Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Hernan Astudillo, David Critchley, Bob Heuman, Barbara Saylor Rodgers,
Frank MacKay, 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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I thought we knew Neanderthals used toothpicks a couple of years ago:
http://www.livescience.com/54407-neanderthals-used-prehistoric-toothpicks.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3540727/Did-Neanderthals-use-toothpicks-Traces-wood-stuck-ancient-plaque-reveal-relatives-table-manners.html
Next suggestion for the demise of Neanderthals: they caught diseases from sapiens:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-neanderthals-infected-diseases-africa-humans.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uoc-nmh040816.php
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160412-what-really-happened-when-we-met-neanderthals
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/10/neanderthals-may-have-died-of-diseases-carried-by-humans-from-africa?subid=16450490&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/neanderthals-might-have-contracted-diseases-from-early-humans-that-helped-make-them-extinct-a6978426.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/health/humans-responsible-for-neanderthal-extinction-by-transferring-diseases/index.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-diseases-may-have-doomed-neanderthals-180958735/
A new hypothesis on fire use by early humans:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-hypothesis-human-ancestors-advantage.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160412160555.htm
http://unews.utah.edu/the-pyrophilic-primate/
Latest naledi controversy:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-erupts-over-strange-new-human-species/
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Review of Hammer, *The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu*:
More on dodo extinction:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160408-how-humanity-first-killed-the-dodo-then-lost-it-as-well
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A barque station near Aswan from the time of Hatshepsut :
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Templates/Articles/tmpArticleNews.aspx?ArtID=103537
Some colossal Egyptian statues have arrived safely at the British Museum:
Pondering the question of whether Jews were slaves in Egypt:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.713849
… and more discussion of Stars of David on Egyptian temples:
Rethinking a 19th century building in Cairo:
More on the finds at Gebel el Silsila:
http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/14431592.Hereford_man_part_of_new_discovery_at_Egyptian_site/
Remains of a 6th millennium BCE village in Kurdistan:
http://en.mehrnews.com/news/115674/Relics-of-ancient-six-millennia-old-village-uncovered
Some Hittite lions from Sorgun:
Plenty of coverage of the find of the site of a Roman-era glass factory:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4192
http://www.livescience.com/54379-israel-oldest-glass-factory-discovered.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-roman-glass-kilns-unearthed-in-israel-160411.htm
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-oldest-glass-kilns-point-to-ancient-silicon-valley/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Oldest-kilns-and-Judean-glass-remains-in-country-unearthed-near-Haifa-450873
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/65501/archaeological-missing-link-proves-israel-was-world-center-ancient-glass-trade-jewish-world/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ancient-glass-works-prove-israel-was-world-glass-production-center/2016/04/11/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/11/israeli-archaeologists-announce-sensational-discovery-of-oldest-ancient-glassworks-ever-found-in-the-country/
http://artdaily.com/news/86474/The-oldest-glassworks-ever-found-in-Israel-was-a-world-center-for-glass-production-in-antiquity-
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0412/Oldest-glass-factory-in-Israel-dates-to-4th-century-AD
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.713942
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/12/ancient-kilns-prove-israel-was-leader-in-roman-era-glass-making/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3533731/
Handwriting analysis is suggesting that Biblical texts may have been written down earlier than previously thought:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-analysis-clues-dating-testament-texts.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/afot-hap041116.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160412110006.htm
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/04/05/1522200113.abstract
http://www.livescience.com/54368-bible-compiled-early.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/bible-was-written-earlier-ancient-notes-suggest-160411.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/middleeast/new-evidence-onwhen-bible-was-written-ancient-shopping-lists.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-look-at-ancient-shards-suggests-bible-even-older-than-thought/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Old-Testament-may-be-older-than-previously-thought-hi-tech-analysis-indicates-451004
