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EARLY HOMINIDS
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The so-called Xujiayao juvenile fossil shows dental development similar to
modern children:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-ancient-relative-humans-surprisingly-modern.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/osu-aar011019.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/caos-dso011619.php
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-child-fossil-jaw-east-asia-grew-teeth-modern-human
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7309-190117-china-child-teeth

Using AI to identify an unknown hominin ancestor (I don't quite get this
one):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/cfgr-aia011619.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190116122650.htm

A pair of skeletons from South Africa turn out to be from the same species
(sediba):

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-scientists-pair-skeletons-early-hominin.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/nyu-scp011719.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190117110830.htm

Feature on sediba:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/dc-uoe011719.php
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/health/australopithecus-sediba-human-history-scli-intl/index.html

Not quite sure where to put this item with upper Paleolithic finds from
Azerbaijan:

https://www.azernews.az/nation/144108.html
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AFRICA
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Feature on Algeria's pyramid tombs:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-algeria-ancient-pyramid-tombs-shrouded.html
https://www.france24.com/en/20190114-algerias-ancient-pyramid-tombs-still-shrouded-mystery
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Arts-and-Ent/Culture/2019/Jan-15/474033-algerias-pyramid-tombs-still-shrouded-in-mystery.ashx
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A relief from Tell Edfu which was damaged some 3500 years bp:

https://www.livescience.com/64514-ancient-egyptian-carving-afterlife.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7310-190117-tell-edfu-sculpture

A pair of Roman-era tombs from the Dakhla Oasis:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/321792/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Roman-tombs-discovered-in-Egypts-Dakhla-Oasis.aspx
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/63551/Pictures-Several-discoveries-found-in-Al-Amriyah
https://egyptianstreets.com/2019/01/16/egyptian-expedition-uncovers-two-tombs-from-roman-period/
https://www.livescience.com/64512-ancient-tombs-egypt-daklha.html
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-archaeologists-rome-era-tombs-egypt-western.html
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/16/c_137746585.htm
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7305-190115-egypt-mud-brick-tombs

Plans for the Dendera temples complex to become an 'open air museum':

http://cairoscene.com/Buzz/dendera-temple-to-be-turned-into-open-air-museum
https://egyptianstreets.com/2019/01/15/magnificent-dendera-temple-to-be-turned-into-an-open-air-museum/
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/63433/Dendera-Temple-to-be-converted-into-an-open-museum

Honours for Zahi Hawass:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/1188/321823/Arts--Culture/City-Lights/Ancient-Sicilian-city-of-Noto-honours-Zahi-Hawass-.aspx

... even though he's hyping finding Cleopatra's tomb and hasn't:

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/mondo/cleopatra_tomba-4227052.html
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/63389/Tomb-of-Antony-and-Cleopatra-to-be-uncovered-soon

More on the mummy of the pharoah's eye doctor:

https://www.livescience.com/64513-pharaohs-eye-doctor-leaves-cool-mummy.html

Evidence from Jordan ca 11 500 years bp suggests humans were using dogs
for
hunting purposes:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-year-old-animal-bones-jordan-early.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uoc--1ab011519.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190115132904.htm
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-prehistoric-people-hunted-with-dogs-in-jordan-archaeologists-conclude-1.6848935
http://cphpost.dk/news/dogs-mans-best-friend-since-the-stone-age.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-and-dogs-may-have-hunted-together-prehistoric-jordan-180971291/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7308-190117-jordan-dogs-hunting

Feature on recent finds (with drones and other tech) in Petra:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/science/petra-platform-sarah-parcak.html

Op-Eddish on the search for more Dead Sea Scrolls (paywalled, maybe):

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-race-for-the-next-dead-sea-scrolls-and-why-we-may-lose-it-1.6846311

Recent finds from Al Ain seem to be overshadowed by a prince visiting
them:

https://www.urdupoint.com/en/middle-east/new-archaeological-discoveries-in-al-ain-refl-533321.html

Feature on the Al Ula site, which is being set up for tourism purposes:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2019/01/14/feature/unlocking-a-kingdoms-long-hidden-treasures/?utm_term=.c7707a9aa466

Feature on the dig at Tel Abel Beth Maacah:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/01/Northern-Exposure-Tel-Abel-Beth-Maacah

More on the finds at Kiriath-Jearim which the press is connecting to the
Ark of the Covenant for some reason:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-site-tied-to-ark-of-the-covenant-unearthed-at-convent-in-central-israel/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2019/01/discovered-in-israel-a-biblical-shrine-for-the-ark-of-the-covenant/?print

