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this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Another feature on Otzi:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-unsolved-case-of-otzi-the-iceman/

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AFRICA
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I think we mentioned this 5000 years bp rock art from South Africa:

http://www.livescience.com/58684-bushmen-painted-earliest-rock-art-southern -africa.html http://www.livescience.com/58689-photos-oldest-rock-art-in-southern-africa.ht ml

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ===============================================================
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Greco-Roman artifacts from a construction site in Alexandria:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/262915/Heritage/GrecoRoman/ GraecoRoman-artefacts-discovered-at-future-Alexand.aspx http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/photos-artifacts-discovered-gustav-a egeon-villa-alexandria http://www.archaeology.org/news/5486-170413-greco-roman-egypt

More on that Ameny Qemau pyramid:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2nd-pyramid-bearing-pharaoh-ameny-16580082
0.html http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/remains-of-ancient-pyramid-found-in-egypt-. aspx?pageID=238&nid=111591&NewsCatID=375

Zahi Hawass gets busier:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/zahi-hawas-be-un-ambassador-global -cultural-heritage

Explaining the ten plagues:

http://www.livescience.com/58638-science-of-the-10-plagues.html

Feature on that statue of Idrimi:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3500-year-old-syrian-refugee-als o-one-archaeologys-most-important-finds-180962843/

Concerns for a ziggurat in Iraq:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/04/iraq-ziggurat-nowruz-kassit es-babylon-hittites.html

Latest from Catal Huyuk:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mystery-of-catalhoyuks-early-structures-to- be-solved-soon-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=111845&NewsCatID=375

More on sandstorms revealing a site in Iran:

http://www.archaeology.org/5483-170412-iran-sandstorm-fahraj

Suggestion that a tsunami may have hit Israel some 2800 years bp:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.782460

More on the Temple Mount Sifting Project and that Egyptian finger:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-bid-for-survival-archaeologists-point-to-egypti an-finger-from-temple-mount/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Temple-Mount-Sifting-Project-finds-finger-fro m-ancient-Egyptian-statue-486630 http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/4/10/finger-from-egyptian-statue-found-in-t emple-mount-excavation

More on that Jerusalem virtual reality app:

http://www.livescience.com/58566-ancient-jerusalem-reconstructed-in-virtual- reality-app.html

More on possible evidence for King Solomon’s Mines:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/king-solomon-mines-bible-timna- dung/

A response to the suggestion that Hebrew was the first alphabet:

http://asorblog.org/2017/04/14/response-douglas-petrovichs-hebrew-language -behind-worlds-first-alphabet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&ut m_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAsorBlog+%28The+ASOR+Blog%29

The Smithsonian is getting involved with ISIL-related antiquities:

http://www.govexec.com/management/2017/04/state-department-teams-smith sonian-rescue-isis-harmed-antiquities/136960/

Pondering the future of Nimrud:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/reduced-rubble-isis-archaeologists-see-new- day-ancient-city-nimrud/

OpEd on ISIL’s impact on Iraqi sites:

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/ISIS-crimes-scarred-Iraqi-history -and-landscape-486838

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A Bronze Age dwelling from Slovakia:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5437-170407-slovakia-bronze-age

The earliest structures from Nea Paphos:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5487-170413-cyprus-nea-paphos

Construction work revealed a section of Rome’s oldest aqueduct:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170406/metro-workers-have-accidentally-discovered- romes-oldest-aqueduct

Latest from Verulamium:

http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/15217172.Roman_remains_discovered _in_Verulamium_Park/ http://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/new-roman-ruins-discovered-underneath-verul amium-park-in-st-albans-1-4973463 http://www.bobfm.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-make-fresh-discoveri es-about-the-ancient-hertfordshire-city-of-verulamium/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5479-170411-england-verulamium-floor

Looking for Roman remains in Dales:

http://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/15215480.Hunt_launched_ for_Romans_in_Dales/

