Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Jona Lendering, Bob Heuman, George Somsel, Hernan Astudillo,
Trevor Ogden 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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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Australopithecus deyiremeda is back in the news, it seems:
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/642678/?sc=c52
… and fallout of a different sort from the homo naledi dig:
http://jezebel.com/uk-paper-suggests-all-female-archaeology-team-was-a-pub-1740078878
New dates for Italy’s earliest Neanderthal:
http://www.thelocal.it/20151104/italy-dates-its-first-neanderthal-to-250k-years-ago
Pondering whether climate change ‘jump started’ hominid evolution:
An overviewish thing on the rise of humans:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-humans-unique-small.html
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AFRICA
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Remains of a church on Santiago Island (off the west coast of Africa) has slavery connections:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-earliest-church-tropics-unearthed-heart.html
What ancient snails from Morocco are revealing about agricultural development:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151105121515.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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So they’re now poking around Tut’s tomb with infrared temperature scans:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1107/Did-King-Tut-have-a-roommate-In-search-of-a-secret-chamber
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/search-for-secret-chambers-in-king-tuts-tomb-begins-151104.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/162675/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Infrared-thermography-to-be-applied-to-Tutankhamun.aspx
… and there are hints they may have found ‘something’:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/tutankhamun-infrared-shows-possible-hidden-chamber-in-kings-tomb-a6724781.html
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/nov/08/king-tut-tomb-infrared-scans-queen-nefertiti
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/new-clues-point-to-secret-chamber-in-king-tut-tomb-151106.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-scanning-nefertitis-tomb-encouraging-minister-162850066.html
Some clarification from Zahi Hawass:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/opinion/nicholas-reeves-did-not-discover-tomb-no-63
Some nice colorized photos of the original discovery of Tut items:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/11977795/King-Tuts-tomb-Colourised-photos-documenting-Howard-Carters-discovery.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3307795/King-Tut-s-tomb-COLOUR-Stunning-new-images-historic-discovery-boy-king-s-burial-chamber-new-light.html
… and the tomb was reopened to the public:
http://www.thecairopost.com/news/174672/news/tutankhamen-tomb-reopens-on-93rd-discovery-anniversary
A foiled smuggling attempt of a number of items heading for Thailand:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/162775/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Smuggling-bid-foiled–Egyptian-artefacts-recovered.aspx
http://www.thecairopost.com/news/175160/news/1124-artifacts-saved-from-smuggling-at-damietta-port-statement
Not sure what the focus is of this piece on assorted Egyptian goings-on at the Queensland Museum … something about Amenhotep and the Book of the Dead:
Project to study the Kushite presence in Egypt:
A trio of tombs were opened to the public:
http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/11/05/three-new-tombs-unveiled-in-luxor-egypt
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-egypt-tombs-spur-tourist.html
In case you missed Ben Carson’s pyramid declaration:
http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/11/ben_carson_pyramid_theory.html
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Ben-Carson-Pyramids-in-Egypt-built-by-Biblical-figure-Joseph–340962022.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/11/05/archaeologists-to-ben-carson-ancient-egyptians-wrote-down-why-the-pyramids-were-built/
… and the history of the viewpoint:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34741010
… and the response:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/bad-news-for-ben-carson-pyramids-wouldn-t-have-made-good-grain-stores-say-experts-a6725456.html
http://www.jta.org/2015/11/06/news-opinion/politics/jewish-archaeology-expert-disputes-ben-carsons-pyramid-theory
http://www.timesofisrael.com/experts-dismiss-carsons-claim-pyramids-built-by-joseph/
Another view of pyramid impact:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-egypt-s-great-pyramid-changed-civilization/
More on that ostrakon with an ‘alphabetical’ list of words:
http://www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/nieuws-1/oudste-alfabetische-woordenlijst-ontdekt.html
Evidence of a massacre some 3400 years b.p. at the Elamite site of Haft Teppeh:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/jgum-afm110515.php
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2015/archaeologists-uncover-human-tragedy-at-ancient-elamite-site-of-haft-tappeh
Big news this week is the possible discovery of Antiochus Ephipanes’ Acra in Jerusalem:
http://www.livescience.com/52671-greek-citadel-unearthed-jerusalem.html
http://www.livescience.com/52672-ancient-acra-citadel-photos.html
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.683905
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4720320,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/202863#.Vj9TXa6rRn4
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-greek-citadel-discovered-under-jerusalem-car-park-163438850.html
http://www.dw.com/en/ancient-greek-citadel-discovered-in-jerusalem-under-a-car-park/a-18825235
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Archaeological-find-in-Jerusalems-City-of-David-may-answer-100-year-old-mystery-431895
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/us-archaeology-jerusalem-idUSKCN0SS1GD20151103?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/11/03/ancient-fortress-discovery-may-solve-one-jerusalems-great-archaeological-mysteries.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/1104/Spectacular-archaeological-find-adds-to-Temple-Mount-s-contested-history
