-goldsmith.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
https://www.livescience.com/60364-ancient-goldsmith-tomb-mummies-discovered-egypt.html
https://www.livescience.com/60363-photos-ancient-goldsmith-tomb-egypt.html
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-egypt-unearths-goldsmith-tomb-mummies.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-41213024
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/09/egypt-archaeologists-unearth-3500-year-old-tomb-luxor/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/09/mummies-tomb-ancient-egypt-valley-of-the-kings
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-discovery/egypt-archaeologists-unearth-goldsmiths-tomb-near-luxor-idUSKCN1BK0FE?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt
http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/09/09/egyptian-archaeologists-discover-3000-ye?videoId=372502511&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=TopNews&videoChannel=1
https://www.timesofisrael.com/3500-year-old-pharonic-tomb-of-royal-goldsmith-unearthed-in-luxor/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/egypt-announces-discovery-of-3500-year-old-tomb
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/egypt-announces-discovery-of-3500-year-old-tomb-in-luxor/ar-AArxlsJ?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartandhp
http://www.cbs8.com/story/36327821/egypt-announces-discovery-of-3500-years-old-tomb-in-luxor
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/09/africa/egypt-luxor-ancient-tomb/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2017/09/09/egyptian-archaeologists-discover-3000-year-old-tomb-goldsmith/105445472/
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/09/photos-egyptian-tomb-of-a-royal-goldsmith-discovered/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypt-dig-unearths-goldsmiths-tomb-mummies-114603526.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/luxor-egypt-necropolis-discovery/

… and Zahi Hawass says there’s plentymore to find:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21993/Zahi-Hawass-Egypt-discovered-only-30-of-its-antiquities

Egyptian looters are apparently seeking aid from professional
archaeologists:

https://www.livescience.com/60246-looters-ask-egyptologists-for-help.html

… and the digging in homes continues:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/poor-egyptians-dig-up-homes-in-search-of-antiquities-vmcv8mzdn
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/egyptian-slumdwellers-strike-gold-with-ancient-treasure-at-their-feet/news-story/11c4fcc9e2cf5d5d9528b058f2402f4d

Feature on a smashed Egyptian ‘mystery pharaoh’ sculpture found at Hazor a
while ago:

https://www.livescience.com/60270-ancient-statue-head-depicts-mystery-pharaoh.html
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-enduring-mystery-of-an-ancient-Egyptian-kings-smashed-sculpture-504118

An 8000 years bp ‘paint workshop’ from Eskisehir:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/31/8000-year-old-paint-workshop-discovered-in-turkeys-eskisehir
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/31/c_136571941.htm

I think we mentioned the renewed interest in Plimpton 322 and its
implications for the development of trigonometry:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mathematical-mystery-ancient-babylonian-clay.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/science/trigonometry-babylonian-tablet.html
http://plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=17654&SEO=plimpton-322-trigonometry-preceded-ancient-greeks
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/babylonians-trigonometry-develop-more-advanced-modern-mathematics-3700-years-ago-ancient-a7910936.html

A 7200 years bp ‘ritual storage pot’/model silo from Tel Tsaf:

http://www.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/home-page3/2568
https://www.timesofisrael.com/find-of-7200-year-old-clay-silo-forces-rethink-of-when-we-began-storing-food/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Unprecedented-7200-year-old-vessel-for-food-storage-rituals-found-in-Jordan-Valley-504401
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/haifa-berlin-scientists-discover-connection-between-pottery-vessel-and-the-development-of-the-elites/2017/09/06/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5895-170906-israel-grain-silo

Latest on Iraq’s ‘Sealand Kingdom’:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/01/castle-sealand-kings-ancient-iraqs-rebel-rulers

A dig at Kiriath Jearim has apparently raised questions about what was in
the Ark of the Covenant:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.809233

A number of First Temple era seals/sealings found near the Old City:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4311
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Seals-from-Judean-Kingdom-period-shed-light-on-life-in-ancient-Jerusalem-504173
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.810495
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=45109
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/235004
http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/elder-of-ziyon/first-temple-era-seals-with-biblical-names-in-hebrew-discovered-in-jerusalem/2017/09/05/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-welcomed-jewish-refugees-2300-years-ago-archaeological-finds-show/

Excavating a refugee camp at Masada:

http://forward.com/news/israel/382132/exclusive-new-archaeology-shows-refugee-camp-not-just-rebels-atop-masada/

I think we mentioned the find of a 2000 years b.p. ‘Half shekel’ by an
eight-year-old in Israel:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/8-year-old-girl-stumbles-upon-ultra-rare-2000-year-old-half-shekel/
http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/8-year-old-Israeli-girl-finds-2000-year-old-half-shekel-503509
http://forward.com/fast-forward/381114/8-year-old-israeli-girl-finds-2-000-year-old-shekel-coin/

… turns out it was a museum souvenir replica:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/too-good-to-be-true-8-year-olds-rare-coin-not-an-ancient-artifact/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234643
http://forward.com/fast-forward/381152/8-year-old-girls-ancient-coin-is-actually-israel-museum-souvenir/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Discovery-thought-to-be-Second-Temple-coin-is-actually-museum-souvenir-503592

OpEd on the Temple Mount Sifting Project:

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/fund-the-temple-mount-sifting-project-now/2017/08/29/

Reburial at Ofra of bones found in 2013 of some victims of the Revolt
against Rome:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234892

Feature on Lycian writing:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-writing-in-turkey-dates-back-to-2000-bc.aspx?PageID=238&NID=117728&NewsCatID=375

The search is on for remains of St Nicholas:

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2017/08/31/archeologists-hunt-for-st-nicholass-remains

Feature on students digging at Lachish this past summer:

https://www.oakland.edu/socan/news/2017/fall/students-probe-mysteries-of-the-past-during-archeological-dig-in-israel

Feature on the Spanish mission’s work in Jordan:

http://www.menafn.com/1095784075/Spanish-Archaeological-Mission-strives-to-excavate-Jordans-treasures
http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/spanish-archaeological-mission-strives-excavate-jordan%E2%80%99s-treasures

Iraq has created a new security force to protect its archaeological
resources:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/09/dhi-qar-iraq-security-antiquities.html

Studying early agriculture in the UAE:

http://gulfnews.com/culture/heritage/archaeologists-shed-light-on-life-in-the-uae-5-000-years-ago-1.2080734
https://www.traveltradeweekly.travel/2015-10-06-15-40-04/travel-channels/item/3520-emirati-archaeologists-investigate-early-agricultural-village
https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/story/Archaeologists_shed_light_on_life_in_the_UAE_5000_years_ago-GN_27082017_280838/
https://www.albawaba.com/entertainment/archaeological-dig-al-ain-life-before-islam-bronze-age-1016106
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/08/27/Archaeologists-shed-new-light-on-life-in-the-UAE-5-000-years-ago.html

Another overviewish piece on finds made during Istanbul’s metro
construction:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-istanbul-metro-station-to-open-in-besiktas-after-excavations-are-completed.aspx?pageID=238&nid=117355&NewsCatID=375

Germany and Turkey are in some sort of diplomatic spat over Hattusha:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nID=117230&NewsCatID=375

Feature on Babylon:

https://www.livescience.com/28701-ancient-babylon-center-of-mesopotamian-civilization.html

More on the reassessment of a pile of copper slag from Turkey:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.809367

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A pair of Mycenean burials from Aidonia:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26893-new-mycenaean-tombs-discovered-during-recent-nemea-excavations-in-greece.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5874-170828-greece-chamber-tomb

Some sort of sunken structure off the island of Salamis:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/trends/26937-sunken-ruin-described-by-pausanias-discovered-in-greek-island-of-salamis.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5880-170829-salamis-public-building

A very important Roman cavalry barracks find from Vindolanda:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/09/hadrians-wall-lost-secrets-roman-vindolanda-unearthed
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/archaeologists-win-lottery-roman-finds-hadrians-wall/
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/british-archaeology-barracks-hadrian-10092017/

I think we’ve mentioned the find of Roman burials from the Dakhla Oasis:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/five-roman-cemeteries-discovered-dakhla-oasis/
https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/08/24/an-egyptian-archaeological-mission-discovers-five-roman-tombs-in-dakhla-oasis/
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/08/27/roman-empire-traces-discovered-dakhla/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-archaeologists-uncover-tombs-dating-back-to-roman-era/2017/08/24/98f398dc-88eb-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb_story.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/2000yearold-tombs-from-roman-period-found-in-egypt/news-story/0613e6fc76aaa7105e2c81028c12e7e7
http://www.menafn.com/1095778082/Egypt--Roman-Empire-traces-discovered-in-Dakhla

Roman (maybe) tweezers from Washingborough:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/washingborough-bypass-dig-unearths-pristine-382978

Remains of some sort of Roman settlement from Newcastle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-41073983
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/housebuilders-uncover-roman-settlement-in-newcastle-jx35tlm8f
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/remarkable-discovery-made-benwell-housing-13539582

A Roman bath house and spa from Faversham:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/faversham/news/archaeologists-dig-in-to-reveal-130738/

A second century cistern from Peperikon:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/08/25/archaeology-2nd-century-ce-drinking-water-collection-tank-found-at-bulgarias-perperikon/

Assorted Roman structures from downtown Sofia:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/08/25/archaeology-ancient-tavern-shops2-found-under-sofias-sveta-nedelya-square/

Latest finds from Aspendos:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-at-aspendos-continue-to-uncover-ancient-riches-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=117267&NewsCatID=375
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5877-170828-turkey-aspendos-shops

Soil samples suggest Romans were using lead pipes much earlier than
previously thought:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-harbor-sediment-core-samples-historic.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/ancient-mud-documents-legacy-rome-lead-pipes?tgt=nr
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/origins-ancient-rome-s-famed-pipe-plumbing-system-revealed-soil-samples
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/plumbing-discovery-reveals-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-rise-and-the-fall-of-the-romans-can-be-charted-in-their-plumbing

A third century Roman coin hoard from Cornwall:

http://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/treasure-hunting-pair-unearthed-nearly-367139
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5869-170824-england-roman-coins

Plans for further digs at a Roman bath site in Carlisle:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-41129589
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-41219665

A very interesting fourth century mosaic find from West Berkshire:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/02/rare-roman-mosaic-found-berkshire-archaeology-project-boxford
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/berkshire-find-archaeology-roman-pegasus-hercules-st-george-a7925381.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/boxford-berkshire-preservation-of-roman-mosaics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/03/exciting-roman-mosaic-50-years-discovered-community-dig-berkshire/
http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/03/amateur-archaeologists-discover-amazing-1600-year-old-roman-mosaic-6900471/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stunning-roman-mosaic-unearthed-by-amateur-archaeologists-in-berkshire-fplrx997x
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/one-kind-roman-mosaic-depicts-incredible-battles-between-beasts-heroes-ancient-mythology-1637570
http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/22197/volunteers-dig-up-roman-artefacts.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5891-170901-england-mosaic-floor

Some preliminary observations of victims of Vesuvius found at Oplontis:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/08/24/pregnant-women-and-fetuses-among-vesuvius-victims-archaeologists-reveal/

A pompeiian what-if piece:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/what-would-pompeii-be-like-if-vesuvius-never-erupted.aspx

Very questionable remains associated with Pliny the Elder:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-skull-pliny-elder-hero-pompeii-1637875
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.809751

The Colchian Kingdom dig has come to an end for the season:

http://agenda.ge/news/85935/eng

I think we mentioned this dispute over a Roman site in Malta:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170831/local/residents-fight-pa-over-possible-roman-site.656873

A pair of burials near the Olympic Stadium in Rome:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170824/ancient-roman-tombs-found-near-football-stadium-in-italy
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/24/2-ancient-roman-sarcophagi-found-near-football-stadium-in-rome
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/ancient-roman-sarcophagi-discovered-chance-next-romes-football/
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2017/08/23/roman-sarcophagi-discovered-near-stadio-olimpico_94468396-1dad-4c03-8a09-f31f3a665f1c.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/ancient-roman-sarcophagi-discovered-chance-next-romes-football/
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/08/23/roman-sarcophagi-discovered-near-stadio_ce131439-7bb3-4ea9-902a-331e4ef81b05.html

A virtual reconstruction of the Arch of Titus:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.811165

The discovery of the sunken remains of Neapolis off Tunisia are getting
much more press attention now:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-tsunami-sunk-roman-tunisia.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/roman-city-discovered-underwater-ruins-tunisia-tsunami-neapolis-nabuel-cathage-a7924181.html
https://www.thelocal.it/20170901/roman-ruins-sunk-by-tsunami-discovered-in-tunisia
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tsunami-sunk-roman-ruins-discovered-in-tunisia/
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/tsunami-sunk-roman-ruins-discovered-in-tunisia-20170831
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/major-underwater-roman-ruins-discovered-tunisia-170831185305715.html
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-rome-sunken-city-devastated-tsunami-1600-years-ago-discovered-tunisian-658454
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/roman-submerged-ruins-04323/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ruins-roman-city-found-underwater-180964738/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5890-170901-tunisia-underwater-neapolis

Hyping the dig at Nicopolis ad Istrum:

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/08/21/422196/veliko-tarnovo-archaeological-research-starts-in-roman-city-of-nicopolis-ad-istrum.html

… and the Roman theatre dig at Bursa:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-theater-in-bursa-to-regain-identity.aspx?pageID=238&nID=117694&NewsCatID=375

They’ll be digging at Zeugma for quite a while apparently:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/zeugma-excavations-to-last-a-century-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=117576&NewsCatID=375

They’re restored the stadium at Denizli:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-stadium-in-denizli-under-restoration.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116945&NewsCatID=375

Hopes for more research at Chedworth Roman Villa:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/15487343.Visitors_could_in_future_see_what_lies_under_the_ground_at_Chedworth_Roman_Villa_in_three_dimensional_scan_of_buried_ruins/

A conservation plan at Hadrian’s Wall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41050864

Plans to move Larnaca tennis courts to promote ancient remains:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/09/06/larnaca-tennis-courts-moved-showcase-ancient-port-minister-says/

Plans to open the Ploutonion to the public:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/09/07/ancient-gate-to-underworld-complex-will-open-for-tourists

A project to publish all the Greek inscriptions in UK collections:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/09/06/cardiff-uni-to-translate-publish-ancient-athens-inscriptions-of-uk-collections/

Greece is apparently going to use the Brexit negotiations to try and
recover the Parthenon marbles:

http://www.dw.com/en/greece-could-use-brexit-to-recover-stolen-parthenon-art/a-40038439
https://newsline.com/uk-to-lose-its-marbles-greek-activists-seek-brexit-blockade-to-regain-stolen-parthenon-art/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26983-report-brits-fear-greece-may-stall-brexit-over-parthenon-marbles-return.html

Feature on Commodus:

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/evenings/commodus/8840516

… and Caligula:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/caligula-roman-empire.html

… and Lucretius:

http://wamc.org/post/david-nightingale-lucretius-philosopher

Feature on Troy:

https://www.livescience.com/38191-ancient-troy.html

… and Monte Testaccio:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/09/06/rod-mengham/the-eighth-hill-of-rome/

… and the Seven Wonders:

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/20/how-we-lost-the-seven-wonders-of-the-ancient-world/

Feature on Tod and the Colosseum:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fashion-company-paying-maintain-romes-colosseum/

A guide to the Odyssey:

http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-homers-odyssey-82911

A feature on Silphium:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb

Kathleen Martinez continues to look for the tomb of Cleopatra:

https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2017/08/21/dominican-archaeologist-upbeat-on-finding-cleopatra-efe/

Nice collection of Classical one-liners:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/that-s-a-classic-trinity-publishes-50-favourite-classical-one-liners-1.3205032

Reviews of Daniel Mendelsohn, *An Odyssey*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/05/an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-daniel-mendelsohn-review
http://www.startribune.com/review-an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-by-daniel-mendelsohn/443098693/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/review-daniel-mendelsohns-an-odyssey-is-bewildering-and-beguiling/article36208816/

Review of Man, *Amazons*:

http://www.thestatesman.com/books-education/amazons-myths-realities-significance-wondrous-woman-warriors-1502488771.html

Review of David Ferry’s *Aeneid* translation:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/lost-and-founder/article/2009587

What Jennifer Chi is up to:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/brooklyn-museum-jennifer-chi-deputy-director-1074644

Concerns for Classics at PLU:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/matt-driscoll/article172160497.html

In case your university needs a Latin motto:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/honest-latin-mottoes-for-your-overrated-university

More on what xrays revealed in that Herculaneum fresco:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/acs-rah072517.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-remarkable-artistry-hidden-ancient-roman.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170821085702.htm
https://www.seeker.com/culture/x-ray-reveals-ancient-roman-portrait-covered-in-mt-vesuvius-ash
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samlemonick/2017/08/21/science-is-uncovering-the-exquisite-detail-in-this-faded-painting/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-unearth-hidden-beauty-of-vesuvius-painting-jgscc59bz
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/elemental-maps-reveal-hidden-beauty-of-roman-portrait/3007876.article
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/x-rays-reveal-details-portrait-once-hidden-under-vesuvius-ash-180964592/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/captivating-new-look-at-ancient-painting-buried-by-volcano.aspx

More on that Justinianic mosaic from near the Damascus Gate:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-rare-byzantine-mosaic-revealed-jerusalem.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234406
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/emperor-justinian-mosaic-inscription-unearthed-near-damascus-gate/2017/08/23/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology-idUSKCN1B3195
http://forward.com/fast-forward/380811/miraculous-1-500-year-old-mosaic-unearthed-in-jerusalem/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-byzantine-mosaic-revealed-jerusalems-old-city-132841311.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/once-in-a-lifetime-find-of-ancient-greek-inscription-uncovered-at-jerusalems-old-city-gate/
http://www.dw.com/en/rare-1500-year-old-mosaic-discovered-in-jerusalem/a-40214870
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-rare-1500-year-old-mosaic-idUSKCN1B3195?feedType=RSS&feedName=artsNews
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.808491
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5863-170823-israel-byzantine-inscription

More on the Castle Howard collection:

http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/15490332.The_Roman_treasures_from_Castle_Howard_saved_for_the_nation_in_a___5_4_million_tax_deal/
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15482605.The_Roman_treasures_from_Castle_Howard_saved_for_the_nation_in_a___5_4_million_tax_deal/

Bronze Age tools from a dig at the Clwydian hillforts site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-41187985
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-41187989/archaeologist-thrilled-by-clwydian-range-hillforts-find

An Iron age coin hoard find from near Lincoln:

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/harlaxton-detectorist-finds-hundreds-of-gold-and-silver-iron-age-coins-1-8141254
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5904-170908-iron-age-coins

I’m sure we’ll get more coverage of a girl’s pulling a medieval sword
from a lake in Cornwall (with the expected Excalibur references):

http://mashable.com/2017/09/04/excalibur-girl-king-arthur-lake-cornwall/#uuiaRt6f6iqH

A dig commences at Cotswalds:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/15496554.Scientists_to_start_archaeological_dig_at_historic_site_in_the_Cotswolds/

Suggestion that an Iron Age home at Sutherland was abandoned after a fire:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/1318012/iron-aged-house-was-burned-down/

Remains of a medieval settlement in Jutland:

http://cphpost.dk/news/archaeologists-uncover-medieval-village-in-mid-jutland.html

Assorted sites, including a ringfort, at a Macroom bypass site:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/bronze-age-ring-fort-among-sites-discovered-on-macroom-road-route-457841.html

Hyping a dig at Bourton-on-the-water:

http://www.cotswoldjournal.co.uk/news/15501984.Secrets_at_one_of_Europe__39_s_oldest_towns_to_be_discovered_by_archaeological_dig/

A medieval coin hoard from a Polish castle:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,459512,czluchow-archaeologists-discovered-coins-hidden-from-the-swedes--more-than-350-years-ago.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rare-350-year-old-treasure-trove-historic-coins-discovered-hidden-polish-castle-1638005

On the Tudor palace dig at Greenwich:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-traces-of-the-tudor-palace-at-greenwich-are-a-truly-remarkable-find/

Latest from Stara Libovna Castle:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20642884/new-discoveries-uncovered-at-stara-lubovna-castle.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5900-170907-slovakia-stara-l-ubovna-castle

Remains of the Scepter shipwreck found in Stockholm:

https://www.thelocal.se/20170906/swedish-kings-scepter-shipwreck-17th-century-warship-found-in-central-stockholm

Assorted coastal settlement remains from Yorkshire:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-settlements-lost-sea-discovered-yorkshire-1638296
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5899-170907-england-tidal-settlements

Remains of 19th century whales from an Orkney Neolithic site dig:

http://www.scotsman.com/regions/inverness-highlands-islands/early-19th-century-whales-found-at-orkney-archaeological-dig-1-4545556
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-41109126/neolithic-dig-unearths-19th-century-whale-pits

A mass children’s grave in Lanark:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41200949

I think we mentioned this roundhouse from Clachtoll Broch:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/5885-170830-scotland-clachtoll-broch

A Victorian-era well find in a garden:

http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/15512054.Father_and_son_uncover_Victorian_era_well_in_garden/

Funding for a North Yorkshire Iron Age dig:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15510103.__80_000_Lotto_cash_for_North_Yorkshire_Iron_Age_dig/

Latest of the Venus of Dolni Vestonice:

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/shapely-czech-venus-reveals-secrets

A restoration controversy at Chartres Cathedral:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/arts/design/chartres-cathedral-restoration-controversial.html

Concerns about metal detecting at Vinegar Hill:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/call-for-protection-as-battle-site-stripped-by-metal-detectorists-458639.html

Pondering early iron production in Norway:

http://www.eurasiareview.com/08092017-solving-enigma-of-early-norwegian-iron-production/

‘Digging work’ (by heavy equipment) damaged a fairy fort in Ireland:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/outrage-after-ancient-fairy-fort-is-badly-damaged-by-diggers-36112547.html

Notre Dame needs a pile of restoration money, it appears:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/100m-needed-save-gargoyles-gothic-arches-notre-dame

They’re still looking for the burial of Matthew Flinders:

http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/could-dig-answer-flinders-mystery-1-8141241

More on a violent medieval London:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-graveyards-reveal-londons-violent-past-180964652/

Archaeologists have found the tomb of Tang Xianzu (given the epithet: the
‘Chinese Shakespeare’) (and family):

http://mentalfloss.com/article/504035/archaeologists-discover-tomb-chinese-shakespeare-tang-xianzu
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/28/archaeologists-discover-chinese-shakespeares-tomb
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2108911/family-graveyard-chinas-shakespeare-rediscovered
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5875-170828-china-playwright-tomb

Not sure if we mentioned this find of a trio of Buddha statues from
Angkor:

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/spore-student-makes-rare-find

A first century CE Buddhist site from Andhra Pradesh:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/280817/buddhist-site-found-atop-hillock-in-ap.html
http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/archaeologists-find-ancient-buddhist-site-andhra-estimate-it-be-1st-century-ad-67461

A Ganesha idol find from the Raisen district:

http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhopal/asi-finds-rare-ganesha-idol-in-raisen-district.html

Feature on Izumi Shimada:

https://dailyegyptian.com/71134/news/professor-spotlight-izumi-shimada/

Feature on ‘Blood Buddhas’:

https://www.fairobserver.com/region/central_south_asia/india-funding-terrorist-groups-latest-news-headlines-today-97021/

China’s oldest stone arch has undergone some restoration:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/31/c_136570685.htm

More on the Taj Mahal being a Muslim tomb:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/30/taj-mahal-muslim-tomb-not-hindu-temple-indian-court-told
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taj-mahal-hindu-temple-muslim-tomb-india-shah-jahan-wife-bhuvan-vikrama-a7922911.html

… and Indian archaeologists are refuting the claim, of course:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/30/indian-archaeologists-refute-claim-taj-mahal-hindu-temple/

Possible information about the lost French explorer La Perouse:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/anu-ncm082917.php
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-09/02/content_31441001.htm

900 years b.p. ‘Apartments’ from near Mancos, Colorado:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/science/chaco-native-american-archaeology.html

A site at Quinhagak turns out to be more extensive than previously
thought:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2017/09/03/hidden-home-hundreds-of-years-old-unearthed-as-quinhagak-readies-cultural-center/
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/alaska-community-archaeologists-race-to-collect-artifacts/
http://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/09/07/community-members-and-archaeologists-race-against-time-at-nunalleq/
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2017/09/07/vanishing-permafrost-triggers-race-to-save-the-past-before-its-too-late/

Latest from the Triquet Island dig:

http://www.businessinsider.com/ancient-canadian-village-older-than-pyramids-2017-9
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-student-found-an-ancient-canadian-village-that-s-10-000-years-older-than-the-pyramids

Digging a Tlingit site near Petersburg:

https://www.kfsk.org/2017/09/08/archaeologists-shed-light-tlingit-culture-near-petersburg-europeans/

Remains of some Confederate prison barracks in Salisbury:

http://www.salisburypost.com/2017/08/31/remnants-of-confederate-prison-barracks-located/

A pair of century-old shipwrecks in Lake Huron:

http://upnorthlive.com/news/local/maritime-archaeologists-discover-2-century-old-shipwrecks-in-lake-huron

Latest from the Cataract House (Underground Railroad) site in Buffalo:

http://buffalonews.com/2017/09/06/freedoms-history-daring-intrigue-old-cataract-house-site/

Working to record/preserve petroglyphs in Texas:

http://www.mystatesman.com/travel/archaeologists-work-gather-data-from-fading-rock-art-sites/mjOmLz7LTT2d2mV2BYtGcN/

Feature on the surveyors to created the Mason-Dixon line:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-40638673

Feature on the Folsom point:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/08/25/folsom-point-archaeological-icon-george-mcjunkin/

Feature on the University of Texas archaeology lab collection:

http://www.mystatesman.com/entertainment/more-than-million-artifacts-from-texas-past-kept-lab/x3yfkMMBHpDYwb250ElljI/

Feature on the Oneota Mounds:

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/archive/time-machine/time-machine-iowas-oneota-burial-mounds-provide-glimpse-of-long-lost-culture-20170909

Pondering when humans arrived in North America:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170910/john-switzer--from-stump-when-did-humans-arrive-in-north-america

On the history of the New York State Fair:

http://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2017/08/nys_fair_flashback_rain_pickpockets_and_a_whale_carcass_highlight_1890_fair.html

The LOC has digitized the Hamilton collection:

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/29/546741423/i-saved-every-letter-you-wrote-me-the-library-of-congress-digitizes-hamilton

Thomas Hogg brought some invasive species back from Japan:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/how-americas-frenzy-for-japanese-plants-brought-beauties--and-bullies/2017/08/28/6eb02796-882a-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html

On the origins of Labor Day in North America:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/04/who-started-labor-day-the-bloody-and-confusing-history-of-an-american-holiday/

More on what happened to the Hunley:

http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-solve-mystery-of-us-civil-war-submarine-1.22447

More on the Erebus:

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/news/2017/09/archaeologists-explore-17th-century-shipwreck-time-170902191234394.html

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Analysis of a skeleton from Mexico suggest human settlement in the
Americas some 13000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/p-hsi082317.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-human-settlement-americas-late-pleistocene.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170830141253.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170831131259.htm

… this item on the theft of skeletal remains seems related to the above:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stolen-skeleton-was-one-americas-oldest-180964682/
http://www.nature.com/news/skeleton-plundered-from-mexican-cave-was-one-of-the-americas-oldest-1.22521
https://www.livescience.com/60297-looted-skeleton-oldest-in-americas.html

But there’s also this suggestion that humans were in Brazil some 20 000
years bp:

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/stone-age-people-brazil-20000-years-ago

Obsidian ‘ritual stones’ in Maya child burials:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mayan-child-sacrifices-were-buried-supernatural-jet-black-stones-1638068

Finds from the Quelepa site in El Salvador:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/ancient-skeletons-burial-archaeology-artifacts-video-spd/

Shell jewellery from Mexico suggests trade with Hohokam people:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/en/boletines/6466-brazaletes-de-conchas-daninas-dan-identidad-a-los-pueblos-de-deierto-de-sonora

Studying earthworks in Amazonia:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2017/researching-meaning-of-geometric-earthworks-in-southwestern-amazonia

More on the burials of 19th century Chinese labourers at a much older
Peruvian site:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-19th-century-chinese-laborers-found-pyramid-peru-180964647/

An anonymous manuscript commentary on the Gospel of Matthew is in the
news:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/22/dont-take-bible-literally-says-scholar-brought-light-earliest/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/interpreting-the-bible-just-got-more-complicated

On England’s tea obsession:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170823-the-true-story-behind-englands-tea-obsession

Pondering Afghanistan as ‘graveyard of empires’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/afghanistan-graveyard-empires-historical-pictures.html

On some Grimm fairy tales:

http://www.dw.com/en/10-brothers-grimm-fairy-tales-you-should-know/a-39214540

Reviewish on Tolkien’s interest in plants:

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547491042/tolkiens-passion-for-plants-moves-botantist-to-create-guide-to-middle-earth

UNESCO Heritage Sites for 2017:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/travel/unesco-sites-2017-asmara-okinoshima-dauria.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel

Victor Nuovo on Locke and Hobbes:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201708victor-nuovo-locke-hobbes-origin-civil-society

… and private property:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201709victor-nuovo-private-property-and-civil-society

Feature on Monet’s private collection:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts/design/claude-monets-private-collection.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Feature on Amy Beach:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/arts/music/amy-beach-women-american-composer.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic

On ‘fake news’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/books/review/kurt-andersen-fantasyland-how-america-went-haywire.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbook-review

On what’s been damaging ancient parchments:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.811076
https://www.livescience.com/60341-secret-vatican-manuscript-purple-spots-decoded.html

On an 11th century asteroid-induced tsunami (?):

http://www.scotsman.com/news/a-tsunami-hit-britain-in-the-11th-century-due-to-an-asteroid-1-4555142

Feature on Freemasons:

http://www.dw.com/en/the-mysterious-world-of-freemasons/g-40314942

Feature on Agatha Christie:
http://www.oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/revealing-mystery-behind-christie/

Followup to the exhumation of Salvador Dali:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41180146

On the history of the Voynich manuscript:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/voynich-manuscript-woudhuysen/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-mysterious-voynich-manuscript-has-finally-been-decoded/

… and a proposed solution:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/voynich-manuscript-solution/

… and subsequent skepticism:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/has-the-voynich-manuscript-really-been-solved/539310/

This ‘possessed nun’s letter’ is possibly in a similar category:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/17th-century-nuns-letter-from-the-devil-finally-decoded/
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/643690/mystery-letter-devil-translated-italy-nun-ludum-science-centre-catania-sicily

There’s an online Akkadian dictionary now:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brush-your-akkadian-new-online-dictionary-180964725/

A history of bookburning:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-book-burning-printing-press-internet-archives-180964697/

Interesting tidbit of Korean astronomy:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/secrets-cannibal-stars-revealed-thanks-korean-astronomers-180964696/

Much out of our period of purview, but researchers did locate one of the
lost Avro Arrow test models in Lake Ontario:

http://www.torontosun.com/2017/09/08/avro-arrow-test-model-located-in-lake-ontario
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41193900

More on manuscripts in St Catherine’s Monastery:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-languages-found-manuscripts-egyptian-monastery-180964698/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/scientists-discover-lost-languages-in-find-at-egyptian-monastery-qkvd6l9ps

Jacob Lawrence:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-scad-museum-of-art-savannah.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Greek seafaring:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/27/c_136559692.htm

Faces of Power:

http://forward.com/culture/art/380330/how-the-age-of-trump-is-reflected-in-julius-caesars-roman-coins/

Amenhotep II:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2017/08/29/ancient-egypt-comes-to-milan-with-pharaoh-amenhotep-ii_5ca6f570-183d-42de-95dd-3293b79ecc4b.html

Catal Huyuk:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2017/09/01/new-istanbul-exhibition-introduces-millennials-to-catalhoyuk

Scythians:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/in-search-of-the-ancient-scythians-scourge-of-civilisations-7vwhjr7px
http://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/8940/scythians-warriors-of-ancient-siberia-exhibition-at-the-british-museum

Ancient Music:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/music-echoes-of-antiquity-louvre-lens/?map=active&utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201709009_WeeklyBriefing_28

Latest on the Louvre Abu Dhabi:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/arts/design/louvre-abu-dhabi-opening.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

On Hans Sloane and the BM:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/books/review/james-delbourgo-collecting-the-world-hans-sloane-biography.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbook-review

A museum for the last person executed as a witch in Europe:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-witch-executed-europe-gets-museum-180964633/

A major acquisition for the State Museum in Albany:

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/State-Museum-acquires-100-000-17th-century-Dutch-12179952.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-ny-museum-vast-colonial-era-artifacts.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Isotope analysis suggest Bronze Age women travelled (likely were ‘taken’;
not as ‘happily’ as these reports seem to make it) much further than their
menfolk and helped to spread culture:

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-mobile-women-key-cultural-exchange.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/mpif-mww090117.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170904151048.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/04/forget-wandering-warrior-bronze-age-women-travelled-world-men/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bronze-age-women-travelled-men-stay-home-spread-new-ideas-gender-roles-females-sex-a7931186.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2017/prehistoric-women-were-key-to-cultural-exchange

Residue found in a Sicilian cave suggests wine production there some 6000
years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-world-oldest-italian-wine-ancient.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uosf-woi082417.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170824141201.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/30/traces-of-6000-year-old-wine-discovered-in-sicilian-cave
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05drr73
https://www.livescience.com/60295-oldest-italian-wine-discovered.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discovery-shows-italians-have-been-making-wine-6000-years-180964701/
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2017/copper-age-storage-jar-once-contained-wine

LiDAR reveals a lost medieval village in Poland:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/5884-170830-poland-goschwitz-village

Feature on Sarah Parcak’s work:

http://www.natureasia.com/en/nmiddleeast/article/10.1038/nmiddleeast.2017.132

Digitally preserving heritage sites in Alberta:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/3d-project-preservation-heritage-sites-1.4282905?cmp=rss
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/digitally-resurrecting-province-s-lost-or-at-risk-landmarks-using-lasers-and-drones-1.3579975

3d recreations of Buddhist statuary:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world/china-watch/culture/ancient-buddha-statues/

The pros and cons of digital recreations:

https://hyperallergic.com/397949/miguel-angel-salazar-galeria-mascota-mexico-city/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA suggests a Viking warrior burial was that of a woman:

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-genetic-proof-women-viking-warriors.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/su-aoa090817.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170908205507.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/viking-warrior-woman-female-soldier-sweden-discovery-a7937391.html
https://www.thelocal.se/20170908/confirmed-viking-warrior-was-a-woman
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2017/viking-warrior-from-birka-grave-confirmed-as-female

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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I think we mentioned this pipe repatriated to Olympia:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/26879-fragment-of-ancient-marble-pipe-taken-from-ancient-olympia-returned-to-greece.html

… and this Turkish town that wants its mosaics back:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/yumurtalik-locals-asks-mosaics-back.aspx?pageID=238&nid=117357&NewsCatID=375

… and this Roman statue head looted during WWII:

http://www.wfmz.com/news/ap-world-news/italy-displays-marble-roman-head-stolen-in-world-war-ii/615466933
http://www.latimes.com/sns-bc-eu-art--italy-roman-head-returned-20170901-story.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/italy-displays-marble-roman-head-stolen-in-world-war-ii/

The US returned Saddam Hussein’s chess board:

http://www.iraqinews.com/features/u-s-returns-saddam-husseins-precious-chess-board/
http://www.newsweek.com/united-states-returns-antique-chess-set-owned-saddam-hussein-stolen-during-659122

… and other items too:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-protests-us-to-return-trove-of-jewish-artifacts-to-iraq/

A summit to discuss looted West African art:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/european-museums-discuss-returning-looted-african-art-180964555/

Turkey is actively looking for its artifacts abroad:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/03/c_136579492.htm

… and Afghanistan wants things back too:

http://www.thenational.scot/news/15525182.Former_Afghan_minister_visits_Scotland_to_urge_UK_museums_____Give_us_back_our_stolen_ancient_treasures___/

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NUMISMATICA
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A London company bought the Silsbury Hoard:

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2017/london-coin-company-snaps-up-roman-hoard-from-lincolnshire-at-hansons/

Feature on some Ptolemaic coinage:

http://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/sibling-lovers-four-royal-portraits-popular-ancient-gold-coin-ma-shops/

Feature on a coin of Caligula:

http://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-coin-profiles-roman-imperial-silver-denarius-caligula-agrippina-elder/

Review of a new Greek numismatic reference text:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/08/reference-celebrates-ancient-greek-coinage.all.html

Three weeks’ worth of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n35.html
http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n36.html
http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n37.html

Sibelius Academy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/arts/music/review-sibelius-academy-juilliard-school.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2644-audio-news-from-archaeologica-27-august-2017-2-september-2017
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2643-audio-news-from-archaeologica-20-august-2017-26-august-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Paul Oliver:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/arts/music/paul-oliver-authority-on-the-blues-dies-at-90.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic

Kate Millett:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/obituaries/kate-millett-influential-feminist-writer-is-dead-at-82.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Martin Aitken:

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/15503564.Obituary__Professor_who_brought_together_the_worlds_of_physics_and_archaeology/

Douglas Alan Templeton:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-dr-douglas-alan-templeton-theologian-new-testament-expert-lecturer-and-writer-1-4552253

Nancy Dupree:

http://www.tolonews.com/afghanistan/renowned-historian-nancy-dupree-has-died-kabul
http://www.thedailytimes.com/news/nation_world/us-historian-who-spent-decades-in-afghanistan-dies-at/article_b8b114bb-8cc2-5582-87c7-26db4ce6b1d3.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/nancy-dupree-renowned-historian-dies-afghanistan-170910081950894.html
http://www.startribune.com/us-historian-who-spent-decades-in-afghanistan-dies-at-90/443530663/

Doug Weller

unread,

Oct 15, 2017, 2:25:21 PM10/15/17

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explorator 20.25 October 15, 2017

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Emery, Rick Heli,

Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Evidence of Neanderthals in western Iran:

http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/archaeologists-traces-neanderthals/

Latest fiction incorporating Neanderthals in the storyline:

http://www.cbc.ca/books/why-claire-cameron-wants-to-change-the-way-we-see-neanderthals-1.4352340

Not sure where I’ve been putting this one on ‘Stone Age’ technology
development:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-longer-home-key-stone-age.html

More on the genetic legacy of Neanderthals:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-dna-european-asian-ancestry
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/you-might-be-a-neanderthal-if

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AFRICA
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Excavating a royal palace site in Rwanda:

http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/221549/
http://allafrica.com/stories/201710110018.html

Study suggests the 14th century Black Death hit sub Saharan Africa as hard
as it hit Europe:

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2017/did-the-second-plague-pandemic-reach-sub-saharan-africa.php

More on the latest climate change link to the Out of Africa hypothesis:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149848-cold-climate-may-have-driven-ancient-humans-move-out-of-africa/

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An Old Kingdom pyramidion, associated possibly with Queen Ankhnespepy II
from Saqqara:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/278680/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Old-Kingdom-pyramid-peak-discovered-in-Saqqara.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/french-swiss-archaeological-mission-unearth-mini-pyramid-saqqara/
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/27555/A-Small-Pyramidion-uncovered-around-Saqqara
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/10/15/new-pyramidion-discovered-sakkara-necropolis/
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-pyramidion-found-next-largest-obelisk-hints-existence-queens-684318
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-egypt-pyramid-belonged-powerful-162327105.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-egypt-archaeologists-discover-pyramidion-clue-queen-ankhnespepy-iis-long-lost-chamber-1643171

Marking the discovery of the tomb of Seti I:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/12/c_136672879.htm

On cats and the ancient Egyptians:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-ancient-egyptians-loved-their-kitties-180965155/

Zahi Hawass is criticizing claims of an ‘underground city’ beneath the
Sphinx:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/13/c_136677881.htm

More bits of Psamtik I’s colossal statue from Cairo:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/278505/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/The-lower-part-of-th-Dynasty-king-Psamtik-I-coloss.aspx
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2444454&CategoryId=13936

A 5000 years bp toy chariot from a tomb in Sogmatar:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/stunning-5000-year-old-toy-chariot-found-tomb-ancient-turkish-city-where-moses-may-have-lived-1643180

A 4500 years bp male burial from Corum:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/09/4500-year-old-male-skeleton-found-in-northern-turkey

Claims of the decipherment of a lost Luwian inscription with details about
the Sea Peoples and Troy (the Live Science version seems to express the
appropriate skepticism):

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-luwian-hieroglyphic-inscription-bronze-age.html
https://www.livescience.com/60629-ancient-inscription-trojan-prince-sea-people.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/archaeologists-decipher-ancient-stone-turkey-invasion-mysterious-sea-people-luwain-hieroglyphic-a7992141.html
https://www.zmescience.com/science/history-science/stone-inscription-troy-42342/
http://www.9news.com.au/technology/2017/10/11/14/02/who-were-the-sea-peoples-hieroglyphic-inscription-turkey-solves-ancient-mystery
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/3200yearold-stone-tells-of-invasion-of-mysterious-sea-people-36217376.html
https://sputniknews.com/science/201710111058124569-archeologists-decipher-ancient-stone/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-hieroglyphs-reveal-answers-bronze-age-archaeological-mystery-1642964
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/12/one-of-the-greatest-puzzles-of-mediterranean-archaeology-deciphered-in-central-turkey
http://www.newsweek.com/mystery-lost-biblical-sea-people-revealed-ancient-hieroglyphs-uncovered-turkey-683110
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3200-year-old-inscription-lost-language-and-lot-doubt-180965244/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5975-171010-luwian-inscription-translated

What the IDF does in regards to archaeology:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/236648

Karaganda archaeologists have reconstructed the Saryarka pyramid:

http://www.inform.kz/en/karaganda-archaeologists-complete-reconstruction-of-an-ancient-saryarka-pyramid_a3073011

Feature on the Erbil citadel:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/world/middleeast/iraq-erbil-citadel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

What Jutta Haser is up to:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/german-scholar-explores-jordan%E2%80%99s-ancient-monasteries

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Pipeline construction has revealed a Roman necropolis in Kutahya:

http://aa.com.tr/en/pg/photo-gallery/roman-burial-ground-found-in-turkeys-kutahya/0
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/Roman-burial-ground-discovered-in-Turkey-s-Kutahya.html

Roman mosaic find from Idyrus:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/10/10/ancient-greek-mosaics-uncovered-in-southern-turkey/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27612-ancient-greek-mosaics-discovered-in-southern-turkey.html

A dig in Wales unearthed a stretch of a major Roman road:

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/roman-a55-north-wales-archaeology-13742114

A Roman ring from a Jersey field:

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/10/15/2000-year-old-roman-ring-found-in-jersey-field/

Poland will be establishing a permanent mission in Georgia to dig for
remains of the Colchis kingdom:

http://agenda.ge/news/88600/eng

They’re digging at the eastern gate of Philippopolis (Plovdiv):

https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/13/archaeologists-start-excavations-of-eastern-gate-of-philippopolis-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/

A Roman hoard of silver from Fife is going on display:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/silver-treasure-spanning-1-000-years-to-sparkle-at-national-museum-1-4586294
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/524672/historic-hoard-of-silver-found-in-fife-village-to-go-on-public-display/

Studying the transition from Iron Age to Roman in Dorset:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/iron-age-roman-transition-dorset.htm

‘Fake news’ in Roman coins:

http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/coins-identify-fake-news

A ancient counterfeit aureus came to auction:

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/10/contemporary-counterfeit-ancient-aureus-sells-in-auction.all.html

Feature on Roman remains in Serbia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-41516191/exploring-serbia-s-rich-and-hidden-roman-history

Feature on garum:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171011-the-ancient-condiment-that-came-back-from-the-dead

Suggestion that the fall of Rome might have been a ‘biological affair’:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-harper-pandemics-rome-20171015-story.html

Feature on a Thracian chariot find from a while back that was making the
rounds on social media this week:

https://www.livescience.com/60678-thracian-chariot-on-reddit-explained.html

On what the Romans did with abusive travel expense claims by officials:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-officials-abusing-travel-budgets-is-an-old-problem-ancient-in-fact/2017/10/09/27aaaee4-ad27-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
https://www.news-journal.com/news/2017/oct/10/rampell-how-roman-emperors-dealt-with-government-o/

Feature on mentorship in the Odyssey:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/the-odyssey-mentorship/542676/

Comparing oligarchies ancient and modern:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/15/oligarchy-lessons-ancient-greece

What Cary Fulton is up to:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-archaeologist-ancient-routes-cyprus.html
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/10/09/Researchers-look-for-ancient-trade-routes-at-the-bottom-of-the-Mediterranean/4201507568124/

What Richard Saller is up to:

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/10/09/richard-saller-step-dean-humanities-sciences/

What Leopold Leeb is up to:

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2017-10/12/content_41720206.htm

What Eric Cline and Kathy Schwab are up to:

https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2017/10/13/two-archaeologists-reveal-how-civilizations-collapse-then-and-now-and-how-ancients-painted-their-sculptures/

An interview with Josiah Ober:

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166349

What Mark Mastrabgelo is up to:

https://thedickinsonian.com/opinion/2017/10/12/professor-spotlight-marc-mastrabgelo/

The Parthenon Marbles are not part of Brexit negotiations, apparently:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1070054.shtml

UCLA has received funding to establish a Center for Hellenic Culture:

http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/ucla-receives-5-million-establish-center-study-hellenic-culture

On what Stoicism can do for depression:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/How-the-stoicism-of-Roman-philosophers-can-help-12265085.php

Some Classical reception at Talladega:

http://www.espn.com/jayski/cup/2017/story/_/id/20956789/drivers-win-talladega-iconic-vulcan-hammer-anvil-trophies

A lesson plan for comparing ancient Rome to modern times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/learning/lesson-plans/then-and-now-exploring-modern-life-amid-relics-of-the-roman-empire.html

More on the assorted finds from the Antikythera shipwreck:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/10/what-mysteries-could-be-unlocked-by-new-antikythera-shipwreck-finds
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/antikythera-shipwreck-statues-bronze-11102017/

More on the Colosseum opening the upper levels to the public:

https://www.thespec.com/living-story/7622332-colosseum-opens-its-top-levels-to-public/

More on the Pantheon charging an entrance fee:

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rome-pantheon-tickets-price-cost-charge-visitors-a7985311.html

More on fault lines and Greek sacred sites:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/222454/article/ekathimerini/news/fault-lines-key-to-sacred-sites-of-ancient-greeks-study-claims

Remains of a Neolithic longhouse from Denmark:

http://cphpost.dk/general/traces-of-4000-year-old-house-discovered-in-north-zealand.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5977-171010-denmark-neolithic-longhouse

Prehistoric burials from a Larkhill Garrison site:

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/15593046.Prehistoric_remains_unearthed_in_Larkhill/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5983-171012-england-larkhill-garrison

Latest find from the Lincoln Bypass construction is some massive 5000
years bp (maybe) structure of soe sort:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-unearth-massive-5000-year-603713

Fifth century gold items found at that ‘massacre’ site at Sandy Borg
(Sweden):

https://www.thelocal.se/20171011/gold-coin-sheds-new-light-on-5th-century-swedish-island-massacre
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5984-171012-gold-sandby-borg

Remains of an Anglo Saxon settlement (and other items) found during wind
farm construction in Suffolk:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-41367884
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/windfarm-cable-archeological-dig-unearths-fascinating-clues-to-our-past-1-5226352
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/10/c_136667878.htm

Plenty of press attention and spins on an apparent ‘Allah’ motif found in
a Viking burial:

https://www.thelocal.se/20171012/why-viking-burial-clothes-contained-inscriptions-to-allah-and-ali
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41567391
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/allah-viking-burial-fabrics-clothes-name-woven-found-islam-uppsala-sweden-funeral-customs-a7996166.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/viking-burial-clothes-woven-with-allah-unveiled-by-swedish-university
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/europe/vikings-allah-sweden.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/12/were-vikings-muslim-new-research-finds-allah-woven-into-burial-clothes-6995713/
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/islamic-script-found-10th-century-viking-garments-1033146
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/viking-funeral-clothes-arabic-sweden-spd/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-vikings-buried-their-dead-clothing-bearing-arabic-word-allah-180965262/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5982-171012-viking-arabic-words

Some 10th century iron found in a stone oven in Topolcany:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20666921/archaeologists-discover-iron-treasure-hidden-in-oven.html

A medieval ring found during water supply work in Bulgaria:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/10/archaeology-mediaeval-ring-found-during-work-on-water-supply-in-bulgarias-assenovgrad/

A 17th century coin hoard from Poland:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=28720

… and a much larger one from Slovakia:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20671070/hundreds-of-coins-found-near-lucivna.html

Studying medieval gilding techniques:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/acs-tmo101117.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171011120324.htm

Feature on a medieval ‘city of the dead’ in Russia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-41587745/is-this-where-the-sick-went-to-die

On the use of silver in Scotland:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41565591

Publication of an Iron Age site in Scotland found in 2010:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2017/excavating-an-iron-age-dun-in-the-scottish-highlands

More on that copper axe being linked to Otzi:

http://www.ibtimes.com/ax-linked-otzi-iceman-found-archaeologists-switzerland-2599333
http://micetimes.asia/archeologists-made-a-unique-discovery-about-the-alpine-ice-man/

More on those Bronze Age items found in a Swiss Alpine pass:

https://www.livescience.com/60651-bronze-age-artifacts-found-in-alpine-pass.html
https://www.livescience.com/60640-4000-year-old-bronze-age-artifacts-photos.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/swiss-alpine-pass-yields-4-103900824.html
http://micetimes.asia/in-the-alps-found-unique-artifacts/

A Neolithic site near Changchun:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/14/c_136679540.htm

Interesting semi-subterranean dwelling remains (the dating is confusing)
from Sichuan:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-10/12/content_33159270.htm

… I’m not sure if these finds are from the same site:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/11/c_136672631.htm

Remains of 800 years bp walls and gates from Baidi township (China):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/14/c_136679226.htm
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=476750
https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/800yearold-pieces-of-walls-gates-excavated-in-china/1167709

Feature on some of China’s lesser-known heritage sites:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2115235/beyond-great-wall-chinas-lesser-known-world-heritage-sites

On the colours of the terracotta army:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world/china-watch/culture/terracotta-warriors/

Feature on Chinese archaeologists working around the world:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1069823.shtml

A Maori stone adze find from New Zealand:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/97403004/Ancient-M-ori-tool-found-on-Waikanae-golf-courses-ninth-fairway
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5987-171013-maori-stone-adze

A mass burial site from Tauranga:

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/10/surveyors-stumble-across-mass-burial-site-in-tauranga.html

That canoe exposed by Hurricane Irma is still getting press attention:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-historical-canoe-hurricane-irma-20171006-story.html
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/fl-reg-historical-canoe-hurricane-irma-20171006-story.html
http://www.startribune.com/mysterious-wooden-canoe-found-in-florida-after-hurricane-may-date-to-1600s/450430843/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/hurricane-irma-cleanup-turns-up-an-ancient-canoe/2017/10/13/7856c4b0-aeab-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/canoe-churned-irma-may-date-1600s-180965161/

Plans to dig at James Garfield’s former residence:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/10/president_james_a_garfields_fo.html

Plans to ‘dig’ at St Agnes mound:

https://www.avoyellestoday.com/news/archaeologists-plan-%E2%80%98dig%E2%80%99-st-agnes-mound

Assorted finds from pre-parkway construction on land once owned by Thomas
Jefferson:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/5980-171011-jefferson-poplar-forest

Feature on Anna O. Shepard’s work:

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_31358731/boulder-county-history-archaeologist-anna-shepard-pioneered-ancient?source=rss

Descendents of Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia might soon get title to
their land (finally):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41488953

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Rice was domesticated in the Amazon some 4000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoe-afd100817.php

Interesting wooden sculptures and other items from a Chanchan burial:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-wood-sculptures-and-other-relics-found-at-ancient-chan-chan-684510.aspx

Remains of an Inca citadel from Cusco:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-inca-citadel-remains-found-in-cusco-686051.aspx
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/12/c_136673088.htm

Evidence of ancient Sican human sacrifice:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pre-incan-grave-skeletons-1000-year-old-human-sacrifices-found-peru-1640974

What Olivia Navarro-Farr is up to:

https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/local/discovery-of-ancient-maya-tomb-has-direct-link-to-college-of-wooster-professor

On clouds in various cultures:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/from-cloud-nine-to-climate-change-heres-why-you-should-always-look-up/2017/10/06/7278bf64-a459-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/match-the-clouds-to-the-artist/031fc876-9da2-4aa1-8d85-04ad28b00c7a_quiz.html

OpEd on ‘Victoria and Abdul’:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/10/09/why-does-hollywood-keep-churning-out-racist-fantasies-like-victoria-abdul/

The US and Turkey are having a spat which might impact archaeology:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/world/us-turkey-halt-visa-service/index.html

Pondering Columbus and his legacy:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/10/09/columbus-swashbuckling-hero-bootstrapping-immigrant-or-genocidal-monster/

… and his Catalan-inflected language:

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/10/08/christopher-columbuss-catalan-inflected-language/?cid=wb&elqTrackId=4357f9edf3fc4e63b6f6aaf92243c3d8&elq=5dd58188e2cb481c908a37445321fb00&elqaid=15967&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6889

The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I has been restored and returned:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/13/armada-portrait-elizabeth-i-restoration-spanish-armada-london-queens-house-greenwich

On causes of death by volcano since 1500 ce:

http://www.ibtimes.com/volcano-causes-death-1500-ad-pyroclastic-flow-projectiles-tsunamis-2599093

Rethinking the origin of cities:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631462-700-the-real-roots-of-early-city-states-may-rip-up-the-textbooks/#038;%23038;%23038;campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-

A daVinci is coming to auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/10/only-leonardo-in-private-hands-set-to-fetch-75m-at-auction
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/11/557183483/last-da-vinci-painting-in-private-hands-will-be-auctioned-next-month?sc=17&f=1008
https://www.voanews.com/a/da-vinci-portrait-christ-expected-fetch-one-hundred-million-dollars-at-auction/4064681.html

… and a feature on the Mona Lisa:

http://www.dw.com/en/leonardo-da-vinci-unveiled-his-enigmatic-mona-lisa-500-years-ago/a-40889784

Some Friday 13th stuff:

http://www.dw.com/en/13-cultural-references-that-made-friday-the-13th-unlucky/a-37118529

Feature on some really nice libraries:

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/libraries-most-beautiful-world-bibliotheca-alexandrina-national-library-of-austria-bodleian-trinity-a7992821.html

How astronomers had to deal with a supernova in 1604:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-1604-supernova-presented-challenge-astronomers-180965138/

A gold leaf from Napoleon’s crown is coming to auction too:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/gold-leaf-from-napoleons-crown-to-go-under-hammer-estimated-to-fetch-usd-177000/articleshow/61038607.cms

On keeping human skulls around the house:

https://arstechnica.com/video/2017/10/why-did-ancient-people-keep-human-skulls-around-the-house/

On the use of beeswax in various historical eras:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/europes-stone-age-fishers-used-beeswax-make-point

Studying lentils and social inequality:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-origins-of-social-inequality

A strange possible poisoning cold case:

http://www.historytoday.com/joseph-kaifala/man-who-would-be-king-or-vicar

Victor Nuovo’s latest looks at the US Constitution:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201710victor-nuovo-reasonableness-constitution

In light of the UNESCO change at the top this week, this item on the
candidate from Qatar was interesting:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/27132/Suspicions-prevail-on-smuggled-artifacts-in-Arab-world

… related:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-unesco-vote/frances-azoulay-wins-unesco-director-general-election-sources-idUSKBN1CI15P?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Latest ‘lost masterpieces found’ story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-41594195

This year’s MacArthur Grant recipients:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/arts/macarthur-genius-grants.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/11/556891441/here-are-the-2017-macarthur-genius-grant-winners?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

A German Cistercian monastery is closing due to a shortage of monks:

http://www.dw.com/en/german-monastery-to-close-its-doors-after-nearly-nine-centuries/a-40954168

On the history of hard apple cider:

https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/the-history-of-hard-cider-from-the-old-testament-to-the-apple-orchard

More on the hidden figures revealed in that painting at Yale:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/four-catholic-figures-found-hidden-17th-century-painting-reformation-leaders-180965174/
http://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Yale-painting-s-secret-revealed-A-Protestant-12278655.php

Review of Fitzharris, *The Butchering Art*:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/13/557367840/the-butchering-art-how-a-19th-century-physician-made-surgery-safer

Some humour on the spread of meditation:

http://www.theonion.com/article/historians-discover-meditation-spread-ancient-chin-57197

Bloody Gold:

http://www.dw.com/en/what-europes-most-ancient-battlefield-reveals/a-40872262

Qin and Han Dynasties:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-10/10/content_33056701.htm

Faces of China:

http://www.dw.com/en/why-chinese-portrait-painting-wasnt-only-for-the-powerful-and-famous/a-40925536

Drawn to Greatness:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/arts/design/a-gathering-of-greats-in-a-trove-of-drawings-at-the-morgan.html

Eleusinian Mysteries:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27663-acropolis-museum-show-on-eleusinian-mysteries-%E2%80%9Csacred-way%E2%80%9D-in-december.html

Mata Hari:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/arts/mata-hari-netherlands.html

Feeding Stonehenge:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/15/stonehenge-neolithic-man-sweet-pork-rich-cheese-feasts

150 years of archaeology in Spain:

http://www.epa.eu/arts-culture-and-entertainment-photos/archeology-photos/madrid-s-archaeological-museum-presents-exhibit-on-150-years-of-archaeology-in-spain-photos-53821711

The Boston MFA has been given some nice Flemish and Dutch collections:

https://www.mfa.org/give/gifts-of-art/van-otterloo-and-weatherbie-collections
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/arts/the-museum-of-fine-arts-boston-to-receive-two-major-donations.html

Feature on the UCD Classics Museum:

http://www.universityobserver.ie/uncategorized/lesser-spotted-ucd-classics-museum/

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On detecting forged ancient silk:

https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i41/Forgery-ancient-silk-leaves-chemical.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA of the Rapa Nui people suggest they were rather isolated:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-paleogenomic-analysis-easter-island-mysteries.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoc--pas100617.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012123046.htm
https://www.livescience.com/60673-easter-island-dna-evidence.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/easter-island-dna-south-america.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-easterisland/mystery-surrounding-ancient-easter-island-people-deepens-idUSKBN1CH2EV?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews
https://www.yahoo.com/news/secrets-easter-island-doomed-civilization-104225034.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-13/who-were-the-ancient-easter-islanders/9040266

A study of Beothuk DNA suggests they were actually two distinct groups:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-newfoundland-populated-multiple-distinct-groups.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012143329.htm
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/dna-deepens-mystery-of-newfoundlands-lost-beothuk-people/article36560469/

A study of skin colour and DNA:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/skin-color-race.html

Studying the genome of a 40 000 years bp Chinese burial:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/caos-gdf101317.php

Dog DNA changes parallel human DNA changes (or something like that):

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/13/557166894/dogs-and-people-have-more-in-common-than-you-might-think

Lamanai, Belize:

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/travel/2017/10/the-mystery-of-the-mayas-a-visit-to-lamanai-belize/

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A major bust in Romania:

https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-police-5000-artifacts-treasure-hunters/

A British national caught smuggling items from the Ukraine:

http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/454577.html

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/10/culture-crime-news-2-8-october-2017.html

Turkey is trying to get back some Zeugma mosaics from the US:

http://aa.com.tr/en/culture-and-art/turkey-attempts-to-retrieve-roman-mosaics-from-us/932512

More on the return of the ‘calf bearer’ to Lebanon:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/arts/design/looted-antiquity-once-at-met-museum-to-return-to-lebanon.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2017/Oct-13/422549-decades-on-stolen-antiquity-to-be-returned.ashx

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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n41.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n42.html

AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2660-audio-news-from-archaeologica-1-october-2017-7-october-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Tony Sagona:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/scholar-brought-the-ancient-world-to-life-20171012-gyzfb3.html

Doug Weller

unread,

Nov 19, 2017, 11:42:41 AM11/19/17

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explorator 20.30 November 19, 2017

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Clark Whelton, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Rick Heli,
Bob Heuman,
David Critchley, Gina Salapata, Alan Brockway, Bob Heuman,
David Emery, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent

for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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A brouhaha over evidence of early hominins in Europe:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-humans-and-stolen-bones-major-controversy-raises-doubt-about-history-709562

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeologists-say-human-evolution-study-used-stolen-bone-1.22984

The Dali skull from China is causing a rethink of the ‘Out of Africa’
theory:

http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-skull-evolution-homo-sapiens-homo-erectus-human-710973

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2153242-ancient-skull-from-china-may-rewrite-the-origins-of-our-species/

Study suggests human development was ‘uneven and punctuated’:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/e-hew111617.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-human-evolution-uneven-punctuated.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171116132657.htm
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/neanderthals-survived-at-least-3000-years-longer-in-spain-than-previously-thought

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A Greco Roman mummy from Deir Al Banat:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/281484/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Mummy-discovered-at-Fayoums-Deir-AlBanat.aspx

http://www.egyptindependent.com/greco-roman-mummy-discovered-in-fayoum/
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/32500/Wooden-coffin-with-mummy-dating-Greco-Roman-Period-unearthed

https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-find-well-preserved-mummy-in-egypt/

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-mummy-buried-wearing-golden-sky-god-mask-discovered-long-lost-711739

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-golden-egyptian-mummy-discovered-battered-coffin-1647466

https://www.geo.tv/latest/167593-archaeologists-find-greco-roman-mummy-in-egypt?5a0b0374404ef

A Temple of Isis from Tell Atrib in Banha:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/isis-temple-unearthed-builders-banha/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/32821/A-temple-for-Isis-dating-back-to-Ancient-Egypt-era

They’re still studying and learning from Tut’s tomb:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/281565/Heritage/Museums/Tutankhamuns-gold-sheets-on-display-for-first-time.aspx

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-treasures-tutankhamun-tomb.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171116105129.htm
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/11/17/Analysis-of-King-Tuts-treasure-shows-aesthetic-influence-of-Levant/8681510926939/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6104-171116-egypt-gold-artifacts

More on copper in Egyptian ink:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-ink-ancient-egyptian-papyri-copper.html
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/11/15/ancient-egyptian-papyri-different-time-periods-geographical-regions-contain-copper/

https://www.zmescience.com/science/copper-traces-egypt-inks/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6101-171115-egypt-copper-ink

More on muons:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/opinions/move-over-indiana-jones-physicists-the-new-tomb-raiders-opinion-lincoln/index.html

8000 years bp petroglyphs of dogs from the Arabian desert (not sure about
this one):

http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-8000-year-old-rock-art-first-ever-depiction-dogs-and-humans-had-715114

https://www.sciencealert.com/1000-year-old-rock-art-saudi-arabia-earliest-depiction-domestic-dogs-hunting

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/ancient-dog-rock-art-arabian-desert-cliff-images-spd/

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/these-may-be-world-s-first-images-dogs-and-they-re-wearing-leashes

https://www.archaeology.org/6103-171116-dog-rock-art

Remains of assorted levels of habitation from a 5000 years bp mound in
Cappadocia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-settlement-found-in-cappadocia-122364

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6092-171113-turkey-cappadocia-mound

Remains of an Urartian castle in Lake Van:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/underwater-fortress-urartu-lake-van-turkey-archaeology-video-spd/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-underwater-castle-ancient-fairy-095309805.html

A 1400 years bp loom from northern Iraq:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/archaeological-treasures-in-iraq-unearthed-just-before-deadly-73-earthquake

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6100-171115-iraq-loom-weights

Assorted finds from Iraq … finds made just before the earthquake last
week:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/archaeological-treasures-in-iraq-unearthed-just-before-deadly-73-earthquake

http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-assyria-iraq-earthquake-loom-seal-genie-griffin-excavation-713651

Wasn’t this 8th century BCE ‘toilet’ from Tel Lachish found a while ago?:

http://www.newsweek.com/toilet-discovered-middle-ancient-jerusalem-shrine-written-bible-king-hezekiah-712800

https://www.yahoo.com/news/toilet-found-3-000-old-192932972.html

Overviewish things on finds from Wabar:

http://timesofoman.com/article/122146/Oman/Heritage/Wabar-listed-on-UNESCOs-World-Cultural-and-Natural-Heritage-list-in-2000

A looted First Temple water system from Gush Etzion:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/police-news/training-idf-soldiers-uncover-large-scale-antiquities-robbery-in-gush-etzion/2017/11/15/

Earliest evidence of eggplant seeds in Israel:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Earliest-evidence-of-eggplant-seeds-in-Israel-unearthed-in-City-of-David-514420

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.823152
https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-was-for-dinner-in-jerusalem-1100-years-ago-a-massive-refuse-pit-tells-us/

Studying a pile of skeletons found near Qumran:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/skeletons-could-provide-clues-who-wrote-or-protected-dead-sea-scrolls

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dead-sea-scrolls-wrote-protected-excavated-skeletons-qumran-west-bank-archaeology-a8062341.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls-33-new-skeletons-could-give-answers-2616655

What Hagith Sivan is up to:

http://today.ku.edu/2017/11/06/ku-historian-part-project-examining-complex-history-jerusalem-late-antiquity

Using inscriptions and math to pinpoint ‘lost’ cities:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/13/ancient-data-modern-math-and-the-hunt-for-11-lost-cities-of-the-bronze-age/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/early-trade-accounts-used-to-pinpoint-lost-bronze-age-cities-0mqsmzgwg

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-clay-tablets-lead-locations-11-lost-cities-131109015.html

Latest ancient ship recreation:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.823439

Syrian and the Czech Republic will be working together on conservation:

http://sana.sy/en/?p=118489

A ‘rediscovered’ Anatolian-Islamic inscription:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/16/lost-epitaph-found-by-chance-20-years-later

More on that 4000 years bp ‘infertility tablet’:

https://www.livescience.com/60950-oldest-marriage-contract-infertility-surrogacy.html

More on those ‘stone structures’ seen from the air in Saudi Arabia:

https://www.livescience.com/60917-photos-mysterious-stone-structures-gates-saudi-arabia.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/science/saudi-arabia-gates.html
http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-gates-hell-new-images-reveal-secrets-ancient-mystery-structures-712300

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/de79ccd7-d10e-3b9e-a6f6-ad1e7342fae3/ss_archaeologists-discover-400.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-arabia-gates-hell-images-173118774.html

Plans to increase awareness of Saudi Arabian antiquities:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1193991/saudi-arabia

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Roman structures from Plovdiv:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/11/12/accidental-archaeology-roman-ruins-found-under-illegally-demolished-house-in-plovdiv2/

Roman finds from the Crimea:

http://tass.com/science/976058

Roman remains from a rescue dig in Vratsa:

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/11/16/425088/vratsa-remains-of-three-buildings-from-the-roman-era-found-during-rescue-excavations.html

More on London’s Mithraeum reopening:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/london-mithraeum-museum/

Diocles the Charioteer is getting attention again:

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-highest-paid-athlete-in-history-actually-lived-in-ancient-rome

Some Antonine Wall projects:

http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/rediscover-ancient-roman-antonine-wall-13905867

Nice feature on Mithraism:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mithraic-mysteries

Feature on the Picts:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15670151.Pict_on_by_the_Romans__our_ancient_ancestors_were_civilised_sophisticates_not_hairy_savages/

On the fall of the Republic:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fall-roman-republic-income-inequality-and-xenophobia-threatened-its-foundations-180967249/

On camels in Roman Britain:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/11/17/were-there-camels-in-roman-britain-new-evidence-suggests-camels-were-common-across-the-empire/#7248780923f8

On the ancient Greek diet:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/11/14/secrets-of-ancient-greek-diet-revealed-by-greek-chef-in-london/

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/gastronomy/28203-secrets-of-ancient-greek-diet-unveiled-by-greek-chef-in-london.html

Feature on overseas research opportunities at USC:

https://news.usc.edu/131320/fellowships-like-this-archaeological-dig-in-greece-let-usc-classics-students-get-their-hands-dirty/

What Tim Whitmarsh is up to:

http://www.trinitonian.com/lion-hunting-water-and-flowers-tim-whitmarsh-lectures-on-literary-themes/

What Edith Hall is up to:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/223140/article/ekathimerini/life/diaspora-was-at-the-root-of-the-greek-miracle-says-edith-hall