This one is paywalled, but seems to be about seeds found at various sites
in Israel:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-what-you-d-find-in-pantries-in-the-land-of-israel-6-000-years-ago-1.6845384

More on that Beit Shemesh road construction from a month or so ago:

https://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/Ancient-city-arouses-controversy-in-Beit-Shemesh-577633

More on that inscription with the traditional spelling of 'Jerusalem':

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2019/01/an-ancient-hebrew-inscription-supports-the-traditional-spelling-of-jerusalem/
https://members.bib-arch.org/biblical-archaeology-review/45/1/10

A 3000 years bp 'warrior grave' from northern Iran:

https://ifpnews.com/exclusive/grave-belonging-to-iron-age-warrior-discovered-in-northern-iran/

Evidence of an Ayyubid era copper production site in Jordan:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/archaeologists-find-clues-%E2%80%98important%E2%80%99-ayyubid-settlement
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/jordan-has-ayyubid-copper-production-site-dating-12-century-us-archaeologist-1238412
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7301-190114-jordan-ayyubid-site

Concerns for sites in Iraq:

https://thearabweekly.com/iraqs-archaeological-sites-face-looting-urbanisation-threats

Concerns for monuments in Jordan:

https://menafn.com/1097981014/India-Jordans-monuments-threatened-by-population-growth-theft

More on Persians recognizing at least three genders:

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-persians-recognized-at-least-three-genders/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Thracian and Roman finds from the Nebet Tepe Fortress site (Bulgaria):

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2019/01/08/wooden-buildings-from-ancient-thrace-colorful-roman-building-discovered-at-nebet-tepe-fortress-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/

Greek and Roman artifacts from Alexandria:

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1552481/greek-roman-artifacts-discovered-alexandria

A Roman road in Lancashire:

http://aboutmanchester.co.uk/roman-road-m6-unearthed-by-salford-archaeologists/

A Roman-era tomb accidentally found in Tripoli:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/roman-ancient-tomb-discovered-accident-tripoli

Interesting feature on excavating mosaics in Larnaca and Akaki:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/01/13/uncovering-mosaics-a-painstaking-process/

Overviewish thing on what's happening at Herculaneum:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2019/01/16/new-developments-at-herculaneum_790d0b69-8484-4721-927f-f7695ea7dabc.html

I think we mentioned these Roman-era residences from Plovdiv/Philipopolis:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2019/01/11/6-luxury-quarters-with-brothel-like-pompeiis-lupanar-formed-heart-of-roman-city-philipopolis-in-bulgarias-plovdiv-archaeologists-reveal/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7302-190115-bulgaria-luxurious-structures

... and Hellenistic Philipopolis was larger than previously thought:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2019/01/03/hellenistic-age-philipopolis-was-larger-than-known-archaeologists-find-in-eastern-gate-digs-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/

A 'Thracian Mound' in Bulgaria turns out to be a 'tower tomb' and is being
associated with Philip the Arab:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2019/01/16/bulgarias-largest-thracian-mound-proves-to-be-tower-tomb-like-in-petra-palmyra-likely-of-roman-emperor-philip-i-the-arab/

... but funding has been cut to investigate it:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2019/01/18/funding-cut-mars-research-of-middle-eastern-tower-tomb-found-under-thracian-mound-near-bulgarias-plovdiv/

Plenty of Roman finds along the River Soar in Leicester:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/remarkable-things-archaeologists-uncovered-alongside-2420742
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/gallery/latest-pictures-new-archaeological-dig-2424381

Hopes for more Roman remains at a Cuerden housing development site:

https://www.lep.co.uk/your-lancashire/south-ribble/more-roman-remains-could-be-found-under-cuerden-site-earmarked-for-housing-1-9545138

Ongoing concerns for privatization of sites in Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/236778/article/ekathimerini/news/archaeologists-seek-rescue-of-monuments-from-fund

Starting them young on Latin in Sheffield:

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/pupils-take-on-latin-from-10-years-of-age-1-9544963

Pondering women in the Odyssey:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniedenning/2019/01/16/the-invisible-hand-of-women/#71ff148e3b86

Feature on Xenophon:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-ancient-greek-rebel-leader-who-saw-socrates-solo-dancing

Feature on Antinous:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-most-beautiful-boy-in-the-roman-empire/

