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explorator 21.19 September 2, 2018
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Ian Tompkins, Dan Kiernan, Suzan Mazur, 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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Latest theory had climate change leading to the demise of the
Neanderthals:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-cold-climate-shifts-linked-neanderthal.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/nu-ccc082918.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829115529.htm
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-we-didn-t-kill-the-neanderthals-climate-change-did-new-stud-1.6414271
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/modern-humans-didnt-kill-neanderthals-weather-did-180970167/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6927-180828-europe-neanderthal-disappearance

Pondering the feeding habits of Paranthropus robustus:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/mpif-gtt082818.php
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AFRICA
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The activities of ancient nomadic herders contributed to the biodiversity
of the Serengeti:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829133234.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/wuis-ald082718.php
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=26787
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6936-180830-serengeti-herders-biodiversity

Feature on Benin's female warriors:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180826-the-legend-of-benins-fearless-female-warriors
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we mentioned this Ptolemaic necropolis find in Alexandria:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/310340.aspx
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/56654/Archaeological-team-discovers-Ptolemaic-cemetery-in-Alex
https://www.egyptindependent.com/archaeological-team-uncovers-ptolemaic-cemetery-west-of-alexandria/
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2018/08/27/ptolemaic-necropolis-for-poor-discovered-in-alexandria/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/27/c_137420928.htm

A student in a museum course found some hitherto unseen writing on a mummy
case:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-student-pieces-ancient-egyptian-mummy.html

The survey of the Lisht necropolis is completed:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/56868/Documentation-of-archaeological-site-%E2%80%9CLisht%E2%80%9D-completed

More on translating medical papyri:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/health/ancient-egypt-medical-knowledge/index.html

Structures in the Jordan Valley are speculated to have been built by
Israelites crossing into Canaan:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-have-camps-built-by-the-ancient-israelites-migrating-to-canaan-been-fo-1.6432817

Latest Israeli-child-finds-archaeological-artifact story centres on an 11
500 years bp fertility figurine from the Upper Galilee:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-child-unearths-rare-11500-year-old-fertility-figurine-566143
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/8-year-old-israeli-boy-finds-11-000-year-old-fertility-figurine-1.6432552
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/251323

Hopes that Palmyra will reopen next year:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-city-palmyra-gravely-damaged-isis-may-reopen-next-year-1-180970160/

There still seems to be confusion about that chunk of the Western Wall
that
fell out:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/still-no-budget-for-conservation-at-western-wall-section-where-boulder-fell/

Feature on ancient perceptions of eclipses:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/08/Eclipses-As-Omens

Feature on Herod's palace at Masada:

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2018/08/herods-masada-pleasure-palace/

Feature on the Dar Al-Kilafa palace:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/medieval-artisans-built-a-glass-walled-palace-in-the-desert/

More on that 6500 years bp migration (according to DNA) into the Levant:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/6500-year-old-dna-ancient-migration/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Coins lead to the discovery of a large Roman settlement in Yorkshire:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/yorkshire-excavation-reveals-first-century-roman-settlement-1-9320876
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/coins-found-by-metal-detectorists-may-point-to-high-status-settlement-dating-back-to-founding-of-york-1-9321411
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/26/silver-coins-detectorists-yorkshire-reveal-early-roman-settlement
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/silver-coins-lead-one-earliest-roman-sites-yorkshire-180970138/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/25/hoard-2000-year-old-silver-roman-coins-unearthed-group-friends/
https://nypost.com/2018/08/26/treasure-hunters-find-trove-of-roman-coins-in-england/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6924-180827-yorkshire-roman-coins

A Roman coin from Ellesmere is being announced and declared treasure:

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/16608055.man-finds-finds-roman-coins-on-farmland-near-ellesmere/
http://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/16608054.man-finds-finds-roman-coins-on-farmland-near-ellesmere/
http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/16608055.wrexham-man-finds-finds-roman-coins-on-farmland-near-ellesmere/
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/2018/09/01/first-century-silver-roman-coin-found-in-shropshire-is-declared-treasure-trove/

I think we mentioned this huge Broughton Roman Villa site in Oxfordshire:

https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/24/roman-villa-the-size-of-buckingham-palace-discovered-in-britain-7879276/
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-roman-villa-nearly-the-size-of-buckingham-palace-discovered-on-british-farm/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6928-180828-england-oxfordshire-roman-villa

More on evidence of an imperial visit to Carlisle:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Discovery-points-to-a-Roman-emperors-visit-to-Carlisle-53d05cad-51b9-41d2-9d83-c10f2bc032ae-ds

Some stones fell off the Tarpeian Rock:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/08/31/stones-fall-off-tarpeian-rock-in-rome_59453943-924a-4192-ba7e-d7ad3dbcefda.html

