Restoration of a colonial building in India:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64300791
Excavations have resume at Purana Qila:
https://theprint.in/features/purana-qila-is-being-dug-up-again-asi-wants-to-reach-all-the-way-to-the-mahabharata-era/1352926/
Feature on the origins of the Indian kurta:
https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-voices/tracing-the-origins-of-the-indian-kurta
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
A study of the populating of Australia and New Guinea over 10 000 years:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-remapping-superhighways-australians-reveals-year.html
cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379123000197 ============================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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The Manis bone projectie point is the oldest bone weapon in the Americas (13 900 years bp):
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-oldest-bone-spear-americas.html https://arkeonews.net/research-team-identifies-oldest-bone-spear-point-in-the-americas/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/researchers-find-oldest-projectile-point-in-the-americas/146113
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/03/oldest-bone-spear-point-identified-in-the-americas/
cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade9068
A study of the Grand Plaza of Cahokia:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/study-reveals-changes-in-the-development-of-downtown-cahokia/146125
Feature on the Bluefish Caves butchery site (Ice Age):
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bluefish-caves-yukon-first-americans
Feature on the Plum Bayou mounds:
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/feb/04/the-plum-bayou-mounds/
... and one on the Newark Earthworks:
https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/opinion/columnists/2023/02/05/lepper-burial-mounds-are-important-part-of-newark-earthworks-story/69858806007/
Feature on the waters of Saratoga Springs:
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-york/small-town-with-unique-history-ny/
Feature on a 'mysterious' shipwreck on North Carolina's Outer Banks coast a century or so ago:
https://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/national/article271867482.html
Connecticut may be next to exonerate past accused witches:
https://apnews.com/article/politics-connecticut-state-government-massachusetts-9a85bbfc5b8726d729d66c243cb10f15
Southport Park is seeking induction to the National Registor of Historic Places for its role in the Pequot War:
https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2023-01-31/southport-park-to-be-nominated-as-a-historic-site-in-the-pequot-war
Feature on Thomas Commeraw pottery:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/thomas-commeraw-new-york-historical-society-exhibition-1234655995/
A US court has ruled that the effects of drilling near Chaco near to be considered:
https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-bureau-of-land-management-climate-and-environment-business-f4aaa217511adc62cac313d0ea5bd0f5
A roundup of this month's Ancient Americas Zoom events:
https://mikeruggerisevents.tumblr.com/
... and the latest Aztlander Magazine of the Americas:
https://aztlander.wordpress.com/2023/01/31/february-2023-aztlander-magazine-of-the-americas/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://goo.gl/1VdeA
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:
https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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SOUTH AMERICA
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More concerns arising from the Maya Train project:
https://apnews.com/article/central-america-endangered-species-mexico-climate-and-environment-65808b5a88d76c639a540385da073b4d
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ============================================================
AI has uncovered a lost Lope de Vega play:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/05/artificial-intelligence-uncovers-lost-work-by-titan-of-spains-golden-age
Review of a biography of the Wife of Bath:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1146691833/wife-of-bath-canterbury-tales-chaucer
On the attractions of archaeology:
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-archaeology-useful-as-well-as-exciting-it-offers-lessons-from-the-past-197539
On a long search for purported Nazi loot in the Netherlands:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/world/europe/nazi-treasure-dutch-village.html
On the history of 'lorem ipsum':
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/lorem-ipsum-history-origins.html
On possible 'triggers' at Canadian battle sites:
https://tnc.news/2023/01/30/parks-canada-survey/
Not sure where to put this item on a deceased Vatican cleric's art collection:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/30/vatican-canons-lauded-art-collection-under-new-scrutiny
Plans to 'bring back' the dodo:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/world/dodo-bring-back-from-extinction-colossal-scn/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/science-oddities-dallas-business-d6ebba58ba92c03c46418c0c68276ed8
A 17th century notebook of a major Shakespeare fan is going on display:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/04/tiny-notebook-by-first-shakespeare-geek-show-stratford-first-folio-exhibition
On the history of distraction:
https://aeon.co/essays/google-didnt-break-your-brain-a-history-of-distraction
On assorted 'traditions' still celebrated in the UK:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230203-the-unruly-ancient-rituals-still-practised-today
Feature on Colette:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230125-colette-the-most-beloved-french-writer-of-all-time
Feature on warrior women in the ancient world:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/01/29/warrior-women-gamers-ancient-world-female-fighters/
On the history of tamales:
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-candlemas-day-tamales-b75cc93957118cac8230ea238de6ba8e
On a different reading of the Great Gatsby:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/great-gatsby-book-fitzgerald-race-interpretation/672778/
19th century paintings are being used to document increasing air pollution:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-air-pollution-visible-19th-century-artists.html
cf: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219118120
Pondering the purpose of literary criticism:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/john-guillory-literary-criticism.html
More on 17th century aristocratic gold dental work:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/archaeologists-uncover-gold-wire-mouth-anne-dalegre-17th-century-socialite-bad-reputation/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11159-230130-france-dental-work