What Bettany Hughes is up to:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/15/reclaim-venus-consensual-love-sexual-power-relations

What Michael Fontaine is up to:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/11/classicist-michael-fontaine-examines-mental-distress-humanities-podcast

Robert Harris’ *Imperium* is coming to the stage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/have-lot-learn-ancient-rome-robert-harris-mike-poulton-bringing/

Reviews of Thomas, *Why Dylan Matters*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/17/the-harvard-professor-of-bob-dylan-studies-my-thesis-is-that-he-has-become-odysseus-richard-f-thomas

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/saturday-review/review-why-dylan-matters-by-richard-f-thomas-lz8fl6pmf

Reviews of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-first-english-translation-of-the-odyssey-by-a-woman-was-worth-the-wait/2017/11/16/692cdf82-c59a-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html?utm_term=.2f65625dcaa4

http://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/article/Book-World-The-first-English-translation-of-The-12365298.php

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-emily-wilson-the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english-is-rethinking-gender-roles-in-the-greek-epic-3540304

Review of Daniel Mendelsohn’s personal Odyssey:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/books/review/daniel-mendelsohn-an-odyssey-memoir.html

Review of Wilson and Mendelssohn:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-odyssey-and-the-other/544110/

More on that Roman coin hoard from Bulgaria:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/roman-coin-hoard-piece/

More on the acoustics of Greek theatres:

https://www.livescience.com/60906-ancient-ampitheater-acoustics-not-great.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6091-171113-greek-theater-sounds

More on that Pylos ‘combat agate’:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/98942695/stunning-3500yearold-masterpiece-forces-rethink-of-bronze-age-greek-art

More on that Roman road from Aachen:

http://www.aachen.de/DE/stadt_buerger/politik_verwaltung/pressemitteilungen/stadtarchaeologie.html

More on that sundial:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-roman-sundial-uncovered-italy-1-180967171/

Evidence of 8000 years bp winemaking from Georgia:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-earliest-evidence-winemaking-team-year-old.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uot-afe110917.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/science/georgia-oldest-wine.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41977709
https://www.livescience.com/60929-oldest-winemaking-dates-to-neolithic.html
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/worlds-oldest-wine-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-8000yearold-jars-36317850.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/13/evidence-of-worlds-earliest-winemaking-uncovered-by-archaeologists

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-wine/drinking-age-oldest-evidence-of-wine-making-found-near-tbilisi-idUSKBN1DD2KM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/13/earliest-evidence-of-wine-found-in-giant-8000-year-old-jars/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-earliest-evidence-of-wine-making-found-in-georgia/

http://www.dw.com/en/oldest-evidence-of-grape-wine-making-dates-to-8000-years-ago-say-archaeologists/a-41368760

http://www.euronews.com/2017/11/14/worlds-oldest-wine-made-in-georgia
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.822538
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-11-14/oldest-wine-georgia-chemistry-neolithic-pottery-chemistry/9143874

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/11/13/new-earliest-wine/
http://nhpr.org/post/georgian-jars-hold-8000-year-old-winemaking-clues
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/oldest-winemaking-grapes-georgia-archaeology/
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/earliest-known-evidence-of-winemaking-has-been-found-in-georgia

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6094-171113-georgia-oldest-wine

A Bronze Age site beneath a Norse site in Duddon:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-41980692
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6097-171114-bronze-age-england

A huge medieval mass burial from the Czech Republic:

http://www.newsweek.com/mass-grave-largest-europe-uncovered-714712
https://www.sciencealert.com/30-medieval-mass-graves-kutna-hora-czech-republic-1500-skeletons-middle-ages

An important medieval coin hoard find from the Abbey of Cluny:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-medieval-treasure-unearthed-abbey-cluny.html
https://www.thelocal.fr/20171115/medieval-treasure-trove-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-france

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/cluny-abbey-hoard-05433.html
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Ancient-treasure-find-stuns-archaeologists

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6099-171115-france-medieval-treasure

Remains of a medieval farming village from Denmark:

http://sciencenordic.com/lost-medieval-village-discovered-denmark
https://www.livescience.com/60931-medieval-farming-village-near-viking-site.html

https://www.livescience.com/60930-medieval-village-denmark-photos.html

A 12th century Norman motte-and-bailey castle hidden in the trees in
County
Down:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-42019714

Looking at the bones in the 16th century ‘Massacre Cave’:

http://www.newsweek.com/scotland-archaeologists-identify-mysterious-bones-discovered-massacre-cave-708283

They’re digging at the castle of Sultan Qalga in the Crimea:

http://tass.com/society/975401

Possible funding to preserve the world’s first cast iron bridge:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/13/german-money-could-save-worldsfirst-cast-iron-bridge-shropshire/

More on that Pictish petroglyph:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pictish-carving-large-nosed-warrior-found-scotland-180967091/

Plenty of coverage of the possible find of the cremated remains of the
Gautama Buddha:

https://www.livescience.com/60932-in-photos-cremated-buddha-remains-and-buddha-statues.html
http://www.newsweek.com/buddha-buddhism-archaeology-ancient-china-cremated-remains-statues-711524

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/buddha-box-remains-china-thousand-years-old-discover-siddhartha-gautama-china-a8056321.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/archaeologists-find-cremated-remains-buddha-ancient-chinese-box-alongside-260-statues-1647883
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/ancient-chinese-casket-may-contain-buddhas-remains/articleshow/61681468.cms

A Buddhist monastery site:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6098-171114-china-buddha-monks

… while Pakistan is promoting tourism with a recently-found 1700 years bp
sleeping Buddha:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/15/pakistan-unveils-remains-of-1700-year-old-sleeping-buddha

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/1700-year-old-sleeping-buddha-statue-unearthed-in-haripur-district/

https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-unveils-seventeen-hundred-year-old-sleeping-buddha-evoking-diverse-heritage-/4117036.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/15/pakistan-unveils-remains-of-1700-year-old-sleeping-buddha

Strange story of Buddhist artifacts being saved from smugglers then dumped
in the trash:

http://www.newsweek.com/pakistan-ancient-buddha-statues-saved-smugglers-museum-then-dump-them-trash-714874

I think we’ve mentioned this horse and chariot burial (many) from Henan
province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/14/c_136749918.htm

A hundred Han Dynasty burials from Henan:

https://gbtimes.com/han-dynasty-tombs-pottery-works-and-coins-unearthed-in-henan-province

A cannonball is believed to be a clue to finding the wreck of the San
Francisco off Japan:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41965080

Finds from Shabran (which seems to have lost something in translation):

http://www.today.az/news/society/166733.html

Plenty of coverage of this ‘Murder Island’ find:

http://www.newsweek.com/human-remains-mysterious-and-brutal-island-massacre-400-years-ago-discovered-712018

http://mentalfloss.com/article/516079/archaeologists-unearth-victims-mysterious-massacre-400-years-ago-australian-island

http://bgr.com/2017/11/14/murder-island-archaeologists-discover-human-skeletons/

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/more-bodies-found-on-the-abrolhos-the-site-of-australias-first-mass-murder/news-story/fd0db5913e936870290d67c066090799

Conserving (sort of) a Shiva temple:

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/underground-shiva-temple-to-be-clean-and-dry-soon/article20462956.ece

Puma is accused of defacing a heritage building in India:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/14/sportswear-maker-puma-accused-of-defacing-17th-century-indian-buildings

http://www.dw.com/en/puma-accused-of-defacing-indian-heritage-building-with-graffiti/a-41372174

Trying to save plenty of shipwrecks from looters:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-16/the-race-to-save-dozens-of-wartime-shipwrecks-from-looters/9157016

https://theconversation.com/the-race-to-save-up-to-50-shipwrecks-from-looters-in-southeast-asia-86050

Pondering the beginning of Australia’s human history:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-australia-human-history.html

Remembering the discovery of Mungo Man:

http://www.dw.com/en/australias-ancient-mungo-man-returned-to-aboriginal-burial-ground/a-41417479

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/the-discovery-sent-shockwaves-through-archaeology-but-the-remains-of-mungo-man-still-hold-secrets-of-first-australians/news-story/f455e05ecefd08dff3c3f13dbf431008

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/14/finding-mungo-man-the-moment-australias-story-suddenly-changed

… and his remains have been returned:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-42020675
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-oldest-australian-human-year-old-grave.html

Feature on Harappa:

https://dailytimes.com.pk/138475/the-ruins-of-harappa/

Studying ancient barley in China and Tibet:

https://source.wustl.edu/2017/11/ancient-barley-took-high-road-china-changed-summer-crop-tibet/

Coverage of the Ealy dig in Albany:

http://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20171113/ealy-dig-reveals-more-than-detritus

Looking at 800 years of settlements at Turquoise Bend (Alaska):

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/800-years-of-settlement-at-turquoise-bend-kenai-river-alaska

Women and African Americans could vote in the 18th century for a short
time:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-black-people-and-women-lost-vote-new-jersey-180967186/

More on Chaco Canyon:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/08/chaco-canyon-national-park-new-mexico-drilling

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Fire has destroyed a 4000 years bp mural at Ventarron (Peru):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41972208
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2017/11/14/fire-ravages-ancient-archaeological-site-peru/107671576/

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/americas/ancient-peruvian-mural-destroyed-in-fire/index.html

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/peru-temple-fire-ventarron-mural-moche-video-spd/

http://www.peruviantimes.com/13/fire-destroys-years-of-research-at-4500-year-old-ventarron-site/30250/

http://m.france24.com/en/20171113-peru-fire-ravages-ancient-archaeological-site?ref=tw_i

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/11/13/actualidad/1510547109_132561.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6093-171113-peru-ventarron-fire

A hitherto unknown passage beneath Chichen Itza:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mayan-pyramids-1.4402934
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/06d31a9e-f2d2-3cca-9177-9d7eeaeece54/ss_a-new-sealed-route-could.html

http://www.newsweek.com/mystery-passage-discovered-near-mayan-temple-could-unlock-secrets-710397

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mayan-temple-hidden-passageway-discovered-chichen-itza-kukulcan-guillermo-de-anda-a8054211.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hidden-passageway-discovered-under-ancient-114400587.html

http://www.ibtimes.com/secret-passageway-discovered-underneath-mayan-snake-god-temple-2614377

… and you can’t use drones there:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2017/11/15/mexico/1510785099_153111.html

A huge Orca geoglyph find near Nazca:

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/news/index.php?id=Orca-geoglyph-rediscovered-in-Peru

http://www.newsweek.com/nazca-lines-peru-orca-geoglyph-desert-monuments-712544

Feature on the Salitre site:

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/shellfish-diplomacy

Feature on ‘Juanita’ … twenty years later:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2446439&CategoryId=14095

Panama hasn’t put some important pre-Columbian gold finds made nine years
ago on display yet:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-panama-pre-hispanic-golden-artifacts-sight.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/panamas-pre-hispanic-golden-artifacts-stored-out-of-sight/2017/11/16/7d9716cc-caf4-11e7-b506-8a10ed11ecf5_story.html

http://www.therepublic.com/2017/11/16/lt-panama-archaeology/

Studying the ancient roots of social inequality:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/tuom-ppa111717.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-roots-inequality-millennia.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171117190702.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/15/long-before-hedge-funds-cattle-drove-inequality-study-says/?utm_term=.d052de4a6b05

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/how-taming-cows-and-horses-sparked-inequality-across-ancient-world

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/15/564376795/from-cattle-to-capital-how-agriculture-bred-ancient-inequality

Feature on Abu Nuwas;

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171113-the-arab-poet-who-worshipped-wine

Big bucks for a Van Gogh:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/arts/christies-fall-auction-impressionist-modern-van-gogh.html

… and even bigger bucks for DaVinci’s (maybe) Salvator Mundi:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/arts/design/davinci-leonardo-dicaprio-christies.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42000696
http://www.cnn.com/style/article/da-vinci-painting-auction/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/15/leonardo-da-vinci-masterpiece-salvator-mundi-christies
http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2017/11/da_vinci_painting_of_christ_sells_at_auction_for_record-smashing_450_million.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/15/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-sold/868993001/
http://www.dw.com/en/leonardo-da-vinci-painting-smashes-auction-record-at-450-million/a-41402102
https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/11/15/actualidad/1510749174_422089.html

Some previous big buck artworks:

http://www.dw.com/en/most-expensive-artworks-sold-at-auction/g-36408604

… and criticism of the price:

http://www.dw.com/en/opinion-450-million-for-christ-the-art-markets-perversion-of-a-symbol/a-41412027

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/da-vinci-painting-sells-record-breaking-450-million-180967246/

… and a feature on the painting itself:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-salvator-mundi-is-further-proof-of-leonardo-da-vincis-genius/2017/11/16/e0ca2118-cae4-11e7-aa96-54417592cf72_story.html

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/why-i'm-pretty-sure-isaacson-da-vinci-book-behind-450-million-sale

Smaller bucks for a Captain Scott ‘selfie’ from Antarctica:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41989588

… and hopes for a leaf from Napoleon’s wreath:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-napoleon-auction/golden-leaf-cut-from-napoleons-crown-goes-under-hammer-in-france-idUSKBN1DF27P

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/17/leaf-french-emperor-napoleons-crown-expected-bring-300-times-its-value-gold/873623001/

… and big hopes for a photo of Billy the Kid:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/us/billy-the-kid-photo.html

A missing piece of a Magritte was found:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/15/564351941/80-year-old-mystery-cracked-as-final-missing-piece-of-magritte-painting-found

Feature on Rodin:

http://www.dw.com/en/a-century-on-auguste-rodins-influential-art-still-fascinates/a-41420940

A secret ‘Michelangelo room’ in Florence has opened to the public:

https://www.thelocal.it/20171114/secret-michelangelo-room-florence-open-to-public

Wooden shoes apparently weren’t so great for feet:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uowo-sr111617.php

What Brian Fagan has been working on:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/holy-mackerel-civilisation-begins-with-fishing/

On myths and stories:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/where-do-stories-come-from-and-who-owns-a8045931.html

More on Chopin’s cause of death:

https://www.livescience.com/60953-chopin-pickled-heart-reveals-cause-of-death.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6108-171117-chopin-enlarged-heart

Scanning Seti:

http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-egypt-pharaoh-seti-i-tomb-3d-printing-museum-switzerland-factum-710725

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/seti-i_life-sized-copy-of-pharaoh-s-tomb-displayed-in-basel/43674140?&ns_mchannel=rss&srg_evsource=rss
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/egyptian-tomb-3d-printer-switzerland-pharaoh-seti-i-valley-kings-factum-foundation-luxor-basel-a8052606.html

Washington’s Tent:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/washingtons-tent-a-detective-story.html

Ambrogio Lorenzetti:

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/11/ambrogio-lorenzetti-exhibition-in-siena.html

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/11/more-from-lorenzetti-show-in-siena.html

Eastern Christians:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/arts/eastern-christians-institut-du-monde-arabe.html

https://www.imarabe.org/en/exhibitions/oriental-christians-2000-years-of-history

History of Magic:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rare-magical-manuscripts-exhibit-180967185/

Gods in Color:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/28135-the-ancient-greek-world-at-gods-in-color-exhibition.html

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2664137/archaic-colors-at-acropolis-museum-athens

Pompeii:

https://paradisevalleyindependent.com/events/pompeii-the-exhibition-opens-at-arizona-science-center-this-week/

Terracotta Warriors:

https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/buried-over-two-millennia-ago-chinas-terracotta-soldiers-come-to-vmfa/Content?oid=5782197

http://www.nbc12.com/story/36854913/terracotta-army-exhibit-opens-saturday-at-vmfa

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/17/c_136758564.htm
http://wtvr.com/2017/11/16/terracotta-army-legacy-of-the-first-emperor-of-china-in-richmond/

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo marked its 115th anniversary with some
never-before-seen Tut items:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/tutankhamuns-unseen-golden-treasures-go-public-egyptian-museum/

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/32709/60-golden-pieces-of-Tutankhamun-at-Egyptian-Museum-for-1st

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-artifacts-king-tuts-tomb-shown-first-time-after-being-locked-713015

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/16/c_136755418.htm

Coverage of the opening of the Museum of the Bible:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/washingtons-bible-museum-wont-touch-political-hot-potatoes/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/religion/museum-bible-gears-opening-washington-amid-propriety-questions-n821336

http://www.weeklystandard.com/museum-of-the-bible-a-first-look/article/2010511

… and questions about its collection:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries-history-archaeology/

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/11/16/museum-of-the-bible-puts-spotlight-on-stolen-antiquities

… and its potential impact:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/the-new-bible-museum-tells-a-clear-powerful-story-and-it-could-change-the-museum-business/2017/11/15/6fc76f40-c98e-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html

… and it is spawning opeds on various subjects:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-museum-of-the-bible-reflects-the-discouraging-state-of-christianity/2017/11/17/0d8d419a-cbd4-11e7-aa96-54417592cf72_story.html?utm_term=.fc4c5986e676

https://www.timesofisrael.com/judaism-is-the-star-at-a-bible-museum-built-by-hobby-lobby/

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/17/16658504/bible-museum-hobby-lobby-green-controversy-antiquities

Provenance concerns at the Louvre Abu Dhabi:

https://www.albawaba.com/loop/original-louvre-abu-dhabi-stolen-iraqi-artifacts-1049458

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On dendrochronology:

https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/tree-ring-dating-mesa-verde/?utm_content=bufferb3895&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Mapping shipwrecks off Western Australia:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-volunteers-d-imaging-shipwrecks.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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What DNA reveals about the early population of North America:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/15/no-lost-tribes-or-aliens-what-ancient-dna-reveals-about-american-prehistory

More on European hunter-gatherers interbreeding with Neolithic farmers:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-european-farmers-and-foragers-hooked-big-time

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-asian-nomadic-herders-built-new-bronze-age-cultures?utm_source=editorspicks111917&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Editors_Picks

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/european-hunter-gatherers-slowly-integrated-into-neolithic-farming-communities-over-time

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Assorted ancient cities:

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-best-ancient-cities/index.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/11/culture-crime-news-6-12-november-2017.html

Mario Becchina is feeling the heat:

https://www.dailysabah.com/europe/2017/11/15/italy-police-confiscate-millions-of-euros-from-mafia-linked-art-dealer

That dispute over Crimean gold in the Netherlands is heating up:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/16/russia-threatens-cut-museum-ties-netherlands-crimea-gold/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum (there’s a special edition in the Obituaries section too):

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n46.html

AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2668-audio-news-from-archaeologica-5-november-2017-11-november-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Eric P. Newman:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/obituaries/eric-newman-dead-leading-authority-on-coins.html

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n47.html

Jeremy Hutchinson:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37657545

Edward Allington:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/edward-allington-obituary-hx76vkcqf

Thomas Rinkevich:

http://www.omaha.com/obits/rinkevich-thomas-edward/article_1b4cdd74-ffb5-599b-a8e7-436e018c22ed.html

James Morwood:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/nov/14/james-morwood-obituary

Doug Weller

unread,

Dec 3, 2017, 2:22:38 PM12/3/17

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explorator 20.32 December 3, 2017

David Perlmutter, D.S.H., Richard Miller, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Rick
Heli,
Bob Heuman, David Critchley, Allan Brockway, Richard C. Griffiths, and

Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left
no one out).

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Otzi is now a movie:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/03/otzi-iceman-mummy-brought-to-life-on-film

More on that 400 000 years bp ‘school’ in Israel:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/archaeologists-find-oldest-school-in-the-world-in-israel-dvsvtmf27

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27 Sekhmet statues from Luxor:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/27-statues-of-goddess-sekhmet-unearthed-in-luxor/

Digging has commenced at Bir Youssef:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/34868/Min-of-Antiquities-to-start-excavation-work-at-Bir-Youssef
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/282459/Heritage/Islamic/Salah-ElDin-Citadels-Bir-Youssef-to-be-excavated-S.aspx

More on the void in the pyramid:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/34879/Hawas-reveals-Great-Pyramid-s-gap-secrets
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/theres-a-void-in-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-but-it-may-not-be-so-mysterious
/

More artifacts from Tut’s tomb are going on tour:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-artifacts-king-tut-tomb-international.html

3500 BCE burials found at the site of Istanbul’s new metro station:

https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/archaeologists-discover-ancient-human-remains-in-istanbul-s-new-metro-site-12827

Median artifacts from Hamedan:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/418879/Median-antiquities-unearthed-in-Hamedan

An Iron Age hoard from Megiddo:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hidden-hoard-hints-how-ancient-elites-protected-family-treasures

A 2200 years bp Idumean structure/temple from near Lakhish:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/drone-survey-reveals-ancient-temple-at-israeli-military-grounds/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/history/2200-year-old-edomite-temple-unearthed-in-lakhish-region/2017/11/30/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archeologists-unearth-rare-Hellenistic-era-mystery-structure-in-Negev-515670
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.825907
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/404449

Plenty of coverage of a 4th century date for the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre tomb:

https://www.livescience.com/61043-tomb-of-jesus-excavated.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/new-tests-jesuss-presumed-tomb-back-traditional-beliefs/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/jesus-christ-tomb-scientists-older-expected-jerusalem-church-of-holy-sepulchre-a8081521.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ancient-glue-offers-new-insight-age-what-may-be-jesus-n824421
https://www.yahoo.com/news/archaeologists-confirm-tomb-christ-dates-211935953.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/new-tests-reveal-the-holy-secrets-of-ancient-tomb-in-jerusalem/news-story/0aa4c98609a346833329101224e9c6f7
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/jesus-tomb-archaeology-jerusalem-christianity-rome/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mortar-found-jesus-tomb-dates-constantine-era-180967345/

Overviewish thing on finds at Migdal:

https://thejewishnews.com/2017/11/28/excavation-galilee-pilgrims-guesthouse-yields-1st-century-city/

Good followup piece on that ‘castle’ in Lake Van:

https://www.livescience.com/61038-real-story-of-ancient-underwater-castle.html
https://www.livescience.com/61037-underwater-castle-photos.html

An account of a comet in Ottoman times:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/13/ciencia/1510574984_885583.html

1600 years bp mosaics from the Fatih Mosque:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/27/mosaics-on-mosque-floor-revealed

… and more on the 1500 years bp mosaic found at Ashdod Yam:

https://www.archaeology.org/6120-11127-ashdod-yam-mosaic

A couple of sort of ‘state of the question’ pieces on the Dead Sea
Scrolls:

http://www.jpost.com/jerusalem/Article.aspx?id=510977
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/bringing-life-to-study-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/

… and an item on Moses Shapira’s scrolls:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171129-was-this-the-first-dead-sea-scroll

… and there’s a new translation in the works:

http://news.du.edu/alison-schofield-tackles-new-translation-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/

More on dogs in Saudi petroglyphs:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-insight-dog-side-years.html

… and suggestions about domestication:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.825926

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Plenty of coverage of the potential discovery of the site where Caesar’s
invasion of Britain began:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-evidence-julius-caesar-invasion-britain.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uol-fef112817.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171128230421.htm
https://www.livescience.com/61070-fort-where-caesar-invaded-britain-found.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42155888
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/29/caesars-invasion-of-britain-began-from-pegwell-bay-in-kent-say-archaeologists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/11/29/archaeologists-find-first-evidence-julius-caesars-invasion-britain/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/roman-spearhead-in-ebbsfleet-rewrites-history-of-caesar-s-invasion-of-britain-n80bnmb0h
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/julius-caesar-invasion-britain-uk-site-evidence-first-discovered-kent-a8081056.html
http://www.peeblesshirenews.com/news/15690128.Ditch_gives_clue_to_arrival_of_first_Roman_forces_in_Britain/
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/digging-for-britain-julius-caesar-845361
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/first-archaeological-evidence-julius-caesars-invasion-britain-discovered-1649443
https://theconversation.com/how-our-discovery-of-julius-caesars-first-landing-point-in-britain-could-change-history-88267
https://www.yahoo.com/news/possible-evidence-caesars-uk-invasion-unearthed-060517001.html
http://www.newsweek.com/first-evidence-julius-caesars-invasion-britain-could-rewrite-history-roman-725765
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-where-julius-caesar-landed-britain-180967359/
https://www.archaeology.org/6126-171129-caesar-roman-invasion
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/first-archaeological-evidence-for-julius-caesars-invasion-of-britain

Excavating a (third) Roman temple at Silchester:

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/reading-archaeologists-discover-roman-temple-13932869

A 2000 years bp Roman necropolis from Kahramanmaras:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/26/2000-year-old-necropolis-found-in-turkeys-kahramanmaras

Fragmentary statue remains of Hygieia and Eros from Anavarza:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-hygieia-new-finding-in-anavarza-123138
https://www.archaeology.org/6122-171127-turkey-anavarza-statue

A Roman ‘farmstead’ from Worcester:

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/NEWs/15690803.Archaeologists_unearth_2_000_year_old_Roman_farmstead_in_Worcester/

I think we mentioned this gymnasium find from Konya:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-rome-archaeologists-discover-gym-city-book-revelation-723512

On things the Phoenicians brought to Sicily:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.825589

On Fife’s Roman connections:

https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/does-fife-have-a-secret-history-of-roman-links-1-4627212

Feature on a Roman burial from Huntingdon (find was made quite a while
ago):

http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/the-roman-burial-that-offers-a-rare-glimpse-into-past-of-huntingdonshire-town-1-5301779

Very interesting feature on ancient music:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/11/28/five-ways-to-listen-to-the-music-of-the-ancient-world-today/#34c98da37d9d

Feature on Boudicca:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15698897.How_Queen_Boudica_waived_the_rules_in_Britannia/

Feature on pigeons in the Roman/Byzantine Near East:

http://asorblog.org/2017/11/28/not-just-birds-pigeons-roman-byzantine-near-east/

Feature on Scythian mummies:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/mummies-and-log-houses-of-the-dead-scythian-life-and-death/

On the Latin Mass:

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/11/28/ex-catholic-quaker-beauty-and-danger-latin-mass

Honours for Michael Cosmopoulos:

http://canada.greekreporter.com/2017/11/30/greek-professor-michael-cosmopoulos-inducted-into-the-royal-society-of-canada/

What Craig Harvey is up to:

http://menafn.com/1096173046/Canadian-scholar-delves-into-Roman-commanders-residence-in-Humayma

And the archaeologist named to be in charge of the Colosseum is:

http://www.startribune.com/italian-archaeologist-selected-to-oversee-rome-s-colosseum/461292703/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11951706&ref=rss

On the effects of misreading Classical literature:

http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/toxic-masculinity-fostered-by-misreadings-of-the-classics
https://theconversation.com/toxic-masculinity-fostered-by-misreadings-of-the-classics-88118

Corpus Christi has renamed its ‘Fraenkel room’:

http://cherwell.org/2017/11/27/corpus-votes-rename-room-after-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oxford-votes-to-drop-name-of-sex-pest-eduard-fraenkel-gtjljk5k0
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/11/28/oxford-college-rename-room-dedicated-renowned-classicist-following/

Not sure about this Tal Qadi stone thing:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20171127/local/tal-qadi-stone-could-be-the-oldest-representation-of-the-zodiac.664187

Reviews of Thomas’ *Why Bob Dylan Matters*:

http://www.wbir.com/article/news/nation-now/new-book-by-harvard-professor-explains-why-bob-dylan-matters/465-1bfcdb9c-8ae4-4f77-8f2b-a773cf055df7
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-why-dylan-matters-richard-f-thomas-william-collins

Reviews of Emily Wilson’s *Odyssey* translation:

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/02/567773373/emily-wilsons-odyssey-scrapes-the-barnacles-off-homers-hull

More on Roman-era shipwrecks off Alexandria:

https://www.livescience.com/61022-3-shipwrecks-off-egypt-coast.html

A 15 000 years bp ‘Venus figurine’ from Dugi Otok (Croatia):

https://www.croatiaweek.com/archaeologists-find-first-venus-figurine-in-croatia-on-dugi-otok/
https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/23676-15-000-year-old-statuette-discovered-on-dugi-otok

This one is being spun in various ways, but ultimately it seems to be
about Neolithic women being actively involved in agriculture in Europe:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/aaft-bsp112717.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-prehistoric-women-stronger-arms-today.html
https://www.livescience.com/61061-prehistoric-women-strong-arms.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42173236
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/11/29/prehistoric-women-stronger-elite-cambridge-rowers-study-finds/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/29/prehistoric-womens-arms-stronger-than-those-of-todays-elite-rowers
http://www.smh.com.au/world/prehistoric-women-stronger-than-rowers-20171130-gzvw9v.html
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567332015/womens-role-in-the-european-agricultural-revolution-revealed?sc=17&f=3&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app
https://knpr.org/npr/2017-11/working-moms-have-been-thing-ancient-history
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/11/29/ancient-prehistoric-women-farming-strong/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/strong-armed-women-helped-power-europes-ancient-farming-revolution?tgt=nr
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/29/ciencia/1511969205_028548.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6130-171130-women-arm-strength

4000 years bp remains from Bury St Edmunds:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/prehistoric-remains-uncovered-by-archaeologists-in-bury-st-edmunds-1-5302606

Interesting assembly of Iron Age cauldrons and the like from Glenfield
Park (Leicestershire):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uol-uma112717.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-unique-metal-artefacts-iron-age.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171127105917.htm
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/iron-age-metal-artifacts-glenfield-park-05473.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/uk-team-unearths-rare-iron-age-party-cauldrons-in-leicestershire/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amazing-iron-age-cauldron-discoveries-shed-rare-light-prehistoric-feasting-rituals-1649132
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/11-cauldrons-found-iron-age-settlement-england-180967365/
https://www.archaeology.org/6121-171127-iron-age-cauldron

Remains of a medieval road in a field in Oxford:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42169973
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15688430.Medieval_road_and_horseshoe_give_causeway_for_excitement/
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/15688430.500_year_old_Medieval_road_discovered_underneath_Oxford_field/
https://www.archaeology.org/6135-17201-england-medieval-road

Excavating a medieval garbage dump in Newcastle:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/ancient-newcastle-city-centre-rubbish-13979885
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6133-171201-newgate-medieval-artifacts

A medieval ring from Cumbria is classified as treasure:

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/15682250.Medieval_ring_found_in_Cumbria_classified_as___39_treasure__39_/?ref=rss

On a medieval street in Lincoln:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/secrets-revealed-after-hundreds-years-861058

A note hidden inside a statue of Jesus:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5129121/Note-hidden-inside-rear-end-ancient-Jesus-statue.html

Suggestion that Versailles is aligned toward the Church of the Holy
Sepuchre:

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/histoire/lorientation-mysterieuse-du-chateau-de-versailles-bientot-expliquee-91021

Funding to preserved frescoes beneath Naples:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/30/ancient-frescoes-catacombs-beneath-naples-restored-funds-prosciutto/

More on that Norman era motte from Co Down:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/volunteers-storm-the-ramparts-to-unearth-co-down-norman-fort-36371485.html

More on that evidence of earliest wine production near Tbilisi:

https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/features/discovery-finds-winemaking-is-centuries-older-than-previously-believed
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-wine/drinking-age-oldest-evidence-of-wine-making-found-near-tbilisi-idUSKBN1DD2KM?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

More on that possible mikveh from Marseille:

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Archaeologists-may-have-found-an-ancient-mikve-near-Marseille-515144
https://www.archaeology.org/6123-171128-france-jewish-mikveh

More on that Anglo Saxon coin hoard from Chelmsford:

http://www.chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk/news/15693954.Coins_found_in_field_are_nearly1_500_years_old/

An Upper Paleolithic era cave painting of a camel from the Urals:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/lmsu-shd112717.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-scientists-upper-paleolithic-cave-camel.html
https://www.archaeology.org/6127-171129-russia-cave-camel

Studying Upper Paleolithic jewellery from Sungir:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/lmsu-ata113017.php

5500 years bp remains from Gia Lai (Viet Nam):

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/traces-of-ancient-vietnamese-found-in-archaeological-relic-in-gia-lai/122417.vnp
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainment/191092/traces-of-ancient-vietnamese-found-in-archaeological-relic-in-gia-lai.html

On the now-vanished Himalayan river around which the Indus civilization
grew:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171128112209.htm
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42157402
https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/in-ancient-india-a-river-didn-t-run-through-it
https://www.livescience.com/61039-ancient-indus-civilization-survived-without-rivers.html
https://www.archaeology.org/6125-171128-indus-river-paleochannel

Latest from the Camp Security dig:

http://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2017/11/28/camp-security-not-affected-springettsbury-sewer-line-project/891318001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2017/11/28/photos-archaeological-dig-at-camp-security/108093126/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

Photos from the Sarpy Bison Kill site:

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/photos-at-this-ancient-bison-kill-site-native-hunters-left/collection_d78dc794-2865-56bc-95f4-1f42631c0e8a.html#1

Studying 400 years bp bones from St Augustine:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/uf-studies-400-year-old-bones-from-st-augustine-archaeological-dig/495917155

First Nations artifacts from a Burlington quarry:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/burlington-quarry-1.4426292?cmp=rss

Rethinking the relative importance of corn in the American Southwest:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uoc-asf112717.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-archaeologist-idea-prehistoric-people-southwest.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/fire-was-key-to-prehistoric-survival-in-arid-southwest
https://www.archaeology.org/6134-171201-grand-canyon-fire

Feature on John Brown:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/12/02/unflinching-the-day-john-brown-was-hanged-for-his-raid-on-harpers-ferry/

Pondering a mutiny in Texas a hundred years ago:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42116688

… and the 1900 Galveston hurricane:

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/566950355/the-tempest-at-galveston-we-knew-there-was-a-storm-coming-but-we-had-no-idea

… and the Puritan ‘war on Christmas’:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/12/01/the-war-on-christmas-predates-trump-and-fox-news-by-almost-400-years/

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Feature on Guatemala’s Maya history:

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/article186644858.html

Google and the British Museum are digitizing a pile of Maya-related
photos:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/nov/29/digital-technology-maya-culture-back-to-the-future-british-museum-alfred-maudslay
https://blog.britishmuseum.org/maya-heritage-150-years-of-preservation/
https://www.ft.com/content/8cf1ee78-d501-11e7-a303-9060cb1e5f44

What Richard Hansen is up to:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/king-of-the-jungle-the-mayan-empire-of-archaeologist-richard-hansen/article/2010638

On Andean clay eating:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/28/564866619/the-ancient-andean-tradition-of-eating-clay-may-have-helped-to-protect-health