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4789745,00.html
http://bigstory.ap.org/1409f25101b04492b9695990be062c2a
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/12/handwriting-study-suggests-biblical-texts-might-have-been-written-earlier-than-many-scholars-thought/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/handwriting-study-finds-clues-biblical-texts-written-38329128
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-handwriting-may-shed-light-on-age-of-bible/
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/12/bible-age-tel-aviv-university-findings
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.713885
http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2016/04/659-676124-9-la-primera-escritura-de-textos-biblicos-pudo-ser-hace-600-anos-ac.shtml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3534317/
… some reactions:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/12/does-this-ancient-handwriting-prove-the-bible-s-age.html
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=708
Three Palestinians were arrested smuggling a statue of ‘Herod’s lover’:
http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Three-Palestinians-arrested-smuggling-statue-of-King-Herods-lover-to-Israel-450977#article=6018MjJFNjU2OTRERTc3MEUxMzhCQzYxQ0QzNDAzMDlDRjg=
http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/busted-palestinian-smugglers-caught-statue-%E2%80%98king-herod%E2%80%99s-lover%E2%80%99-828268
… but confer (with photo) to question the identity:
https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771079
I think we mentioned the Maccabees Project:
Feature on sanitation in Mesopotamia:
http://asorblog.org/2016/04/06/trash-and-toilets-in-mesopotamia-sanitation-and-early-urbanism/
Turkey is looking for the skull of an Ottoman architect:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36015767
Some interesting early modern maps of Jerusalem came to auction:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/12/nineteenth-century-jerusalem-maps-shed-light-on-the-holy-city-once-shrouded-in-mystery/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4790270,00.html
More on that Byzantine church find in Gaza:
On Babylonian knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-year-journey-classroom.html
http://news.yale.edu/2016/04/11/3800-year-journey-classroom-classroom
One of Saddam Hussein’s palaces is being turned into a museum:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/12/saddam-husseins-palace-will-become-a-museum-in-iraq/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160411-iraq-saddam-palace-basra-art-museum/
http://www.newsweek.com/palace-former-iraqi-dictator-saddam-hussein-transformed-museum-447270
Interesting item on 666:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/morgan-freeman-mark-of-the-beast_us_570be32de4b0885fb50da7e2
Turkey wants to do more for cultural heritage:
Reassessing the damage ISIL caused in Palmyra:
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2016/apr/17/pieces-picked-up-in-palmyra-20160417/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/catastrophe-say-experts-after-seeing-palmyra-museum/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/16/experts-give-new-details-of-is-destruction-of-syri/
… with the latest photos:
… and suggestions that Palmyra should not be rebuilt:
… and that there are mines all over the site:
http://www.dw.com/en/deadly-sightseeing-the-mine-fields-of-ancient-palmyra/a-19182311
… and why it will ‘live on’:
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/palmyras-legacy-is-everywhere-and-isis-could-never-have-erased-it/?
Meanwhile, ISIL apparently burst through a section of the wall of Nineveh:
… and there are reports they actually destroyed the gate:
The Vatican and Orthodox churches are cooperating in restoring damaged churches:
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-vatican-and-orthodox-churches-work.html
Lecture on looting and destruction of antiquities as a calculated strategy:
http://news.yale.edu/2016/04/13/looting-and-destruction-antiquities-calculated-strategy
… and a tool of war:
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/04/13/antiquities-as-tools-of-war/
… and an ‘illegal Syrian antiquity’ showed up in a London shop:
… while the US Senate imposed a ban on the import of Syrian antiquities:
More on the damage at the St Elian monastery:
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Plenty of coverage of a major villa find in Wiltshire (this story is still trickling out):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36062538
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/16/unparalleled-discovery-of-roman-villa-beneath-wiltshire-garden/
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/17/amazing-find-roman-villa
http://www.basildonrecorder.co.uk/news/national/14432759.Farmhouse_owner_discovers__well_preserved__Roman_villa_in_his_grounds/