… although there is skepticism:
http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2015/11/is-this-really-akra.html
Vandalism to Joseph’s tomb was repaired:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/josephs-tomb-torched-by-palestinians-restored-overnight/
On the oldest Hebrew Bible:
More on that Solomonic seal find from Temple Mount rubble a few weeks ago:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.683539
Syria’s head of antiquities is seeking help from the global community:
An OpEd on the Museum of the Bible investigation:
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/04/3718938/hobby-lobby-antiquities/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Nice mosaic floor in a Temple of Jupiter at Doliche:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-invaluable-ancient-syrian-mosaic.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/coe-ias110215.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3303654/Beautiful-ancient-Syrian-mosaic-discovered-Roman-era-flooring-shed-light-life-area-2-000-years-ago-sites-permanently-lost-thanks-ISIS.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/11/02/exquisite-late-antique-floor-mosaic-roman-doliche/
Latest from the Paphos theatre dig:
http://cyprus-mail.com/2015/11/07/nea-paphos-theatre-dig-reveals-road-and-columns/
Studying some painted wooden shields from Dura Europos:
http://news.yale.edu/2015/11/02/ancient-roman-shield-gets-makeover-thanks-yale-team
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2015/dura-europos-painted-wooden-shield-undergoes-new-analysis
Evidence of ancient problems with Hadrian’s Wall near the Segedunum fort:
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/wallsend-archaeological-digs-reveal-romans-10389386
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3305261/The-Roman-Army-no-match-River-Tyne-Hadrian-s-Wall-collapsed-times-instability-land.html
Some ancient columns from Laodicia:
Feature on the Necormanteion:
The Ashmolean recreated a Roman funeral:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-34683132
They’re talking about rebuilding the Colossus of Rhodes again:
http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/A-new-Colossus-could-rise-over-Rhodes-6601601.php
What Elizabeth Kosmetatou is up to:
http://uisjournal.com/news/2015/11/04/history-professor-receives-a-three-year-15000-annual-award/
What Mary-Kay Gamel is up to:
http://ndsmcobserver.com/2015/11/speaker-explores-music-ancient-greek-dramas/
What Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow is up to:
http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2015/november/aoko-honor.html
Comparing Trump to Nero:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/07/is-donald-trump-the-modern-nero.html
More on the shipwrecks off Fourni:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/07/fourni-achipelago-ships-wrecks-archaeologists
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151103-greek-shipwreck-find-trading-route/
http://abcnews.go.com/International/archaeologists-discover-22-greek-shipwrecks-uncover-ancient-mediterranean/story?id=34997913
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/30/amazing-discovery-of-22-shipwrecks-off-greece-offers-wondrous-of-ancient-life/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/22-ancient-shipwrecks-discovered-around-one-greek-island-chain-a6716711.html
More on the warrior burial at Pylos:
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-warriors-tomb-huge-treasure-hoard-found-greece-193420700.html
Review of Beard, *SPQR*:
http://www.studentnewspaper.org/beard-re-inserts-women-into-roman-history/
This one looks at both Beard’s *SPQR* and Holland’s *Dynasty*:
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2015/11/gangsters-rome-brutal-side-ancient-city
Review of Robin Lane Fox, *Augustine*:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c5f4f936-823d-11e5-a01c-8650859a4767.html
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/30437835/review-augustine-a-story-of-conversion
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Latest reviews from BMCR:
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some 14 000 b.p. ‘engravings’ from a Jersey site:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-archaeologists-unveil-year-old-ice-age.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34679202
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/642454/?sc=c52
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art540602-ice-age-archaeology-st-saviour-clifftop-jersey
A ‘mysterious’ Neolithic structure from Brignall:
A Viking longhouse from East Iceland:
http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2015/11/05/viking_longhouse_discovered_in_east_iceland/
A possible Armada site near the coast of Clare:
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/article1630211.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2015_11_07
Latest medieval finds from Flint:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/flint-archaeological-dig-uncovers-further-10394255
Interesting family crypt ‘accidentally’ found in Gloucester Cathedral:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-32914568
http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/community/latest-news/burial-vault-found-at-gloucester-cathedral.php
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Tomb-remains-entire-17th-century-family/story-28098996-detail/story.html
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/17th-Century-tomb-coffins-accidentally-discovered/story-28104440-detail/story.html
Interesting 14th century birch bark letter found in Moscow:
A latter day Druid is calling for reburial of human remains from Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-34688929
Documentary hype on who killed Richard III:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/film-tv/richard-iii-killed-welshman-10392292
Funding for a River Skerne conservation project:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34687793
Rome’s Trevi Fountain has reopened:
http://www.dw.com/en/romes-trevi-fountain-reopens-after-a-makeover/a-18826220
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=82642