Urbanization threatens Peru’s sites:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-peru-abundant-urbanization.html
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/perus-abundant-ruins-feel-the-squeeze-of-urbanization/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/in-peru-cultural-sites-are-dangerously-close-to-disappearing/2017/11/28/28f56006-d472-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?utm_term=.d12186977680
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/peru-ancient-ruins-property-developers-build-lima-pre-colonial-archaeological-zones-south-america-a8082956.html

More on that Orca geoglyph in Peru:

https://www.livescience.com/61035-ancient-killer-whale-geoglyph-peru.html
https://www.livescience.com/61023-peru-orca-geoglyph-photos.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/2000-year-old-geoglyph-peru-desert-revealed-be-that-killer-whale-1649583
https://www.archaeology.org/6124-171128-peru-geoglyph-orca
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/check-out-orca-geoglyph-rediscovered-peru-180967338/

More on the digitized Codex Quetzalecatzin:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-now-see-400-year-old-mesoamerican-map-online-180967332/

Not sure where to put this one … a Greek bit of a papyrus known as the
First Apocalypse of James:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171130133824.htm
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-professors-jesus-secret-revelations-brother.html
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/28559-austin-scholars-find-greek-copy-of-jesus%E2%80%99-secret-revelations-to-his-brother-james.html
http://www.newsweek.com/copy-jesus-writings-his-brother-recovered-antiquity-original-greek-727815?amp=1
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/jesus-secret-teaching-heretical-bible-james-oxford-university-archives-uta-first-apocalypse-a8086206.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/apocalypse-of-james-lost-original-greek-text-of-banned-bible-book-found-at-oxford-university/news-story/6e769ce94a683d42fdbe929f67b916d7

A second ‘movie set Sphinx’ from the Guadalupe-Nipomo dunes:

https://www.livescience.com/61045-hollywood-sphinx-found-in-dunes.html
https://www.livescience.com/61047-photos-sphinx-discovered.html
http://www.keyt.com/news/santa-maria-north-county/second-sphinx-from-ten-commandments-set-discovered-in-guadalupe-nipomo-dunes/662968713
http://www.sfgate.com/weird/article/sphinx-central-california-10-commandments-demille-12392644.php
http://www.newsweek.com/fake-news-archaeologists-unearth-rare-magnificent-sphinx-head-movie-set-727198
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-california-unearth-large-sphinx-set-ten-commandments-180967376/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/02/568001580/californian-archaeologists-unearth-an-egyptian-sphinx
http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-unearth-1923-ten-commandments-sphinx-california-dunes-2622917
https://www.archaeology.org/6129-171129-california-movie-sphinx

On the story of Hanukka:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-untold-story-of-Hanukka-515718
https://www.livescience.com/61073-hanukkah-history-traditions.html

Feature on Martin Luther:

http://ripr.org/post/brown-university-historian-martin-luthers-legacy-and-reformation#stream/0

Events in England have sparked a few articles on ‘Black royalty,
especially Queen Charlotte:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/us/black-princess-meghan-markle.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-arts-culture/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-queen-charlotte-180967373/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/11/27/britains-black-queen-will-meghan-markle-really-be-the-first-mixed-race-royal/

… and other family connections:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42141518

Marking the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein:

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/25/563736769/brush-up-your-shelley-with-frankenstein-the-first-two-hundred-years

… and Jonathan Swift’s 350th:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/ghosthunters-grabbers-and-grifters-what-would-jonathan-swift-say-of-our-times/2017/11/28/771165fa-d319-11e7-95bf-df7c19270879_story.html

A Queen Victoria scrapbook is coming to auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/27/scrapbook-of-queen-victorias-childhood-to-be-auctioned-in-berlin

On acoustic architecture:

http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2017/11/21/acoustic-architecture/

Remembering Peking Man:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peking-man-bones-that-were-discovered-90-years-ago-went-missing-during-wwii-1649823

Philosophers of the Year:

https://blog.oup.com/2017/12/philosophers-year-2017-beauvoir-nietzsche-socrates-quiz/

Review of Isaacson, *Leonardo DaVinci*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/books/review/leonardo-da-vinci-biography-walter-isaacson.html

More commentary on the Salvator Mundi sale:

http://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2017/12/02/el-salvator-mundi-de-da-vinci-y-la-perversion-en-el-mercado-del-arte/

More on Chopin’s pickled heart:

http://www.dw.com/en/scientists-look-at-frederic-chopins-alcohol-pickled-heart-to-determine-death-from-tb/a-41534342

Restoring the Minoans:

https://hyperallergic.com/410143/restoring-the-minoans-elizabeth-price-and-sir-arthur-evans/

Arch of Titus:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/life-size-relief-replica-stars-in-arch-of-titus-show-in-new-york/

Trajan:

http://nationalpost.com/pmn/entertainment-pmn/legacy-of-trajan-who-grew-empire-is-focus-of-rome-exhibit
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/legacy-trajan-grew-empire-focus-rome-exhibit-51508768

Munch:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/arts/design/edvard-munch-met-breuer-scandinavia-house-review.html
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/edvard-munch
http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/events/the-experimental-self/

Paint the Eyes Softer:

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/november/art-science-roman-egyptian-mummies-northwestern-exhibition/

Mexican Red:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/arts/design/red-dye-cochineal-treasure-mexico-city-history.html
http://www.mexicoescultura.com/actividad/181676/en/mexican-red-the-cochineal-in-art.html

Subterranean maps:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/these-maps-give-a-fascinating-look-at-what-lies-under-the-ground-we-walk-on/2017/11/24/5dc075d2-cebe-11e7-81bc-c55a220c8cbe_story.html

Buried Treasure:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1711/S00499/archaeology-and-the-discovery-of-lost-civilisations.htm

Codex Amiatinus Bible:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/30/oldest-complete-latin-bible-set-to-return-to-uk-after-1302-years

Illuminated Manuscripts:

https://news.yale.edu/2017/11/28/illuminating-collaboration-breathes-life-medieval-manuscripts?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ynalumni-11-30-17

Marking the 115th anniversary of the Egyptian Museum:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/34543/Celebrating-115th-anniversary-of-the-Egyptian-museum
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/34645/Anani-attends-ceremony-to-mark-Egyptian-museum-s-115th-anniversary
http://www.egyptindependent.com/antiquities-ministry-celebrates-115th-anniversary-egyptian-museum/
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/282453/Heritage/Museums/Egyptian-Museum-in-Tahrir-celebrates-th-anniversar.aspx

The British Museum is setting up a storage facility outside Reading:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-42185459
https://www.ft.com/content/8c3856c6-d5e1-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9

There was a fire at the Pitt Rivers Museum:

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15696100.Plumber_accidentally_sets_fire_to_Oxford_museum/

Ownership issues regarding the DSS is causing a kerfuffle with a German
museum:

https://forward.com/fast-forward/388804/dead-sea-scrolls-may-be-palestinian-germany-says/
https://www.jta.org/2017/12/01/news-opinion/world/israel-pulls-out-of-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-in-germany-over-political-conflict

Some sort of museum Instagram project:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/01/museums-have-swapped-instagram-accounts-for-day-show-off-area-cultural-institutions/yRAJEniw4V4rBTkbpa6a8L/story.html

More on the opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/middle-east/louvre-abu-dhabi-highlights-opening-hours-da-vinci-picasso-warhol-ai-weiwei-a8084021.html

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Xray Scattering used on mummy for the first time:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-first-of-its-kind-mummy-reveals-clues-girl.html
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-advanced-technology-child-mummy.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/nu-fms112917.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171129133506.htm
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-particle-accelerator-mummy-objects-portrait-x-ray-726139
https://www.voanews.com/a/researchers-use-advanced-technology-to-study-child-mummy-/4141312.html
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/november/mummy-portrait-research-roman-egyptian/
https://www.archaeology.org/6128-171129-mummy-particle-accelerator

Feature on multispectral imaging:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/11/30/what-is-multispectral-imaging-and-how-is-it-changing-archaeology-and-digital-humanities-today/#502ae58b5151

‘Dawn’ will be joining Myrtis as a reconstruction at the Acropolis Museum:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/11/28/dawn-a-7000-year-old-teenager-introduces-herself-in-acropolis-museum/

I think we mentioned this app to protect Northumberland petroglyphs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-42123939

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Only DNA story this week relates to what ‘Yeti’ DNA has revealed:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/11/29/secret-abominable-snowman-revealed-scientists-analyse-yeti-dna/

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/11/culture-crime-news-13-26-november-2017.html

More on ‘Indiana Joan’:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/95-year-old-australian-probed-allegedly-looting-middle-eastern-artifacts/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/indiana-joan-95-accused-of-looting-ancient-tombs-m6b7fgr8d
http://www.ibtimes.com/95-year-old-dubbed-real-life-tomb-raider-after-possibly-stealing-ancient-artifacts-2620673

Emmanuel Macron is making the return of African art a priority:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/arts/emmanuel-macron-africa.html

Latest Nazi loot returns:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/29/567179723/painting-stolen-by-the-nazis-is-returned-to-poland
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NUMISMATICA
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On the Gold Solidus of Rome:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-roman-gold-solidus-ma-shops/

More on that Cluny hoard:

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/12/medieval-hoard-found-in-france-at-abbey-of-cluny.html

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n49.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n50.html

AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2671-audio-news-from-archaeologica-19-november-2017-25-november-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Dean Adcock Bailey:

https://wydaily.com/2017/11/28/obits-dean-adcock-bailey/

Norman Baker:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/obituaries/norman-baker-dies-at-89-crossed-the-atlantic-on-a-reed-raft.html

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CONFERENCES
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Theoretical Archaeology Group (Dec. 2017):

http://tag2017cardiff.org/

Hidden Cultural Heritage (April 2018):

http://www.cicop.net/hch/

Doug Weller

unread,

Jan 1, 2018, 1:43:56 AM1/1/18

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explorator 20.35-36 December 31, 2017

Rick Heli, David Critchley, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman,

Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

Happy whatever you celebrated/are celebrating/will celebrate for
the past couple of weeks!

[apologies for spacing weirdness below; not sure what happened]

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Acheulian tools found in Saudi Arabia are adding to the ‘Out of Africa’
story:

https://www.livescience.com/61285-stone-tools-found-in-saudi-arabia.html

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-stone-weapons-including-one-kind-giant-handaxe-could-tell-story-when-763121

https://www.archaeology.org/6240-171228-saudi-arabia-tools

Latest questioning of the ‘hobbit’ theory:

http://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-archaeologists-cast-doubt-controversial-hobbit-theory

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AFRICA
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Libya is conducting a major survey:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/libyan-antiquities-authority-kicks-survey-project-eastern-region

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Lengthy remains of what was once a pharaonic fortress at Tell el Maskhuta:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2017/12/15/strength-of-egypts-canal-of-the-pharaohs-re-emerges_c62069d4-0e29-4c4b-a5b7-b30231622743.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6238-171228-egypt-ancient-fortress

I think we mentioned these child burials from Gebel el-Silsila:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-archaeologists-discover-child-graves-jewelry-amulets-750021

Egypt is setting up a ‘holding company’ for investing in antiquities (!):

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/37551/Holding-company-for-investing-in-antiquities-to-be-set

Concerns for Heliopolis:

https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/egypt-s-heliopolis-archaeologists-face-modern-problems-at-ancient-site-1.685084

Feature on Egyptian art:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/the-british-museum-membercast-egyptian-art/

Feature on the pyramids:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/15/37890/The-great-pyramid

Plans to restore the Al Sharaybi bath house:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/antiquities-ministry-to-restore-historic-al-sharaybi-bathhouse-in-islamic-cairo/

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/285780/Heritage/Islamic/Egypts-Ministry-of-Antiquities-to-restore-Islamic-.aspx

More on Tut’s meteoric iron dagger:

https://www.livescience.com/61214-king-tut-dagger-outer-space.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/king-tut-rsquo-s-dagger-is-out-of-this-world/

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2017/12/23/king-tuts-dagger-came-stars-study-says/108854354/

European cave painters had ancient Near Eastern connections, apparently:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.831692

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-european-culture-spectacular-cave-painting-middle-east-762051

Umm Nar civilization pottery from Oman:

http://www.menafn.com/1096274514/Oman--Unique-pottery-belonging-to-Umm-al-Nar-culture-unearthed

http://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Oman/Unique-pottery-belonging-to-Umm-al-Nar-culture-unearthed-55yi

Evidence of a 4000 years bp ‘military network’ in Syria:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-discovery-year-old-military-network-northern.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/c-doa122117.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171221105841.htm

http://www.newsweek.com/massive-surveillance-communication-network-ancient-syrian-military-discovered-755781

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/4000-year-old-military-fortress-that-was-massive-bronze-age-spy-network-found-syria-1652565

https://www.archaeology.org/6230-171222-syria-fortress-network

A Bronze Age site from Cappadocia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-settlement-found-in-cappadocia-124597

A possible Bronze Age site in Istanbul:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/12/18/ancient-settlement-sought-near-istanbuls-oldest-burial-site

https://www.archaeology.org/6216-171218-bronze-age-artifacts

Studying ritual feasting evidence at various sites in Turkey and Israel:

https://today.uconn.edu/2017/12/archaeological-dig-provides-clues-feasting-became-important-ritual/

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-archaeological-clues-feasting-important-ritual.html

On the excavations at Germanicia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-reveal-ancient-germanicia-124401

A 1500 years bp church and monastery found at Beit Shemesh:

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Remains-of-a-1500-year-old-monastery-uncovered-20-December-2017.aspx

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Artifacts-from-1500-year-old-monastery-and-church-unearthed-in-Beit-Shemesh-518558

https://www.livescience.com/61252-byzantine-monastery-in-israel.html

https://www.livescience.com/61249-photos-ancient-israel-monastery.html

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.830203

https://www.timesofisrael.com/child-labor-encouraged-as-israeli-teens-excavate-1500-year-old-byzantine-church/

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/239565

https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/12/20/1500-year-old-church-and-monastery-unearthed-in-israel/

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-christian-jewelry-and-crucifixes-uncovered-long-lost-monastery-holy-755241

https://www.archaeology.org/6225-171220-beit-shemesh-monastery

I think we mentioned this seven-candle menorah image found at Tiberias:

http://www.newsweek.com/stone-menorah-symbol-found-israel-753968

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tomb-door-engraved-menorah-discovered-israel-180967647/

https://www.archaeology.org/6224-171220-tiberias-tomb-door

Feature on Jericho’s connections to Egypt:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/jericho-ancient-archaeology-egypt-bible/

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-nile-treasures-secret-tomb-reveal-biblical-city-jericho-israel-754030

Feature on the Rujm el-Hiri stone circle:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.830768

… and one on the Shamir Dolmen field:

http://asorblog.org/2017/12/19/stones-social-complexity-shamir-dolmen-field-intermediate-bronze-age/

Feature on the Hezekiah Bulla:

https://www.thetrumpet.com/16711-the-significance-of-the-hezekiah-bulla

Feature on migration in ancient Israel:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/biblical-archaeology-topics/digs-2018-migration-and-immigration-in-ancient-israel/

Israel’s Culture minister is pushing for some major archaeological work:

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5058426,00.html

How the Maccabees defeated the Greeks:

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5058290,00.html

Concerns for Herod’s palace near Jericho:

http://www.israelhayom.com/2017/12/15/so-close-and-yet-so-far/

That Luwian inscription that was in the news a while back is under fire:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/hieroglyphics-that-solved-mysteries-of-troy-too-good-to-be-true-s9bt99023

… related:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2156527-hoax-or-not-three-ancient-texts-with-controversial-origins/#038;%23038;%23038;campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Cmagcontents

What Ina Kehrberg-Ostrasz is up to:

http://www.menafn.com/1096286972/Australian-archaeologist-sorts-through-Gerasene-pottery-shreds

Suggestion that trading by nomads contributed to the rise of cities:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/was-trading-nomads-crucial-rise-cities

Just in case you thought we’d get out of 2017 without seeing a Noah’s Ark
claim:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=11966182&ref=rss

Restoration of the Aydos Castle (Turkey) is almost complete:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/restoration-in-aydos-almost-finished-124722

Interview with Josephine Quinn about her Phoenician book:

http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2017/12/15/josephine-quinn-on-in-search-of-the-phoenicians/

Reviews of Blincoe, *Bethlehem*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/books/review/nicholas-blincoe-bethlehem-biography.html

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/bethlehem-christ-birth-blincoe/

Review of Hidary, *Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric*:

http://blogs.yu.edu/news/rabbis-and-classical-rhetoric/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Evidence (including a cremation burial) of a Roman military camp at Legio
(Israel):

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.831317

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-discoveries-unearthed-roman-legion-camp-near-armageddon-180967654/

http://www.ibtimes.sg/1700-year-old-remains-soldier-found-cooking-pot-israel-excavation-site-reveals-roman-military-22404

http://www.newsweek.com/remains-ancient-roman-soldier-found-1700-year-old-cooking-pot-israel-759782

https://www.archaeology.org/6232-171226-israel-roman-military-camp

Eight Roman shipwrecks off Naxos:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/12/19/norwegian-divers-discover-roman-era-shipwrecks-off-naxos-island/

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/8-ancient-Roman-shipwrecks-discovered-near-Naxos-island

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.829503

http://www.newsweek.com/eight-ancient-roman-shipwrecks-discovered-shallows-coast-greek-island-resort-751481

A Roman ‘burial ground’ near Cambridge:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/roman-burial-ground-discovered-near-14057515

A 1600 years bp lead-lined burial from Somerset:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-42430934

http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/taunton_news/15786595.Taunton_metal_detector_group_find_rare_coffin_in_Ilminster_field/

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/1600-year-old-roman-lead-lined-grave-ancient-coins-discovered-somerset-1652542

Rain revealed a Roman statue in Talmitha (Libya):

http://www.libyanexpress.com/rain-fall-leads-to-archaeological-discovery-in-libya/

A statue of Artemis from Luxor:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/28848-archaeologists-unearth-greek-goddess-artemis%E2%80%99-statue-in-luxor%2C-egypt.html

More evidence of human sacrifice from the ancient Greek world:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-greece-shocking-dismembered-human-skull-reveals-ritual-sacrifice-755549

Three more houses at Pompeii were opened to the public:

http://www.euronews.com/2017/12/23/pompeii-opens-restored-homes-to-visitors

… and there was another wall collapse:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/12/19/fresh-pompeii-domus-collapse-3_3c993cf3-f41d-45df-aaf7-42695592f82b.html

The Portico of Octavia has been restored:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/12/18/portico-of-octavia-reborn-after-14-years-2_a78faffc-adef-4a3b-a411-96acbc4f60ba.html

A study of ancient feces correlates with mentions of parasites in
Hippocratic texts:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-ancient-feces-reveal-parasites-earliest.html

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uoc-afr121117.php

Feature on the lamellae orphicae:

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/The-beauty-and-mystery-of-the-lamellae-orphicae-of-AncientGreece-passport-to-afterlife

Feature on some (buried) remains of Hadrian’s Wall in Newcastle:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-41637893

Feature on the excavations of Perge:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/12/28/over-70-pct-of-5000-year-old-perga-city-in-southern-turkey-still-underground

Feature on a (modern) Greek terracotta workshop:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/25/285897/Arts--Culture/Visual-Art/In-Photos-Greek-terracotta-workshop-produces-an-ar.aspx

Feature on Hermes on ancient coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/god-money-hermes-ancient-coins/

Feature on Greek architecture:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/an-introduction-to-greek-architecture/

Feature on Roman ‘joke cups’:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-did-the-romans-do-for-us-joke-cups-vrlshr7tv

https://www.rt.com/uk/414580-romans-tantalus-bowl-joke/

Feature on Trajan:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/specials/trajan.htm

Feature on things found during Rome’s metro construction project:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/world/europe/rome-subway-archaeology.html

Hadrian’s Villa is getting into the olive oil business:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/29/hadrians-villa-recreate-glory-days-olive-oil/

Blaming the Romans for fruitcake:

http://wuwm.com/post/so-about-fruitcake-can-we-blame-romans

Marking the death of Schliemann:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/26/day-1890-heinrich-schliemann-pioneering-archaeologist-claimed/

… and the Battle of the Trebia:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/18/day-218-bc-hannibal-outwitted-romans-humiliating-defeat/

More on evidence for Caesar’s invasion of Britain:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/caesars-british-invasion-launched-isle-thanet.htm

More on climate change, plague, and the fall of Rome:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-change-and-disease-helped-fall-rome-180967591/

Reviews of Mary Beard, *Women and Power*:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/author-explains-historys-muzzle-on-powerful-women-removing-it-is-up-to-you/2017/12/15/851f46a4-e1b9-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html?utm_term=.51a3a2c10159

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-women-and-power-20171228-story.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-long-history-of-not-being-taken-seriously-affects-women-in-power-today

Reviews of Emily Wilson’s *Odyssey* translation:

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/the_audio_book_club/2017/12/homer_s_odyssey_translated_by_emily_wilson_book_club_and_discussion.html

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/24/572911215/a-complicated-man-outlined-clearly-in-emily-wilsons-new-odyssey

https://inews.co.uk/culture/finally-translation-odyssey-homer-deserves/

Review of Richard Thomas, *Why Dylan Matters*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/19/why-dylan-matters-richard-f-thomas-review

Review of Walsh, *Pudding Pan*:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/review-pudding-pan-roman-shipwreck-cargo-context.htm

More on the underwater remains of ancient Corinth:

http://www.newsweek.com/video-ancient-greek-port-city-bible-earthquake-corinth-751255

http://www.ibtimes.sg/biblical-city-destroyed-1400-years-ago-discovered-intact-underwater-22007

Interesting 5000 years bp petroglyphs from Denmark:

http://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-ancient-mysterious-carved-rocks-spider-web-patterns-discovered-danish-752848

https://www.sciencealert.com/vasagard-danish-island-300-mysterious-sunstones-sun-worship

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/5000-year-old-sun-spiderweb-carved-stones-discovered-denmark-could-be-stone-age-coins-1652576

https://www.archaeology.org/6218-171218-denmark-sun-stone

A Bronze Age burial cairn from Stirling:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bronze-age-burial-cairn-unearthed-5npx5vbwq

Remains of some sort of henge structure from Yorkshire:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/ancient-henge-discovered-in-yorkshire-1-8930717

Excavating an Iron Age settlement at Crannog:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15796783.Iron_Age_Scots_went_all_out_to_impress_their_neighbours/

Pictish metalwork (and more) from Perthshire:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/excitement-over-finds-at-hillfort-11758605

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/570370/perthshire-hilltop-fort-was-pictish-stronghold/

A huge number of stained glass shards from Westminster Abbey’s attic:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/27/westminster-abbey-attics-archaeologists-treasure-trove-stained-glass

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/30000-shards-historic-stained-glass-found-westminster-abbeys-attic-180967663/

https://www.archaeology.org/6235-171227-westminster-abbey-glass

Remains of a 16th century turkey dinner from Exeter:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uoe-abd121917.php

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-bones-exeter-street-turkey-dinner.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-42415444

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/12/19/bones-remains-englands-first-turkey-dinner/

https://www.archaeology.org/6223-171220-england-exeter-turkey

Finds from a 16th century blockhouse dig in Hull:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-42414850

https://www.archaeology.org/6242-171229-yorkshire-tudor-blockhouse

Artifacts from an 18th century coffee house in a Cambridge University
cellar:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/calfs-foot-jelly-and-a-tankard-of-ale-welcome-to-the-18th-century-starbucks-0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-42395113

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/18/claphams-coffeehouse-cambridge-archaeologists-hundreds-items-unearthed

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/artefacts-from-18th-century-starbucks-found-in-cambridge-university-cellar-36417155.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-500-artifacts-18th-century-british-coffeehouse-180967609/

https://www.archaeology.org/6217-171218-clapham-s-coffee-house

‘Mysterious’ Catholic burial at St Alban’s Cathedral:

http://www.newsweek.com/britain-childs-body-discovered-clutching-catholic-rosary-beads-protestant-760112

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42335953

https://www.archaeology.org/6233-171226-england-catholic-burial

Some Thomas Becket relics were found in Italy:

https://zenit.org/articles/st-thomas-becket-relics-found-in-italy/

The car park where Richard III’s remains were found has been given
protected status:

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/richard-iii-car-park-greyfriars-955185

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/21/leicester-car-park-richard-iii-buried-given-protected-status

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-42427088

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/21/car-park-site-richard-iii-s-grave-granted-protected-status/

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/21/572699158/english-parking-lot-and-longtime-burial-site-of-king-richard-iii-is-deemed-a-nat

They’ve started looking at those Iron Age cauldrons found near Leicester:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/gluttony-glenfield-park.htm

Assorted items declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-42428124

Henry VIII was a big spender at Christmas:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42429199

Raising funds to save Catherine of Aragon’s former residence:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-shropshire-42458864/crowdfunding-to-save-catherine-of-aragon-s-former-home

Concerns for a coastal fortress site in Wales:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/one-wales-finest-coastal-heritage-14052527

… and coastal sites in Greenland:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-coastal-erosion-threatens-archaeological-sites.html

Feature on Neolithic petroglyphs:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-neolithic-art-ancestors-years.html

https://theconversation.com/what-neolithic-rock-art-can-tell-us-about-the-way-our-ancestors-lived-6-000-years-ago-84865

Restoring Westminster Abbey’s funerary effigies:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/dec/10/westminster-abbey-funeral-effigies-restored-for-new-museum

Bristol folk apparently have a centuries-old right to live in Dublin:

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-people-846-year-old-984810

More on testing Neolithic weapons:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-whack-fake-skulls-learn-about-neolithic-weapons-180967563/

More on that Bronze Age burial from near Loch Ness:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6214-171215-scotland-cist-beaker

An 8000 years bp village site from Inner Mongolia:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/21/c_136842755.htm

A 7000 years bp dwelling from western Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/419694/7000-year-old-residence-found-in-western-Iran

https://www.archaeology.org/6239-171228-iran-jamishan-river

A Neolithic granary from Liangzhu City:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/20/c_136840454.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6222-171220-china-neolithic-rice

A 4300 years bp painted image of a face from Japan:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201712160007.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6228-171221-japan-joman-face

Neolithic petroglyphs from Kisar (Indonesia):

https://www.livescience.com/61251-indonesian-rock-paintings-photos.html

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-incredibly-tiny-rock-art-discovered-island-caves-humans-drums-753165

http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/2500-year-old-cave-paintings-discovered-on-indonesian-island-4988693/

Bronze Age toys from a child burial in Siberia:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-creepy-doll-head-discovered-prehistoric-child-grave-worlds-oldest-toy-764072

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-creepy-doll-head-discovered-150013257.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6243-171229-siberia-antler-toy

Pottery from beneath Lake Biwako (Japan):

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-urn-discovered-robot-bottom-japan-biggest-lake-mystifies-761537

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6237-171227-japan-lake-pottery

Assorted 2700 years bp finds from Shaanxi:

https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/chinese-archaeologists-discover-2700yearold-relics/1211899

‘Dented’ Buddhist sculptures from Angul (date?):

http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/dented-buddhist-sculptures-unearthed-in-angul.html

Song Dynasty burials from Sichuan:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/22/WS5a3cb392a31008cf16da2e90.html

A 1900 years bp bronze mirror from Kyushu:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-extremely-rare-1900-year-old-chinese-mirror-discovered-intact-japanese-764955

http://www.ibtimes.sg/ancient-chinese-bronze-mirror-discovered-perfect-condition-archaeologists-surprised-by-22464

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6241-171228-japan-bronze-mirror

Very interesting 8th century Turkic burial/monument for Dongoin Shiree:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/ou-dor121817.php

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-discovery-ancient-turkic-monument-pillars.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171219092855.htm

https://www.livescience.com/61277-mongolian-stone-structures-unearthed.html

http://www.newsweek.com/east-asia-ancient-monument-reveals-hidden-stone-sarcophagus-inscribed-753094

http://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologists-discover-strangely-arranged-monument-asia-including-sarcophagus-22096

https://www.archaeology.org/6231-171222-mongolia-turkic-burial

10th century sculptures from Vijayawada:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/10th-century-sculptures-discovered/articleshow/62226168.cms

10th century Tamil inscriptions:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/stones-with-10th-century-inscription-in-ancient-tamil-script-found-in-gangaikondan/articleshow/62110684.cms

Not sure if we’ve mentioned the Great Wall of Gorgon before, but
excavations have resumed:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/419487/Archaeologists-resume-work-on-Great-Wall-of-Gorgan

Remains of a temple in the forests of Cambodia:

http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098414/new-temple-discovered-deep-forest/

Remains of a 19th century Australian pub:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/found-site-one-australias-oldest-pubs-180967538/

Remains of a WWI Australian submarine:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-42435428

https://www.cnet.com/news/lost-wwi-submarine-found-103-years-later-australia-navy-sub-ae1/#ftag=CAD590a51e

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wreck-australias-first-submarine-discovered-papua-new-guinea-180967635/

Various spins being put on a study of those ‘medical strips’ of emperor
Qin
(including his orders to search for immortality):

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42477083

https://www.livescience.com/61286-first-chinese-emperor-sought-immortality.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/order-chinese-emperor-immortality-115745595.html

https://www.mid-day.com/articles/chinas-first-emperor-ordered-nationwide-search-for-an-elixir-of-life/18858196

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/an-order-from-the-first-chinese-emperor-find-immortality

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/sci-tech/2017-12-25-an-order-from-the-chinese-emperor-find-immortality/

http://www.newsweek.com/live-forever-ancient-writings-reveal-first-emperor-china-obsessive-quest-759060

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-year-old-texts-reveal-first-emperor-chinas-quest-eternal-life-180967671/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6236-171227-china-medical-texts

Archaeology and political claims in China:

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/claims-12222017145043.html

Taiwan’s list of big archaeological discoveries this year:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/27/c_136855744.htm

The Taj Mahal is becoming a saga:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/visitors-entry-banned-into-main-crypt-of-taj-mahal/articleshow/62310062.cms

3000 years bp tools from Picton County (NS):

http://www.ngnews.ca/news/local/stone-tool-found-in-pictou-county-estimated-at-about-3000-years-old-173019/

http://www.trurodaily.com/living/stone-tool-found-in-pictou-county-estimated-at-about-3000-years-old-173487/

Finds from the Rock Spring (NC) dig:

http://www.wect.com/story/37094364/archaeologists-find-artifacts-in-rock-spring-dig

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20171218/archaeologists-find-remains-of-rock-spring

Possible pre-Revolution remains from Brooklyn:

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2017/12/22/routine-street-work-in-brooklyn-uncovers-well-that-may-date-back-before-the-revolutionary-war

More finds revealed by Hurricane Irma (on Jekyll Island):

https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/hurricane-exposes-millennia-old-settlement/article_0634a204-6ea9-5a83-a572-f4d9c6ff13c4.html

http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2017-12-18/irma-unearths-historic-artifacts-jekyll-island-beach

Feature on sites near the Bering Strait:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/12/17/571050071/how-to-survive-climate-change-clues-are-buried-in-the-arctic

Feature on those caribou hunting sites in Lake Huron:

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/281-1801/features/6162-where-the-ice-age-caribou-ranged

Feature on Lincoln’s last Christmas:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/president-lincolns-last-christmas-180967617/

Feature on Carry Nation:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-things-know-about-radical-prohibitionist-carry-nation-180967627/

On the link between ‘industrial espionage’ and US cotton:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-espionage-started-americas-cotton-revolution-180967608/

Rethinking Williamsburg’s holiday decorations:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/the-history-of-williamsburgs-beloved-but-not-very-colonial-holiday-decorations/2017/12/19/0e24a5fe-c59d-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html

The solstice was observed at the Fort Ancient earthworks:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171221/winter-solstice-observed-at-fort-ancient-earthworks

More on mastodon remains and the peopling of the Americas:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-ancient-mastodon-ignited-debate-humans.html

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A possible Wari temple from Peru:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-ancient-astronomical-observatory-found-in-cusco-692974.aspx

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6221-171219-peru-temple-astronomy

Evidence of pre-Hispanic success in Bolivia:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/c-uap121917.php

Studying female figurines from Tabasco:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/6784-figurillas-revelan-papel-de-la-mujer-en-la-urbe-prehispanica-de-jonuta-en-tabasco

Studying the giant hats of Easter Island:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/bu-eih122017.php

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-easter-island-cooperative-analysis-giant.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171220122027.htm

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6229-171221-easter-island-pukao

Feature on how the ‘language’ of khipus was ‘decoded’:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/massachusetts/2017/12/26/how-harvard-freshman-helped-crack-mystery-inca-code/asr6ifIpLoFXNQHA3AQdwO/story.html

http://languagehat.com/decoding-the-khipus/

Feature on the Taino people:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/bringing-taino-peoples-back-history-180967637/

Monteczuma’s descendants are looking for some recognition:

https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/12/28/la_serpiente_emplumada/1514420961_584679.html

As often this time of year, we get the various roundups of the biggest
archaeological discoveries:

https://www.livescience.com/61250-biggest-archaeology-discoveries-of-2017.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lost-cities-underwater-castles-jesus-christs-tomb-top-archaeological-discoveries-2017-1652626

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/29093-review-the-most-important-archaeological-discoveries-during-2017.html

In case you haven’t heard of Jennifer Wexler’s deportation case:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-42458315

Studying the motivations behind early copper alloys:

https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/prehistoric-bling-aesthetics-crucial-factor-in-development-of-earliest-copper-alloys

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171222090349.htm

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-prehistoric-bling-aesthetics-crucial-factor.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uoc-pba122117.php

On the names of the months:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/whats-in-a-name-months-of-the-year/

On the annual argument over the location of St Nick’s grave:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/22/christmas-countdown-fuels-debate-over-location-of-st-nicholass-grave

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-saint-nicholas/2017/12/21/1cad751e-df89-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-uncover-proofs-of-the-man-behind-the-legend-of-beloved-st-nick/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/inside-st-nick-s-church-in-turkey-where-the-bones-of-the-man-who-inspired-santa-may-be-buried-1.4462693?cmp=rss

On Santa Claus as magic mushroom:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000005607627/santa-is-a-psychedelic-mushroom.html

http://www.newsweek.com/santa-and-magic-mushrooms-was-christmas-icon-derived-trippy-fungi-758386