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/journalnewsindex/14432871.Tisbury_farmhouse_owner_discovers__well_preserved__Roman_villa_in_his_grounds/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3543938/Farmhouse-owner-discovers-preserved-Roman-villa-grounds.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/roman-villa-found-house-largest-ever-discovered-uk_uk_5710b3dee4b0dc55ceea5469
… and some speculation as to ownership already:
http://news.sky.com/story/1679879/was-unearthed-villa-home-to-roman-emperor
More finds from Phalero (however it is transliterated) might be connected to the Cylon affair:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-mass-graves-greece.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-mass-graves-discovered-in-greece-160415.htm
http://www.livescience.com/54432-mass-grave-unearthed-in-greece.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/04/15/archaeologists-may-have-found-the-graves-of-supporters-of-ancient-greek-tyrant-cylon.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/15/newly-discovered-mass-graves-could-be-filled-with-an-ancient-greek-tyrants-followers/
http://www.ekathimerini.com/207941/gallery/ekathimerini/life/ancient-mass-graves-found-in-athens-seen-as-significant-discovery
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/04/14/ancient-grave-with-80-bodies-found-near-athens-may-be-linked-to-cylonian-affair/
http://m.france24.com/en/20160414-ancient-mass-graves-discovered-greece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3540584/Have-murdered-followers-Cylon-Skeletons-80-ancient-men-hands-bound-heads-belong-7th-Century-Greek-rebels.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Evidence of a vast wine-making concern at Vagnari:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-roman-imperial-leaders-wine-empire.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160411082833.htm
Police looking for guns came across antiquities near Enna:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36055120
http://blognotizie.info/179704/archeologia-reperti-sequestrati-in-casa-pregiudicato-enna.html
New digs are going on at Bath:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-36045817
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Bath-archaeological-digs-start-uncover-hidden/story-29104616-detail/story.html
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Archaeologists-begin-digging-hidden-Roman-baths/story-29104193-detail/story.html#ixzz45ilkMDmb
Looking for Roman remains in Gloucester:
Latest feature mentioning the possible redating of the eruption of Vesuvius:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-features-luxuries-wealthy-percent-ancient.html
… and a feature on Pompeii that seems to be hyping something:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160408-pompeii-roman-vesuvius-eruption-disaster/
A profile sort of thing on Mary Beard:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/fashion/mary-beard-against-internet-trolling.html
… and one on Danielle Allen:
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/05/the-egalitarian
What Chris Renaud is up to:
https://www.carthage.edu/live/news/10505-classics-professor–national-geographic-expert
What Reviel Netz is up to:
http://news.uark.edu/articles/34262
Nice protest by Classics profs in France:
There’s going to be a pile of reenactors at Maryport:
… and a major cavalry reenactment at Hadrian’s Wall:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-world-s-biggest-roman-cavalry-battle-re-enactment-will-be-staged-at-hadrian-s-wall-next-year-a6977146.html
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/09/hadrians-wall-roman-cavalry
Pondering the legacy of ancient Greek politics:
http://blog.oup.com/2016/04/ancient-greek-political-legacy/
… and what ancient Rome can tell us about modern politics:
http://www.wpr.org/what-can-ancient-rome-teach-us-about-modern-politics
Nice infographic on assorted Homeric questions:
http://blog.oup.com/2016/04/homer-inspiration-and-controversy/
On Greek/Egyptian interactions:
http://blog.oup.com/2016/04/greek-egyptian-interactions-literature/
Latest essay on Lucretius:
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201604lucretius-experience-and-reality
Homerathon coverage:
http://www.theshorthorn.com/classic-literature-lovers-challenge-homerathon-together/collection_b09bc540-028c-11e6-8b60-57ce5ad85dce.html
http://www.salemnews.com/news/lifestyles/interest-days-for-marathon-reading-of-homer-s-iliad/article_509adb00-900e-550d-833d-bbb737e013a4.html
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/department-of-classics-reads-epic-poem-nonstop-for-two-days/article_87e588c4-0166-11e6-9314-5340f18709a3.html
Some NJCL coverage:
The impact of Alexander the Great on art:
Features/reviews/etc of Heaney’s Aeneid VI:
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/14/474265657/seamus-heaneys-translation-of-the-aeneid-gets-posthumous-publication
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21696919-music-underworld
On Caroline Alexander’s Iliad translation:
We’ve had this carnyx reconstruction before:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article71289162.html
Last week we labelled this as a review of Mayor’s *Amazons* … it’s actually feature on Amazons by A. Mayor (apologies!):
http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?cat=24
More on that Etruscan inscription:
