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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/er-doe090418.php https://www.livescience.com/63506-germanic-warrior-genetics.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-ancient-germanic-warriors- adopt-hostage-children-180970230/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/6950-180906-germanic-warrior-dna

Studying Ashkenazic DNA:

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ashkenazic-jews-mysterious-unravelled-scie ntists.html

Anxiously awaiting results of a study of DNA from some Harappan
remains:

https://www.thebetterindia.com/158200/rakhigarhi-haryana-harappan-civili sation-indo-aryan-theory/

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Diocletianopolis:

https://www.euscoop.com/en/article/diocletianopolis-ancient-roman-town-h isarya-bulgaria

Jerash:

https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/imperial-jerash-where-history-seeps -from-the-ancient-stones-1.767336

Shanghai:

https://www.shine.cn/feature/art-culture/1809091812/

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PERFORMANCES
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On how the Rhineland influenced Beethoven's music:

https://www.dw.com/en/beethoven-made-in-the-rhineland/a-45380625

... in a similar veign:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/arts/music/anton-reicha-ivan-ilic-bee thoven.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Gospel at Colonus:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/theater/gospel-at-colonus-review-dela corte.html

Peterloo (movie):

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180906-film-review-peterloo-is-a-mass acre-that-speaks-to-today

Rush:

https://www.npr.org/643764214

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CRIME BEAT
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A major/important bust in Greece:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/09/06/man-arrested-trying-to-sell- stolen-ancient-greek-statue/ http://www.startribune.com/greek-police-recover-aphrodite-stolen-from-is land-museum/492493481/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/greek-police-recove r-aphrodite-stolen-from-island-museum/2018/09/05/6cb34e42-b10e-11e8-8b53 -50116768e499_story.html


The FBI wants some help finding items stolen by ISIS, apparently:

https://aleteia.org/2018/09/05/fbi-asking-for-help-in-locating-cultural- artifacts-stolen-by-isis/

Pondering the implications of Operation Demetra:

https://hyperallergic.com/456942/europol-seizure-of-looted-antiquities/

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 ================================================================

Recovery of a couple statues from India stolen in the 1980s:

https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/stolen-in-1980s-two-statues-b elonging-to-12th-century-priced-at-a-whopping-rs-35962500-returned-to-in dia/281150 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/arts/music/anton-reicha-ivan-ilic-bee thoven.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Germany returned some Sican masks to Peru:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-returns-ancient-gold-funeral-mask-to-peru/ a-45390968
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n35.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n36.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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OBITUARIES
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Melitta Bentz:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/obituaries/
melitta-bentz-overlooked.html

Randy Weston:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/randy-weston-dead.html?smi d=nytcore-ios-share

Jan Ellen Lewis:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/obituaries/jan-ellen-lewis-expert-on- jeffersons-other-family-dies-at-69.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Henry Forrester Cleere:

http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1876

MJ Long:

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/inspirational-british-library-a rchitect-mj-long-dies-aged-79/10034833.article https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/mj-long-1939-2018/5095403.article

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/ 2775-audio-news-from-archaeologica-26-august-1-september-2018 ================================================================
CONFERENCES
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CBA Wessex 60th Anniversary Conference (November 2018):

http://cba-wessex.org.uk/cba-events/annual-conference-2018/

Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-ame ricas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
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/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
Archaeosoup:

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

The Book and the Spade:

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