On the Christmas truce:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/12/24/the-christmas-truce-miracle-soldiers-put-down-their-guns-to-sing-carols-and-drink-wine/

http://exhibitions.theworldwar.org/christmas-truce/

On historical events that happened on Christmas:

http://www.dw.com/en/what-other-historical-events-happened-on-christmas/g-41923369

On some medieval Christmas recipes:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/medieval-manuscripts-xmas-recipes-abbey-library-trove-073942591.html

On other celebrations that happen in December:

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/ureport/article/2001264175/eight-religious-festivities-that-happen-in-december-other-than-christmas

On metal detectorists and archaeologists:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/18/the-tense-truce-between-detectorists-and-archaeologists

… related:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42235046

Feature on Madame de Pompadour:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/madame-de-pompadour-was-far-more-mistress-180967662/

On the evolution of assorted human societies:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uoe-hse121817.php

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-human-societies-evolve-similar-paths.html

On the 12 Days of Christmas:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/12-facts-about-12-days-christmas-180967569/

On Dickens’ *Christmas Carol*:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171215-how-did-a-christmas-carol-come-to-be

Related:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42322936

Features on assorted Christmas/ Yule celebrations and rituals:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/christmas-traditions-invented-otherwise/

http://www.ibtimes.com/winter-solstice-2017-things-know-about-pagan-yule-celebrations-rituals-2630182

http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/24/heres-how-christians-celebrated-christmas-throughout-the-ages/

Another Christmas origins piece, fwiw:

http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/opinion/columns/egyptians-pagans-are-reason-for-season/article_f2e29f95-ff34-58d7-a00d-9a171877e04f.html

On assorted seasonal traditions:

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571177144/why-we-kiss-under-mistletoe-and-toast-with-eggnog

Lawrence of Arabia’s sandals are coming to auction:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15797770.War_hero_Lawrence_of_Arabia__39_s_sandals_sell_at_auction/

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Lawrence-of-Arabias-century-old-sandals-to-be-auctioned-for-over-4000-518427

France saved one of de Sade’s works from auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/120-days-de-sodom-made-national-treasure-by-french-government

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/world/europe/france-marquis-de-sade-treasure.html

Memphis has removed a couple of Confederate statues:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42450645

On the history of ornithology:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/modern-history-ornithology-starts-inquisitive-medieval-emperor-180967623/

What Lord Nelson’s letters reveal:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/27/petulant-jealous-lord-nelson-letters-reveal-less-noble-side

On pirates and the metric system:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system

Feature on the Basque language:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170719-the-mysterious-origins-of-europes-oldest-language

On the evolution of the lock:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanrabimov/2017/12/27/evolution-on-lock-from-stick-to-gate/

Feature on DaVinci’s ‘ecological side’:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/12/22/actualidad/1513962617_120090.html

Mummy evidence (!) in a soccer player’s drug doping case:

http://eldeportivo.latercera.com/el-deportivo/noticia/momias-ayudaron-reducir-la-sancion-paolo-guerrero-caso-dopaje/37005/

On the Solstice and Spanish missions:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-sun-illuminates-spanish-missions-on-winter-solstice-180967619/

On Voltaire’s lottery skills:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2017/12/20/articulo/1513764103_684537.html

Review of de Hamel, *Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/books/review/de-hamel-manuscripts-medieval-world-illuminated-books.html

Review of Metaxas, *Martin Luther*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/books/review/eric-metaxas-martin-luther.html

More on meteoric iron:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/14/1724352/-Scientists-have-finally-figured-out-the-mystery-of-where-Bronze-Age-iron-came-from

https://www.livescience.com/61218-photos-oldest-iron-daggers-outer-space.html

Etruscans:

http://www.dw.com/en/the-art-treasures-of-the-etruscans/g-41837805

Silver Caesars:

http://theartnewspaper.com/preview/hail-caesar-as-rome-s-first-12-emperors-return

Michelangelo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/the-bodies-of-his-work-michelangelos-muscular-mastery-is-on-display-at-the-met/2017/12/28/35b63f54-e435-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html

Egyptian Cats:

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/20/570591294/no-kitten-around-museum-exhibit-celebrates-divine-felines

Deir Al Medina:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/285709/Heritage/Museums/Egyptian-Museum-displays-works-of-Deir-AlMedina-ar.aspx

Thomas Bock:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/dec/24/thomas-bock-ikon-gallery-review-tasmania-birmingham-convict-review

Wedding Dresses:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140503-how-wedding-dresses-evolved

https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/wedding-dress

From Paganism to Christianity:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archeological-exhibit-shows-the-end-of-paganism-in-Israel-519993

Castra:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/New-archeological-exhibition-tells-a-story-of-an-ancient-city-in-Israel-520074

Restoring the Minoans:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/arts/design/elizabeth-price-art-review-institute-for-the-study-of-the-ancient-world.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Assorted news related to the impending opening of the Grand Egyptian
Museum:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/285713/Heritage/Museums/Chariot-and-clothes-of-Egypts-Tutankhamun-transpor.aspx

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/37681/Egyptian-Museum-receives-new-manuscripts-artifacts

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/12/26/ramses-ii-colossus-erected-grand-egyptian-museum-display-spot/

The British Museum is moving mummies around:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/mummies-take-centre-stage-in-british-museum-shake-up-pwl0mf55n

Feature on Barbara Jatta:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/24/arts/design/vatican-museums-jatta.html

In case you know anything about the Gardner art heist:

http://wshu.org/post/got-scoop-gardner-museum-art-heist-you-have-4-days-earn-10-million

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What technology reveals about ancient Egyptian paintings:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-new-imaging-technique-revealed-secrets-ancient-portrait-180967633/

Virtual reality for the Baths of Caracalla:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/19/virtual-reality-goggles-unlock-splendour-huge-ancient-roman/

On using 3d technology to save objects from ISIS:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/isis-threatened-ancient-art-3-d-printing-will-save-it

A plan to LiDAR scan the whole of England:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/12/30/lost-roman-roads-could-found-environment-agency-laser-scans/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Gadara:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171218-jordans-ancient-town-without-a-soul

Alexandria (Egypt):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/travel/alexandria-egypt-library-budget.html

Kent:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42425157

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Manhattan’s DA has launched an antiquities crime unit:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/prosecutors-become-treasure-hunters-in-antiquities-repatriation-campaign/

https://hyperallergic.com/418267/manhattan-district-attorney-antiquities-trafficking-unit/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/manhattan-da-launches-first-antiquities-trafficking-unit-180967607/

Big sentence for smuggling antiquities in Egypt:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/37541/Life-imprisonment-fine-of-LE-1M-for-smuggling-antiquities

Using dogs to sniff out stolen antiquities:

https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/features/enlisting-dogs-to-sniff-out-stolen-antiquities

http://theartnewspaper.com/blog/sniffer-dogs-set-to-save-syria-s-cultural-heritage

… or technology:

http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/using-technology-tackle-theft-trafficking-antiquities/

A major bust (Operation Zeus) in Turkey:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkish-police-seize-more-26000-ancient-artefacts-largest-ever-haul-stolen-antiquities-1652577

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/21/c_136843299.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6227-171221-turkey-looting-smuggling

Another bust at Cairo airport:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/cairo-airport-authorities-seize-329-archaeological-coins/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/24/c_136849284.htm

Tomb raiders in China are apparently learning from online sources:

https://international.thenewslens.com/article/86073

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/12/culture-crime-news-12-november-24-december-2017.html

Sweden returned some textiles to Peru:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6219-171219-peru-repatriated-textiles

The crown of Hecatomnus will be returned:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/golden-crown-of-hecatomnus-to-be-returned-124956
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NUMISMATICA
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A few weeks’ worth of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n51.html

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n52.html

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n53.html

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n54.html

Icelandic epic:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/100000005521046/rimur-iceland-epic-poetry-ballad.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2676-audio-news-from-archaeologica-17-december-2017-23-december-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Slobodan Curcic:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/12/11/slobodan-curcic-international-expert-byzantine-art-and-architecture-dies-76

Jean Davison:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/obituary.aspx?n=jean-m-davison-phd&pid=187599892

Mark Whittow (not really obituaries yet):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42502160

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/oxford-professor-mark-whittow-killed-in-pile-up-rzhsfqw83

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/27/tributes-to-oxford-university-professor-killed-in-m40-crash

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/28/oxford-university-history-professor-killed-m40-pile-uptributes/

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/15794931.College_left__shaken__by_death_of_professor_in_M40_crash/

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CONFERENCES
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Theoretical Archaeology Group (Dec. 2017):

http://tag2017cardiff.org/

Hidden Cultural Heritage (April 2018):

http://www.cicop.net/hch/

Doug Weller

unread,

Apr 17, 2018, 1:22:07 AM4/17/18

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explorator 20.51 April 15, 2018

Bob Heuman, Barbarda Saylor Rodgers, Kris Curry, Mata Kimasitayo,
David Emery, David Critchley, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,

and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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Archaeologists have found some 4500 'new' fragments of a colossal statue
of Psamtik I in Cairo:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/297399/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-discovery-in-Matariya-sheds-light-on-the-shape.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/4500-artifacts-belonging-to-king-psamtek-i-statue-discovered-in-matariya/
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/47474/Large-fragments-of-massive-Psamtek-I-s-Matariya-colossus-uncovered
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/german-egyptian-excavation-unveiled-4500-relics-belonging-pharaoh-kings-1116416
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2454446&CategoryId=13936
https://www.archaeology.org/6537-180411-king-psamtek-i-colossus

The tomb of Tut's wife may have been found ... or not:

https://www.livescience.com/62264-search-king-tut-wife-tomb.html

Feature on how Howard Carter almost missed Tut's tomb:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2018/03-04/findingkingtutstomb/

Hype for a tv programme about restoring Khufu's boats:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-43643197/rebuilding-history-restoring-a-pharaoh-s-ancient-boat

A papyrus record of an early case of sexual assault:

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-text-talks-about-a-powerful-man-being-called-out-for-sexual-assault/
https://qz.com/1249141/metoo-sexual-assault-possibly-led-to-the-firing-of-a-powerful-man-in-ancient-egypt/

Feature on aging in ancient Egypt:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/04/Getting-Old-In-Ancient+Egypt

Feature on what the Israelites were doing in Egypt:

https://thetorah.com/what-kind-of-construction-did-the-israelites-do-in-egypt/

More on the FBI helping identify a mummy:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fbi-solves-mummy-identity-egypt-deit-el-bersha-djehutynakht-wife-a8293771.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mystery-over-identity-4-000-164019342.html

Schoolkids on a dig in the West Bank dug up an oil lamp:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Elementary-school-pupils-dig-up-a-piece-of-Jewish-history-549170
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pupils-reconstruct-1500-year-old-holy-land-life-in-school-archaeological-dig/

Suggestion that Yahweh originated as the Canaanite 'Vulcan':

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-jewish-god-yahweh-originated-in-canaanite-vulcan-says-new-theory-1.5992072

Years later, thousands of artifacts are still missing from the National
Museum in Iraq:

http://www.aina.org/news/20180409184251.htm
http://menafn.com/1096715659/Fifteen-years-after-looting-thousands-of-artefacts-are-still-missing-from-Iraqs-national-museum

Concerns for sites arising from war in Yemen and Iraq:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/war-savages-ancient-sites-yemen-and-iraq-destroying-archaeological-record

Feature on the site of Al-Ula:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/9/47471/Saudi-archaeological-treasure-of-Al-Ula-to-open-to-tourists
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/desert-ruins-al-ula-saudis-revive-forgotten-past-102521792.html
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/al-ula-ruins-saudis-revive-forgotten-past-1.2203380
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/04/10/WATCH-Chinese-Saudi-archeologists-unearth-cultural-relics-in-Saudi-Arabia.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/desert-ruins-al-ula-saudis-revive-forgotten-past-102521440.html

What Marta D'Andrea is up to:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/italian-scholar-researches-crisis-reformation-near-east%E2%80%99s-early-urban-societies

More on China-Saudi dig cooperation:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/04/10/WATCH-Chinese-Saudi-archeologists-unearth-cultural-relics-in-Saudi-Arabia.html

Feature on the history of French digs in Saudi Arabia:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1281826

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A red figure krater from Apollonia Pontica:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/189388/Red-Figure+Krater+Unearthed+in+Bulgaria
http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/04/10/archaeologists-find-6th-century-bc-home-red-figure-pottery-krater-depicting-oedipus-and-the-sphinx-from-apollonia-pontica-in-bulgarias-sozopol/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6536-180410-bulgaria-sozopol-krater

... related:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/113833/ancient-greek-dwelling-unearthed-in-bulgaria/
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2018/04/13/experts-find-ancient-greek-heritage-in-bulgarian-black-sea-coast/

A 'Classical' 'meeting ground' from Myra:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-myra-meeting-ground-unearthed-130219

I think we mentioned this cherub fresco:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-rare-art-unearthed-in-nero-era-mansion-and-bath-by-rome-1.5956969

TV hypish thing on the identification of the pass where Hannibal crossed
the Alps:

https://www.livescience.com/62265-hannibal-alps-crossing-mystery.html

Latest theory on the collapse of Mycenean civilization:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/30911-new-study-mycenaean-civilization-might-have-collapsed-due-to-uprising-or-invasion.html

We're beginning to read of new finds from Pompeii:

https://www.ilmattino.it/napoli/cultura/pompei_regio_v_dagli_scavi_corso_affiora_la_finestra_di_casa_la_grata_ferro-3667217.html

In case you missed the 'Greco Roman' Temple find in Siwa last week:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/113691/remains-of-rare-greco-roman-temple-unearthed-in-egypt/
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/temple-ancient-egypt-08042018/
http://greekreporter.com/egyptian-experts-find-ancient-greco-roman-temple/

Feature on Roman anchors in Malta and religion:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20180411/community/Roman-anchors-in-Malta-and-ancient-maritime-religion.676007

Feature on Ingres' painting depicting Virgil reading from the Aeneid:

https://www.christies.com/features/Deconstructed-Ingres-Virgil-reading-from-the-Aeneid-9121-1.aspx

Feature on Gismondi's Rome model:

https://www.archdaily.com/892031/explore-this-1-250-model-of-ancient-rome-which-took-38-years-to-construct
http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/europe/the-incredible-model-city-that-took-38-years-to-create/news-story/cc87d6d0054f625ed43fe021d50bcb3a

Feature on coloured statuary:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-people-classical-sculptures-meant-white

Looking at Greek vases:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/10-ways-to-look-at-ancient-greek-vases/

Feature on medicine in antiquity:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-medicine-antiquityfrom-ancient-temples-roman.html
http://sciencenordic.com/medicine-antiquity

cf:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/medicine-in-the-ancient-world/

Feature on Phrygian caps:

https://sarahemilybond.com/2018/04/09/before-maga-mithras-phrygian-caps-and-the-politics-of-headwear/

Feature on Rome and the Jews:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/04/rome-and-the-jews/

Feature on some artifacts found in Bulgaria:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/04/12/6-amazing-artifacts-with-ancient-greek-mythology-scenes-discovered-in-bulgaria/

Feature on an early Greek yoyo depiction:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/04/08/the-ancient-greek-boy-and-his-yo-yo/

Again pondering Carthaginian childe sacrifice:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/did-the-carthaginians-really-practice-infant-sacrifice/

On the benefits of learning Latin:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-learning-latin-stays-with-you-forever
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/opinion-study-latin-if-you-want-to-talk-like-a-supervillain

What Kate Birney is up to:

http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2018/04/09/birney-receives-mellon-fellowship-to-pursue-role-of-scents-in-antiquity/

What Brendan McGlone is up to:

http://wesleyanargus.com/2018/04/09/mcglone-18-selected-as-humanistic-study-fellow-for-the-paideia-institute/

Some Eta Sigma Phi convention coverage:

http://uknow.uky.edu/student-and-academic-life/classics-students-receive-recognition-national-convention
http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=197953

Reviews of Madeline Miller's *Circe*:

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/599831473/circe-gives-the-witch-of-the-odyssey-a-new-life
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-original-nasty-woman-is-a-goddess-for-our-times/2018/04/09/742c54d0-3b88-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html
https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/article/Book-World-The-original-nasty-woman-is-a-goddess-12818886.php
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/08/circe-madeline-miller-homer-odyssey-retelling-review
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/4/10/circe-review/
https://www.bustle.com/p/circe-by-madeline-miller-is-a-love-letter-to-the-first-witch-in-literature-8707797
https://www.refinery29.com/2018/04/195530/madeline-miller-circe-author-interview-women-mythology
http://dailytexanonline.com/2018/04/12/circe-stuns-as-the-retelling-of-an-old-classic

Pondering why women authors are working on Greek myths right now:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/many-women-writers-ancient-myths-troy-fall-of-a-city-pat-barker-k9rz7lrv0

They keep finding things in Larnaca:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2018/04/11/antiquity-finds-increasing-costs-larnaca-square-revamp/

More on the Russell Crowe 'divorce auction' results:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/russell-crowe-divorce-auction-australia-film-props-bid-gladiator-millions-a8294561.html

11 000 years bp cave art from Crete:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/04/11/amazing-greek-cave-art-found-to-be-over-11000-years-old/

Searching for/mapping a 'stone age' site in the North Sea:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43711762

Some of the stones at Stonehenge were on the Salisbury plain long before
humans were:

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/stonehenge-rocks-were-there-long-before-humans/news-story/6f934150b230e592b8c2303c71b6b59a
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12029278&ref=rss
http://www.theweek.co.uk/92795/stonehenge-rocks-in-place-millions-of-years-before-humans
https://news.sky.com/story/some-stonehenge-rocks-were-at-salisbury-plain-long-before-humans-11323822
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stonehenge-pillars-already-place-humans-arrived-expert-claims-112103143.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/04/10/parts-of-stonehenge-were-in-place-long-before-humans-archaeologists-find/

Remains of a 1500 years bp onion from Sweden:

https://www.thelocal.se/20180411/ancient-onion-reveals-roman-links-with-swedens-pompeii
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6538-180411-sweden-ancient-onion

An interesting 'medieval' burial of a man with a 'knife prosthetic' arm
(maybe):

https://www.sciencealert.com/medieval-lombard-man-amputated-arm-knife-prosthesis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/04/12/archaeologists-find-ancient-knife-hand-prosthesis-on-medieval-warrior/
http://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologists-puzzled-find-knife-attached-mans-hand-ancient-period-25931
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6545-180413-italy-amputation-prosthesis

Some 600 years bp 'loaded dice' from Norway:

https://www.livescience.com/62273-cheating-medieval-dice-norway.html
https://www.cnet.com/news/cheating-dice-medieval-con-artist-norway/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6541-180412-norway-gambling-dice

Excavating a 19th century slaughterhouse in Scotland:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6501-180409-scotland-edinburgh-slaughterhouse

Studying the skeletons of Napoleonic-era soldiers who died in the Battle
of Aspern:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/04/13/skeletons-from-napoleonic-battlefield-shed-light-on-soldiers-health/#21bc18a3227e

Plans to dig a deserted medieval settlement site in Teesdale:

https://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/features/remember-when-more-work-to-uncover-secrets-of-lost-dale-village
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/southdurham/barnardcastle/16145715.Teesdale_medieval_settlement_to_be_explored_in_archaeological_dig/

Apparently there are 'Islamic Conquest of the Iberian peninsula' deniers:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/06/hechos/1523043230_705992.html

They've figured out the origins of the Carambolo treasure:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/carambolo-treasure-tartessos-gold-atlantis-spain-archaeology/

More on Neolithic Scandinavians eating fish:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6500-180409-scandinavia-fish-diets

More on Viking sunstones:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/simulation-suggest-legendary-viking-sunstones-could-have-worked-180968710/

The Leang Burung 2 site in Indonesia was occupied by humans some 50 000
years bp, apparently:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-humans-occupied-indonesian-site-leang.html
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/12/c_137106145.htm
http://theconversation.com/ancient-stone-tools-found-on-sulawesi-but-who-made-them-remains-a-mystery-92277
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6542-180412-sulawesi-hominin-tools

Interesting finds from a 3500 years bp site in Bengal:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/proto-historic-settlement-of-artisans-unearthed/article23474828.ece

3000 years bp burials from Tibet:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/09/c_137098567.htm
http://www.nerve.in/news%3A2535004175930

A possible royal palace site from Cambodia:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30342792
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30342819
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6535-180410-cambodia-jayavarman-palace

Fifth century Japanese burials in Korea:

http://english.donga.com/Home/3/all/26/1282272/1

Concerns for a megalithic burial site in Andhra Pradesh:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/megalithic-burial-site-in-a-state-of-neglect/article23476045.ece

Remains of a 4000 years bp settlement in Uttar Pradesh:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/settlement-dating-back-almost-4000-years-found-in-up/articleshow/63694412.cms

Digging pre-gold rush sites in Melbourne:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-12/melbourne-metro-tunnel-archaeological-dig/9642282

Digging a 19th century cemetery in Otago:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-reveal-history-exhumation-otago-graves.html
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1804/S00012/researchers-reveal-history-with-exhumation-of-otago-graves.htm
https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/103030698/exhumation-at-old-lawrence-cemetery-reveals-surprising-finds
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/04/archaeologists-dig-up-otago-graves-to-piece-together-history.html
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago683078.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6543-180412-gold-rush-cemetery

Again we're getting a top ten list of archaeological finds from China last
year:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/11/c_137101160.htm
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/11/c_137103911.htm
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1097296.shtml
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201804/11/WS5acd4780a3105cdcf65176a2.html
http://www.ecns.cn/2018/04-11/298681.shtml

The Taj Mahal's minarets were damaged in a thunderstorm:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43735757
https://www.thedailystar.net/world/asia/thunderstorm-destroys-taj-mahal-minarets-1561963
https://www.yahoo.com/news/violent-winds-topple-stone-pillars-taj-mahal-complex-135718932.html

Studying the spread of rice cultivation in the Neolithic:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/12/c_137106623.htm

Feature on Humayun's tomb:

https://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/humayuns-tomb-1560025

More on CaoCao's tomb:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2140732/one-down-two-go-discovery-cao-caos-tomb-turns-focus-search
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2141303/finding-cao-cao-discovery-remains-will-help-put

The Vikings made it to Canada by mistake, apparently (this is another spin
on sunstones):

https://www.livescience.com/62284-how-vikings-reached-canada.html

They found another shipwreck in downtown Alexandria:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/three-ships-from-the-1700s-found-on-one-block-in-old-town-alexandria/2018/04/12/98ba1c8c-3da0-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html
https://wtop.com/alexandria/2018/04/historic-3rd-ship-uncovered-by-archaeologists-in-alexandria/
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Three-ships-from-the-1700s-found-on-one-block-in-12829706.php
http://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/alexandria/discovery-of-third-ship-at-alexandria-construction-site/65-537655436

Tracing Wabanaki canoe routes in New Brunswick:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-mapping-first-nations-ancient-canoe-routes-new-brunswick-180968678/

Old Vero Man is not as old as originally thought:

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-county/2018/04/09/old-vero-man-not-old-originally-thought-after-archaeologists-analyze-artifacts/498388002/

Concerns for eroding coastline sites:

http://nhpr.org/post/archaeologists-find-eroding-coastlines-threaten-past-much-present

Plans to 3d scan that recently-exposed shipwreck in Florida:

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-tampa/usf-archaeologists-to-3d-map-florida-shipwreck

Plans to dig Fort Clarence:

https://greatlakesledger.com/2018/04/13/fort-clarence-military-fortification-to-be-excavated/

Arizona might put minimally-trained people in charge of identifying sites:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-bill-minimal-training-archaeological-sites-state-land-10290379

Concerns for sites on the Alkali Ridge:

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2018/04/07/in-utah-canyons-where-an-ancient-civilization-once-flourished-the-feds-are-now-inviting-oil-and-gas-drilling/

Not sure about this 'peopling of the Americas' theory:

http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/did-north-america-s-first-humans-cross-the-chesapeake-to/article_6c3b7540-3f51-11e8-b0b9-f7f08a10e811.html

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Interesting 1900 years bp burial of some shark fishermen in Peru:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/peru-viru-ancient-shark-fishermen-archaeology/

Studying a pre-Hispanic village site in the Sonoran desert:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/binational-project-explores-altar-valley/

More on recently-found Nazca geoglyphs:

https://hyperallergic.com/436618/new-nazca-lines-discovered-using-drones/
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/archaeologists-drones-peru/
http://www.peruviantimes.com/09/drones-help-discover-desert-drawings-in-palpa-near-nazca/30594/
http://www.dw.com/en/mysterious-geoglyphs-discovered-in-peru/g-43353009

Pondering ancient astronomy:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/19/ciencia/1521477253_818672.html

An interesting 1000 years bp shirt:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/12/style/thousand-year-old-shirt-sothebys.html

Pondering how to make Old Masters more engaging:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/old-master-disco-lives-in-kasse

On the history of tea making in Sri Lanka:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-43629707

Digital recreations of 7 ancient 'iconic' buildings:

http://www.thisisinsider.com/ancient-ruins-reconstructed-2018-4

Pondering whether anthropologists should be judgemental:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/books/review/katherine-verdery-my-life-as-a-spy.html

On Friday the 13th:

http://www.dw.com/en/13-cultural-references-that-made-friday-the-13th-unlucky/a-37118529

Samuel Coleridge's remains were found again:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/12/samuel-taylor-coleridge-poet-remains-rediscovered-wine-cellar
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6544-180413-samuel-taylor-coleridge

Plans to search for Shackleton's lost ship:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43703723
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/10/british-scientists-race-find-lost-shipwreck-ernest-shackletons/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/antarctic-research-ship-will-search-wreck-shackletons-endurance-180968780/

Some Arabic science manuscripts are coming to auction:

http://robbreport.com/shelter/auctions/important-scientific-manuscripts-at-sothebys-2787913/

On transcribing documents:

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2018/0406/Wanted-Volunteers-who-like-history-and-can-read-cursive

Iceland's first black citizen?:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/world/europe/denmark-iceland-slavery-hans-jonathan.html

On old sleeping patterns:

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/for-1000s-of-years-we-went-to-bed-twice-a-night-2

Feature on Mary Magdalene:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-biggest-myths-about-mary-magdalene

Review of *An Atlas of Rare and Familiar Colour*:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180328-the-pigment-made-of-human-remains-and-more-surprising-hues

Sunken Cities:

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20180413/venture-bound-lost-worlds-of-egypts-sunken-cities

Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece:

http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2968131/rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-at-the-british-museum

Iran: Cradle of Civilization:

https://financialtribune.com/articles/travel/84407/iranian-relics-on-show-in-britain-netherland
http://menafn.com/1096726244/Iran-loan-exhibits-to-be-shown-in-England-Netherlands

Delacroix:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-paris-a-major-delacroix-exhibition-that-continues-to-explore-his-genius/2018/04/12/0d754b62-3d6c-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html

The Horse in Ancient Greek Art:

http://www.richmond.com/entertainment/museums/take-the-reins-of-vmfa-s-the-horse-in-ancient/article_6379d64e-253c-5901-a4dc-61fcd472b85c.html

Coverage of the Reinstalled Getty Villa Galleries:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/new-to-explore-in-the-reinstalled-getty-villa-galleries/
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/doubling-art-historical-emphasis-getty-villa-unveils-newly-reinstalled-collection-month-1265057

The BC Royal Museum has launched a grant to repatriate First Nations
artifacts:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/royal-b-c-museum-repatriation-grant-first-nations-1.4614836

... while a Mellon Grant is being used to document and reorganize the
Haffenreffer collections:

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2018/04/engagingamericas

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Plans to further investigate the Roman genetic legacy in the UK:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43712587
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/04/11/did-romans-leave-genetic-legacy-britain/
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/people-south-england-might-descended-romans-123258653.html
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-romans-may-have-left-a-genetic-legacy-in-the-people-living-in-southeast-britain/

A DNA study in Mexico reveals some Asian connections:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/latin-america-s-lost-histories-revealed-modern-dna
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6546-180413-mexico-asia-dna

Pondering the ethics of extracting ancient DNA:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-must-unravel-a-thorny-mummy-controversy/

Studying sweet potato DNA is causing a bit of a rethink of human migration
theories:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-people-sweet-potatoes.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180412140845.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/science/sweet-potato-pacific-dna.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/polynesians-may-not-have-gone-grocery-shopping-in-south-america/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6540-180412-sweet-potato-origins

General feature on what we're learning from DNA:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43701630

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2018/04/culture-crime-news-26-march-8-april-2018.html

Egypt has recovered some items smuggled to the US in the 1920s:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/47460/Egypt-reclaims-mummified-hands-head-smuggled-in-1927-from-NY
http://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-retrieves-remnants-of-mummy-smuggled-to-us-in-1927/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/47460/Egypt-reclaims-mummified-hands-head-smuggled-in-1927-from-NY

More on lending Ethiopia their previously-plundered artifacts:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/london-museum-says-it-willing-return-looted-ethiopian-artifacts-long-term-loan-180968699/
http://www.reuters.tv/v/jcG/2018/04/10/london-museum-may-return-ethiopian-loot-on-loan
http://allafrica.com/stories/201804100712.html

... related:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/15/ethiopians-urge-britain-return-bones-of-stolen-prince-and-loot

... and the opeds that follow:

http://www.turkeytelegraph.com/life-style/ethiopia-reopens-debate-on-colonial-plunder-h17042.html
https://www.ft.com/content/0f48fa90-3cc9-11e8-b7e0-52972418fec4
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/should-africas-looted-art-be-returned

More on Turkey seeking returns of various artifacts:

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/turkey-demands-return-plundered-ancient-artefacts-180408133736710.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n14.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n15.html

A folk opera based on the Odyssey:

http://www.idsnews.com/article/2018/04/entfolkopera040918

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

Hidden Cultural Heritage (April 2018):

http://www.cicop.net/hch/

Doug Weller

unread,

Apr 29, 2018, 12:14:13 PM4/29/18

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explorator 21.01 April 29, 2018

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, David Critchley, Laurel Carey, Bob Heuman, Richard

Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A temple of Osiris find (and other things) at Kom Ombo:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/antiquities-ministry-uncovers-remains-of-osiris-compartment-in-luxor/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/48467/Discovery-of-Emperor-Marcus-Aurelius%E2%80%99-head-Osirian-temple
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/298146/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Rare-Oririan-temple-and-marble-head-of-Marcus-Aure.aspx
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/04/22/archeologists-find-roman-emperor-bust-ancient-shrine-in-egypt
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/23/c_137129169.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/archaeologists-find-bust-of-roman-emperor-in-egypt/2018/04/22/ab861d8a-462d-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Archaeologists-find-bust-of-Roman-emperor-in-Egypt-12854850.php
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-marcus-aurelius-temple-kom-ombo-896631
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/archaeologists-find-bust-roman-emperor-egypt-54644507
http://www.ibtimes.sg/archeologists-discover-bust-roman-emperor-marcus-aurelius-southern-egypt-26078
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6563-180423-egypt-shrine-sculpture

Finds from various periods at Ras al-Jinz:

http://timesofoman.com/article/133090/Oman/Heritage/Significant-finds-unearthed-at-Ras-al-Jinz-archaeological-site

Looking at sexuality in ancient Mesopotamia:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-ancient-mesopotamia-sex-gods-shook.html
https://theconversation.com/in-ancient-mesopotamia-sex-among-the-gods-shook-heaven-and-earth-87858
http://menafn.com/1096757636/In-ancient-Mesopotamia-sex-among-the-gods-shook-heaven-and-earth

More on that restored colossal statue of Ramses II:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/48381/Unveiling-restored-King-Ramses-II-colossus

More on Egypt's new antiquities laws:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/2/48513/Draft-law-intensifying-penalties-for-antiquities-related-crime-approved
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/2/48513/New-law-intensifies-penalties-for-antiquity-related-crimes

On the world's oldest peace treaty:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/coe-wto042318.php

Feature on the UM Papyrology collection:

http://wemu.org/post/hidden-plain-sight-u-m-papyrology-collection

Brown students reenacted the Battle of Kadesh (!):

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180422/brown-archaeology-students-to-reenact-egyptian-battle-of-kadesh

Studying and scanning Haft-Tappeh relics:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/423077/Haft-Tappeh-relics-being-documented-getting-3D-scans

Pondering the Phoenicians:

https://aeon.co/essays/phoenicia-an-imaginary-friend-to-nations-in-need-of-ancestors

More on Saudi rock inscriptions:

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2018/04/27/PICTURES-Saudi-rock-inscriptions-highlight-prehistoric-process-of-civilizations.html

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In case you missed the news of a find of a bust of Marcus Aurelius in
Luxor (story was
just breaking as we sent this out last week):

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-archaeologists-roman-emperor-egypt.html
https://www.livescience.com/62400-stone-head-emperor-marcus-aurelius.html
http://www.egyptindependent.com/antiquities-ministry-uncovers-remains-of-osiris-compartment-in-luxor/
https://egyptianstreets.com/2018/04/25/marble-head-of-roman-emperor-discovered-in-egypts-aswan/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/48467/Discovery-of-Emperor-Marcus-Aurelius%E2%80%99-head-Osirian-temple
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/298146/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Rare-Oririan-temple-and-marble-head-of-Marcus-Aure.aspx
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/04/22/archeologists-find-roman-emperor-bust-ancient-shrine-in-egypt
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/23/c_137129169.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/archaeologists-find-bust-of-roman-emperor-in-egypt/2018/04/22/ab861d8a-462d-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Archaeologists-find-bust-of-Roman-emperor-in-Egypt-12854850.php
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-marcus-aurelius-temple-kom-ombo-896631
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/archaeologists-find-bust-roman-emperor-egypt-54644507
http://www.ibtimes.sg/archeologists-discover-bust-roman-emperor-marcus-aurelius-southern-egypt-26078
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6563-180423-egypt-shrine-sculpture

Plenty of press attention for the find of a child skeleton at Pompeii's
baths:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-ancient-skeleton-child-pompeii.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/25/skeleton-child-trying-shelter-vesuvius-eruption-uncovered-pompeii/
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/04/25/archaeologists-discover-child-skeleton-in-ancient-city-of-pompeii
http://www.newsweek.com/pompeii-skeleton-vesuvius-ancient-city-volcano-900900
https://www.thelocal.it/20180426/child-skeleton-discovered-pompeii
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ancient-skeleton-of-child-found-in-ruins-of-pompeiis-bath/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12039652
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6570-180425-pompeii-child-skeleton