Feature on a site associated with Marcus Aurelius in Kibyratis:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.783703

There is a Greek item in a Mongolian burial [see the Asia section for more on the burial]:

http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/12388/20170413/ancient-silk-cover-bod y-excavated-inner-mongolia-cemetery.htm

Italy is showing off a pile of the Metro C finds:

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-ancient-rome-treasures-subway.html http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/11943/20170410/mysterious-world-of-an cient-romes-hidden-treasure.htm

… and a pair of recently-found kouroi have gone on display in Chios:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/04/10/kour%CE%BFi-found-on-chios-disp layed-at-chios-archaeological-museum/

… and we should mention Roman noses:

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/14/517941/Nasothek-Copenhagen

Reconstruction of the Arch of Titus:

https://www.yu.edu/cis/activities/arch-of-titus

Feature on an innovation associated with the Library of Alexandria:

http://time.com/4730810/first-card-catalog/

Looking at Rome’s borders in Britain:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/hard-or-soft-borders-the-roma n-experience-in-britain.htm

Another feature on Crossrail finds:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/tunnel-the-archaeology-of-cro ssrail.htm

On damnatio memoriae:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/11/how-do-you-damn-the- memory-of-a-roman-emperor/

On female gladiators:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/12/female-gladiators-were- a-part-of-the-lure-of-the-roman-arena-too/

It was Classics Day at the College of the Holy Cross:

http://news.holycross.edu/blog/2017/04/10/photo-gallery-togas-and-ancient-te xts-take-over-holy-cross/

What Kristina Killgrove is up to:

http://news.uwf.edu/professor-receives-neh-summer-stipend-to-study-skeletal- remains-in-italy/

… and semi-related:

http://news.uwf.edu/society-for-american-archaeology-to-honor-uwf-professor-f or-public-education/

Interview with Natalie Haynes:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/natalie-haynes-interview-how-sh e-combines-a-love-of-the-classics-with-standup-20170407-gvfws7.html

What Liz Young is up to:

http://thewellesleynews.com/2017/04/15/embracing-unconventionality-profess or-liz-young-encourages-students-to-reshape-classical-studies/

What Antonis Makrinos is up to:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/04/14/talking-homeric-heroes-cinema/

Victor Nuovo on Plato’s Republic:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201704victor-nuovo-platos-republic-nuts
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Some Nero revisionism:

http://www.dw.com/en/rethinking-nero-part-1/av-38321780

Classical influences in ‘Prison Break’:

http://screenrant.com/prison-break-homers-odyssey-explained/

Another idiot tourist charged for scratching their name on the Colosseum:

http://www.startribune.com/ecuadoran-tourist-cited-for-writing-names-on-roman -colosseum/419146534/ http://www.dailyastorian.com/ecuadoran-tourist-cited-for-writing-names-on-rom an-colosseum-da-ap-webfeeds-news-nation-world632d8fa4c0f0445cabcb3542
842190f0 http://azdailysun.com/news/world/ecuadoran-tourist-cited-for-writing-names-on -roman-colosseum/article_ac951953-adf8-5218-963f-274534688fa0.html

More on Roman remains beneath the A1:

http://www.livescience.com/58587-roman-settlement-discovered-beneath-engl and-road.html

More on ‘concession stands’ at Carnuntum:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-concession-stands-shops-found-165700 908.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-roman-gladiator-arena-concession-stan d-shops-found/

More on the search for Caligula’s ‘cruise ship’:

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/hunt-begins-wreck-ancient-roy al-cruise-ship http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/caligulas-pleasure-boat/
8429476 http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/the-search-for-caligula -s-third-pleasure-ship-resumes-in-italy/article/489960

More on that purported Ptolemy tomb on Cyprus:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-03/30/c_136171749.htm

More on that Roman tunnel in Hatay:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/04/10/ancient-roman-tunnel-in-turkey s-hatay-to-attract-tourists

More on the finds from Uzes:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=95160