Tooth analysis of some early Bronze Age skeletons near Naples suggests
they
were processing hemp, among other things:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/08/30/ancient-italian-skeletons-had-hemp-in-their-teeth-archaeologists-discover/

Plans to resume/continue the dig at 'Odysseus' Palace' on Ithaca:

https://www.argophilia.com/news/odysseus-palace-archaeological-dig-on-ithaca-to-continue/220877/

Funding for Heraclea Sintica:

https://www.euscoop.com/en/2018/8/29/additional-funding-archeology

A tunnel built under Vespasian/Titus in Turkey is open to the public:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/08/29/ancient-roman-vespasianus-titus-tunnel-worlds-largest-man-made-tunnel-awaits-visitors-in-turkey

... and Priene is a popular tourist destination, apparently:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/pompeii-of-anatolia-becomes-more-popular-after-unesco-recognition-136270

A study suggests the 'Minotaur's labyrinth' never existed in reality:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/labyrinthine-investigation-concludes-the-minotaur-s-lair-never-existed

Feature on frescoes at Pompeii:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-frescoes-pompeiis-lavish-villas-reveal-fabulous-lives-ancient-romans

Feature on garum:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/garum-ancient-roman-fish-sauce

Feature on the Venus de Milo:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/in-search-of-the-venus-de-milo-on-milos-and-in-paris/

On the misuse of SPQR by white supremacist groups:

https://hyperallergic.com/457510/the-misuse-of-an-ancient-roman-acronym-by-white-nationalist-groups/

Haven't had a gladiator school piece in a while:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/article-why-gladiator-school-is-better-than-fortnite/

Ancient Greeks ate fish:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/08/28/ancient-greeks-were-gourmands-with-a-preference-for-fish/

Review of Pat Barker, *The Silence of the Girls*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/26/pat-barker-silence-of-the-girls-michael-hughes-country-reviews-homer-iliad

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

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The source for Late Paleolithic amber in the Iberian peninsula was
apparently Sicily:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-sicilian-amber-western-europe-pre-dates.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/p-aci082318.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829143829.htm
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6935-180830-iberia-amber-trade

A 6500 years bp burial, pottery workshop, and settlement near Suvorovo
(Bulgaria):

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/08/26/6500-year-old-skeleton-discovered-in-chalcolithic-settlement-with-pottery-workshop-near-bulgarias-suvorovo/

A 5500 years bp passage tomb from Dowth Hall:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/5500-year-old-tomb-in-meath-the-find-of-a-lifetime-864747.html

A hidden medieval 'smuggler's door' find at Culzean Castle:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45361704
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hidden-medieval-door-leading-smugglers-caves-discovered-underneath-scottish-castle-180970172/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6938-180831-scotland-ayrshire-cave-door

A medieval game board find in the course of the search for the Monastery
of
Deer:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-medieval-game-board-during-search-lost-monastery-180970161/
https://aleteia.org/2018/08/30/medieval-board-game-unearthed-in-search-for-lost-scottish-monastery/

Plenty of medieval finds from the Queen's residence at Holyrood:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-45355250
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6937-180830-holyrood-house-excavation

Decorated medieval tiles found beneath a Bath Abbey floor:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-45354268
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6939-180831-bath-abbey-tiles

A metal detectorist found a medieval gold rind in Southwell:

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/rare-medieval-gold-ring-found-1956173

A 400 years bp clan leader seal from Dunyvaig Castle:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16601818.ancient-clan-artefact-uncovered-after-being-hidden-for-400-years/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6929-180827-scotland-islay-seal

300/400 years bp (maybe) human remains from Waterford:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/human-remains-found-by-archaeologists-at-waterford-site-865442.html
http://www.thejournal.ie/archaeology-remains-found-dungarvan-waterford-4211829-Sep2018/
https://www.thesun.ie/news/3042706/human-skull-jaw-and-teeth-remains-found-waterford/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6932-180829-ireland-waterford-burials

Remains of a 16th century manor house from Bartislava:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20901002/archaeological-research-reveals-the-foundations-of-ruined-manor-house.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6926-180828-slovakia-manor-house-unearthed

Pondering the remains beneath a wheat field in Jerez de la Frontera:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/08/27/actualidad/1535364956_555400.html

The roof collapsed at the San Giuseppe dei Falegnami church in Rome:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/08/30/church-roof-collapses-in-central-rome_1268f56c-e07e-4320-baa8-4e5392b1f77c.html
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/08/30/collapse-in-rome-church-no-one-hurt_3bd5132d-ec94-47f4-a6af-536c5de7306e.html
http://www.euronews.com/2018/08/30/church-roof-in-central-rome-collapses-damages-chapel-underneath
https://www.tampabay.com/roof-of-th-century-church-collapses-in-roman-forum-ap_world759d56ab9a094162a3462570bff75bb9
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/roof-400-old-church-collapses-181155748.html
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/08/31/probe-opened-into-rome-church-collapse_db91bcfd-6322-4007-b8fe-0637f0032d1c.html