More on those ‘witchmarks’ in the Tower of London:
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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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A 5000 years b.p. fish processing site from Novosibersk:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0479-fancy-some-neolithic-smoked-fish/
A very well-preserved Han Dynasty tomb from Jiangxi:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1875969/locked-tomb-eastern-china-may-hold-key-fate-little-known-emperor
http://www.ptinews.com/news/6712254_Unearthed-chariots-show-nbsp-nobles–ancient-travel-ritual-.html
… this seems to be the same story:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/ancient-cemetery-discovered-in-china/154910.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/04/c_134783978.htm
http://www.freepressjournal.in/the-haihunhou-chinas-ancient-cemetery-discovered/w/
http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2015/11-05/79857.shtml
Interesting tomb of a family executed by China’s first female emperor:
Study suggests early ‘proto porcelain’ from China was likely made from local materials:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-early-proto-porcelain-china-local-materials.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/p-epf102915.php
A 700 years b.p. hero stone from Koduvai:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/unique-herostone-discovered/article7844028.ece
Better coverage of those ‘geoglyphs’ in Kazakhstan:
http://www.livescience.com/52700-mysterious-geoglyphs-in-kazakhstan-revealed.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151102-kazakhstan-earthworks-geoglyphs-space-satellite/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-puzzled-by-huge-8000-year-old-mystery-structures-in-kazakhstan-that-resemble-ancient-crop-a6717766.html
A followup to the earthquake in Nepal:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/nepal_earthquake_unesco_herita/53423534
… while an earthquake in Pak appears to have damaged some heritage sites:
http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/world-heritage-sites-in-pak-develops-crack-after-quake-report/
A survey report of a site in Bukhara, Uzbekistan:
http://isaw.nyu.edu/news/report-from-summer-2015-archaeological-survey-in-bukhara-uzbekistan
Early photos of Peking:
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-34697724
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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
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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Finds from various periods in the Mojave desert:
Big news this week appears to be the discovery of a pile of coffins beneath Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-centuries-old-coffins-skeletons-beneath-nyc.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11982153/Burial-vaults-found-underneath-New-York-City-park.html
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/07/new-york-city-burial-vaults-washington-square-park
http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/greenwich-village-burial-vault-from-19th-century-discovered-under-washington-square-park-1.11060161
http://pix11.com/2015/11/04/old-burial-vault-human-bones-found-beneath-greenwich-village-park/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-york-bones-two-centuries-old-found-manhattan-work-crew-180957183/?no-ist
http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2015/11/centuries-old_coffins_skeletons_found_in_vault_under_new_york_city_street.html
Feature on Mesa Verde:
Looking for sites uncovered by floods in South Carolina:
http://www.wltx.com/story/news/2015/11/06/archaeologist-sites/75325634/
They were looking for an army route on the Nez Perce Trail:
Philadelphia has become the first city with Heritage City status in the US:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/philadelphia-world-heritage-city-us-35026257
Review of Brown, *Aaron and Alexander*:
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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What Ceren is revealing about the life of Maya ‘commoners’ (and archaeologists are heading back there):
http://www.livescience.com/52717-pompeii-of-new-world-discoveries.html
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ancient-salvadoran-village-ash-daily.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uoca-csa110315.php
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/11/03/cu-boulder-study-shows-ancient-salvadoran-village-buried-ash-frozen-time
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=136828
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3302791/The-ancient-Salvadoran-village-perfectly-preserved-ash-Study-reveals-1-400-year-old-community-lived.html
http://source.colostate.edu/csu-archaeologist-returning-to-honduran-jungle/
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2015/an-ancient-maya-village-in-el-salvador-frozen-in-time
Feline and human trophy heads from Toro Muerto (Peru):
An algorithm to analyze Maya writing:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-revealing-mysteries-maya-script.html
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Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On crowdfunding culture in Italy:
http://www.dw.com/en/why-italy-turned-to-crowdfunding-to-preserve-its-culture/a-18816706
… and Italy is cutting down on strikes at important monuments:
http://www.thelocal.it/20151106/italy-cracks-down-on-strikes-at-prized-monuments
Is this Shakespeare’s skull?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11968936/Shakespeares-skull-rumours-DNA-testing-barred-by-Church.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/11/04/pothead-willie-the-search-for-shakespeares-skull-and-the-truth-about-his-marijuana-use/?utm_channel=Technology&linkId=18505988
A Lincoln letter came to auction:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/signed-lincoln-document-sells-22m-nyc-auction-34991012
On the other KKK:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/02/kindred-of-the-kibbo-kift-1920s-youth-movement
Feature on Alexander von Humboldt:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/26/humboldts-gift
Pondering whether museums should sell things they don’t display:
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/out-of-sight-unseen-public-collections/
On the origins of rice cultivation:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-rice-cultivation.html
On the beefeaters:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151023-the-secret-life-of-beefeaters
On the evolution of language:
Assorted Guy Fawkes items, to mark the day last week:
http://www.businessinsider.com/guy-fawkes-signature-before-and-after-he-was-tortured-2015-11
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11976634/Bonfire-Night-2015-Why-do-we-celebrate-tonight-and-who-was-Guy-Fawkes.html
http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2015/11/guy_fawkes_night_remember_remember_the_5th_of_november.html
http://www.dw.com/en/million-mask-march-how-guy-fawkes-became-the-global-face-of-modern-protest/a-18826027
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-well-do-you-know-what-happened-during-the-gunpowder-plot-a6721096.html
On the history of prosthetic limbs:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151030-the-geniuses-who-invented-prosthetic-limbs
Oxford now has a ‘DaVinci Code department’:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3300050/Oxford-University-sets-new-unit-investigate-religious-relics.html
http://www.banburycake.co.uk/news/13930454.Da_Vinci_Code_department_set_up_by_Oxford_University/?ref=rss
On witchraft:
Marking the birth of George Boole:
Assorted famous sculptures as action figures:
Plans to exhume Tsar Alexander III:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-russia-readies-exhume-tsar-alexander.html
Another Kon Tiki expedition:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34744965
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Stukeley drawings:
Carlo Crivelli:
Faith After the Pharaohs:
http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/when-we-were-in-egypt-exhibition-shows-jewish-life-after-the-pharaohs/
Middle Kingdom Egypt:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-art-of-ancient-egypt-1446831342
Mummymania:
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/exhib-date/2015-09-29/exhib/mummymania
Greeks from Agamemnon to Alexander:
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2015/11/06/dueling-gold-masks-agamemnon-coming-soon-field-museum
Some Bronze Age mirrors from Britain are going ‘on tour’:
The British Museum is pondering charging tour groups:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/nov/02/why-tourists-should-pay-to-visit-british-museums
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/british-museum-considers-charge-for-tour-groups/
… and thinks it needs a bigger door:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/shortcuts/2015/nov/03/british-museum-overcrowding-entrance-sistine-chapel
… and has acquired some early Battle of Waterloo images:
Latest on the proposed underwater museum at Alexandria:
There’s a new curator at the Barnes Foundation:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/barnes-foundation-names-new-chief-curator/
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA is causing a rethink of the wheat trade in prehistoric Britain:
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ancient-dna-authenticity-stone-age.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151103064601.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-dna-dispute-raises-questions-about-wheat-trade-in-prehistoric-britain-1.18702
Mapping the DNA for the Caribbean:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uop-pnd110515.php
The poked around the Lincoln family DNA:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/03/dna-study-helps-solve-lincoln-lineage-debate/75078140/
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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A drought atlas chronicles 2000 years of climate in Europe:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/teia-nda110515.php
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-drought-atlas-years-climate-europe.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Submerged cities:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151102-when-cities-rise-from-the-depths
Matera:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-matera-italys-city-of-stone-1446650107
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CRIME BEAT
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Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/11/culture-crime-news-26-october-1-november-2015.html
Investors are grilling Tommy Thompson now:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3300569/Investors-demand-answers-deep-sea-treasure-hunter.html
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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Mungo Man has been returned:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11979442/University-returns-40000-year-old-Mungo-Man-to-Australias-Aborigines.html
http://theconversation.com/mungo-man-moves-to-national-museum-but-hes-still-not-home-49575
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NUMISMATICA
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A major Anglo Saxon hoard from Southampton:
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/13931371.display/
… declared treasure:
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n44.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n45.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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Comedy of Errors:
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OBITUARIES
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Alan Boegehold:
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/alan-l.-boegehold-1927-2015
John Anderson:
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/11/03/professor-emeritus-classical-archaeology-john-anderson-dies-91/
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/news-from-tac/audio-news-from-archaeologica/2318-audio-news-from-archaeologica-25-oct-31-oct-2015
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/
About.com Archaeology:
Ancient Digger:
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Past Horizons:
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
The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
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