Plenty of Roman burials found at the site of a former hotel in York:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/16180926.Dozens_of_Roman_graves_found_under_York_hotel_swimming_pool/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6153689/more-than-70-skeletons-of-roman-soldiers-and-their-families-found-in-old-burial-ground-underneath-hotel-pool/
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16186039.Dozens_of_Roman_bodies_found_under_former_hotel/
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/sixty-roman-skeletons-found-beneath-hotel-swimming-pool-in-york-1-9138183

Remains of an ancient defensive wall at Mytilene:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/04/27/ancient-seaside-fortification-wall-found-on-lesvos-island/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/31101-ancient-defensive-wall-emerges-during-salvage-excavation-on-lesvos-island.html
https://neoskosmos.com/en/114585/ancient-wall-revealed-in-lesvos/

Latest finds from the Thessaloniki subway dig:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-thessaloniki-subway-unearths-secrets-city.html
http://artdaily.com/news/104245/Thessaloniki-subway-dig-unearths-secrets-of--city-under-the-city--

A 2000 years bp amphora from the Neretva River:

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/27806-2000-year-old-amphorae-discovered-in-river-neretva

A detailed LiDAR survey of the Antonine Wall:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/meticulous-metric-survey-of-the-antonine-wall.htm

Burial urns from around Hadrian's Wall are going on display:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/27/hadrians-wall-roman-cremation-urns-display-perfume-vase-women
http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/burial-urns-show-hadrians-wall-was-home-to-families-as-well-as-fighters-11364267057289
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-43915429
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/roman-artefacts-unearthed-hadrians-wall-14587441
http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2018-04-27/unseen-roman-exhibits-unveiled-at-hadrians-wall/

Suggestion that Mycenean palaces were destroyed by violence, not
earthquakes:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-mycenae-wasn-t-destroyed-by-quake-but-by-violence-new-study-shows-1.6029193

Feature on the Ancient Graffiti Project:

https://news.olemiss.edu/ancient-graffiti-project-offers-door-past-um-professor/
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/04/28/ancient-graffiti-preserved-lava-researching-depression-uk-campus-briefs/560115002/

Interesting feature on a kantharos at the Getty:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/we-shook-an-ancient-ceramic-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/

Locals have big hopes for finds in 'Albanopolis':

https://exit.al/en/2018/04/28/archaeological-finds-in-albanopolis-rekindle-the-locals-hopes-for-government-attention/

Similar hopes in Driebes (Spain):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/world/europe/driebes-vanishing-spanish-village.html

What Adriana Brook is up to:

http://www.lawrentian.com/archives/1012780

What Mary Beard is up to:

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-04-27/mary-beard-front-row-late/

What Aaron Johnson is up to:

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2018/4/27/367732/Johnson-Receives-Grants-For-Research.aspx

2018 is the 'year of Troy' apparently:

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/celebrating-2018-as-the-year-of-troy-16998

Interviews and reviews of Madeline Miller, *Circe*:

https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21741129-madeline-miller-latest-author-rework-his-epics-address-contemporary-themes
http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2018/04/25/interview-madeline-miller-turning-the-camera-to-female-in-classics.html
http://www.thehindu.com/books/circe-by-madeline-miller-with-hair-streaked-like-a-lynx/article23693474.ece
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/books/2018/04/17/madeline-miller-circe-review

... and Emily Wilson's *Odyssey* translation:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/114552/meet-the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english/
http://www.themillbrookindependent.com/content/adventures-homer

Feature on Socrates:

http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/who-was-socrates-philosophys-greatest-mystery-explained

Some Tennessee JCL convention coverage:

https://brentwoodhomepage.com/latin-students-triumph-with-an-ancient-language-and-a-chariot/

Coverage of the Annual Parilla undergrad Classics conference:

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/classics-students-present-at-annual-parilia-conference-1

Princeton has chosen their Salutatorian:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/04/valedictorian-salutatorian-share-advice-for-underclassmen

An interview with Ceres in Vermont:

http://www.stowetoday.com/waterbury_record/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/ceres-on-the-ground-finally-has-her-say/article_70dfc8c4-4985-11e8-b843-3b4650d21332.html

More on evidence of paint on the Antonine Wall:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-archaeologist-red-yellow-antonine-wall.html

Traces of early grains in Bronze Age nomad burial sites in the Caucasus:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/lmsu-msf042518.php#
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-scientists-seeds-domestic-burial-sites.html

Possible evidence of the fire that destroyed the hillfort at Dun Deardail
2500 years bp:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-43813824

Archaeology confirms a Reedham church is built on the site of a Roman
fortlet:

http://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/reading-archaeologists-find-st-john-baptist-church-built-on-fortlet-1-5490859

Plenty of coverage of evidence of a 1500 years bp massacre at Sandby Bord
(Sweden):

https://www.livescience.com/62403-ancient-massacre-discovered.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/science/massacre-sweden-archaeology.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/25/swedish-archaeologists-uncover-brutal-5th-century-massacre
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43899393
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/04/25/two-dozen-people-massacred-at-ancient-swedish-fort-archaeologists-report/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/clues-iron-age-massacre-lie-what-assailants-left-behind
https://gizmodo.com/this-recently-discovered-fifth-century-massacre-in-swed-1825526799
https://www.sciencealert.com/sandby-borg-massacre-excavated-sweden-5th-century-village-murdered
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/swedish-archaeologists-uncover-brutal-5thcentury-massacre/

A possible 1500 years bp bishop's residence from Kyustendil (Bulgaria):

https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/04/26/archaeology-building-believed-to-have-been-bishops-residence-in-roman-era-pautalia-uncovered-in-bulgarias-kyustendil/

Remains of a Civil War era moat around Newark Castle turned up during
sewer construction:

http://newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/2018/04/25/civil-war-moat-to-protect-newark-castle-found-during-sewer-works

Latest from the Norwich Castle dig:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-43840546

Studying the settlements associated with the Glencoe Massacre:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/lost-settlements-of-glencoe-studied-for-first-time-1-4730433

Digging has resumed at a Norse long house site in Furness:

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/16182310.Duddon_Valley_archaeologists_dig_for_Norse_history/

... as has the search for Norman structures in Winchester:

http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/16184132.Hunt_for_Winchester__39_s_Norman_structures_continues/?ref=rss

Interesting account of a Harvard study in the 1930s in search of the 'true
Celt' (sort of a book review):

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/celtic-spotlight-an-irishman-s-diary-about-the-harvard-archaeological-mission-to-1930s-ireland-1.3475581
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/skulls-a-nazi-director-and-the-quest-for-the-true-celt-36849001.html

Modelling Bronze Age hoards mathematically:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/mathematically-modelling-bronze-age-hoards.htm

Studying excrement from assorted sites in northern Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-parasite-eggs-ancient-latrines-hint.html
https://wamu.org/story/18/04/25/dna-analysis-of-ancient-excrement-reveals-the-diets-of-centuries-past/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/04/25/ancient-latrines-parasites-archaeology/#.WuXQuVOUs1I
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6574-180426-waste-dna-analysis

Some 400 years bp silver coins have been declared treasure:

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/local-news/400-year-old-silver-coins-1490975
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/oswestry/2018/04/27/medieval-coins-found-near-oswestry-are-declared-treasure/

Latest in the Stonehenge tunnel saga:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/national/16176619.Experts_unite_to_condemn_plans_for_road_tunnel_past_Stonehenge/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-43837307
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-43904626
https://www.metro.news/archaeologists-dig-heels-in-over-stonehenge-tunnel/1027727/

Concerns for Clifford's Tower:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/apr/27/english-heritage-visitor-centre-cliffords-tower-in-york

On the Neolithic Revolution:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/20/ciencia/1524219983_369281.html

On the original Windsor Castle:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/windsor-castle-original-size-reconstruction-medieval-fortress-a8321766.html

More on the henge at Raunds:

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/excavations-will-reveal-more-about-ancient-henge-unearthed-in-raunds-1-8472802
https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/group-s-concerns-over-future-of-ancient-henge-uncovered-in-raunds-1-8473557

More on identifying the source of the Carambolo Treasure:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/uotb-gai042518.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-geologists-mystery-gold-treasure.html

More on Roman-influenced burials in Denmark:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6567-180424-denmark-roman-goose

More on that Cornish barrow site:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-archaeologists-cornish-barrow-site.html

More on the work at Rousay, Orkney:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/secrets-of-orkney-s-egypt-of-the-north-to-be-unlocked-1-4728887

More on Cophenhagen's earliest church:

http://sciencenordic.com/archaeologists-think-they-have-found-copenhagen%E2%80%99s-oldest-church

More on that possibly-trepanated cow:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hole-ancient-cow-skull-could-have-been-surgery-practice
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-prehistoric-brain-surgeon-practicing-cow-5000-years-ago-180968875/

Plenty of coverage of the dating of a Russian Shigir idol to 11 000 years
bp:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-wooden-shigir-idol-egyptian-pyramids.html
https://www.livescience.com/62404-shigir-idol-age-and-new-face.html
https://www.salon.com/2018/04/28/shigir-idol-could-be-oldest-piece-of-monumental-art-study/
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/698555/ice-age-statue-siberia-shigir-idol-art-turkey-Yekaterinburg-archaeology-monument-devil
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/11000-year-old-statue-unearthed-siberia-may-reveal-ancient-views-taboos-and-demons
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-carving-could-be-first-representation-of-evil-forces
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/statue-found-late-1890s-likely-dates-back-more-11000-years-180968895/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6571-180425-russia-shigir-idol

Evidence of a Neolithic society on Vietnam's islands:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-24/vietnamese-ancient-society-discovered-by-accident/9680128

Over 300 burials from various periods from a site in Sichuan:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/29/c_137145345.htm

Studying New Guinea thigh bone daggers:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-guinea-human-thigh-bone-daggers.html
https://www.livescience.com/62399-human-cassowary-bone-daggers.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6573-180426-thigh-bone-daggers

Evidence of 'persistent forest reliance' by indigenous peoples in Sri
Lanka:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/mpif-efp042618.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180426102648.htm
Major funding to restore a 14th century educational complex in
Iran/Azerbaijan:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/422944/12m-channeled-to-restore-14th-century-educational-complex

Feature on the Terracotta Warriors:

https://mymodernmet.com/terracotta-warriors/

11 000 years bp giant sloth footprints in New Mexico are implicating
humans in their extinction:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-giant-slothaccording-ancient-humanfootprints.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/04/25/humans-stalked-giant-sloths-ancient-footprints-at-white-sands-national-monument-show/
https://www.newyorker.com/elements/lab-notes/our-early-ancestors-stalked-terrifying-eight-foot-tall-sloths
http://www.dw.com/en/scientists-find-evidence-of-prehistoric-man-vs-giant-sloth-battle/a-43540033?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-html-newsletter
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/humans-once-hunted-giant-sloths-at-white-sands/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/footprints-prove-humans-hunted-giant-sloths-during-ice-age?tgt=nr
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6575-180426-footprints-sloth-hunt

Suggestion that the last Ice Age affected breastfeeding in Native
Americans (!):

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180423155057.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/uoc--dli041918.php
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6568-180424-breastfeeding-genetic-mutation

Find of possibly the oldest shipwreck in Lake Erie:

http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2018/04/23/Researcher-says-new-shipwreck-most-important-Lake-Erie-discovery-to-date.html
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/04/lost_for_189_years_has_the_lak.html
http://www.13abc.com/content/news/Shipwreck-believed-to-be-oldest-in-Lake-Erie-found-excavation-planned-480603781.html
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/worth-a-click/20180423/shipwreck-found-in-lake-erie-could-be-nearly-200-years-old

89 19th century burials from Texas:

http://www.abc17news.com/news/national-world/texas-archaeologists-find-89-graves/735400790
http://www.kyma.com/news/national-world/texas-archaeologists-find-89-graves/735400833

A Pawnee tipi ring find:

http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/nearly-pristine-pawnee-tipi-ring-site-preserved-more-century

Not sure where to put this one ... on guidelines for dealing with
indigenous human remains:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/uoia-ria042318.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180426141528.htm

Studying an Arkansa Caddo Village burial site with plenty of skulls but no
bodies:

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/apr/22/researcher-digs-into-ancient-caddo-myst-1/?f=news-arkansas

What Lee Newsom is up to:

http://www.gainesville.com/news/20180424/renowned-expert-uf-grad-helping-with-florida-shipwrecks
http://www.dailycommercial.com/news/20180425/renowned-expert-helping-with-florida-shipwrecks

What LiDAR reveals about Montpelier's slave population:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-map-james-madisons-home-signs-paths-created-slaves-180968730/

A land deal has preserved a site possibly associated with the Lost Colony:

http://thecourier.com/national-news/2018/04/28/land-deal-will-preserve-site-linked-to-lost-colony-mystery/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/land-deal-preserve-site-linked-lost-colony-mystery-54800234
https://m.ctpost.com/news/us/article/Land-deal-will-preserve-site-linked-to-Lost-12871447.php

Britain is formally given the Franklin shipwrecks to Canada and the Inuit:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/franklin-expedition-hms-erebus-terror-1.4636222?cmp=rss
https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/britain-gifts-long-lost-franklin-expedition-ships-to-canada-inuit/

Funding concerns for Edna St. Vincent Millay's house:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/arts/edna-st-vincent-millays-farmhouse-steepletop-faces-closure.html
More on the mammoth bones from Wyoming:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wyoming/articles/2018-04-26/mammoth-bones-extracted-from-wyoming-reservoir-site

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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The story that broke the internet this week was easily the find of a
massive child sacrifice site in Peru:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/world/americas/child-sacrifice-peru.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43928277
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/28/largest-known-child-sacrifice-site-discovered-in-peru
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/28/mass-child-sacrifice-site-peru-may-largest-history/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/skeletons-of-140-child-sacrifice-victims-found-in-peru-23sxg0q05
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biggest-child-sacrifice-evidence-archaeologists-national-geographic-peru-chimu/
http://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-in-peru-discover-mass-child-sacrifice-site/a-43573912
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/04/27/remains-of-140-children-found-in-peru-pointing-to-worlds-largest-ancient-child-sacrifice/
https://perureports.com/2018/04/26/worlds-largest-child-sacrifice-site-believed-to-be-uncovered-in-peru/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-child-sacrifice-discovered-peru-121300049.html
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-peru-sacrifice-20180427-story.html
http://nhpr.org/post/remains-found-more-140-children-who-were-sacrificed-peru
https://knpr.org/npr/2018-04/remains-more-140-children-who-were-sacrificed-found-peru
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/americas/peru-largest-child-sacrifice/index.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/27/606372522/remains-found-of-more-than-140-children-who-were-sacrificed-in-peru
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Remains-of-140-children-found-in-Peru-pointing-12868720.php
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-28/140-children-killed-in-ancient-child-sacrifice-in-peru/9706926
http://nationalpost.com/news/world/remains-of-more-140-children-found-in-peru-possibly-point-to-worlds-largest-ancient-child-sacrifice
http://www.newsweek.com/peru-child-sacrifice-llama-chimu-empire-children-flooding-902906
https://www.theage.com.au/world/south-america/remains-of-140-children-found-in-peru-pointing-to-world-s-largest-ancient-child-sacrifice-20180428-p4zc62.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2143614/national-geographic-uncovers-hellish-scene-peru-where-140
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/mass-child-human-animal-sacrifice-peru-chimu-science/
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/mass-sacrifice-children-peru

1300 years bp burial from Lima, Peru:

https://perureports.com/2018/04/24/more-remains-found-from-ancient-indigenous-civilization-in-modern-day-lima/
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/archaeologists-find-1-300-year-old-bones-at-burial-site-in-lima-peru-1217876547507

No archaeological evidence for Carib people being cannibals, as claimed in
colonial reports:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/24/archeology-caribbean-carib-people-cannibalism-colonial-history-wrong
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6566-180424-carib-diet-cannibalism

Evidence that 'ancient Amazonians' lived sustainably:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-ancient-amazonians-sustainably-today.html

Continuing the ancient craft of sculpting camel bones:

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/04/camelbone-carvers-try-to-maintain-their-niche-1.html

I think we mentioned the graffiti made by Australian soldiers in France
during WWI:

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/2000-australian-soldiers-signatures-found-on-western-front-caves/9686472
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2018-04-23/anzac-graffiti-from-the-end-of-the-world-unearthed-in-ancient-french-cave-city/1751412

Some info about Rodin:

https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/auguste-rodin-facts-5-things-you-didnt-know-ahead-of-british-museum-exhibition-a3821221.html
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/10794/ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-rodin

How story-telling has 'shaped the world':

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180423-how-stories-have-shaped-the-world

On what the Mona Lisa tells us:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/arts/design/mona-lisa-instagram-art.html

Spain is trying to change the image of the Inquisition:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/29/spain-black-legend-inquisition-conquistadors

A museum's elephant bird egg turns out to be real after all:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-museum-rare-elephant-bird-egg.html

An Islamic/Christian palimpsest is coming to auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/25/passages-from-the-bible-discovered-behind-quran-manuscript-christies

... as is a Battle of Trafalgar's ship's biscuit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43923110

... and an antisemitic letter by Wagner:

http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Antisemitic-letter-by-composer-Wagner-to-be-auctioned-in-Israel-552513?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=23-4-2018&utm_content=Antisemitic-letter-by-composer-Wagner-to-be-auctioned-in-Israel-552513

On the origin of the ampersand:

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/what-is-the-origin-of-the-ampersand/article23652027.ece

On the Indoeuropeans:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/20/ciencia/1524222446_048363.html

Studying 19th century portraits for dermatology purposes:

https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/10/19th-century-portraits-provide-dermatology-residents-lesson-looking

On Pius IX:

https://www.npr.org/605252936

On the colour pink:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180419-the-shady-past-of-the-colour-pink

In case you need a Templar fix:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/18/ciencia/1524068386_743855.html

On the Birds Festival:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/arts/birds-festival-inspired-by-aristophanes-onassis-cultural-center.html

Review of a biography of Sabine Baring-Gold:

http://theweek.com/articles/763465/last-man-who-knew-everything

Beyond the Nile:

http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2018/04/24/62611/getty-museum-to-cleopatra-it-s-not-all-about-you/

Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/24/rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-british-museum-london-review-parthenon-marbles
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/rodin-art-of-ancient-greece-review-british-museum-elgin-marbles-parthenon-a8319851.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/exhibition-review-rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-at-the-british-museum-8j8hllmcw
http://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/rodin-gives-us-thoughtful-and-kissable-sculpture-at-the-british-museum
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/rodin-art-ancient-greece-british-museum-review-sculpture-superstars/
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-review-the-master-sculptor-meets-the-greek-greats-at-the-british-a3821731.html
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/gods-of-the-parthenon-set-out-rodin-s-debt-to-the-past
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2455243&CategoryId=13003
http://www.euronews.com/2018/04/25/rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-exhibition-in-the-british-museum
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/04/how-rodin-made-a-parthenon-above-paris/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-review-recasting-history-1524913200

James Cook:

http://newsletters.apollo-magazine.com/c/1gYyaDPyBZp7aM1zsvNfg0fA

Fort Orange:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/24/new-museum-exhibit-details-citys-400-year-old-dutc/
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/36071/20180424/new-museum-exhibit-details-albany-apos-s-400-year-old-dutch-roots

I think we've had this story of all the fakes in a French museum before:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43933530
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/28/french-museum-discovers-half-collection-fakes/

On issues with labelling in museums:

https://sarahemilybond.com/2018/04/26/labeling-ancient-and-modern-slavery-within-museums/

More on the Penn Museum's Middle East galleries:

http://artdaily.com/news/104114/Penn-Museum-opens-new-Middle-East-Galleries

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Dating Paleolithic cave art:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/science-notes-palaeolithic-cave-art-and-uranium-thorium-dating.htm

Virtually reconstructing that Psamtik colossal statue:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/world/psamtik-colossus-cairo/index.html

More on Google/Cyark and at-risk heritage sites:

https://hyperallergic.com/438821/google-arts-culture-open-heritage/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Another genomic study from Africa (Western and Central):

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-genomics-africademographic-history-deleterious-mutations.html

On the genetic history of the Tsimshian:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/mapping-history-first-nations-people-through-their-genes-180968899/

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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More on humans surviving/thriving in South Africa during a 'volcanic
winter' 74 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-early-humans-volcanic-winter.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/uota-urp042518.php
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Aphrodisias:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/aphrodisias-awaits-record-high-visitors-130696

Leeuwarden:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180423-the-dutch-city-with-a-constantly-changing-name

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CRIME BEAT
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Nice feature on Christos Tsirogiannis' work spotting illicit antiquities
coming to auction:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/christies-antiquities-sale-tsirogiannis-1270004

Egypt foiled an attempt to smuggle some Islamic artifacts to Lebanon:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-foils-smuggling-attempt-8-ancient-islamic-artefacts-lebanon/

Iranian police busted someone selling antiquities online:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/422917/Online-ad-discloses-antiquities
http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/antiquities-advertised-for-online-sale-seized-in-iran/

Marshall University was fined for its handling of American Indian remains:

https://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Marshall-fined-for-violating-federal-law-over-12866723.php

Police recovered the stolen heart of Dublin's patron saint:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/dublin-patron-saint-preserved-heart-recovered-by-police

Switzerland returned a number of ancient coins to Serbia:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6569-180424-ancient-coins-repatriated

Ethiopia wants the BM to permanently return artifacts, not lend them:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ethiopia-artefacts-uk-victoria-albert-museum-tristram-hunt-battle-of-maqdala-a8320121.html
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1290126/world
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/04/24/ethiopia-urges-british-museum-to-permanently-return-its-artifacts
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-history-artefacts/ethiopia-says-british-museum-must-permanently-return-its-artifacts-idUSKBN1HU2M2
https://hyperallergic.com/439456/ethiopia-repatriation-victoria-albert-museum-london-looted-objects/

... background:

http://www.dw.com/en/ethiopias-looted-ancient-artifacts/g-43481788

A ceremony to welcome back a mosaic to Cyprus:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2018/04/23/one-last-two-pieces-looted-kanakaria-mosaics-back-cyprus/
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NUMISMATICA
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A California gold rush coin turns out to be genuine:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coin-once-believed-be-fake-million-dollar-find-180968893/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n16.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n17.html

More on that Bluetooth coin hoard:

https://coinweek.com/coins/treasure-2/metal-detectorists-find-silver-coin-treasure-hoard-linked-to-king-bluetooth/

Hecuba:

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/majel-connery-01-classics-rock

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2734-audio-news-from-archaeologica-15-april-21-april-2018
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OBITUARIES
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Ruth Kirk:

http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article209632914.html

Richard Oldenburg:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/obituaries/richard-oldenburg-who-led-momas-expansion-and-drew-crowds-dies-at-84.html

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CONFERENCES
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Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy (today!):

http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/upcoming.shtml

Doug Weller

unread,

Jun 10, 2018, 1:01:34 PM6/10/18

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explorator 21.06 June 3, 2018

Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
Val Moore,

Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

... another quiet week
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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On the role of grandmothers in human evolution:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/07/617097908/why-grandmothers-may-hold-the-key-to-human-evolution

On the species difference between sapiens and neanderthal:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/06/05/ciencia/1528187502_438506.html

More on the dating of homo antecessor:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-human-fossil-species-western-europe.html

More on the origins of paleolithic cave art:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/paleolithic-cave-art-animals/

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A minaret collapse at a 300 years bp mosque in Egypt is complicated by the
fact it isn't on the heritage list:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/301684/Heritage/Islamic/Qena-mosque-whose-minaret-collapsed-is-not-on-Egyp.aspx

An Ottoman-era building in Cairo was damaged by fire:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/301822/Heritage/Islamic/Ottomanera-SabilKuttab-building-damaged-in-downtow.aspx

Plenty of attention being given to a 9th century glass sculpture of a head
of a 'king' found last year at Abel Beth Maacah:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-sculpted-mystery-biblical-king-israel.html
https://www.livescience.com/62758-biblical-king-sculpture.html
https://www.apu.edu/media/news/inthenews/26220/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/10/3000-year-old-sculpture-leaves-researchers-scratching-their-heads
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/09/a-3000-year-old-glass-head-deepens-one-of-the-bibles-oldest-mysteries/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sculpted-head-mystery-biblical-king-found-israel-n881681
http://www.ibtimes.com/mystery-biblical-kings-3000-year-old-sculpted-head-unearthed-2689112
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6671-180607-israel-sculpted-head

Latest winepress find comes from Tzippori:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/ancient-winepress-found-in-excavation-of-water-reservoir/2018/06/10/

This carbon dating recalibration story first emerged last week, but it has
specific ramifications for the ANE:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-cornell-illuminates-inaccuracies-radiocarbon-dating.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/cu-cri060518.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180605112057.htm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/upstart-carbon-dating-study-could-rewrite-holy-lands-biblical-timeline/
https://www.sciencealert.com/radiocarbon-dating-ancient-levant-region-calibration-inaccuracies
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6668-180606-radiocarbon-dating-calibration

Latest kids-find-ancient-coin story from Israel:

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/world_news/students-on-archaeology-program-unearth--year-old-coin/article_cbf2cc9b-676f-5602-800c-2b5405361b84.html

Feature on the earliest surviving texts of the Torah:

https://www.jewishlinknj.com/features/25480-the-earliest-surviving-texts-of-the-torah

In Our Time this week was about Persepolis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b4z075

Russian archaeologists are planning to dig at Palmyra:

http://tass.com/science/1008849

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of news from Pompeii this week, but the most spectacular hasn't
made
it to the English press yet, alas ... first, the latest spectacular finds
from Regio V:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2458553&CategoryId=13936

see also:

http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Comunicati/visualizza_asset.html_903665641.html

... and the AIA's dig diary (not Regio V):

https://www.archaeological.org/news/pompeii/28306

... and a travel blogger climbed a column to get a photo and met with much
criticism:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/06/04/french-tourist-draws-ire-at-pompeii_be7a0ace-433e-4ca9-a4dc-0d64e7a2c7cf.html

... he later apologized:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pompeii-ruins-travel-blogger-instagram-nils-travel-a8390126.html
https://www.thelocal.it/20180606/nils-travel-instagram-tourist-photo-pompeii-columns

Feature on the last 24 hours at Pompeii:

https://aleteia.org/2018/06/04/what-was-it-like-in-the-last-24-hours-of-pompeii/

A survey of the waters off Naxos has identified a number of sites:

https://news.gtp.gr/2018/06/04/naxos-underwater-excavations-offer-new-insight-ancient-ports/

Interesting Tartescia culture finds from Badajoz:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/06/06/inenglish/1528274778_511883.html
http://www.turkeytelegraph.com/life-style/found-in-the-tartessian-site-of-the-turunuelo-human-bones-and-a-unique-marble-statue-on-the-peninsula-h18235.html

A huge Roman 'jar' from Fiumicino:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/06/07/huge-ancient-roman-jar-found_f5761ecb-cd90-4754-9053-86b0bb7d2b45.html

A fire in Phthiotida revealed a number of (probably illicit) antiquities
in
plastic and other bags:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/229431/article/ekathimerini/news/firemen-recover-antiquities-in-phthiotida
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/06/08/fire-reveals-over-200-antiquities-in-the-mountains-of-profitis-elias-phthiotida/
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/greek-wildfire-reveals-hoard-of-plundered-antiquities/
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/618339736/in-greece-fire-reveals-ancient-artifacts-possibly-hidden-by-thieves
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greek-wildfire-reveals-hoard-plundered-antiquities-55749573

Digging has resumed at Magarsus:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-continue-in-ancient-magarsus-132818

Searching for a Roman harbour at Lancashire:

https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/in-search-of-the-lost-roman-harbour-in-lancashire-1-9197346

Pondering how the Romans didn't 'get past' Glasgow:

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/how-romans-came-glasgow-no-14748487

Celebrating Fishbourne Roman Palace:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/fishbourne-at-50-celebrating-half-a-century-at-a-unique-roman-palace.htm

Probably should be categorized as 'Asia' but a feature on the so-called
Pillar of Heliodorus should be of interest to Classics types:

https://thewire.in/history/how-the-historic-pillar-of-heliodorus-became-khamba-baba

Feature on ancient Greek music:

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/overnights/ancient-instruments-to-air/9854458

Jeremy Corbyn says he'll return the Parthenon Marbles if elected prime
minister:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/06/03/jeremy-corbyn-says-would-return-elgin-marbles-greece-elected/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/corbyn-return-elgin-marbles-greece-british-museum-a8381681.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-vows-to-give-back-elgin-marbles-6qxtw6bn7
https://neoskosmos.com/en/116421/corbyn-the-parthenon-sculptures-belong-to-greece/
https://neoskosmos.com/en/116594/mikakos-urges-hellenes-to-support-corbyn-for-return-of-parthenon-marbles/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-pledges-to-return-parthenon-marbles-to-greece
https://hyperallergic.com/445582/uk-labor-leader-says-he-would-return-parthenon-marbles-to-greece-if-elected/

... which prompted an opposing opEd:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/why-returning-the-elgin-marbles-would-be-madness/

... and a supporting opEd:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/jeremy-corbyn-parthenon-marbles-greece-brexit-second-referendum-abortion-plastic-bags-a8382816.html

... and a BM response:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/972093/Elgin-Marbles-British-Museum-Jeremy-Corbyn

Mary Beard is now a Dame:

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/mary-beard-dame-2018-honours-14762372
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-44423736/dame-mary-beard-dead-chuffed-with-honour
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/mary-beard-says-damehood-tribute-to-greeks-and-romans-36991560.html

There was a screening of *Gladiator* in the Colosseum ... Russell Crowe et
al in attendance:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/russell-crowe-visits-real-life-colosseum-charity-screening/story?id=55691862
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2458415&CategoryId=13003

Review of Pamela Mensch's translation of Diogenes Laertius:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/aristotles-lisp-why-socrates-loved-dancing-and-other-tales-of-ancient-thinkers/2018/06/06/ece2fc44-64ff-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

More on that intact burial from Rome with strigils etc.:

https://www.thelocal.it/20180604/ancient-tomb-of-athlete-discovered-rome
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6663-180604-rome-chamber-tomb

More on that oldest jar of olive oil from Italy:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-jar-contained-italys-oldest-olive-oil-180969226/

More on that burial from Viminacium:

http://micetimes.asia/serbian-archaeologists-have-made-an-incredible-discovery/

More on that purported evidence of Roman crucifixion from Italy:

https://www.livescience.com/62727-jesus-roman-crucifixion-found.html
https://aleteia.org/2018/06/04/rare-archaeological-evidence-of-ancient-roman-crucifixion-discovered-in-italian-remains/
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/extremely-rare-evidence-of-crucifixion-found-on-ancient-skeleton/
http://www.newsweek.com/crucified-skeleton-remains-italy-were-likely-nailed-cross-967191
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6665-180604-italy-crucifixion-ankle

More on that Ptolemy coin from Egypt:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/116435/archaeologists-unearth-2200-year-old-coin-depicting-greek-born-king-in-egypt/
http://world.greekreporter.com/2018/06/05/archaeologists-discover-2200-year-old-ancient-greek-writing-in-egypt/

More on ash from Santorini being found at Smyrna:

http://www.euronews.com/2018/06/04/ancient-ashes-reveal-details-of-huge-volcano
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/santorinis-ashes-to-shed-light-on-izmirs-history-132775
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6664-180604-turkey-ashes-smyrna

More on those burned skeletons from Philippopolis:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/goth-invasion-roman-empire-bulgaria-skeletons-archaeology-science/

More on Philip II's palace at Aigai opening to the public:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/31507-palace-of-philip-ii-opens-to-tourists-at-aigai-in-northern-greece.html

High tech scanning may have located the oldest 'Christian temple' in
Russia
(300 AD):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/nuos-iso060718.php

A prehistoric roundhouse from Tore near Inverness:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44398322

Drone footage suggests there may be an Iron Age roundhouse at a housing
development site in Balderstone:

https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/campaigners-say-drone-footage-shows-14761021

A 1000 years bp burial from South Downs appears to be the victim of an
execution of other violent end:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-44397636
https://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/skeleton-of-executed-1-000-year-old-man-found-near-shoreham-1-8525697
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/skeleton-of-man-whose-neck-was-slashed-found-during-wind-farm-excavation-847464.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6676-180608-england-executed-man

They're digging at Coldingham Abbey:

https://aleteia.org/2018/06/06/lindisfarnes-sister-monastery-in-scotland-to-be-site-of-summer-volunteer-dig/

I'm somewhat confused, but this find at St Oswald's Priory might be
related
to the above somehow?:

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids/gloucester-schoolchildren-discover-st-oswalds-1657468

From Austria comes word of a mass grave of soldiers killed during the
Napoleonic wars:

https://www.livescience.com/62774-mass-grave-napoleonic-wars.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6675-180608-austria-war-graves

Possible remains of an 18th century cottage in Worcester (I think):

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/16273329.Has_a_historic_find_been_made_at_the_new_Hanbao_rooftop_bar_site_/

A 19th century diary of sorts, written on the floorboards of a French
chateau:

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44265475

Overviewish thing on various finds from Kent:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/surrounded-by-historic-treasures-184216/

Latest finds from the HMS Invincible:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-44357695

Bizarre investigation of the sexual orientation of some bog bodies:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-evidence-europe-bog-bodies-gay.html
http://sciencenordic.com/no-evidence-europe%E2%80%99s-bog-bodies-were-gay

Reading Abbey has reopened to the public:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/07/reading-abbey-reopens-to-public-but-theres-no-sign-of-henry-i

Plans for a visitor's centre at Clifford's Tower were scuttled:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/07/cliffords-tower-visitor-centre-plan-scrapped-mound-york

Human mandibles from the late Pleistocene Niah Caves might reveal things
about ancient diets:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/p-lph053118.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-late-pleistocene-human-mandibles-niah.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/30000-year-old-jawbone-records-tough-diet-in-pleistocene-southeast-asia/

Neolithic marble bracelets from a site in Henan:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/05/c_137232145.htm

Chinese Wuzhu coins from a Korean burial:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1105807.shtml