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/04/13/archaeologists-unearth-rare-etruscan-text-at-italy-site
More on those curse tablets in an Athenian burial:
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http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
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The cave art in Chauvet Cave-Pont D’Arc is older than previously thought:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-radio-carbon-chauvet-pont-darc-cave-art.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-timeline-zeroes-creation-chauvet-cave-paintings-180958754/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3534242/The-incredible-history-Chauvet-Pont-d-Arc-Radiocarbon-dating-reveals-early-humans-shared-painted-cave-BEARS-30-000-years-ago.html
Reconstruction of an 11 000 years bp headdress is shedding light on hunter/gatherer rituals:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-headdress-reconstruction-hunter-gatherer-rituals.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160413151115.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uoy-hrt041316.php
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2016/first-scientific-analysis-of-oldest-known-shamanic-costume-in-europe
Vinca culture remains near Alba Julia:
3000/4000 bce (maybe) burials halt construction in St Athan:
A 7th/8th century burial ground on MOD property in Wiltshire:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36052151
http://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/14431438.Archaeological_find_unearthed_during_Army_homes_development/
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/journalnewsindex/14430354._Unexpected__archaeological_finds_unearthed_on_Salisbury_Plain/
I’ll let you decide what’s up with this Bosnian ‘sphere’ discovery:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-archaeologist-bosnia-stone-sphere-massive.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/giant-rock-sphere-linked-to-mysterious-civilization-160414.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/11/mysterious-giant-sphere-unearthed-in-forest-divides-opinion/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3527997/Is-rock-proof-lost-European-civilisation-Archaeologist-claims-spherical-boulder-world-s-oldest-man-sphere-used-healing.html
Remains of a 17th century plague victim from an Edinburgh school yard:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-36034906
http://www.thenational.scot/news/17th-century-skeleton-discovered-in-edinburgh-school-grounds.16280
Plans to investigate the Clent Hills:
A silk dress from a 17th century Dutch shipwreck:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dutch-divers-discover-400-year-old-dress-in-a-sunken-ship/
http://www.cnet.com/news/shipwrecked-silk-dress-survives-400-years-under-water/
Trying to figure out a naked woman engraving on Duart castle:
http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/experts-puzzled-by-naked-woman-carving-on-duart-castle-1-4096169
Pondering Viking motivations:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/vikings-may-have-first-taken-seas-find-women-slaves
I think we had this Viking jewellery thing a while ago:
The Bronze Age battle in Germany story is still making the rounds:
… as is the Vasco da Gama shipwreck:
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/14/shipwreck-hunter-discovers-500-year-old-treasures/
More on Orkney deer being brought by ship:
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http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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Studying paleolithic tools from the Sungir site:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-archaeologists-tools-sungarian.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/lmsu-vi041416.php
Paleolithic items from Viet Nam:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/11/c_135268559.htm
http://tuoitrenews.vn/features/34260/stone-age-artifacts-found-in-vietnam-archeologists
4500 years bp burials from Sichuan:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/17/c_135287267.htm
The stripes on some Mongolian mummies’ shoes were taken to their illogical extreme:
http://www.akipress.com/news%3A575546/
https://www.rt.com/viral/339486-adidas-mummy-mongolia-archaeology/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3537442/Conspiracy-theorists-believe-1-500-year-old-Mongolian-mummy-wearing-Adidas-boots-finally-proof-time-travel-exists.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
An early British boundary stone from Hong Kong:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-year-saiwan-boundary-marker-stone.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/tuoh-1yo040816.php
Digging an ‘Irish settlement’ in Australia:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-archaeologists-home-australia-lost-clachan.html
Liu Yiqian plans on buying more Western antiquities:
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/arts/2016/04/16/463570/More-Western.htm
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-wealth/article/1936137/chinese-tycoon-liu-yiqian-says-he-wants-add-more-western-art
