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https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/hokusai/

Flooding damaged some paintings at the Louvre:

https://hyperallergic.com/390883/flooding-damages-three-paintings-and-multi ple-rooms-at-the-louvre/

The principal museum in northern Chile was torn town (did I read that right?):

http://elmostrador.cl/cultura/2017/07/20/el-principal-museo-arqueologico-del-n orte-de-chile-demolido-y-botado-por-lio-judicial/


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Latest facial reconstruction is of the Lord of Sipan:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-peru-reconstructs-pre-columbian-ruler.html https://sg.news.yahoo.com/peru-reconstructs-face-pre-columbian-ruler-112430 727.html

The BM put a 3d scan of the Rosetta Stone online:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/3d-scan-rosetta-stone/

More on the facial reconstruction of the Lady of Cao:

http://news.tulane.edu/news/1700-year-old-mummy-faces-future-new-look


More on that Bronze Age guy from Derbyshire’s facial reconstruction:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-40582056

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DNA news this week again seems to be concerned mostly with dog
domestication:

http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-genomes-heat-up-dog-domestication-deb ate-1.22320 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/untangling-the-mystery-of-how-fido- became-humankind-rsquo-s-best-friend/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/07/18/dog-domestication -is-a-new-study-barking-up-the-wrong-tree/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40638584 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-suggests-dogs-were-dome sticated-once-40000-years-ago-180964101/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5742-170718-one-dog-domestication

On the genetic background of the people of Madagascar:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-genetic-reveals-ancestry-madagascar-people.h
tml


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ===============================================================
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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On the threat climate-change induced rising seas presents to sites:

http://e360.yale.edu/features/heritage-at-risk-how-rising-seas-threaten-ancient -coastal-ruins

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Cape Breton’s Gaelic culture:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20170719-the-canadians-bringing-back-gaeli c-culture


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CRIME BEAT
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Caught with 4th century coins at the Gaza border with Israel:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/antiquities-smuggler-nabbed-at-g aza-border-with-rare-4th-century-coins/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-caught-trying-to-smuggle-rare-ancien t-coins-from-gaza/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232537 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/rare-archaeological-coins-confiscate d-at-erez-crossing/2017/07/16/

The EU is cracking down on ‘blood antiquities’:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-eu-proposal-crack-down-trade-in-blood-a ntiquities-1026071

Not sure what’s really going on in this Auschwitz-related theft accusation:

http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-art-college-fends-off-Auschwitz-Museum -accusation-of-students-theft-500224

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/07/culture-crime-news-10-16-j uly-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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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ===============================================================
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On the recovery of those stolen Rembrandts a few years back:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/07/22/actualidad/1500735622_566923.html

The BM is helping return an item to Uzbekistan:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/17/british-museum-helps-return-st olen-artefact-to-uzbekistan https://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/8615/british-museum-helps-import ant-artefact-home-to-uzbekistan https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2017/stolen-islamic-tile-discover ed-in-london-art-gallery-will-return-to-uzbekistan/ http://www.eurasiatimes.org/en/20/07/2017/uzbek-artefact-recovered-at-uk-auc tion/

OpEds in the wake of the Hobby Lobby case:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/07/17/ hobby-lobby-is-making-cultural-preservation-harder-and-more-dangerous/ http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/education/notre-dame-prof-says-artifa ct-purchases-like-hobby-lobby-s/article_f4c32dd8-ed19-51d8-89a1-8ee1da0c0 363.html

… and fallout in academe:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5522310-155/scholars-ask-byu-to-probe-profs

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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for a Caesar denarius:

http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/denarius-coins-sell-internet-sale

Feature on coins of Akragas:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ma-shops-ancient-coins-akragas/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n29.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n30.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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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ===============================================================
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/ 2632-audio-news-from-archaeologica-9-july-2017-15-july-2017 ===============================================================
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OBITUARIES
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Raymond Sackler:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/business/raymond-sackler-dead-of-purd ue-pharma.html

Wm Theodore de Bary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/world/asia/wm-de-bary-dead-columbia-u niversity-sinologist.html


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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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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm ===============================================================
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