In case you missed Dan-el Padilla Peralta's response to racist events at
the AIA/SCA:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/My-MeritMy-Blackness/245462

What Michael Hoff has been doing in Antioch:

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/unl-professor-makes-surprising-archeological-discovery-in-antioch/article_de449738-1936-11e9-8f71-0b6771ee4948.html

Leslie Kurke was reading Sappho:

http://www.dailyuw.com/arts_and_leisure/article_9c6daa14-17a3-11e9-950f-afb2b33e5d89.html

Bruce Thornton was riffing on Vespasian:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272514/money-doesnt-stink-bruce-thornton

Michael Roberts' Roman poetry analysis is being revisited:

http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2019/01/14/robertss-book-revisited-by-society-for-classical-studies/

Karen Klaiber Hersch was talking about mythical beasties:

https://liberalarts.temple.edu/news/beastly-classics-professor-discusses-mythical-creatures-origins

Honours for Sharon Gerstel:

https://usa.greekreporter.com/2019/01/17/hellenic-society-of-constantinople-to-honor-ucla-hellenic-studies-director/

Chelsea Gardner's paper was honoured by the AIA/SCS:

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/01/18/gardner-ancient-greek-figurines-national-award/

Feature on SDSU's 3d digital library project:

http://thedailyaztec.com/92689/news/3d-greek-digital-photographic-library-allows-researches-to-piece-together-remnants-of-the-past/

In case you missed Zahi Hawass' claims to have found Cleopatra's tomb:

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/mondo/cleopatra_tomba-4227052.html
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/63389/Tomb-of-Antony-and-Cleopatra-to-be-uncovered-soon

Weighing in on the debate who should play Cleopatra:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cleopatra-film-sony-black-actor-lady-gaga-angelina-jolie-whitewashing-a8728721.html

How the Romans would deal with Twitter:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/ancient-romans-handle-social-media-better-twitter-wars/

Using Aesop to analyze the US:

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/425125-aesops-american-fable-too-many-grasshoppers-not-enough-ants

Parallels between the Gracchi and Brexit:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/the-rejection-of-the-peoples-mandate-then-and-now/

Review of Edward Watts, *Mortal Republic*:

https://freebeacon.com/culture/discourses-after-livy/

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of mammoth hunting 25 000 years bp from Poland:

https://www.livescience.com/64540-ice-age-hunters-spear-mammoth.html

Studying pottery residues to see what people in southeastern Europe were
eating some 11 500 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-insights-neolithic-people-ate-southeastern.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uob-nii011519.php

Evidence of salmon consumption 5600 years bp in northern Scandinavia:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/University-of-Haifa-researchers-identify-5600-year-old-Scandinavian-salmon-577612

A very interesting submerged Neolithic forest site off of Scotland's
Western Isles:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-46890793
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/islands/1655060/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-incredibly-rare-early-human-activity-in-a-submerged-western-isles-forest/
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17363296.archaeologists-make-extra-special-discoveries-at-prehistoric-site/
http://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologists-find-sub-fossilized-prehistoric-forest-scotland-28984
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7307-190116-scotland-prehistoric-forest

A Bronze Age cremation pit from Cupar (Scotland):

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/806837/bronze-age-find-in-cupar-hailed-of-national-importance/
https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/bones-discovered-at-fife-hill-with-a-history-of-violence-1-4858856
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7304-190115-scotland-cremation-pit

Studying life in the Urals, some 4000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/guf-wh4011719.php

A Welsh farmstead is actually a medeival hall house (I think we mentioned
this one):

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/13/welsh-farmstead-is-in-fact-rare-medieval-hall-house-experts-confirm

Overviewish on a possible Carmelite friary site in Kingussie:

https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/News/Water-terrific-find-made-in-Kingussie-17012019.htm

Studying the remains of the Esquilache Mutiny:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/01/18/actualidad/1547816912_714547.html

Perth City Hall might be sitting on a vast cemetery:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/808897/major-excavation-could-unearth-remains-of-subterranean-cemetery-beneath-perth-city-hall/

Some 19th century chess pieces from Burgh le Marsh:

https://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/historic-amulets-used-to-ward-off-evil-are-found-near-skegness-1-8768475
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-two-victorian-chess-pieces-hidden-barn-180971307/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7298-190114-england-chess-pieces

Latest HS2 finds from Birmingham come from a 19th century cemetery:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/first-look-inside-hs2-tents-15699807