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Skydstrup woman also apparently travelled pretty far in the Bronze Age:

http://sciencenordic.com/another-female-bronze-age-icon-now-known-have-tra velled-across-europe

Remains of five ‘lost’ archbishops of Canterbury have been found:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39613462

I think we mentioned this Iron Age chariot burial from Pocklington:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15193688.Iron_Age_chariot_burial/

…. And this 1000 years bp toy Viking boat from Norway:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/1000-year-old-toy-viking-boat-unearthed/

Not sure if we mentioned these 800 medieval burials from an Irish hillfort site:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/800-medieval-bodies-foun d-during-hillfort-dig-446670.html

Study suggests that some Viking swords may have been decorative:

http://www.livescience.com/58654-viking-sword-scans-reveal-norse-culture.ht
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scans-of-viking-swords-reveal-a-slice-of-norse- culture/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5482-170412-viking-swords-analyzed

Moles are digging up things at an Iron Age hillfort site:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/14/tumps-of-tunnelling-mo les-reveal-the-past

On the sounds of Stonehenge:

http://www.reuters.com/article/britain-tech-stonehenge-idUSL3N1HJ3X9?feedT ype=RSS&feedName=technologySector

Plans to excavate the ‘Invincible’ at Portsmouth next month:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-39526903

On the ‘blue helmets’ working at saving Italy’s damaged art:

http://www.dw.com/en/art-blue-helmets-rescue-italys-treasures-from-the-rubble /g-38350123

More on Ice Age dentistry:

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-ancient-teeth-evidence-ice-age.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/2127300-oldest-tooth-filling-was-made-by -an-ice-age-dentist-in-italy/ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/archaeologists-root-out-worlds-oldest-filling
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http://www.archaeology.org/news/5476-170410-tooth-bitumen-filling http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-find-filling-made-sto ne-age-dentist-180962845/

More on when herders reached the high alps:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5480-170411-switzerland-alpine-pasture


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An interesting silk-covered Mongolian burial:

http://www.livescience.com/58630-ancient-cemetery-found-inner-mongolia.htm
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http://www.livescience.com/58628-silk-road-cemetery-photos.html http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/12388/20170413/ancient-silk-cover-bod y-excavated-inner-mongolia-cemetery.htm http://www.archaeology.org/news/5478-170411-mongolia-yellow-silk

… while a sixth century Turkik woman’s grave goods have been analyzed:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5484-170412-mongolia-turkik-artifacts

Tracing the history of Mongolian horse culture:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/mpif-pcs041117.php https://phys.org/news/2017-04-precision-chronology-mongolia-nomadic-horse.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170411130816.htm http://www.tol.org/client/article/26847-mongolia-horses-carbon-dating-archeolo gy-prehistory.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5481-170412-mongolia-horse-culture

… and studying Mongolian reindeer herder camps:

http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2017/04/uw-scientist-explores-archaeological-r ecord-by-studying-mongolian-reindeer-herder-camps.html http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/wyoming/article_4047f09c-63ba-5938 -8abe-a0aaa0e38411.html

I think we mentioned these 13 tombs found in Tibet:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-04/05/c_136184618.htm

… and I think we mentioned this 1100 years bp Siberian mummy with ‘Adidas boots’ a while back:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/ancient-mummy-with-110 0-year-old-adidas-boots-died-after-she-was-struck-on-the-head/

Feature on the terracotta army:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170411-the-army-that-conquered-the-world

China has come out with its top ten sites of 2016 list:

http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2017/04-13/126766.shtml http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-04/13/content_28909922.htm http://www.china.org.cn/china/2017-04/15/content_40626956.htm

More on colonial finds from New Zealand:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5432-170406-new-zealand-artifacts