Feature on some of Europe's clocks:

https://www.dw.com/en/the-most-beautiful-clocks-in-europe/g-45211089

'The Theatre' will soon open to the public:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/aug/29/wherefore-art-thou-exhibition-celebrates-shakespeares-shoreditch-origins
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-one-first-theaters-perform-shakespeares-plays-will-open-public-after-400-years-180970188/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6934-180830-england-shoreditch-theatre

Feature on the Vikings:

https://www.livescience.com/32087-viking-history-facts-myths.html

Concerns for a Chalcolithic necropolis in Varna:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/08/27/chalcolithic-necropolis-of-worlds-oldest-gold-treasure-left-dilapidated-in-bulgarias-black-sea-city-varna/

More on 'drought/hunger stones' emerging from the Elbe:

https://www.livescience.com/63443-drought-stones-warning-europe.html

More on drought revealing sites:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/europes-dry-summer-yields-an-archaeological-treasure-trove
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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Ming Dynasty Buddhist grotto relics from Shaanxi:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-09/02/c_137438620.htm

Studying Bronze Age death and burial in the Southern Urals:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-ancient-ural-settlement-habitants-didnt.html

Trying to figure out the date of Mahabharata:

https://www.news18.com/news/india/dating-the-mahabharata-to-2000-bc-archaeologists-shift-from-painted-grey-ware-to-ochre-coloured-pottery-1864423.html

More on that 4300 years bp settlement with step pyramid from Shimao:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/pyramid-of-eyes-discovered-at-heart-of-4300yearold-city-in-northern-china/news-story/c14aca02eb9c06f620cf938d5cefddfe

More on all those teeth found during the Melbourne Metrol tunnel dig:

https://www.livescience.com/63450-1000-human-teeth-melbourne.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-28/heres-what-archaeologists-found-in-melbournes-metro-tunnel-dig/10155978
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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ddab09cab5362c9613318bd92&id=b917a20ae5
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 1500 years bp arrowhead from the Yukon:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arrowhead-demster-highway-archaeologist-yukon-1.4805547

A Native American fort site in Connecticut:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-archaeologists-native-american-fort-connecticut.html
https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/State-kept-Native-American-site-in-Norwalk-under-13197785.php
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2018/0829/1600s-Native-American-fort-is-one-of-the-most-important-Northeast-finds
https://apnews.com/1903d6469b5649d5bd5d0a5b2ecae442
https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/archaeologists-dig-native-american-fort-found-in-connecticut
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6933-180829-connecticut-native-fort

A 17th century settlement site on Cape Cod:

http://chatham.wickedlocal.com/news/20180824/big-dig-in-chatham-finds-17th-century-settlement
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6925-180827-chatham-english-settlement

Feature on the dig at James Madison's home:

https://www.breezejmu.org/news/graduate-students-excavate-james-madison-s-home/article_670851f8-abd8-11e8-9ae0-4f985d92e727.html

Feature on Folsom points:

http://www.journal-advocate.com/sterling-columnists/ci_32106513/folsom-points-and-legacies

Interesting ree modifications:

http://www.kunc.org/post/archaeologists-rush-document-mysterious-trees-its-too-late

Possible identification of a 150 years bp shipwreck in Lake Erie:

https://fox8.com/2018/08/29/archaeologists-believe-recently-discovered-shipwreck-may-be-150-year-old-vessel-lake-serpent/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6940-180831-lake-erie-shipwreck-excavated

Lead poisoning wasn't a factor in the Franklin Expedition's demise:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lead-poisoning-wasnt-major-factor-mysterious-demise-franklin-expedition-180970150/

A followup to that mammoth site in Wyoming from a while ago:

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/more-ancient-specimens-found-at-mammoth-recovery-site-near-cody/article_aedecb6e-d253-57c4-888c-7e4f0240e15e.html

... and they're still pondering that Hurricane Irma canoe:

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2018/08/30/hurricane-irma-canoe-ancient-mystery/1142863002/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A mask possibly depicting the Maya ruler Pakal from Palenque:

http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2018/08/mask-that-represented-the-mayan-ruler-pakal-was-found-in-palenque/
http://theweek.com/speedreads/792624/archaeologists-discover-strangely-wrinkly-ancient-mayan-mask
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6930-180829-maya-king-mask

The authenticity of the Mayan Codex has been confirmed:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/31/mexican-historians-prove-authenticity-looted-ancient-mayan-text/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em

Olmec finds from Guatemala:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/07/2500-year-old-olmec-monuments.html#Lr71fBldzViwdI8L.97