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3541260/More-Western-art-shopping-list-Chinese-tycoon-Liu.html
Sea level rise threatens sites in Hawaii:
More on new branches of the Silk Road:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/archaeologists-uncover-another-branch-of-the-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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Searching for remains of a star-shaped fort near Lunenburg:
Some guy claims there is yet another Norse site on Newfoundland:
An early 19th century well from St Augustine:
http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2016-04-12/coquina-well-walls-found-mill-top-excavation#.Vw6Cl0f52Iv
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2016-04-13/story/coquina-well-walls-found-mill-top-excavation-st-augustine
The Judaculla Rock was vandalized:
Interesting feature on the Reservoir Stone Mound:
Feature on Harvard’s Porcellian Club:
Some Franklin ship coverage:
http://www.adn.com/article/20160410/stirring-account-finding-franklins-lost-ship
Georgetown U’s slave legacy:
An Alexandrian shipwreck is popular:
The federal government has purchased Burnt Corn Pueblo:
Pondering sea-level rise and sites in Florida (and elsewhere):
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/16/474395637/what-can-we-learn-from-early-floridians-on-sea-level-rise
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-history-sea-threatens-historic-sites.html
Plenty of Toronto neighbourhoods are built on cemeteries, apparently:
http://www.citynews.ca/2016/04/13/watch-where-you-walk-key-toronto-areas-built-on-cemeteries/
Feature on the SD Archaeological Center:
Canada has no strategy to protect shipwrecks from looting:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/shipwrecks-looting-prevention-strategy-1.3533233
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/archeologist-calls-for-national-strategy-to-protect-shipwrecks-from-looting-1.2856112
What Lincoln’s letters reveal:
Preserving the legacy of Sing Sing:
More on the Wright Brothers’ patent find:
http://www.livescience.com/54409-wright-brothers-missing-patent-found.html
More on that North Carolina Civil War shipwreck:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-36033056
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A construction crew found the grave of one of Mexico’s first Catholic priests:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-mexico-unearths-spanish-priest-ancient.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-mexican-experts-early-burial-colonial.html
http://artdaily.com/news/86564/Mexican-archaeologists-unearth-Spanish-priest-s-ancient-tombstone
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/construction-crew-uncovered-grave-one-mexicos-first-catholic-priests-180958771/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/13/mexico-priest-grave-spanish-conquest-aztec-archaeology
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tomb-of-a-16th-century-catholic-priest-found-in-remains-of-aztec-temple/2016/04/15/0aa7800e-0262-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3538476/Mexican-experts-early-burial-1st-colonial-cathedral.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Interesting holes add to our picture of Nazca:
On the role of humans in spreading seeds:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-seeds-human-migration.html
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Mike Ruggeri’s Ancient Americas Breaking News:
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Suggestion that STIs led to monogamy:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-sexually-transmitted-infections-peer-pressure.html
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160412-sexually-transmitted-infections-may-have-reshaped-our-lives
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/12/stis-may-have-driven-ancient-humans-to-monogamy-study-says
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/12/ciencia/1460464009_412113.html
A different way to interpret prehistoric footprint remains:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160414-we-have-found-a-new-way-to-read-prehistoric-footprints
In case you were wondering what it was like to sleep in Elsinore:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/14/design/shakespeare-hamlets-castle-the-spaces/index.html
… or that thing about Eskimo (yes, they used that word) words for snow:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160413151235.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/651637/?sc=c52
More on that first folio found in Scotland:
http://www.livescience.com/54397-shakespeare-first-folio-authenticated.html
… and suggestions what it would be like if Shakespeare had to include acknowledgements:
On the Dutch bulb trade:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-dutch-bulb-garden-depicts-golden.html
Latest claim of a Caravaggio find in an attic:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36024865
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/12/lost-caravaggio-causes-rift-in-art-world
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/europe/treasured-french-painting-recovered/index.html
http://m.france24.com/en/20160412-caravaggio-painting-found-french-attic-italian-art