Remains of a 4000 years bp chariot from Uttar Pradesh:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/asi-unearths-first-ever-physical-evidence-of-chariots-in-copper-bronze-age/articleshow/64469616.cms
https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/asi-unearths-first-ever-physical-evidence-of-copper-bronze-age-chariots-1250351-2018-06-04
https://www.news18.com/news/india/in-a-first-chariot-from-pre-iron-age-found-in-excavation-in-uttar-pradeshs-sanauli-1768085.html
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sinauli-village-in-up-becomes-archaeological-hotpost-with-excavation-of-5000-year-old-chariots/story-KJwCpXlnMOftCICzLUdggM.html
https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/preiron-age-artefacts-from-sanauli-excavation-site-to-be-tested-further-manjul/1326414
http://www.ecns.cn/news/society/2018-06-07/detail-ifyuyvzv3225136.shtml
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/07/c_137237324.htm
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.asianage.com/india/all-india/050618/pre-iron-age-relics-excavated-in-up-district.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-08/bronze-age-chariots-point-to-ancient-warrior-class-india-claims/9848232
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/chariot-pre-iron-age-found-during-excavation-uttar-pradeshs-sanauli-770969
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6666-180605-india-copper-decorations

A 7th century statue of Siva from Andhra Pradesh:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/chalukyan-sculpture-of-siva-found/article24098511.ece

A possible burial urn (date?) from Tamil Nadu:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/remains-of-ancient-urn-found-near-perambalur-in-tn/articleshow/64506369.cms

Also in Tamil Nadu, someone has been tasked with counting lakh idols:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/one-man-army-starts-counting-tamil-nadus-1-lakh-idols-in-37000-temples/articleshow/64515924.cms

Rat remains are being used to study human impacts on assorted Polynesian
islands over two millennia:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/mpif-prt053118.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-pacific-rats-years-human-impact.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rat-bones-reveal-how-humans-transformed-their-island-environments-180969260/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6673-180607-polynesia-rat-diets

Feature on the 1790 eruption of Kilauea and the rise of Kamehameha:

http://hawaiipublicradio.org/post/how-kilauea-s-1790-eruption-strengthened-kamehameha-s-rise

More on the death of an archaeologist by a bomb outside Kabul:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/02/c_137225081.htm

What they're finding in that cellar in the Jamestown church:

https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018/06/04/jamestown-unearthed-cellar-under-church-catches-experts-by-surprise/
https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/centuries-old-cellar-discovered-at-historic-jamestown/291-562738800
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6662-180604-virginia-church-cellar

Latest finds from Fort Frederica:

https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/group-digs-up-history-at-fort-frederica/article_59008107-2cea-531e-9d96-56cfe50ba455.html

Overview of the history of Helena as a crossroads of sorts:

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://helenair.com/news/nuggets-from-helena-helena-as-an-ancient-crossroads/article_5fded004-5f06-5717-b3aa-f968f9dc0176.html

Feature on Hannah Marie Wormington's contribution to Colorado archaeology:

https://www.gjsentinel.com/lifestyle/columns/a-woman-pushed-early-research-into-archaeological-sites-in-region/article_22ef2bf6-67bb-11e8-8659-10604b9f1ff5.html

Studying a 19th century schooner unearthed at a construction site in
Toronto a while ago:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-schooner-cargo-ship-texas-a-m-researchers-fort-york-1.4692870
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6669-180606-lake-ontario-schooner

Digging for Shaker remains in New Lebanon:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/in-digging-for-shaker-remnants-history-unearthed-veterans-find-avenue-of-rehabilitation,541738

Concerns for coastal sites in Maryland:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/02/616151979/flooding-and-rising-seas-threaten-americas-oldest-farmland

Honours for Bill Ross:

http://lakesuperiornews.com/News/Bill-Ross-Recognized-for-Distinguished-Service-

Feature on Mary Ann Shadd Cary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/obituaries/mary-ann-shadd-cary-abolitionist-overlooked.html?nytapp=true&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Feature on Benedict arnold:

https://www.weeklystandard.com/gordon-s-wood/benedict-arnolds-villainous-perfidy

Feature on the War of 1812:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18481542

... and things looted from Washington in 1814:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28833238

Reviewish of Canova's George Washington:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/canovas-george-washington-review-the-very-model-of-a-lost-masterpiece-1528542000

More on the coastal route hypothesis:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180530144144.htm
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-evidence-shows-first-americans-could-have-migrated-along-coast-180969217/
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/when-and-how-did-the-first-americans-arrive--its-complicated-/

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Studying Incan trepanation skills:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-holes.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180608200055.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6690-180608-peru-trepanation-techniques

Latest suggestion on how they put hats on the Easter Island statues:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/ps-hof060118.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-hats-easter-island-statues.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/theory-workers-easter-island-statues-hats
https://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-how-did-easter-islanders-lift-statues-13-ton-hats-researchers-may-have-the-answer/
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-mystery-about-easter-islands-statues-might-finally-be-solved/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/how-easter-islands-famous-statues-got-their-giant-stone-hats/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6667-180605

Not sure if this is a new Chimu child/llama sacrifice story or not:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-mass-child-sacrifice-peru-012705981--spt.html
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/remains-30-children-150-llamas-killed-in-peru-sacrifice-quell-effects-el-nino-discovered
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/world/science-health-world/pre-columbian-mass-child-sacrifice-site-peru-may-biggest-ever/

What Izumi Shimada is up to:

https://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu/grant-to-fund-siuc-professor-s-research-in-peru/article_01f6c5dd-8bf4-5fef-9c4a-8979800cf1ef.html
https://news.siu.edu/2018/06/060418-anthropology-professor-gets-nsf-grant-for-research-in-peru.php

Doug Weller

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explorator 21.08 June 17, 2018

Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,

Alfred Kriman, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses

upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers and father figures out there.
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Theory on tool use and the origins of language:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/toolmaking-language-brain/562385/

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AFRICA
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Latest UNESCO Heritage Status designations in Africa:

http://www.dw.com/en/africas-newest-world-heritage-sites/g-44243510

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Restoration of a head of Ramses II has been completed:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/51924/Renovation-of-discovered-head-of-Ramses-II-completed

What Egypt's newly-reappointed antiquities minister is focusing on:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/302488/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypts-newly-reappointed-antiquities-minister-inte.aspx
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/52137/Minister-of-antiquities-to-focus-on-9-files-during-his

Egypt is hosting the 12th International Congress of Egyptologists:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/302403/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-to-host-th-round-of-the-International-Congre.aspx

3500 years bp petroglyphs from Wadi Umm Tineidba:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/52067/New-archaeological-site-uncovered-in-Elkab-desert
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-3000-year-old-rock-art-early-form-hieroglyphs-discovered-desert-976735
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-archaeologists-ancient-art-egypt.html
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1320986/art-culture
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/archaeologists-find-ancient-rock-art-in-egypt/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6718-180613-egypt-desert-rock-art

A 2000 years bp family burial cave from Tiberias:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-case-of-the-missing-concrete-how-a-2000-year-old-burial-cave-was-found/
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-builders-accidentally-discover-roman-era-jewish-catacomb-in-israel-1.6167799
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/ancient-burial-complex-exposed-in-works-on-new-tiberias-neighborhood/2018/06/10/

Byzantine-era winepresses from Tzippori:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/unique-byzantine-era-winepresses-unearthed-in-roofed-water-cistern-in-tzippori/
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Byzantine-wine-press-uncovered-at-Zippori-National-Park-559627
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/ancient-winepress-found-in-excavation-of-water-reservoir/2018/06/10/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6712-18011-israel-byzantine-winepress

A 1000 years bp amulet of some sort with Arabic script from near Temple
Mount:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/1000-year-old-clay-amulet-with-arabic-blessing-discovered-in-city-of-david/2018/06/14/
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-unique-1-000-year-old-islamic-amulet-found-in-jerusalem-1.6175765
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Small-amulet-makes-for-a-large-find-559987

A number of 'in the news' items are going on display in small-town
Oklahoma:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-the-world-premiere-of-precious-biblical-artifacts-is-in-quiet-oklahoma/

... and Eilat Mazar was there as well:

https://www.thetrumpet.com/17374-a-conversation-with-eilat-mazar

What Elizabeth Carter and Robert Englund are up to:

http://dailybruin.com/2018/06/10/retiring-professors-leave-behind-legacy-of-passion-for-near-eastern-archaeology/

Lawrence Schiffman on the Dead Sea Scrolls at 70 (pdf):

http://lawrenceschiffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dead-sea-scrolls-70.pdf

More on that figurine from Abel Beth Maacah:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/10/3000-year-old-sculpture-leaves-researchers-scratching-their-heads
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sculpture-3000-years-israel-ancient-king-discovered-archaeologists-abel-beth-maacah-a8391956.html
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2018/06/a-rare-sculpture-possibly-of-a-biblical-monarch-puts-a-face-on-ancient-israel/
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mysterious-sculpture-of-tiny-figure-head-could-be-3000yearold-biblical-king/
https://aleteia.org/2018/06/11/archaeologists-discover-tiny-head-that-may-be-face-of-biblical-king/
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/iron-age-royal-abel-beth-maacah/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/could-sculpted-head-depict-little-known-biblical-king-180969302/

Jewish artifacts have apparently gone missing from Damascus:

https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/jewish-artifacts-disappear-from-damascus-in-fog-of-syria-war/article_fb1beebc-e137-5f0e-9b3d-273fe653b33b.html

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Remains of a (late?) Roman imperial villa near the Milvian Bridge:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/06/05/imperial-villa-found-near-milvian-bridge_06ad7769-e48e-4bce-8db2-b4ff13c8494e.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6724-180615-rome-imperial-villa

Remains of an Illyrian settlement near Shkodra:

http://www.tiranatimes.com/?p=137525
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C29816%2Cpolish-archaeologists-discover-over-2000-years-old-lost-city-albania.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6711-180611-albania-forgotten-city

Evidence of a Roman town wall in Sandy:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-44487020

This is the Byzantine wine press story from the ANE section with more of a
Classics spin:

http://world.greekreporter.com/2018/06/12/byzantine-era-wine-presses-discovered-in-israel-with-depictions-of-greek-gods-dionysus-and-heracles/

A 'hidden message' on a kylix by the Oedipus Painter (paywalled?):

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprise-message-on-a-priceless-ancient-artifact-1529006069

Roman finds are delaying plans for a 2600-home development plan in
Swindon:

https://www.theplanner.co.uk/decision/appeal-roman-remains-prevent-recovered-2600-home-swindon-scheme

A sort of catching-up-with-Pompeii item:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/13/c_137249742.htm

Feature on Roman remains in Serbia:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180614-serbias-forgotten-roman-legacy

Feature on the Case Romane del Celio:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/yellowpage/underground-rome-case-romane-del-celio.html

Feature on the Parthenon frieze:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/229546/article/ekathimerini/community/the-color-and-design-of-the-parthenon-frieze

In case you missed the Greenland ice core story:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-13/pollution-in-polar-ice-cores-reveals-human-history

Concerns about a Latin exam in Ireland:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/junior-cert-classical-studies-and-latin-roman-army-puts-a-stop-to-students-march-1.3532247

More on that dispute between Sotheby's and Greece over a horse figurine:

https://www.thelocal.ch/20180611/answer-to-sothebys-and-greek-dispute-over-an-ancient-artifact-could-lie-in-basel
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/getty-fighting-keep-rare-greek-bronze-180969384/

What Nancy Rabinowitz is up to:

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/professor-comparative-literature-nancy-sorkin-rabinowitz-lectures-on-activism-and-the-classics

What Tim Whitmarsh is up to:

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/tim-whitmarsh-cambridge-love-island-14769114

What Madeleine Ota is up to:

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/06/12/senior-examines-effects-ancient-artifacts-southeastern-sicilians-identities/

On ancient leadership:

https://www.tes.com/news/ancient-art-leadership

ClassCon in Father Comes Home From the Wars:

https://www.theroot.com/a-heros-journey-father-comes-home-from-the-wars-is-a-r-1826600077

Op Eds on Jeremy Corbyn and the Parthenon Marbles saga:

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/why-the-british-museum-should-keep-the-elgin-marbles/21490
https://frieze.com/article/what-jeremy-corbyn-gets-right-and-wrong-his-pledge-return-stolen-parthenon-marbles

Eating like an ancient Greek philosopher:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/gastronomy/31590-aristotle-menu-eating-like-the-ancient-greek-philosopher.html

Something about not visiting sites in northern Cyprus:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/06/12/our-view-idiocy-of-attempt-to-ban-visits-to-sites-in-north/
https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/06/11/eu-defies-ministry-rebuke-over-archaeological-sites-in-north/

Review of Nixey, *The Darkening Age*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/books/review/catherine-nixey-darkening-age.html

Review of Mythos:

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/review/2018/06/12/stephen-fry-tells-great-stories-in-mythos-men-at-shaw-festival-but-just-what-is-he-trying-to-say.html

More hype from the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Odyssey:

https://mashable.com/2018/06/11/assassins-creed-odyssey-historical-figures/
https://www.pcgamesn.com/assassins-creed-odyssey/assassins-creed-odyssey-dialogue-choices-socrates
https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/12/asssassins-creed-odyssey-wont-let-you-romance-socrates-so-whats-the-point/

More on the 'tomb of the athlete/strigils':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/construction-workers-find-rare-intact-tomb-rome-180969247/

More on that fire in Greece which exposed a pile of (probably purloined)
artifacts:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/06/11/blaze-in-central-greece-reveals-ancient-artifact-video/

Assorted Bronze Age remains from Somerset:

https://www.businessleader.co.uk/bronze-age-discovery-at-bridgwater-gateway/46242/

Remains of a possible Iron Age/prehistoric settlement near Thurso:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44485722
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/iron-age-settlement-potentially-found-near-thurso-1-4754852
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/1498193/high-hopes-that-previously-unknown-prehistoric-settlement-found-near-thurso/
http://www.thenational.scot/news/16294757.Remains_of_potential_prehistoric_settlement_found_in_Caithness/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6721-180614-scotland-stone-hearth

Remains of a 2000 years bp Highland wolf from a peat bog:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/digger-finds-2-000-year-old-highland-wolf-buried-in-peat-bog-zs6r3ntqp

I think we mentioned this Iron Age battle site from Aiken Enge (Denmark):

http://sciencenordic.com/archaeologists-uncover-remains-horrifying-iron-age-battle-denmark
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-archaeologists-uncover-horrifying-iron-age.html

Evidence that large-scale whaling in Scandinavia might date back to the
6th century:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/uu-lwi061318.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-large-scale-whaling-north-scandinavia-date.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180613113745.htm

Interesting discovery of 7th century writing inscribed on a window ledge
at Tintagel:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/15/inscribed-7th-century-window-ledge-tintagel-cornwall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-44486385
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/14/ancient-doodle-discovered-windowsill-tintagel-castle-evidence/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6726-180615-england-tintagel-inscription

A medieval ossuary from Slovakia:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20846691/precious-romanesque-church-reveals-secret.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6716-180612-slovak-medieval-ossuary

Archaeologists are surveying the site of the Battle of Glen Shiel:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/study-at-battlefield-glen-where-spanish-joined-the-jacobites-1-4753199
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6717-180612-scotland-jacobite-uprising

Assorted small finds from various periods from a dig in Stirling prior to
footpath refurbishment:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/old-bullets-16th-century-coin-12707800

Studying the environmental impact of agriculture in Bronze Age Ireland:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/uobc-aaa060718.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180613163019.htm

Feature on Aethelflaed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44069889

Feature on Ignacius Sancho:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44480914

Feature on Scotland's Rock Art Project:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/when-prehistoric-man-lived-around-glasgow-1-4752856
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6714-180611-scotland-rock-art

Plans to preserve a threatened 3 000 years bp log road in Ireland:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/3-000-year-old-bronze-age-oak-road-to-be-preserved-in-co-westmeath-1.3526507
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6713-180611-ireland-log-road

Conservation of medieval fortifications in Famagusta is complete:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/06/10/conservation-works-at-ravelin-bastion-in-famagusta-completed/

More on earlier evidence of the Bubonic Plague in Russia:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-teeth-push-back-origins-bubonic-plague-180969304/

More on that 1000 years bp possible execution victim from South Downs:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/16281850.Body_of_1000-year-old_executed_man_dug_up_on_South_Downs/

More on that Bluetooth hoard:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=29330

12 000 years bp petroglyphs from China's Kalunasan province:

http://micetimes.asia/archaeologists-have-discovered-cave-paintings-age-of-12-thousand-years/

270 items (oddly specific) dating to the 6/7th centurys from Mongolia's
Bulgan province:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/12/c_137248915.htm

Remains of a Nara Period palace (in Nara, of course):

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201806160004.html

Vakataka Dynsaty remains from Nandivardhan:

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/capital-of-rulers-who-built-ajanta-caves-unearthed-in-nagpur-district-5213572/
https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/capital-of-vakataka-dynasty-who-ruled-deccan-built-ajanta-caves-excavated-in-nagpur/1203151/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6715-180612-india-ancient-capital

Remains of 7th century temples outside Madurai:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/hidden-by-overgrowth-temple-ruins-unearthed/articleshow/64534047.cms

Archaeologists are digging at Ara Metua:

http://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/culture/item/69667-archaeologists-dig-ara-metua
http://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/environment/item/69713-revealing-mysteries-of-ancient-road

Rethinking Qin:

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2018-06/15/content_52269601.htm

More on the Sanauli Chariots:

https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/asi-excavated-sanauli-chariots-have-potential-to-challenge-aryan-invasion-theory/312415
https://www.thequint.com/news/india/sanauli-excavation-near-delhi-mahabharata-links-speculation
https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/wheel-of-time-chariots-and-sophisticated-weapons-from-the-pre-iron-age-5220282/

A site in Alabama is pushing back the date of tobacco use in North America
by 1500 years:

https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/archaeologists_find_earliest_k.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/americans-have-been-lighting-more-3000-years-ancient-pipe-reveals
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6725-180615-alabama-nicotine-pipe

Remains of a Calusa ruler's house discovered in Florida:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/ancient-native-american-kings-house-found-florida-archaeology-science/
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/06/14/florida-home-of-ancient-native-american-ruler-rediscovered-at-mound-key
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/evidence-of-native-american-kings-house-last-seen-by-spanish-conquistadors-found-in-florida/

Studying a Paleoindian ochre mine in Wyoming:

https://buckrail.com/paleoindian-ochre-mine-in-wyoming-may-be-largest-in-north-america/

A slave-trade-associated shipwreck in the Florida Keys:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article212848494.html

First finds from a dig at Colonial Michilimackinac:

http://www.minews26.com/content/archaeologists-first-artifact-of-the-year-at-colonial-michilimackinac/

The find of 10 000 years bp Tuqan man on the Channel Islands has been
officially announced:

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2018/06/13/ancient-remains-discovered-reburied-san-miguel-island-tuqan-man-channel-islands-santa-ynez-chumash/670609002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2018/06/13/ancient-remains-discovered-reburied-san-miguel-island-tuqan-man-channel-islands-santa-ynez-chumash/670609002/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6719-180613-california-tuqan-man

... and he's been reburied:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-ancient-native-american-reburied-california.html
https://santamariatimes.com/news/local/ancient-native-american-returned-to-resting-place/article_8a70aad3-0f33-5aaa-b13c-ddaedfd4d176.html
http://www.keyt.com/news/ventura-county/chumash-ancient-remains-return-to-the-channel-islands/752730558

On Chaco population:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/01/conservatism-took-hold-here-1000-years-ago-until-the-people-fled/?wpisrc=nl_science&wpmm=1

A lot of Toronto's archaeological remains are sittin in boxes, apparently:

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2018/06/16/torontos-archeological-treasures-still-buried-in-bankers-boxes-garages-basements-and-lockers.html

Shell Oil has preserved some slave cemeteries in New Orleans:

http://www.whig.com/article/20180614/AP/306149978

I think we mentioned these Native American children's remains from
Carlisle:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/14/us-army-pennsylvania-native-american-children?CMP=share_windows_mail

Feature on the Lost Colony:

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-are-trying-to-solve-the-mystery-of-the-lost-colony-of-north-america/

More on that cellar in Jamestown:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6662-180604-virginia-church-cellar

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Murals from Chan Chan:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2459012&CategoryId=13936

Evidence that Mesoamerican turquoise actually came from Mesoamerica (and
not the American Southwest):

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-unveils-true-ancient-turquoise.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/aaft-mtm061118.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/dc-nru060818.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614095248.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/science/turquoise-aztecs-mexico.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Ftrilobites
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/isotope-analysis-says-aztecs-preferred-locally-grown-turquoise/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/aztec-turquoise-was-probably-locally-sourced-180969375/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6722-180614-mesoamerican-turquoise-mines

Studying the Pampa de las Salinas geoglyphs:

https://www.livescience.com/62792-peru-geoglyphs-depict-heavens.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6720-180613-peru-circular-geoglyphs

How they put the hats on the Easter Island Statues:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/hat-trick-researchers-solve-a-lingering-mystery-about-easter-islands-statues
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/clever-way-easter-island-statues-got-their-cool-hats-180969253/

Feature on khipus:

https://aeon.co/ideas/the-khipu-code-the-knotty-mystery-of-the-inkas-3d-records

More on that mass child sacrifice site from Peru:

https://www.enca.com/technology/archaeologists-find-new-mass-child-sacrifice-site-in-peru
https://www.brecorder.com/2018/06/11/422511/archaeologists-unearth-56-skeletons-of-children-sacrificed-in-ritual/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-15/mass-child-sacrifice-site-in-peru-the-largest-in-the-world/9874226
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/ancient-child-sacrifice-burial-ground-discovered-in-peru-1256391747792

More on Inca trepanation:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/inca-head-crackers-had-better-success-rates-civil-war-surgeons-180969324/

On Peruvian mummies and Paolo Guerrero:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44415647

Big bucks for a Chinese vase found in a shoebox:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44457262

Einstein's travel diaries have plenty of racist comments, apparently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44472277

On depictions of lightning in art:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/science/lightning-paintings-photographs.html

On the origins of maps in the Near East:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/06/Origins-of-Maps

Some of Marie Antoinette's jewellery is coming to auction:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/jewellery/marie-antoinettes-jewellery-auctioned-sothebys-including-precious/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em

A possible clue to solving the mystery of that missing panel from the
Ghent altarpiece:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/puzzler-says-he-has-cracked-code-to-stolen-belgian-masterpiece

Another fire at the Glasgow Art School:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-44504659
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/world/europe/uk-fire-glasgow-school-of-art.html

Van Gogh and Japan:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180611-van-gogh-and-japan-the-prints-that-shaped-the-artist

Sally Hemmings:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/sally-hemings-exhibit-monticello.html

Modigliani:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44419199

Tut:

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/australian-museum-gets-50m-upgrade/news-story/0a620b8d127e711ad8fc98758210a7af
https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/06/11/11/57/king-tut-exhibition-coming-to-upgraded-australian-museum
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/australian-museum-gets-50m-upgrade/news-story/0a620b8d127e711ad8fc98758210a7af

The Acropolis Museum is celebrating its ninth birthday:

https://news.gtp.gr/2018/06/14/acropolis-museum-celebrate-ninth-birthday/

More on the new Troy museum:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/troy-treasures-to-be-displayed-in-new-museum-133232

More hype for the Grand Egyptian Museum:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/302140/Heritage/Museums/Egypts-GEM-announces-prequalification-stage-for-bi.aspx
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/52117/GEM-general-supervisor-80-GEM%E2%80%99s-constructions-completed

... and their new logo is causing a stir:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/302213/Heritage/Museums/New-logo-design-for-Grand-Egyptian-Museum-creates-.aspx
https://egyptianstreets.com/2018/06/13/grand-egyptian-museum-logo-causes-controversy/

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Nice feature on the Sinai Palimpsest Project:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44144527

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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In case you missed the Bubonic Plague 'older origins' story (it really is
a DNA story):

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/4000-year-old-genomes-point-to-origins-of-bubonic-plague/

DNA reveals what kind of pigs were living in Bronze Age Hallstatt:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-skin-teethdna-reveal-kind-pigs.html

DNA suggests no Aryan invasion evidence at a Harappan site:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/harappan-site-of-rakhigarhi-dna-study-finds-no-central-asian-trace-junks-aryan-invasion-theory/articleshow/64565413.cms

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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Rhine:

http://www.dw.com/en/new-loreley-promotes-iconic-world-heritage-on-the-rhine/a-44156536

Untrodden Broadway:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/arts/design/broadway-walking-tour-hidden-gems.html

Mada'in Saleh:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/saudi-arabia-hidden-archaeology-alhijir-petra-charles-doughty-a8373686.html

Empuries:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/explore-ancient-ruins-empuries-180969383/

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First coverage of the Bulmer art theft trial:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-44471188

Feature on the illegal antiquities trade:

http://theconversation.com/illegal-trade-in-antiquities-a-scourge-that-has-gone-on-for-millennia-too-long-98093

I think we mentioned the return of that stolen Columbus letter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/world/europe/vatican-columbus-letter.html
https://in.reuters.com/video/2018/06/14/us-returns-stolen-1493-columbus-letter?videoId=435939093&videoChannel=101

Pondering Ethiopian manuscripts and repatriation:

https://hyperallergic.com/446918/british-exhibitions-of-ethiopian-manuscripts-prompt-questions-about-repatriation/
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A pile of 19th century gold coins from an uninhabited house in France:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/gold-coins-worth-155000-discovered-in-abandoned-house/news-story/3c13717cdf95baacc3939fcab4ac1634

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n23.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n24.html

How to hear the Met's historic instruments:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/now-streaming-swan-songs-mets-historic-instruments-180969297/

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2748-audio-news-from-archaeologica-3-june-9-june-2018
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OBITUARIES
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Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt:

http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/klassarch/_inhaltselemente-rd/wulf-rheidt.html

William Reese:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/obituaries/william-reese-leading-seller-of-rare-books-is-dead-at-62.html

Antonio Giuliano:

http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/06/16/news/roma_morto_antonio_giuliano_archeologo_e_storico_dell_arte-199188141/

Michael Noakes:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/13/michael-noakes-obituary

Miriam Griffin:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/06/14/miriam-griffin-classicist-obituary/

Gary Breschini:

http://www.montereyherald.com/article/NF/20180614/NEWS/180619928

Doug Weller

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
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Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,

'James ah ha', Trevor Ogden,

Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
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Four 26th Dynasty canopic jars from Luxor:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/305454/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/th-Dynasty-canopic-jars-discovered-at-Luxors-South.aspx
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/52786/Canopic-jars-discovered-in-tomb-of-Karabasken-in-Luxor
http://plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=30138&SEO=archaeologists-discovered-sacred-vessels-in-pharaonic-priest-tomb
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6744-180625-egypt-canopic-jars

Egypt's antiquities minister announced that announcements are coming:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/new-discoveries-announced-soon-antiquities-minister/

Studying cancer rates in Egypt from Dakhleh Oasis evidence:

https://www.livescience.com/62908-ancient-egypt-cancer.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6746-180625-egypt-skeletons-cancer

Feature on the extent of smuggling of artifacts in Egypt:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1330421

On specialization of buildings during the early Neolithic in Jordan:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/ku-nsa062718.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-special-purpose-world-earliest-neolithic-villages.html

Remains of an 8000 years bp village in the UAE:

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/abu-dhabi/8000-year-old-village/-discovered-in-uae
https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/culture/8-000-year-old-village-discovered-in-the-uae-1.2242495

On dolmens in the Bronze Age Levant:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/06/Visible-Dead-Dolmens-Bronze-Age-Levant

Evidence of barley beer in some Bronze Age vessels from Khani Masi:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-barley-beer-bronze-age-mesopotamian.html
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/06/27/Mesopotamians-were-drinking-beer-from-individual-vessels-3500-years-ago/5551530110022/

... and a study of Hittite beer:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/ancient-brewing-was-not-a-hittite-or-miss-process

A 5000 years bp child/human sacrifice site from Basur Hoyuk:

https://www.livescience.com/62954-human-sacrifices-mesopotamia.html
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-mesopotamia-child-sacrifice-turkey-archaeology-1000934
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6759-180629-mesopotamia-tomb-sacrifices

Those repatriated Hobby Lobby artifacts are shedding light on Irisagrig:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623537440/hobby-lobbys-illegal-antiquities-shed-light-on-a-lost-looted-ancient-city-in-ira
https://news.wbhm.org/npr_story_post/2018/hobby-lobbys-illegal-antiquities-shed-light-on-a-lost-looted-ancient-city-in-iraq/

Feature on Montfort Castle:

https://aleteia.org/2018/06/26/ruins-of-crusader-castle-reveal-how-soldiers-relaxed/

That 'mystery biblical king' head is now on display:

https://www.sgvtribune.com/2018/06/24/3000-year-old-sculpture-found-by-azusa-pacific-now-on-display-at-israel-museum/

Surveying sites in Saudi Arabia:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/middleeast/saudi-archaeology/index.html

Studying Amlash sites in Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/424758/Archaeology-team-probe-Amlash-settlements

I think we mentioned this Islamic amulet from Jerusalem:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-muslim-evil-eye-amulet-discovered-in-a-jerusalem-parking-lot?source=articles&via=rss

Feature on the Hittites:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/who-were-the-hittites/

On war damage to the theatre (not amphitheatre) at Bosra:

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2018/6/30/syrian-regime-shelling-damages-regions-best-preserved-roman-amphitheatre

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Evidence that Greeks were drinking beer some 4000 years bp:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/31736-aristotle-university-study-ancient-greeks-drank-beer-4-000-years-ago.html

The big news story this week appears to be the find of the skull of that
latest victim from Pompeii:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/06/28/that-meme-worthy-pompeii-skeleton-not-crushed-by-a-block-his-skull-shows/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/science/pompeii-skull-rock.html
https://www.livescience.com/62956-pompeii-decapitation-skull-found.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/unluckiest-guy-history-crushed-rock-pompeii-mount-vesuvius-archaeologists-wrong-a8424616.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/29/everyone-thought-he-was-killed-by-a-giant-rock-at-pompeii-then-they-found-his-skull/
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/06/28/head-of-pompeiis-last-fugitive-found-4_6d53d66e-9173-448a-bdc1-37435b3bc435.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/30/europe/pompeii-victim-new-findings/index.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/29/archaeologists-find-skull-ancient-roman-killed-fleeing-pompeii/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-01/pompeii-victim-was-not-crushed-by-stone-skull-found-intact/9929058
https://www.sciencealert.com/pompeii-disabled-man-masonry-vesuvius-skull-found-intact-asphyxiation
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/we-ve-got-some-bad-news-about-the-unluckiest-guy-in-history-from-pompeii/
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/headless-pompeii-skull-archaeology-science/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6760-180629-pompeii-intact-skull

... and how we should be looking at the victims of Pompeii in general:

http://theconversation.com/pompeii-should-teach-us-to-celebrate-peoples-lives-not-mock-their-death-97632

A bronze 'hand of god' (maybe) artifact from Vindolanda:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hand-of-god-ancient-roman-hadrians-wall-sculpture-bronze-found-latest-a8419131.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6645747/ancient-roman-hand-of-god-uncovered-near-hadrians-wall-sheds-light-on-lesser-known-bloodiest-battles-in-british-history/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6757-180628-vindolanda-bronze-hand

Possible Roman burial ground in Lincoln:

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2018/06/lincoln-developers-stumble-across-roman-burial-ground/

The Silchester Archaeology dig has a facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/Silchester

An inscription dating to Marcus Aurelius' time from Kabyle:

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2018/06/25/431781/yambol-a-fully-preserved-inscription-from-roman-times-found-in-kabyle.html

A Roman fresco (sort of, not really) once owned by Horace Walpole is
coming
to auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/30/ancient-roman-wall-painting-resurfaces-after-200-years

A section of the Palatine is opening to the public for the first time in
centuries:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/section-of-palatine-hill-in-rome-opens-to-public-for-first-time-in-centuries-638nwjjq8

Feature on ancient Greek magic type things:

https://theconversation.com/spells-charms-erotic-dolls-love-magic-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-98459

Feature on the political site of the Discobolus:

https://hyperallergic.com/447769/the-political-uses-of-a-figure-of-male-beauty-from-antiquity/

Feature on some coins of Caligula:

http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/complex-caligula-emperors-scandalous-reign-includes-scarce-coins

Feature on Augustus' 'comet denarius':

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2018/06/silver-denarius-of-augustus-shows-famous-celestial-event.all.html

In case you've never heard of Sententiae Antiquae:

http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2018/june/joel-christensen-sentantiq.html

No plans to cap visitors to Pompeii:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/06/28/pompeii-wont-cap-visitors_803e8664-53af-4de4-a24b-b7a52d74332b.html

... but they're thinking of putting some armed guards in:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/06/28/thinking-of-armed-guards-at-pompeii-3_37fb6440-1b7f-4e2f-8d45-4ff9fe01a760.html
https://www.thelocal.it/20180629/army-to-be-deployed-to-pompeii-sites-to-tackle-threat-of-terrorism

On clumsy tourists at Pompeii (and elsewhere):

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/06/25/clumsy-tourists-go-beyond-just-pompeii_d7671e3f-4017-4316-a936-c283628ec67e.html

Digging has resumed at Peperikon:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/06/25/bulgarian-archaeologists-begin-summer-digs-at-perperikon-site/

Tsipras was telling May Greece wants the Marbles back:

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Greece-wants-Parthenon-Marbles-back-Tsipras-tells-May-560936
https://neoskosmos.com/en/117764/tsipras-tells-british-pm-the-marbles-natural-place-is-at-the-parthenon/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-greece-marbles/greece-wants-parthenon-marbles-back-tsipras-tells-may-idUSKBN1JM2T6

More thoughts on Troy: Fall of a City:

https://www.popmatters.com/troy-fall-of-a-city-2579452784.html

More on Herculaneum papyri:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/

More on that (questionable) reconstruction of Julius Caesar's face:

https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/25/new-3d-reconstruction-reveals-julius-caesar-basically-looked-like-e-t-7658540/
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/3d-reconstruction-of-julius-caesars-head-reveals-rulers-odd-feature/

Windfarm work exposed a Neolithic ritual site of some sort in Suffolk:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-44455266
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/28/archaeologists-stumble-on-neolithic-ritual-site-in-suffolk
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6755-180628-england-aurochs-skull