On whether to publish unprovenanced items or not:
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.02.05/
If anyone is interested, the debate between Graham Hancock and Flint Dibble on Rogan is going to happen:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/archaeology-v-graham-hancock-joe-rogan-hosted-showdown
https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2023/01/graham-hancock-has-questions-i-have-a-few-answers/
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Russian art curators are apparently aiding in the looting of Ukraine museums:
https://nypost.com/2023/02/04/russian-art-curators-have-raided-dozens-of-ukraine-museums/
Ireland has a new celebration for St Brigid of Kildare:
https://apnews.com/article/travel-ireland-religion-d86f3356778e5c3bc9a8559809b7e1de
The annual items on Roman numerals and the Super Bowl:
https://sports.nbcsports.com/2023/01/31/super-bowl-2023-roman-numerals-naming/
On the history of Groundhog Day:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/us/groundhog-day-weird-history-punxsutawney-phil-cec/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1153728064/groundhog-day-2023-history-science-explained
First item this year on the history of Valentine's Day:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/why-celebrate-valentines-day-202937084.html
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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
On skepticism:
https://aeon.co/essays/four-scepticisms-what-we-can-know-about-what-we-cant-know
Feature on the political power of six philosophers:
https://bigthink.com/thinking/philosophers-political-power/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Vermeer:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/03/vermeer-will-never-look-the-same-amsterdam-rijksmuseum-exhibition
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/03/chance-of-a-lifetime-vermeer-exhibition-to-open-in-amsterdam
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/design/vermeer-rijksmueums.html
Enslavement:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/exhibition-lays-bare-church-of-englands-links-to-slave-trade
https://apnews.com/article/anglicanism-religion-dd656463d44d6348750d57cc6c91c0c7
Antakya and other sarcophagi:
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/antakya-sarcophagus-on-display-at-hatay-archaeology-museum/news
Afghanistan:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/487293.aspx https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-02-01/a-race-against-destruction-in-search-of-afghanistans-lost-civilizations.html
Gladiators:
https://the-past.com/review/whats-on/gladiators-a-cemetery-of-secrets/
Labyrinth:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/04/knossos-palace-crete-minotaur-arthur-evans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/labyrinth-knossos-myth-reality-ashmolean-museum/
cf: https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/labyrinth-knossos-myth-reality
Life and the Afterlife (Ancient Egypt):
https://carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/life-and-afterlife
Sacred Buddhist Land of Tay Yen Tu:
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/exhibition-displays-500-buddhist-artifacts-images-in-bac-giang/247719.vnp
Sutton Hoo:
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23292353.new-sutton-hoo-exhibition-suffolks-anglo-saxon-past/
https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/woodbridge/new-exhibition-to-showcase-finds-from-anglo-saxon-dig-9296820/
Donatello:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/01/donatello-queer-identity-london-exhibition
cf: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/donatello-sculpting-the-renaissance
Femme Fatale:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230130-femme-fatale-the-images-that-reveal-male-fears
cf: https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/the-colour-of-anxiety-race-sexuality-and-disorder-in-victorian-sculpture/
https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/exhibitions/femme-fatale https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/the-rossettis
Employment in Ancient Greece:
https://neoskosmos.com/en/2023/02/01/life/arts/acropolis-museum-presents-the-world-of-employment-in-ancient-athens/
Feature on the Bicycle Museum of America:
https://apnews.com/article/bicycle-museum-of-america-ohio-cycling-history-new-bremen-d5b1a7b85bef642173e11434b1e734bc
cf: https://www.bicyclemuseum.com/
Feature on the Sanliurfa Museum:
https://expatguideturkey.com/sanliurfa-archeology-museum-takes-its-visitors-back-12-thousand-years/
The debate on whether museums should display mummified human remains:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/should-ancient-egyptian-mummies-british-museums-still-display/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1206/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1206/pub/1206/page/86/article/NaN
More on the use of the term 'mummy' in UK museums:
https://observer.com/2023/01/museums-rebrand-mummy-as-mummified-persons-to-humanize-egyptian-remains/
More details on the planned National Archaeological Museum in Athens:
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/greek-news/culture/48350-national-archaeological-museum-will-host-125-000-ancient-treasures-in-athens.html
Review of Susan Wels, *An Assassin in Utopia*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/books/review/an-assassin-in-utopia-susan-wels.html
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Richard III's car park burial site is going to be auctioned (!):
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64491329 https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1237/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1237/pub/1237/page/41/article/NaN
Coins from assorted shipwrecks are coming to auction:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-64455969
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ON THE DNA FRONT ============================================================
On the eihics of ancient human DNA research:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-should-scientists-navigate-the-ethics-of-ancient-human-dna-research-180981489/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Istanbul hippodrome:
https://www.thetravel.com/whats-left-of-the-ancient-roman-hippodrome-in-istanbul/
Latest tourist behaving badly climbed the steps of the Temple of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11692647/Polish-tourist-sparking-fury-climbing-steps-Mayan-temple-Mexico.html
https://www.complex.com/life/tourist-hit-head-stick-climbing-pyramid-mexico-video
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Up Helly Aa fire festival:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/02/photos-up-helly-aa-viking-fire-festival/672911/
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CRIME BEAT