More on that 30 000 years bp jewellery from Sulawesi:

http://www.theage.com.au/world/prehistoric-jewellery-found-in-indonesian-cav e-challenges-view-early-humans-less-advanced-20170405-gvecxi.html http://observer.com/2017/04/30000-year-old-indonesian-ice-age-art-reveals-cl ues-ancient-human-culture/ http://www.alamogordonews.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2017/04/04/ ancient-jewelry-indonesia-di

scovery/100024394/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

More on that ‘legendary sunken treasure’ from the Minjiang River:

http://www.ecns.cn/2017/04-14/253486.shtml http://english.cctv.com/2017/04/14/ARTIwFQARyiSqLaZKqMaJRQN170414.sht
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A 14 000 years bp mammoth tusk from Alaska:

http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/A-mammoth-discovery--419183354.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5444-170410-alaska-mammoth-tusk

More on that 14 000 years bp site on Triquet Island:

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/discovery-of-14000yearold-settlement-i n-canada-could-rewrite-north-american-history/ http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/04/10/ancient-village-found-canada-ori g-vstop.cnn
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5416-170330-canada-first-americans

Tools from New Brunswick are now thought to date to 12 700 years bp:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/artifacts-new-brunswick-1.4068 145?cmp=rss
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5485-170413-canada-stone-tools

Latest on those hunting sites found in Lake Huron ages ago:

http://news.jrn.msu.edu/capitalnewsservice/2017/04/14/prehistoric-hunting-gr ounds-found-deep-in-lake-huron/

Digging an endangered midden in South Carolina:

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/last-ditch-digs-make-new-finds-at-endang ered-and-collapsing/article_077ba2a6-205d-11e7-a68e-8f0857776dd1.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5489-170414-south-carolina-shell-mound

A Hohokam site from Arizona:

http://science.kjzz.org/content/458763/hohokam-farm-found-site-future-phoeni x-frys

Evidence of bedbugs from an Oregon cave site:

http://westerndigs.org/worlds-oldest-bed-bugs-found-in-oregon-cave-where-an cient-americans-slept/

Remains from Syracuse’s early salt industry:

http://www.syracuse.com/business-news/index.ssf/2017/04/rare_piece_of_sy racuses_long-lost_salt_industry_uncovered.html

Suggestion that the Puebloans were harvesting macaw feathers:

http://www.nature.com/news/prehistoric-native-americans-farmed-macaws-in-f eather-factories-1.21803 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/prehistoric-americans-may-have-fa rmed-macaws-in-feather-factories/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5439-170410-southwest-pueblo-macaws

Reconstructing Puebloan food webs:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/ps-fwe040617.php http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/04/10/Archaeologists-untangle-the-co mplex-food-webs-of-the-Ancestral-Puebloans/5811491837653/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2017/reconstructing-an cestral-pueblo-food-webs

What Metin Eren is up to:

http://www.ohio.com/news/local/ksu-professor-digs-into-teaching-innovative-re search-skills-in-archaeology-1.760840

Plans to rebury the remains of Massasoit Ousamequin:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/us/article/Wampanoag-chief-who-sign ed-treaty-with-Pilgrims-11073535.php http://www.archaeology.org/news/5490-170414-rhode-island-wampanoag

Review of Watson, *Ice Ghosts*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/books/review/ice-ghosts-franklin-expedit ion-paul-watson.html

Some WWI items (each different):

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/07/523044253/during-world-war-i-u-s-government-p ropaganda-erased-german-culture?sc=ipad&f=1001 http://observer.com/2017/04/100-year-anniversary-world-war-one/ http://news.yale.edu/2017/04/07/100-years-ago-commemoration-world-war-i-y ale-historian-paul-kennedy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39543757 (Vimy centenary)


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Feature on that palace complex from Palenque:

http://www.pnas.org/content/114/15/3805.abstract.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/ancient-ruins-point-to-the-origins-of-a merican-state-power/

Learning from slave wrecks on St Thomas:

http://stthomassource.com/content/2017/04/14/slave-wrecks-offer-clues-about- difficult-history/

Feature on Percy Fawcett:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/12/the-hero-of-th e-lost-city-of-z-was-no-hero/