http://m.jpost.com/International/120-million-euro-lost-Caravaggio-discovered-in-French-attic-451063#article=6017RkEyQTI0MkI2RjIxQjMwRUVDQkVGRDMxQjAzMTBCOTM=
The Panama papers and Modigliani:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36015701
… and Picasso:
… and what they reveal about the art market:
Pondering whether humans are hardwired for war:
Feature on Rome’s Enlightenment Library:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/the-extremo-files/2016/04/12/inside-italys-enlightenment-library/
Feature on ‘vision technologies’ over the past few hundred years:
What Jody Joy is up to:
Some descendents of daVinci:
http://www.livescience.com/54381-leonardo-da-vinci-living-relatives-found.html
On conserving a Pollock:
That Spanish castle restoration we mentioned a few weeks ago actually won a prize:
I think we mentioned Newton’s Philosopher’s Stone recipe:
The Times seems to have covered the Loch Ness Monster a lot:
Review of Bone, *The Curse of Beauty*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/nyregion/the-tragic-life-of-americas-first-supermodel.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Gothic to Goth:
Pergamon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/arts/design/reaching-peak-greek-at-the-met-museum.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/mass-invasion-of-greek-art-comes-to-the-new-york-met-1460568224
Picasso:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36015757
Titanic:
Maya art:
Alexandria:
Language of Beauty:
http://www.euronews.com/2016/04/15/the-language-of-beauty-mayan-art-on-show-in-berlin/
Staffordshire Hoard:
Christian History:
Roman Mosaics:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-getty-mosaics-review-20160414-column.html
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using high tech to figure out what happened at the Battle of Culloden:
Latest on scanning mummies:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-mummies-modern-technology.html
Visiting El Mirador from afar:
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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A project to reconstruct climate in Norse settlements in Greenland:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uoma-uag041116.php
http://scienmag.com/umass-amherst-geoscientists-to-reconstruct-climate-at-old-norse-settlements-in-greenland/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ganges:
Saint Remy:
Hill of the Star:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/travel/mexico-city-volcanos-aztec.html
Pyramids (etc.):
Prehistoric sites in Scotland:
Taormina:
http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2016-4-15/teatro-greco
Heidelberg:
http://www.dw.com/en/10-reasons-to-love-heidelberg/g-19183006
For tall ship fans:
Italian railways:
http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2016-4-14/travel-time
Bardsey:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160411-the-tiny-island-of-20000-graves
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CRIME BEAT
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A tomb raider gang leader in China was sentenced to death:
… more heavy sentences:
http://english.cri.cn/12394/2016/04/15/4061s924345.htm
A safe was stolen from one of the Roman catacombs:
http://www.thelocal.it/20160411/safe-stolen-from-one-of-worlds-most-important-catacombs
Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/04/culture-crime-news-4-10-april-2016.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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Ukraine has recovered some stolen Dutch paintings:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/ukraine-says-stolen-dutch-art-has-been-recovered/
Repatriation is increasing interest in Cambodian antiquity:
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NUMISMATICA
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Aethelred coins:
https://www.historytoday.com/kate-wiles/coins-%C3%A6thelred-unready
On beards on ancient coins:
http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/04/a-diversity-of-beards-on-coins-ancient-to-modern
Continuing the collecting of Julio Claudians:
Horses on ancient coins:
http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-horses-ancient-coins/
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n15.html
…and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n16.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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Vivaldi:
Nathan the Wise:
Hamilton:
Richard II will be performed in Parliament:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36048491
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OBITUARIES
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William L. O’Neill:
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
http://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2413-audio-news-from-archaeologica-3-apr-2016-9-apr-2016
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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(send in your notices!)
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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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