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An attempted robbery in Samaria led to the find of an ancient sarcophagus:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-729984
Some antiquities thieves caught in the act in Soger (Western Galilee) did major damage to an ancient wine press:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nabbed-antiquities-robbers-cause-heart-breaking-damage-to-ancient-wine-press/
Vague item on a bust relating to illicit trading of antiquities in Libya:
https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/egyptian-man-arrested-smuggling-and-illicit-trading-antiquities
Feature on antiquities trafficking in Pakistan:
https://www.dawn.com/news/1733215/floods-drugs-and-cultural-patrimony-tackling-antiquities-trafficking-in-pakistan
A French court has refused to drop antiquities smuggling charges against a former director of the Louvre:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/design/martinez-louvre-trafficking-charges.html
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jean-luc-martinez-antiquities-trafficking-charges-maintained-2250962
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/french-court-upholds-charges-jean-luc-martinez-antiquities-trafficking-investigation-1234656254/
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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 ============================================================
An Irish politician wants the British Museum to return a chalice:
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/mount-keefe-chalice
Switzerland is returning 15 items to Greece:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/03/swiss-court-orders-15-ancient/ https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1203797/ancient-artifacts-to-return-home-from-switzerland/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/03/greek-antiquities-repatriated-switzerland/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/04/restitution-of-looted-ancient-artefacts-from-switzerland/
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/48362-geneva-court-fifteen-antiquities-on-their-way-back-to-greece-from-switzerland.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/03/fifteen-ancient-artefacts-to-be-repatriated-from-switzerland/
France is redoing its restitution practices:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/02/new-french-restitution-laws-should-benefit-the-marketand-maybe-force-change-in-britain-too
Israel (or politicians) is probing the legality of US returns of an antiquity to Palestine:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-probes-legality-of-us-returning-looted-artifact-to-palestinians/
https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-palestinian-territories-israel-6931c3b693f13a15a245a798d53ddcac
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/israel-probes-legality-of-us-giving-artifact-to-palestinians/
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/art-culture/israel-probes-legality-of-us-giving-2700-yo-artifact-to-pale
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/israel-probes-legality-us-giving-artifact-palestinians-96868981
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-03/israel-probes-legality-of-us-giving-artefact-to-palestinians/101930274
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-03/ty-article/u-s-gives-artifact-to-palestinians-sparking-dispute-with-israels-far-right-govt/00000186-165e-d840-a78e-7edef55b0000
https://news.yahoo.com/israel-probes-legality-us-giving-064522927.html
The US is returning 14 items to Italy:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/03/repatriation-14-looted-antiquities-new-york-italy
https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-returns-14-stolen-antiquities-to-italy/
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/02/03/US-New-York-returns-14-stolen-antiquities-to-Italy
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/new-york-returns-14-stolen-antiquities-italy.1011360
... and Italy has received 214 items back from 'New York' in the past seven months:
https://www.thelocal.it/20230203/new-york-returns-214-stolen-artworks-to-italy-in-seven-months/
India has retrieved 229 antiquities since 2014:
https://theprint.in/india/229-antiquities-retrieved-from-foreign-countries-since-2014-govt/1350323/
An investigation suggests Benin items in Swiss museums were looted:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/swiss-museums-benin-artifacts-investigation-1234656236/
OpEd on 'London' being increasingly under pressure to return things:
https://www.dw.com/en/pressure-on-london-to-restitute-artworks-grows/a-64566044
OpEd on the British Museum and Benin material:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/05/british-museum-benin-bronzes-nigeria
... related:
https://theboar.org/2023/02/cambridges-return-of-benin-bronzes-represents-a-small-step-in-mending-its-colonial-history/
OpEd on who owns a country's artifacts:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/rightfully-owns-countrys-artifacts-greeces-fight-parthenon-marbles/story
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Lydia:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/01/29/worlds-first-coins-greek/
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n05.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n06.html ------------------------
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Jane F Gardner:
https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/2023/02/03/professor-jane-f-gardner-1934-2023/
Irene Schwab:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/feb/03/irene-schwab-obituary
Marios Philippides:
https://www.recorder.com/Colleagues-remember-beloved-professor-who-died-after-being-struck-in-Greenfield-crosswalk-49774013
Colin Gill:
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/january/february/colin-gill.html
Patrick McCloskey:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/patrick-mccloskey-obituary?id=40651548
William Agee:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/arts/william-agee-dead.html
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ============================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:
https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3257-audio-news-from-archaeologica-january-22nd-through-the-28th-2023
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ============================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/
About.com Archaeology:
http://archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Atlas Obscura:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/
Heritage Daily:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/
Sapiens Archaeology:
https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ============================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ============================================================
Archaeosoup:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
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