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OpEd on the popularity of archaeology:

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/interest-archaeology-never-stronger-neither-threat s-future/

… and one on what archaeology is:

http://www.chieftain.com/cef3deaa-798a-5269-9a1c-44579612d314.html

… and on power and politics in American archaeology:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/10/the-politics-and-power-of-a merican-archaeology

A silk tunic associated with St Ambrose has been restored:

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-long-awaited-valuable-silk-tunic.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170411090153.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/uob-lrf041117.php

Theorizing about black holes in the 18th century:

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-black-holes-theorized-18th-century.html

On the ancient trade in (decorative) ostrich eggs:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170412091226.htm

… and reuniting parts of a Faberge egg:

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-faberge-egg-reunited-texas.html

A Jules Verne time capsule:

http://www.writerswrite.com/archaeologists-discover-possible-jules-verne-tim e-capsule-41320171 https://www.bustle.com/p/jules-vernes-time-capsule-was-just-discovered-by-ar cheologists-in-france-51282

Trying to change the image of Mary Magdalene:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/on-easter-mary-magdalene-will-be-mali gned-as-a-prostitute-except-she-wasnt/2017/04/13/4e5d502a-2067-11e7-be2a- 3a1fb24d4671_story.html

Pondering the wine served at the Last Supper:

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/world/2017/04/14/What-wine-did-Jesus-drin k-at-the-Last-Supper/stories/201704140164

… and whether Pontius Pilate was responsible for Jesus’ death:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/12/hechos/1491984788_222777.html

On the ‘revolution’ of the ‘razor and blades’ model of marketing:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39132802

On the history of female pirates:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/swashbuckling-history-women-pirate s-180962874/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Searching for the origins of the fava bean:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/wios-iso040917.php

What we can learn from Botticelli’s Venus:

http://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/04/14/venus-mfa-botticelli

More on prehistoric cannibalism:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/06/prehistoric-cannibalism-not -just-driven-by-hunger-study-reveals

Only because we think the word Pompeii is applied to way too many sites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39565764

On the history of maize:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37999506

Review of Roper, *Martin Luther*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/books/review/martin-luther-renegade-an d-prophet-lyndal-roper.html?_r=0

… and assorted Reformation stories:

http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/500-years-of-the-reformation/s-30092


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Veronese in Murano:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/arts/design/italian-art-make-american-de but-at-the-frick.html

Native American Art:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/arts/design/native-american-treasures-h ead-to-the-met-this-time-as-american-art.html

Roman Cavalry:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/special-hadrian-s-cavalry-exhibition-laun ched-at-arbeia-roman-fort-in-south-shields-1-8484828 http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/news/new-exhibition-looks-at-legacy-of-roman- empire-s-cavalry-1-8492432

Pompeii:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/04/10/pompeii-exhibit-narr ates-cultures_8b2e4c68-0ed8-40b4-bba4-79563dc2f980.html

Egyptian Mummies:

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2086753/ egyptian-mummies-british-museum-go-display-hong

Age of Empires:

http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2016/age-of-empires

Botticelli:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/botticelli-masterpieces-make-us-debut- at-bostons-museum-of-fine-arts,504290 http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2017/04/14/ botticelli-mfa/

Ancient Iran:

http://www.dw.com/en/how-iran-became-a-cradle-of-civilization/a-38414704 http://www.dw.com/en/iran-a-cradle-of-civilization/g-38413585

Feature on the Elling Eide Center:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/elling-eide-library-sarasota-florida-chi nese-literature.html

The Israel Museum is looking for a director:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/arts/design/israel-museum-director-eran -neuman.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone

The Museum of the American Revolution will open soon:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/museum-of-the-ame rican-revolution-opens-in-philadelphia/2017/04/14/1a332b2a-1af0-11e7-9887- 1a5314b56a08_story.html