A Neolithic henge site in Germany with suggestions of human sacrifice
(maybe):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/06/26/skeletons-of-executed-immigrants-found-in-neolithic-mass-grave-in-germany-archaeologists-report/
https://www.livescience.com/62939-german-stonehenge-human-sacrifices.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05541-y
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/rituals-performed-german-stonehenge-may-link-mysterious-monument-its-uk-counterpart
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/germanys-stonehenge-reveals-evidence-human-sacrifice-180969491/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6756-180628-germany-henge-bones

Searching for some lost rows of standing stones in Devon:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-44618630
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/27/prehistoric-stone-hunt-under-way-in-devon-salt-marsh
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/06/26/archaeologists-begin-hunt-mysterious-lost-devon-standing-stones/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em

Studying the dolmens of Antequera:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/uos-cnd062818.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-crucial-dolmens-antequera-world-heritage.html

Bronze age gold from Ireland:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44644347
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6758-180629-ireland-gold-artifacts

Resuming excavation of a Bronze Age site on the Isle of Man:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=41435&headline=Excavations%20of%20Bronze%20Age%20site%20set%20to%20resume&sectionIs=NEWS&searchyear=2018

Studying Neolithic/Bronze Age life on North Uist:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16313031.archaeologists-reveal-hardships-of-ancient-island-life-in-north-uist/

On how weather events affected life in the Outer Hebrides in the third
millennium BCE:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/climate-changed-life-of-hebrideans-after-storms-left-islanders-to-starve-tw0pc9pwf

A Viking age dragon pin found ages ago actually fit a mold found a couple
years ago:

https://www.livescience.com/62931-dragon-pin-vikings.html

An image of a cockatoo is shedding light on medieval European trade:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-cockatoo-discovery-reveals-flourishing-medieval.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-44610271
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/images-of-cockatoo-on-13-century-vatican-manuscript-inspire-trade-route-rethink
https://www.dw.com/en/13th-century-cockatoo-images-question-australia-europe-trade-history/a-44414991
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-vatican-cockatoo/700-year-old-vatican-drawing-of-australian-bird-rewrites-medieval-trade-route-history-idUSKBN1JN3CC
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6752-180627-cockatoo-medieval-trade

Hyping a medieval dig in Edinburgh:

https://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/archaeologists-dig-in-old-town-could-see-edinburgh-s-history-being-rewritten-1-4762115

Hyping a medieval castle dig in Sheffield:

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/dig-to-uncover-history-of-sheffield-s-medieval-castle-to-get-underway-1-9229129

'Devil coins' from Bath Abbey:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/archaeologists-find-mysterious-devil-coins-1712763
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/devil-coins-bath-abbey-denmark-prank-knud-langkow-satanism-anholt-best-hoaxes-fake-a8419656.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/hoax-devil-coins-found-in-bath-abbey
https://www.metro.news/devil-coins-unearthed-at-bath-abbey/1118333/
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/in-your-area/mysterious-devil-coins-were-found-1719558

A possible 18th century pathway in Birmingham:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/archaeologists-dated-historic-path-under-14827240

Viking sites on the World Heritage list:

https://www.dw.com/en/vikings-win-unesco-world-heritage-title/a-44328534
https://www.dw.com/en/unesco-world-heritage-for-the-vikings/a-44274375

Feature on the Vikings in Europe:

https://www.dw.com/en/on-the-trail-of-the-vikings-in-europe/g-44347416

More on finds from Westminster Abbey's refurbishment of some upper rooms:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/01/westminster-abbey-secrets-revealed-artefacts-preserved-dust/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em

More on that Iron Age battle site from Denmark:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/104909795/brockie-gruesome-secrets-from-an-ancient-germanic-battlefield

More Book of Deer Project hype:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/1505368/archaeologists-tantalisingly-close-to-finding-ancient-north-east-monastery/

More on Iron Age beer in Sweden:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/26/c_137280336.htm
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6749-180626-sweden-beer-brewing

More on the possible burial for the remains of the 'Irish Giant':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-skeleton-irish-giant-could-be-buried-sea-180969443/

A Western Han dynasty era 'unicorn seal' (and other things) from Sichuan:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/28/c_137287248.htm
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6754-180628-china-unicorn-seal

A Spring and Autumn period tomb complex from Henan:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/01/c_137293308.htm

Feature on Marree Man:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-44597730

Climbing Uluru/Ayer's rock will be banned soon:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-44365871

More on that recently-found Siberian 'mummy':

https://www.livescience.com/62920-sleeping-beauty-mummy.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-year-old-mummy-russian-reservoir.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/siberian-sleeping-beauty-hun-mummy-yenisei-river-2000-years-old
http://www.newsweek.com/archeologists-find-2000-year-old-sleeping-beauty-mummified-corpse-996151

More on that gibbon from a Chinese tomb:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180625223033.htm

Feature on Clovis points in Ohio:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180701/archaeology-ancient-clovis-hunters-drawn-to-ohio-flint

Colonial-era burials for St Augustine:

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/st-augustine/more-colonial-burials-found-under-st-augustine-street/77-566791195
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6745-180625-colonial-florida-graves

Latet finds from Colonial Michilimackinac:

http://www.minews26.com/content/archaeologists-find-exciting-new-artifacts-at-colonial-michilimackinac/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6751-180627-mackinac-brass-thimble

Searching for Florida plantation sites at the Arcadia Mill site:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6750-180627-florida-arcadia-mill

On the US's most endangered historic sites:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/most-endangered-historic-places-2018/index.html

Pondering the 'Beeswax Wreck' on the Oregon Coast:

https://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/community/local-scholars-solve-centuries-old-mystery-of-the-beeswax-wreck/article_50a1be2a-78a4-11e8-a445-a74431c1cd40.html

Putting the American Revolution into the 'big picture':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/american-revolution-was-just-one-battlefront-huge-world-war-180969444/

Review of Johnson, *American Eden*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/books/review/american-eden-victoria-johnson.html?em_pos=medium&nl_art=10&te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20180626

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Studying the cacao trade through Maya artwork:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/maya-civilization-used-chocolate-money
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6753-180627-maya-chocolate-money

I think we mentioned this skull tower/rack from Mexico City:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-skull-tower-rack-evidence-aztec.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/aztec-skulls-human-sacrifices-mexico-city-mexicas-tzompantli-tenochtitlan-a8421511.html
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/gruesome-skull-tower-mexico-reveals-horror-aztec-human-sacrifice-rituals-773521
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/aztec-war-gods-tower-of-skulls-even-bigger-and-more-gruesome-than-thought/

Studying some Paracas mummies:

https://www.livescience.com/49892-peru-mummy-hair-diet.html

Why study literature?:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180626-the-best-way-to-understand-ourselves

On the role of Mars in cultural history:

http://sophiacentrepress.com/2018/06/26/mars-and-the-mediums/

On collecting antiquities:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/secrets-collecting-ancient-antiquities/

Brown has acquired a collection of Jewish texts:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-rare-jewish-texts-home-brown.html

Feature on Annie Maunder:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-44606012/meet-the-forgotten-victorian-astronomer-annie-maunder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44581891

On artistic portrayals of grief:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180623-how-to-turn-tragedy-into-art-why-depicting-grief-is-hard

What Napoleon read:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/napoleon-bonaparte-what-read-books-emperor-library-campaigns-a8415776.html

On some philosophers' personalities:

https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/10-times-great-philosophers-revealed-their-personalities

Another art-restoration-gone-bad story ... from Spain:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44619416
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/623579607/oops-they-did-it-again-spanish-artisans-restore-a-centuries-old-work-of-art
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/world/europe/spain-estella-church-statue.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/second-spanish-church-falls-prey-to-well-intentioned-restorer-st-george-ecce-homo-monkey-christ
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/26/second-spanish-church-hit-botched-restoration-job/
http://www.itv.com/news/2018-06-27/anger-over-botched-st-george-artwork-restoration-in-spain/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/curious-george-restorationists-botch-500-year-old-spanish-statue-saint-180969471/

Is a painted tile a daVinci?:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/painted-tile-da-vincis-earliest-known-work-180969445/

On the history of the gin and tonic:

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-hidden-history-of-gin-and-tonic/p06cfmmr

On Mary Anning:

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-girl-who-helped-discover-dinosaurs/p06bfr1s

On the letter H:

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180622-the-haughty-history-of-the-letter-h

Feature on Romansh:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180627-switzerlands-mysterious-fourth-language

... and Proto Indo European:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2018/jun/29/slice-of-pie-proto-indo-european-linguistic-common-ancestor-science-weekly-podcast

Some humour from the Onion:

https://www.theonion.com/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-clay-pot-shards-from-dwe-1827116788

Latest Heritage Site List additions:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44667197
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/06/30/unesco-adds-8-pre-islamic-iranian-archeological-sites-to-world-heritage-list

Ancient Greek Music:

https://aleteia.org/2018/06/25/step-back-in-time-listen-to-the-music-of-ancient-greece/

Greek Women's Clothing:

http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2018-06/29/content_53892635.htm

Nature Unleashed:

https://www.dw.com/en/nature-gone-wild-depictions-of-disasters-in-art/a-44453726
https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/exhibitions/nature-unleashed

Cezanne:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/arts/design/cezanne-national-gallery-of-art-review.html

LGBTQ from the British Museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/26/british-museum-lgbtq-exhibition-to-tour-england
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/11000-year-old-statue-depicting-1716024
https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-artistic-depiction-of-sex-found-near-bethlehem-to-join-uk-lgbtq-exhibit/
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/pebble-showing-world-s-oldest-known-depiction-of-people-having-sex-to-go-on-show-in-norwich-library-1-5578030

The BM has acquired a collection of Chinese ivories just prior to an ivory
ban going into effect:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/27/british-museum-ivory-figures-sir-victor-sassoon
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/arts/design/british-museum-ivories.html

... and they had to defend their acquisition:

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/british-museum-defends-gift-of-more-than-550-stunning-ivories-37055560.html
https://www.ft.com/content/b7f03e60-79ff-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d

Concerns for the original Frick (expansion has been approved):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/dont-let-the-frick-disappear.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-approved.html

More GEM hype:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/egypt-open-museum-hopes-boosting-tourism/story?id=56257771

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Digitizing the Admonter Abrogans:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-digitalisation-middle-ages.html

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Leprosy DNA from some medieval skeletons from Denmark:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-leprosy-dna-medieval-skeletons-denmark.html

Using animal DNA to trace cultural exchange in China:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/25/c_137279805.htm
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d77637a4d78457a6333566d54/share.html

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Latest climate change threatening sites piece:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-climate-arctic-archeological-treasures.html
https://www.ucsusa.org/press/2018/archaeologists-race-against-time-save-sites-climate-change-0
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CRIME BEAT
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Italy returned a pile of things to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/305923/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Italy-returns-to-Egypt-collection-of-Egyptian-arte.aspx
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2018-07/01/content_54239011.htm

Libya is seeking returns from Spain:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/25/c_137278027.htm
http://www.libyanexpress.com/libya-urges-spain-to-speed-up-return-of-stolen-greek-era-antiquities/

Israel is returning items to Egypt:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180628-91-ancient-artefacts-to-be-sent-to-egypt-from-israel/

More on Benin bronzes on loan maybe:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/benin-bronzes-british-museum-nigeria-stolen-imperialist-treasures-return-loan-elgin-marbles-looted-a8414661.html
http://www.kpax.com/story/38544144/benin-bronzes-will-britain-return-nigerias-stolen-treasures

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n25.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n26.html

AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2751-audio-news-from-archaeologica-17-june-23-june-2018
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OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Willie Lee Rose:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/obituaries/willie-lee-rose-historian-of-reconstruction-dies-at-91.html

Harold L. Dibble:

http://www.thedp.com/article/2018/06/penn-professor-death-upenn-philadelphia-harold-dibble-obit

Antonia Syson:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/24/antonia-syson-obituary

Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-americas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

Doug Weller

unread,

Jul 15, 2018, 2:52:40 PM7/15/18

===============================================================
explorator 21.12 July 15, 2018

Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,

Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Saite-Persian period mummification workshop from Saqqara:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/306907/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-Saqqara-necropolis-discovery-to-reveal-secrets.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/306535/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Mummies,-embalming-equipment-discovered-south-of-P.aspx
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/14/a-goldmine-mummies-secrets-uncovered-in-egypt
https://www.timesunion.com/news/world/article/Archaeologists-in-Egypt-discover-mummification-13074848.php
https://www.dw.com/en/mummification-workshop-discovered-near-egypts-great-pyramids/a-44675897
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/egypts-saqqara-necropolis-unearths-new-embalming-equipment-funerary-and-mummies-1157822
https://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/mummification-workshop-found-in-egypt/news-story/fdc27689a58d69c9045927c53429aa13

35 mummies were also found there:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/14/c_137323962.htm
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-discovery/egypt-uncovers-mummy-burial-site-near-great-pyramids-idUSKBN1K40M1
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/egypt/archaeologists-uncover-2-000-year-old-mummy-burial-site-in-egypt-1.6270717

... and other things were announced too (this obviously was reported in
various ways):

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53962/In-pics-5-ancient-Egyptian-stone-coffins-discovered-at-Saqqara
http://www.egyptindependent.com/egyptian-german-archaeological-expedition-uncover-cemetery-saqqara/
https://egyptianstreets.com/2018/07/10/ministry-of-antiquities-to-announce-ancient-egyptian-discoveries-at-saqqara-necropolis/

A bust in Egypt (I think we mentioned it last week) has led to the
discovery of a Greco-Roman city site:

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1328956/egypt-arrest-gang-leads-discovery-ancient-greco-roman-city

Roman and Byzantine 'chambers' from Mitt Abu Al-Kom (Alexandria):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/306778/Heritage/GrecoRoman/Archaeological-chambers-uncovered-in-Alexandria-.aspx
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/13/c_137320442.htm
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6788-180713-egypt-alexandria-rooms

Feature on a model Egyptian ship at the Getty:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/egyptian-ship-model-sheds-light-on-bronze-age-warfare-and-religion/

Using VR to help 'save' Nefertari's tomb:

https://www.livescience.com/63010-ancient-egypt-sistine-chapel-virtual-reality.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/take-vr-tour-egyptian-queens-elaborate-tomb-180969597/

Possible evidence of the Persian/Lydian battle at Sardis:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-war-found-in-ancient-lydian-city-sardis-134494
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6789-180713-turkey-sardis-war

The gate to the city of Zer/Bethsaida (maybe) has been found:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archaeologists-uncover-gate-to-biblical-city-of-Zer-561941
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-city-gate-uncovered-in-the-galilee-may-have-tie-to-biblical-king-david/
http://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologists-discover-gate-biblical-city-zer-where-jesus-christ-used-live-26669

Latest on the Huqoq mosaics:

https://uncnews.unc.edu/2018/07/09/unparalleled-mosaics
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-discoveries-archaeology-team-clues-life.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uonc-dba070918.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180709120202.htm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/mind-blowing-1600-year-old-biblical-mosaics-paint-new-picture-of-galilean-life/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/biblical-spies-revealed-in-1500-year-old-mosaic.aspx
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/huqoq-mosaic-israelite-spies-numbers-13/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6781-180711-galilee-spies-grapes

A Byzantine-era cross on a weight found at Hippos/Sussita:

https://www.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/3267.html
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Newly-discovered-Byzantine-era-cross-sheds-light-on-Muslim-Christian-ties-562247
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-masked-byzantine-weight-found-in-hippos-indicates-religious-tensions-1.6225133
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248749
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/hidden-silver-cross-attests-to-religious-tolerance-of-7th-century-caliphate/2018/07/11/

Latest on Nahum's tomb:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/cultural-heritage/biblical-prophet-nahum-tomb/

Interview with Israel Hershkovitz:

https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/podcasts/lifestyle/our-friend-from-israel-podcast-episode-8-israel-hershkovitz-archaeologist-tel-aviv-university

Feature on Ephraim Stern:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologists-biblical-scholars-works/giant-persian-period-ephraim-stern/

Feature on mothers in the New Testament:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/07/Blessed-Among-Women

The Atiqot site is back online:

http://www.atiqot.org.il/

Latest restoration of Palmyra artifacts story:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/09/syrian-archaeologists-begin-restoring-palmyra-artefacts-destroyed/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/archaeologists-work-to-repair-ancient-treasures-destroyed-by-isil-37099131.html

More on that rebel coin find from Jerusalem:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rare-coin-sheds-light-on-doomed-jewish-rebels

More on heritage status for Gobekli Tepe:

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/07/turkeys-gobeklitepe-in-unesco-list.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a tablet with some of Homer's
Odyssey on it (and it *isn't* the oldest, by a longshot):

https://www.livescience.com/63051-oldest-fragment-homer-odyssey.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44779492
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/10/earliest-extract-of-homers-epic-poem-odyssey-unearthed
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/07/10/ancient-greek-tablet-of-homers-odyssey-unearthed-at-olympia/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/31891-oldest-homer%E2%80%99s-odyssey-inscriptions-discovered-on-roman-era-slabs-at-ancient-olympia.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/230527/article/ekathimerini/life/clay-plaque-found-at-olympia-hailed-as-oldest-written-record-of-odyssey
https://news.gtp.gr/2018/07/11/homers-odyssey-archaeologists-discovered-oldest-written-extract/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-tablet-odyssey-epic-discovered-greece-160652964.html
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greece-clay-slab-writing-oldest-odyssey-excerpt-56509758
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oldest-of-homer-s-odyssey-is-merely-an-oddity-3tnh0c8pv
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-greece-archaeology-odyssey/oldest-known-extract-of-homers-odyssey-discovered-in-greece-idUKKBN1K01OY
http://theweek.com/speedreads/784012/archaeologists-discover-what-may-oldest-written-record-homers-odyssey
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/10/c_137314991.htm
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900024603/researchers-say-theyve-found-the-oldest-known-extract-from-homers-odyssey.html
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2018/07/12/oldest-written-record-of-odyssey-discovered_13eed7ac-81a1-4ace-b41d-554ff1bb9866.html
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-have-found-the-oldest-copy-of-one-of-the-most-important-stories-ever-told/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-greek-fragment-homer-discovered-clay-tablet-180969602/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6777-180710-greece-plaque-odyssey

... a much-needed analysis of the claim:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/07/14/emily-wilson/making-a-pigsty/

... and of course they're hoping it boosts tourism:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/07/14/ancient-odyssey-find-will-attract-visitors-to-greece-says-olympia-mayor/

Elsewhere in the sketchy coverage department is the suggestion that Romans
hunted some whales to extinction (and other spins):

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-ancient-bones-reveal-whale-species.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoy-abr070918.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180711093227.htm
https://www.livescience.com/63028-pliny-ancient-mediterranean-whales.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44782898
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/11/romans-had-whale-industry-archeological-excavation-suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/12/a-whale-would-have-been-a-right-catch-for-a-roman-fisherman
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/whale-bones-mediterranean-roman-whaling-fishing-gibraltar-archaeology-a8440641.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-ancient-romans-hunted-whales-to-oblivion-in-the-mediterranean-1.6265259
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2173841-ancient-romans-may-have-killed-off-whale-species-in-the-mediterranean/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-ancient-romans-whale-mediterranean-231852243.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/11/romans-may-have-been-first-whalers/
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/ancient-seafarers-may-have-hunted-whales-around-world
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/romans-may-have-hunted-whales-extinction-their-home-waters-180969605/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6780-180711-mediterranean-whale-hunting

They're really hyping the impending opening of that big Ptolemaic
sarcophagus from Alexandria:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53782/Plan-set-to-lift-sarcophagus-uncovered-in-Alexandria-revealed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/12/egyptian-archaeologists-prepare-open-huge-mystery-sarcophagus/
http://theweek.com/speedreads/784312/archaeologists-discover-mysterious-black-sarcophagus-that-miraculously-hasnt-been-opened-2000-years
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/12/archaeologists-open-huge-granite-sarcophagus-alexandria-egypt
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/105457472/plans-to-open-sealed-ancient-sarcophagus-found-at-egyptian-building-site
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/archaeologists-discover-gigantic-granite-sarcophagus-egypt-will-it-reveal-more-about-ancient-774865
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ptolemaic-sarcophagus-discovered-alexandria-egypt-180969551/

... with some outlets spinning possible connections (not) to Alexander the
Great (etc.):

https://www.livescience.com/63027-mmassive-egyptian-sarcophagus-mystery.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/alexander-the-great-alexandria-ancient-egyptian-sarcophagus-mystery-tomb-found-where-buried-a8443791.html
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-consider-opening-that-gigantic-black-sarcophagus-and-yes-everybody-is-making-the-same-joke/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/world/middleeast/egypt-black-sarcophagus.html

... in case you missed the 'plain' story:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egypt-alexandria-sarcophagus-intl/index.html
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2018/07/12/archaeology-black-sarcophagus-unearthed-in-egypt_6e2dfa21-89c8-417e-8bf3-08f492ee7a81.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-tomb-discovered-on-construction-site-in-egypt/

That 'Roman villa' find near the Milvian Bridge has evolved into an
'ancient church' find:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/13/archaeologists-find-remains-ancient-church-banks-tiber-rome/

Roman 'observation towers' and 'border posts' from Konya (Turkey):

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/07/13/2000-year-old-roman-observation-towers-unearthed-in-turkeys-konya

Some ancient Greek musical instruments from a site near Crimea:

http://tass.com/society/1012398

Interesting 2500 years bp skull (and others) find from a Sicilian cave:

https://www.livescience.com/63046-ancient-holey-skull.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6787-180713-sicily-artificial-cave

Assorted 4th century Roman fines from a site in Bulgaria:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/07/07/richly-decorated-roman-grave-stele-that-was-never-used-found-in-kovachevsko-kale-fortress-in-northeast-bulgaria/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6776-180709-bulgaria-unfinished-stele

A Basel papyrus turns out to be a medical work possibly written by Galen:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uob-mot071218.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180712114442.htm
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-mystery-basel-papyrus.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-unlock-secrets-basel-papyrus-now-identified-late-antiquity-medical-document-180969625/

Feature on ancient Greek pets:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/07/14/snakes-apes-and-ferrets-the-ancient-greek-love-of-pets/

Feature on Jupiter on ancient coins:

https://coinweek.com/dealers-companies/ma-shops/ma-shops-jupiter-on-ancient-coins/

Feature on novels about the ancient Greeks and Romans:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/14/book-clinic-ancient-greeks-romans-fiction

On cancer in ancient Greece:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/07/10/how-was-cancer-treated-in-ancient-greece/

Reenacting Roman funerals:

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/canary-wharf-roman-funerals-to-get-souls-through-london-underworld-1-5606048

Pondering Gibbon:

https://blog.oup.com/2018/07/late-antiquity-decline-fall-middle-ages/

Students interested in Latin in Hartford:

http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-wh-west-hartford-hall-high-school-latin-0712-20180710-story.html

What Angeline Chiu is up to:

https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/faculty-feature-angeline-chiu

On Latin in The Handmaid's Tale:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the-handmaids-tale-nolite-te-bastardes-carborundorum-finale-season-2-meaning-a8443546.html

Review of Christine Schenk, *Crispina and Her Sisters*:

https://www.ncronline.org/news/media/book-review-roman-burial-art-reveals-forgotten-women-christianity

More on that latest pompeii victim:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pompeiis-unluckiest-man-death-archeologists/
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180708/unluckiest-man-perhaps-not-quite-so-unlucky

Analysis of a neolithic mass grave at Halberstadt suggests the victims
were
'outsiders':

https://www.livescience.com/63009-neolithic-mass-grave-violence.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/7000-year-old-german-grave-shows-new-side-brutality-180969599/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6773-180709-neolithic-mass-grave

Rethinking the settlement of Iceland:

http://icelandmag.is/article/new-archeological-research-forces-historians-reconsider-story-icelands-settlement

A heat wave is revealing all sorts of sites from various periods in Wales:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-44746447
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44806069
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/roman-forts-and-other-wonders-punishing-heat-wave-reveals-ancient-settlements-in-wales
https://theprovince.com/news/world/roman-forts-and-other-wonders-punishing-heat-wave-reveals-ancient-settlements-in-wales/wcm/373bbee3-64e5-41f5-ad58-e86017a2ca71
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dozens-lost-hidden-ancient-ruins-14883178
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/uk-heatwave-revealing-ancient-sites-wales-180969601/
https://www.sciencealert.com/brutal-heat-uk-revealing-hidden-footprint-historic-civilisations-ancient-crop-marks-parch-iron-age
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6774-180709-wales-crop-marks

... while drought and a drone combined in Ireland to reveal a hitherto
unnoticed henge site:

http://www.thejournal.ie/newgrange-mythical-ireland-4123238-Jul2018/
https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2018/0711/977969-newgrange/
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/scorched-earth-during-heatwave-reveals-new-monument-at-newgrange-1.3561326
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/aerial-survey-reveals-further-evidence-of-pre-historic-sites-at-newgrange-855270.html
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/giant-neolithic-monument-discovered-at-newgrange-37105154.html
http://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-ancient-monument-revealed-drought-ireland-1022268
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/science/newgrange-henge-ireland-drone-nyt.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/13/video-shows-newly-discovered-stonehenge-like-site-revealed-by-extreme-drought/
https://www.npr.org/628905864
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6786-180712-ireland-boyne-valley

... and assorted sites in Scotland:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-44812713

... and the UK in general:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-heatwave-archaeologists-discoveries-expose-hidden-treasure-history-crop-marks-forts-finds-a8442531.html
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/these-amazing-photos-show-britains-iron-age-past-brought-to-life-by-soaring-temperatures/

Evidence of industrial activity from various periods at Poole Harbour:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/16342708.amazing-medieval-discoveries-made-at-poole-harbour-dig/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6775-180709-roman-medieval-industry

Feature on the dig at a Viking site in Birka:

http://sciencenordic.com/tiny-dragonhead-illuminates-life-viking-trading-town

Auckland Castle's 12th century chapel has been located:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-44758391

Medieval burials in Sicily:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C30216%2Cpolish-archaeologists-discover-medieval-graves-sicily.html

Excavating evidence of Cologne's oldest Jewish community:

https://forward.com/scribe/405124/in-cologne-archaeologists-unearth-the-history-of-germanys-oldest-jewish/

They're poking around the site of the Battle of Waterloo:

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/16340481.search-is-on-for-waterloo-relics/

A bone study suggests early weaning in Britain is an older practice than
previously thought:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-bone-history-britain-weaning-habits.html

A raw fish diet gave Vikings tapeworms, apparently:

http://sciencenordic.com/raw-fish-gave-vikings-tapeworms

More on Danish latrine finds:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unseal-danish-latrines-180969570/

Excavating the earliest known tomb in Tibet:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1110228.shtml

Interesting feature on a medieval coin found in Australia a long time ago:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nt/2018/07/10/kilwa-coin-australia/

The Buddha of Swat has been restored:

https://www.deccanherald.com/international/buddha-swat-restored-after-11-680751.html

Feature on empress Cixi:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/world/asia/china-empress-dowager-cixi.html

Concerns for the Taj Mahal continue:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-44763867

The Page-Ladson site is the first pre-Clovis site in the southeast US:

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/5/e1600375.full

... not sure how the Gault site relates to the above:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/aaft-dpp070918.php
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/07/11/gault-projectiles/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article214831930.html
http://kdhnews.com/news/local/digging-in-the-dirt-bell-county-archaeologists-unearth-ancient-finds/article_990c8d14-80a3-11e8-b80a-2b81c9ab463c.html

Feature on FSU's field school at Mission San Luis:

https://news.fsu.edu/news/arts-humanities/2018/07/12/archaeologists-investigate-history-of-mission-san-luis/

Feature on the dig at Fort Edward:

https://poststar.com/news/local/what-did-merchants-sell-to-french-and-indian-war-soldiers/article_641a6113-9fc3-5f3b-acf1-02093962eaca.html

More evidence of Charleston's Revolutionary War past:

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/radar-finds-more-clues-of-charleston-s-long-gone-revolutionary/article_10a66ff6-8393-11e8-951b-73b50153cb60.html

Latest finds from the East Range site at UVa:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-east-range-archaeological-excavations-reveal.html
https://news.virginia.edu/content/east-range-archaeological-excavations-reveal-more-early-life-grounds

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Earthwake damage revealed an older temple inside the Teopanzolco pyramid
platform:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-quake-reveals-older-mexico-pyramid.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-44806790
https://www.livescience.com/63063-surprise-temple-mexico.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earthquake-reveals-12th-century-temple-hidden-within-aztec-pyramid-180969619/
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-temple-discovered-within-mexican-pyramid-after-earthquake-damage-1020987
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/earthquake-triggers-discovery-of-temple/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earthquake-reveals-12th-century-temple-hidden-within-aztec-pyramid-180969619/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5948063/Damage-Mexicos-killer-quake-reveals-unknown-temple-built-INSIDE-pyramid.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6783-180712-earthquake-pyramid-temple

700 BCE burials near Mexico City:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/06/2700-years-old-graves-discovered-in.html

An Inca noble burial site at Tacume:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5920861/Mummified-Inca-corpses-clothed-finely-woven-royal-robes-unearthed.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/07/archaeologists-find-tombs-of-24-inca.html

A topographical map of Tiwanaku has been created:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2460593&CategoryId=13936

New structures have been found in El Salvador's San Andres Archeological
Complex:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/06/new-structures-found-in-el-salvadors.html#2lUdbFh74WbReYm9.97

A Totonac yoke from Veracruz:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/7341-hallan-yugo-totonaco-durante-salvamento-arqueologico-realizado-en-tamaulipas-y-veracruz

The earliest surviving banjo recording:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-oldest-surviving-banjo-recording

Latest on the Bayeux Tapestry loan:

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/10072018-bayeux-tapestry-loan-set-for-2022

Interesting feature on restoring some daguerrotypes:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6779-180710-synchrotron-reveals-images
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-used-particle-accelerator-unearth-tarnished-19th-century-daguerreotype-portraits-180969585/

On the spread of domesticated bananas:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-prehistoric-people-domesticated-bananas-world.html

A major WWI exhumation project on Hill 80:

https://www.dw.com/en/dig-hill-80-a-day-at-crowdfunded-world-war-i-archaeology-dig/g-44669457

Feature on the Library of Alexandria:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-library-of-alexandria-is-long-gone-and-all-around-us

More on poison pages in a Danish library:

https://elpais.com/internacional/2018/07/06/mundo_global/1530895836_981177.html

Leonardo:

https://news.yale.edu/2018/07/05/discovering-leonardos-hand-landmark-yale-art-gallery-exhibition

Harry Burton photos:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-photographs-featuring-tutankhamuns-tomb-now-display-cambridge-180969565/

Van Gogh:

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/search/collection?q=&artist=Vincent%20van%20Gogh&pagesize=105

Freud of the Rings:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-museum-reunites-rings-freud-used-to-bind-students/

The Magic of Handwriting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/arts/design/the-magic-of-handwriting-autograph-collection.html
https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/magic-of-handwriting

Feature on the Aldobrandini Tazze in the Silver Caesars exhibition:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180710-the-worlds-most-mysterious-silver-cups

The Getty has acquired a medieval Hebrew manuscript:

http://news.getty.edu/j-paul-getty-museum-announces-landmark-acquisition-medieval-hebrew-manuscript.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/arts/design/getty-museum-torah-rothschild-pentateuch.html
http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/07/12/getty-museum-acquires-700-year-old-illustrated-pentateuch/
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Getty-Museum-buys-illuminated-700-year-old-Bible-562301
http://artdaily.com/news/106091/J--Paul-Getty-Museum-announces-landmark-acquisition-of-a-Medieval-Hebrew-manuscript

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AT THE AUCTIONS
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An anti-semitic letter of Martin Luther is coming to auction:

https://m.jpost.com/Diaspora/Letter-by-Martin-Luther-calling-Jews-devils-incarnate-up-for-auction-562122

A guillotine came to auction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44801660

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on radiocarbon analysis of Valencina de la Concepcion:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-radiocarbon-dated-site-iberian-prehistory.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uos-tbr070918.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180709101125.htm

Latest facial reconstruction is on some folks possibly related to Qin Shi
Huang:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155189/could-these-be-faces-murdered-wife-and-son-chinas-first-emperor

Nice state-of-the-question piece on radiocarbon dating:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/revisiting-radiocarbon-no-it-has-not-been-debunked.htm

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA can supposedly prove whether Richard III killed the princes:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/richard-iii-princes-in-the-tower-dna-king-murder-mystery-sample-solved-shakespeare-edward-vi-a8441936.html

Using DNA to figure out origins of Southeast Asia's population:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-analysis-suggests-contemporary-southeast-asians-derive-ancestry-four-ancient-population-180969603/

Athens:

https://www.newsday.com/travel/exploring-ancient-history-in-athens-1.19639335

San Antonio:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/travel/san-antonio-tricentennial-spain.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Strange tale of faking a dig in Benin:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/09/thierry-oussou-faked-archaeological-dig-african-art-colonial-looting

Theft of a replica from a Delhi museum didn't pay off:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/man-held-for-theft-of-museum-artefact/articleshow/64992704.cms

Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News returns:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2018/07/culture-crime-news-2-8-july-2018.html

More on that Greco-Roman bust in Egypt:

https://africatimes.com/2018/07/11/egypt-arrests-7-for-illegal-archaeology-and-antiquities-removal/

Native peoples are trying to get bones of their ancestors back from UC:

https://calmatters.org/articles/native-american-tribes-clash-with-uc-over-bones-of-their-ancestors/

The Peabody returned some Maori remains to New Zealand:

https://news.yale.edu/2018/07/11/maori-ancestors-repatriated-new-zealand-peabody-museum

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n27.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n28.html

AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2756-audio-news-from-archaeologica-1-july-7-july-2018

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CONFERENCES
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CBA Wessex 60th Anniversary Conference (November 2018):

http://cba-wessex.org.uk/cba-events/annual-conference-2018/

Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-americas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
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Critchley, Bill Kennedy, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for

headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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A study of feet suggests Australopithecines could walk upright and
still climb trees:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180704151911.htm
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-human-ancestors-feet-children-backup.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/dc-oha062718.php
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/04/health/selam-toddler-fossil-foot-study/
index.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-lucy-walked-upright-but-bab
y-australopithecines-lurked-in-trees-1.6243522
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/foot-fossil-hominid-kids-lucy-uprigh
t-walkers-33-million-years-ago?tgt=nr
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6767-180705-a-afarensis-toddler-feet

More on Neanderthals hunting in groups:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/dc-oha062718.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/jgum-npc070218.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180702111122.htm