Feature on the Moai 'scattered' around the world:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-easter-island-statues-now-scattered-around-the-world/

Concerns (?) for Teotihuacan:

https://elpais.com/internacional/2018/08/28/la_serpiente_emplumada/1535482237_638748.html
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http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Pondering dropping the use of the term 'stone age':

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-australian-archaeologists-term-stone-age.html
https://theconversation.com/australian-archaeologists-dropped-the-term-stone-age-decades-ago-and-so-should-you-47275

Apparently woolly mammoths changed their diet shortly before going
extinct:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-eastern-european-woolly-mammoths-diet.html

On cheese and human evolution:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-role-cheese-human-evolution.html

On the 'bunny ears' sign:

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-dark-history-of-the-bunny-ears-sign/p06j3q60

Feature on Casanova:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/arts/design/on-the-trail-of-a-lover-boy-in-the-age-of-enlightenment.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

Review of a festschrift for Oscar Muscarella:

https://oscillations.net/2018/08/28/festschrift-illustrious-archaeologist-oscar-white-muscarella/

Review of Brent Nongbri's *God's Library*:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-everything-we-know-about-the-earliest-copies-of-the-new-testament-is-wrong

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Water/Ways:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/arts/design/new-york-waterways-smithsonian.html

Ancient Animals:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/animal-shaped-vessels-from-the-ancient-world/

Spellbound:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/aug/31/spellbound-ashmolean-museum-oxford-exhibition-magic-superstition

Against the Ruins:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/120717/ancient-hellenic-spirit-revived-in-melbourne/

London's NPG had a counting problem:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/arts/design/national-portrait-gallery-london-miscount.html

Feature on a Buddha at the Met:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/20/arts/met-buddha-sculpture.html

A new director for the Freer and Sackler Galleries:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/arts/design/smithsonian-freer-sackler-galleries-chase-f-robinson.html

Interesting pottery workshop from London's (Ontario) Museum of
Archaeology:

https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/time-travelling-through-original-pottery/wcm/602a69d4-c00d-4123-9314-fa8d59c23a1e

On the opening of the Idlib Museum:

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/08/did-idlib-museum-open-too-early.html
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AT THE AUCTIONS
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A very interesting watch from the Titanic:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sold-watch-titanic-adorned-hebrew-letters-180970169/
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THE TECHY SIDE
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A sanctuary from Machu Picchu has been digitized:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-team-digitizes-historic-sanctuary-machu.html

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CLIMATE MATTERS
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On Vikings and adapting to climate change:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-humans-climate-viking.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA testing of remains suggests the Viking town of Sigtuna had a large
immigrant population:

https://www.thelocal.se/20180825/half-of-sigtuna-swedens-first-capital-were-immigrants
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6922-180827-sweden-sigtuna-immigrants

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ephesus:

https://thewest.com.au/travel/historical/inside-cleopatras-marbled-malls-in-ephesus-ng-b88833574z

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PERFORMANCES
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A tangent piano performance:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/arts/music/tangent-piano-alexei-lubimov-ecm.html

Beethovenfest:

https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-composers-their-fates-their-music/a-45307432

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CRIME BEAT
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Assorted historical documents seized during a corruption trial in Chile:

https://www.latercera.com/mundo/noticia/una-carta-san-martin-ohiggins-otros-documentos-fueron-encontrados-la-casa-fernandez-tras-allanamientos/298411/

Followup to that book theft story from a couple of weeks ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/books/rare-book-theft-carnegie-library-pittsburgh.html

Trying to tie India's looting problem to terrorism:

https://www.jpost.com/International/Indias-looted-past-and-terrorism-funding-565192

A bust in Istanbul:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/photo-smuggled-priceless-treasures-of-roman-greek-persian-islamic-civilizations-seized-by-istanbul-police-136224

... and Jiroft:

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/137323/14-antiquities-seized-from-smugglers-in-Jiroft

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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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
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Not sure where to put this Nazi loot story about some Egon Schiele works:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/arts/design/nazi-art-egon-schiele-fritz-grunbaum.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/63-works-austrian-expressionist-egon-schiele-are-center-latest-nazi-looted-art-dispute-180970155/

Germany returned some human remains to Namibia:

https://www.dw.com/en/namibia-welcomes-repatriation-of-remains-of-indigenous-people-by-germany/a-45309757

Not really sure where to put this return of items to the Aboutaams:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/swiss-prosecutor-returns-mesopotamian-terracotta-animal-made-by-dealer-s-11-year-old-daughter-along-with-5-000-other-seized-antiquities
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n34.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n35.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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OBITUARIES
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Robin Birley:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/vindolanda-trust-announce-death-much-15097648

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2774-audio-news-from-archaeologica-19-august-25-august-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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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

The Book and the Spade:

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