Feature on Viking religious beliefs:

https://www.livescience.com/64529-vikings-gods-watching-them.html

Feature on the UK's 'forgotten footpaths':

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-search-for-englands-forgotten-footpaths

On the influence of Victorian newspapers:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/how-victorian-newspapers-changed-the-look-of-british-towns-and-cities-a8720786.html

Campaigning to save the Holy Well near Wotton:

https://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/17364609.archaeologists-back-campaign-to-save-holy-well/
https://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/17364609.should-two-houses-be-built-on-holy-well/

Feature on the St Magnus Catheral graffiti project:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/st-magnus-cathedral-graffiti-project-will-show-that-archaeologists-woz-ere-fkgx70cb3

Hyping the HS2 project for 'trainee archaeologists':

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hs2-unearths-new-opportunities-for-trainee-archaeologists

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A large Neolithic settlement site from Hunan:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/14/c_137742635.htm

Evidence of a 2000 years bp 'coin factory' near Nanyang, found a year or
so
ago:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/18/c_137755389.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7311-190118-china-copper-coins

A Tang/Song dynasty era settlement from Shaanxi:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/17/c_137751622.htm

Liao Dyansty tombs (including a 'ground-painting' in one) from Jinzhou:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/16/c_137748712.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7306-190116-china-painted-tomb

A possible Mauryan site at Asurgarh:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/remnants-of-mouryan-period-found-at-asurgarh-in-odisha/articleshow/67576244.cms
http://www.orissapost.com/excavations-at-asurgarh-unearth-cultural-treasures/

A 4th/5th century Buddha site (including a statue head) from near Taranga:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/new-buddhist-footprints-discovered-in-north-gujarat/articleshow/67518278.cms
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7300-190114-india-buddha-head

Flooding in Kerala has revealed plenty of terracottas (date?):

https://www.thehindu.com/society/how-the-kerala-floods-unearthed-a-site-filled-with-ancient-terracotta-figures/article26026694.ece
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7314-190118-india-terracotta-figurines

A medieval inscription from Amaravati:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/amaravati/13th-century-inscription-found-in-amaravati/articleshow/67528388.cms
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7299-190114-india-inscription-discovered

What is possibly the oldest clove (900-1100 CE) comes from Sri Lanka:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/18/c_137755389.htm
http://theconversation.com/worlds-oldest-clove-heres-what-our-find-in-sri-lanka-says-about-the-early-spice-trade-109686
https://qz.com/india/1525237/what-the-worlds-oldest-clove-says-about-spice-wars-in-sri-lanka/

Evidence of 'wandering Polynesians' from a 700 years bp site on Moturua
Island:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/380369/moturua-island-archaeological-dig-unearths-tools-structures

Some 1200 years bp calligraphy from China is causing a major row:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46887545

Computer modelling applied to Beijing's Old Summer Palace:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2181613/beijings-old-summer-palace-computer-modelling
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting finds from a 'submerged mastodon' site in Wakulla Springs:

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2019/01/16/submerged-mastodon-may-provide-clues-ancient-mysteries/2575989002/

Evidence of quinoa use from a site in Ontario, 3 000 years bp (!):

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-year-old-eastern-north-american-quinoa.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190115111930.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uot-3en011419.php

Latest on why the Hunley sank:

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/a-broken-pipe-may-have-sunk-the-confederate-hunley-submarine/article_d32afc02-15df-11e9-b117-23642fbd6b25.html
https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/national/researchers-find-new-clues-on-sinking-of-confederate-submarine-off/article_db0323f9-b8b6-53a2-bee5-455631e5dbe0.html
https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/new-clue-may-reveal-what-led-to-sinking-of-the-hl-hunley/1701294354
http://walterborolive.com/2019/01/researchers-discover-new-clue-that-may-help-explain-hunleys-loss/

Marking the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Las Capas irrigation
canals:

https://www.tucsonlocalmedia.com/marana/article_1a0a7962-18fc-11e9-9e08-a74bfe469e3e.html

Feature on a 'bog body' from Florida, found in the 80s:

http://nbbd.com/godo/history/windover/

Concerns for a Mi'kmaq burial site near Bras d'Or Lake:

https://www.capebretonpost.com/news/local/ancient-burial-grounds-along-the-bras-dor-lake-under-threat-275422/

Plenty of items (but no garrison) found during a Sanford dig:

https://www.journaltribune.com/articles/front-page/sanford-dig-spurs-interest-turns-up-artifacts/

Feature on the 17th century Utrecht Reformed Church:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/nyregion/new-utrecht-reformed-church.html