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Scanning an Egyptian cat mummy:

http://www.livescience.com/58629-3d-scans-reveal-inside-egyptian-cat-mumm y.html http://www.livescience.com/58618-peer-inside-a-2-000-year-old-egyptian-cat-m ummy-video.html http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2017/04/13/ mummified-cat-rebuilt-with-3d-technology_e095d773-ed02-46c6-928d-7b14cbc 99a63.html


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ON THE DNA FRONT ===============================================================
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[sorry … I missed this section last week; or a large portion of it]

On the DNA heritage of Sardinia:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-archaeogenetic-ancestral-sardinians.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/uoh-afu040617.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2017/unlocking-the-anc estral-origins-of-sardinians

DNA helps mark the route taken by the migration of farmers into Europe some 8000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-dna-true-migration-route-early.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/uoh-ndr040617.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170406102603.htm http://www.archaeology.org/news/5488-170414-europe-farming-migration

There’s 10 000 years of genetic continuity in north west North America, apparently:

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-reveals-years-genetic-northwest-north.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170404160034.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/uoia-sr1040417.php http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170402/archaeology-dna-research-helps-und erstand-how-americas-were-first-populated http://www.archaeology.org/news/5431-170405-north-america-dna http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2017/10000-years-of-ge netic-continuity-in-northwest-north-america

On where tall guys’ DNA seems to come from:

http://www.livescience.com/58671-tallest-men-trace-to-paleolithic-mammoth-h unters.html

… and of course this is the time of year we hear about the search for Jesus’
DNA:

http://theconversation.com/can-we-ever-find-jesuss-dna-i-met-the-scientists-w ho-are-trying-to-find-out-72296


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Evidence of ancient climate beneath the Dead Sea:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/under-dead-sea-warnings-dire-dro
ught
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/teia-utd032217.php https://phys.org/news/2017-03-dead-sea-dire-drought.html http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.780607

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Prehistoric Orkney:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170410-why-i-lived-like-a-prehistoric-briton

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CRIME BEAT
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Guilty plea in an illegal excavation in the Ozarks St Francis National Forest:

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/apr/13/plea-guilty-in-prehistoric-shelters -dig-1/
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arkansas/articles/2017-04-13/ arkansas-man-pleads-guilty-to-illegal-excavation http://www.timesunion.com/news/crime/article/Arkansas-man-pleads-guilty-to-i llegal-excavation-11072032.php http://www.couriernews.com/view/full_story/27398787/article-Arkansas-man-pl eads-guilty-to-illegal-excavation

FBI article on forged provenance:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/forging-papers-to-sell-fake-art

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/04/culture-crime-news-3-9-apr il-2017.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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NUMISMATICA
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A Roman silver coin from Hadleigh is not treasure:

http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/court-rules-silver-roman-coin-found-ne ar-hadleigh-is-not-treasure-1-7909010 http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/15219923.D etectorist_wins_treasure_battle_with_museum_over_ancient_coin/

Gold coins from Groningen:

https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/gold-coins-discovery-in-dutch-gr oningen-province/

Some 13th century pennies from a farmer’s field:

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/15220383.Metal_detectorist_finds _13th_Century_treasure_in_Lancashire_farmer___s_field/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n15.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n16.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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Catherine Parr’s music:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39598372

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ===============================================================
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/ 2592-audio-news-from-archaeologica-2-april-2017-8-april-2017 ===============================================================
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OBITUARIES
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Ronald G Witt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/books/ronald-g-witt-who-gave-the-renais sance-a-new-birthdate-dies-at-84.html

Lorraine Pearce:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/lorraine-waxman-pearce-dead-white-h ouse-curator-for-kennedy.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-i
phone

Louis Feldman:

http://blogs.yu.edu/news/in-memoriam-dr-louis-feldman/


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CONFERENCES
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Canada Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping (Nov. 2017)

https://independent.academia.edu/ConferenceCanadabeforeConfederationEarl yMappingandExploration14981763 ===============================================================
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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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