Feature on the San Juan pueblos:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/old-school-millennials-unearthing-life-in-the-middle-san-juan/article_8c841404-acc4-599e-81d6-712fb7f6fb04.html

Interesting feature on discovering slave-owning ancestors:

http://www.cpr.org/news/story/after-these-white-colorado-women-unearthed-their-slave-owning-ancestors-past-they-turned

In a similar spirit:

https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/local-news/hidden-history-slave-cemetery-uncovered/1708425190

Remembering some famous New York blizzards:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/nyregion/vintage-new-york-blizzards-photos.html

Marking the centennial of the Great Molasses Flood in Boston:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/01/13/oh-my-god-run-day-deadly-wave-molasses-tore-through-boston/?utm_term=.bfe9082c2a52

More on finds made along the Detroit River:

https://m.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/01/11/archeological-dig-along-detroit-river-unearths-30000-indigenous-artifacts
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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I think we mentioned this Chimu child sacrifice site from northern Peru:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/01/15/Remains-of-132-sacrificed-Chimu-children-found-in-north-Peru/5241547570495/?ts_tn_int=5
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/archaeologists-find-remains-132-children-perus-ancient-chimu-civilization-1239708

Heather Richards-Rissetto uses VR to study the Maya:

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/unl-assistant-professor-uses-virtual-reality-to-look-at-past/article_c931066c-1934-11e9-aec0-bf691dc8b54d.html

Feature on 'chocolatiers' in the Amazon:

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/325-1901/trenches/7219-trenches-ecuador-cacao-seeds

Feature on Xipe Totec (who's been in the news the past couple of weeks):

https://daily.jstor.org/the-festival-of-the-flayed-god/

More on that Maya 'steam bath' from Guatemala:

https://www.livescience.com/64495-ancient-maya-steam-bath.html
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/most-intact-ancient-steam-bath-used-in-mayan-rituals-discovered-in-guatemala/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The oldest copy of a 'poster' version of the periodic table has been found
during a cleanup at the St Andrews School of Chemistry:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/17/st-andrews-mldest-surviving-wall-chart-of-periodic-table-university
https://www.livescience.com/64545-oldest-periodic-table-elements-poster.html
https://www.scotsman.com/news/education/world-s-oldest-classroom-periodic-table-found-at-st-andrews-university-1-4858091
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1073639/periodic-table-picture-oldest-ever
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7313-190118-scotland-periodic-table

Pondering the idea of Hell:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/how-the-idea-of-hell-has-shaped-the-way-we-think

What we can learn from teeth at archaeological sites:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/teeth-vitamin-d-deficiency-archaeology.html

Not sure where to put this one on the 'Latin East':

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-latin-east-contributed-to-a-unique-cultural-world

Feature on democracy/women's suffrage in the Weimar Republic:

https://www.dw.com/en/weimar-1919-birth-of-germanys-first-democracy/a-47143440
https://www.dw.com/en/100-years-of-womens-right-to-vote-in-germany/av-47119107

Marking the centennial of Bauhuas:

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-46863364
https://www.dw.com/en/10-essential-facts-about-bauhaus/g-41278123
https://www.bauhausfestival.de/

Feature on the 'roots' of the garden:

https://theconversation.com/heaven-on-earth-the-ancient-roots-of-your-backyard-garden-108682

Feature on digitizing medieval manuscripts:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-medieval-literature-digital-age.html

On 'whitewashing' of black women in art:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190114-how-black-women-were-whitewashed-by-art

Feature on the Grolier Club:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/arts/design/book-lovers-grolier-club.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage

Feature on Rosa Luxemburg:

https://www.dw.com/en/rosa-luxemburg-guiding-light-and-controversial-figure-of-the-left/a-47079366
https://www.dw.com/en/red-rosa-luxemburg-and-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-icon/a-47006610

Was Aladdin Chinese?:

https://beta.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2182653/aladdin-really-chinese-how-hollywood-invented-tales-middle-eastern

The browsing habits of 14th century readers:

https://phys.org/news/2013-05-strangely-familiar-browsing-habits-14th-century.html

Digitizing an Arabic slave narrative in the US:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-surviving-arabic-slave-narrative-united-statesdigitized-library-congress-180971298/

Latest 'experimental ancient boats' fleet news:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2019/01/15/bulgarian-archaeologist-joins-prehistoric-black-sea-mediterranean-voyage-with-reed-boat-built-by-uru-from-lake-titicaca/

Preserving arabic calligraphy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-46814018

Arguing over the coins in the Trevi fountain:

https://www.dw.com/en/trevi-fountain-church-and-rome-battle-over-tourist-coins/a-47071769

On what we can learn from empathetic humanities:

https://aeon.co/ideas/the-empathetic-humanities-have-much-to-teach-our-adversarial-culture

Studying Rembrandt's impasto technique:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/esrf-tst011419.php

Artwork found beneath Picasso's works:

http://discovermagazine.com/2019/jan/light-show

More on Mona Lisa's eyes:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=30867

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Nadars:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190114-flix-nadar-the-worlds-first-celebrity-photographer
http://www.bnf.fr/en/cultural_events/anx_exhibitions/f.nadar_legende_photographique_eng.html

Gauguin:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/the-de-young-museum-tries-and-fails-to-trace-paul-gauguins-spiritual-journey/2019/01/18/0b306360-18df-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html

Hornton Hoard:

https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/hornton-hoard-to-be-displayed-for-the-first-time-1-8773665

Hoards:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/treasure-trove-goes-on-show-at-ulster-museum-37722996.html
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/01/18/news/hidden-treasures-unveiled-at-new-ulster-museum-exhibition-1530609/

Jim Crow:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/01/14/beinecke-exhibit-explores-how-professors-jim-crow-book-influenced-mlk

Slate Kings and Queens:

https://blog.timesunion.com/history/slate-kings-and-queens-an-upcoming-exhibit/3004/

Bibliomania:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/01/15/beinecke-library-exhibition-invites-bibliomaniacs-go-mad-books

Africa's Pre-Colonial Crown Jewels:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/africa-s-pre-colonial-crown-jewels-get-a-new-home

Finds Gone Astray:

http://www.themedialine.org/news/for-the-first-time-looted-antiquities-found-in-west-bank-go-on-display-with-video/

... and some commentary on the ethics thereof:

https://hyperallergic.com/479466/jerusalem-bible-lands-museum-finds-gone-astray/

Pondering the Met's antiquities:

http://theartnewspaper.com/comment/the-met-s-antiquated-views-of-antiquities-need-updating

Feature on the Egyptian Museum:

https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/travelogue/news/the-treasure-vault-ancient-egypt-1688944

A looted 'cannibal bowl' will not be making the trip to the Quai Branly:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/looted-cannibal-bowl-will-not-travel-to-quai-branly-in-paris

Funding for Tahrir's Egyptian Museum:

https://menafn.com/1097972274/International-grant-worth-3m-to-rehabilitate-Tahrirs-Egyptian-Museum
https://egyptianstreets.com/2019/01/13/egyptian-museum-receives-e-3m-grant-to-undergo-renovation/

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using 'organoid tech' to learn about Neanderthal brains:

http://discovermagazine.com/2019/jan/ancient-brains

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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Evidence of a 'climatic event' in south Asia 5400 to 3000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uoc-dsa011519.php

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Defining 'Ancient Ancestry Informative Markers':

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190114082850.htm

OpEd on some sweeping claims about the past being made with DNA:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-research.html

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Kloster Andechs:

https://www.dw.com/en/kloster-andechs-winter-beer-on-the-holy-mountain/a-18951965

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PERFORMANCES
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Questioning 'Hamilton':

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/nyregion/hamilton-lin-manuel-miranda-the-haunting.html

Weightless:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/theater/weightless-review-under-the-radar.html

The Poor Man of Nippur (in Babylonian!):

https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/news/ancient-language-of-babylonia-is-brought-back-to-life

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CRIME BEAT
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Feature on how the Van Meegeren forger was found out:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/15/ciencia/1547544948_999165.html

A 'lost Michelangelo' has now gone missing from a Belgian church:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/14/lost-michelangelo-goes-missing-from-belgian-church

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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Assorted Thai antiquities returned from assorted US collections:

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2019/01/17/millennia-old-thai-antiquities-returned-from-us-collections/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v22n02.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v22n03.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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Lamin Sanneh:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lamin-sanneh-pioneering-historian-who-studied-christianitys-spread-dies-at-76/2019/01/13/9974781c-1747-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2824-audio-news-from-archaeologica-6-january-12-january-2019
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CONFERENCES
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Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-americas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

Current Archaeology Live (March 8-9, 2019):

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/live/ca-live-2018

Berkshire Archaeology Day (April 6, 2019)
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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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