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explorator 18.44 February 28, 2016 ===============================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Bob Heuman, Hernan Astudillo, Richard
Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as
always hoping I have left no one out).

A slow, and not overly-exciting week ...

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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The role of teeth in predicting hominin evolution:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-human-evolution-teeth-story.html

... and some versions connect shrinking teeth to tool use:

http://www.livescience.com/53828-wisdom-teeth-shrank-during-human-evolution.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0226/What-prehistoric-wisdom-teeth-tell-us-abou
t-human-evolution


Interbreeding yadda yadda yadda:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/caos-ans022116.php

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AFRICA
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Legally revisiting the destruction in Timbuktu:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2016/Feb-28/339619-destruction-of-timbuktu-goe
s-before-icc-judges.ashx

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A 12th Dynasty tomb on the outskirts of Cairo:

http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/3643505_experts-discover-pharaoni
c-era-tomb-on-outskirts-of-cairo.html http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/new-middle-kingdom-tomb-discovered-near-fayo
um-minister

Plans for Gianaclis Palace:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/188629/Heritage/Islamic/Gianaclis-Palace-
in-AlBeheira-becomes-a-Nile-Delta.aspx

Recreating Hetepheres' throne:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/2/24/semitic-museum-recreates-throne/

Honours for assorted archaeologists working in Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/188179/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Antiquitie
s-minister-honours-foreign-and-Egyptian-.aspx

A seven-year-old playing at Tel Rehov found a small statue of Astarte (maybe):

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Ancient-figurine-discovered-by-7-ye
ar-old-boy-25-February-2016.aspx http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.705396 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Boy-7-finds-3400-year-old-statuette-in-Beit-Shean-Valle
y-446065 http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/2/25/hiking-israeli-7-year-old-finds-3400-year-old-sta
tuette
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208534 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3465302/Making-archaeology-like-child-
s-play-Israeli-boy-accidentally-unearths-3-400-year-old-figurine-curvaceous-goddess.htm
l http://forward.com/culture/334238/7-year-old-boy-stumbles-onto-3-400-year-old-canaan
ite-relic/?attribution=home-hero-item-img-2 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/boy-7-finds-3-400-year-old-figurine-israels-tel-n5255
61?cid=sm_tw&hootPostID=427d3f1308bbbe289989d546d75bfa69 http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/middleeast/israel-boy-finds-ancient-figurine/index.html

A trove of David/Solomon-era fabrics found in the Arava Valley:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-team-fabric-dating-kings-david.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/afot-tau022416.php https://www.tau.ac.il/research/fabric-timna http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archaeologists-discover-unprecedented-fabric-collectio
n-dating-to-Kings-David-Solomon-445974#xtor=EPR-1-[Newsletter] http://www.timesofisrael.com/where-solomon-mined-3000-year-old-fashion-collection-une
arthed/ http://jpupdates.com/2016/02/24/israeli-archaeologists-make-valuable-discovery-in-tim
na-mines/ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865648533/Archaeologists-dig-up-fabrics-dating-back
-to-kings-David-and-Solomon.html?pg=all https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/archaeologists-dig-up-fabrics-dating-
back-to-kings-david-and-solomon/2016/02/24/198bf3e8-db2a-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6_s
tory.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3462631/The-fashions-holy-land-Archae
ologists-fabrics-reign-Solomon-David-preserved-copper-mine.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchan
nel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Rethinking Jerusalem's terraces:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.701948

Hadrian's lessons for Israel:

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article62540317.html

Saddam Hussein apparently had quite the Judaica collection:

http://www.jpost.com/Metro/The-soldier-in-the-Mukhabarat-443108#xtor=EPR-1-[Newslett
er]

More on those Iron Age skeletons from Turkey which were interred with tortoises:

http://www.livescience.com/53848-butchered-turtles-found-ancient-grave.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/iron-age-skeletons-found-buried-with-turtl
es-160225.htm

More on that 12 000 years b.p. village in the Jordan Valley:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160218061049.htm

Latest opEd on art collectors funding ISIL:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/26/western-art-funding-terrorism-isis-
middle-east

A hidden camera video showing the devastation done to Palmyra:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palmyra-hidden-video-camera-sho
ws-devastation-wreaked-by-isis-as-ancient-ruins-torn-down-a6895311.html

Some opeddish sorts of things on the origins (or not) of ISIL:

http://theconversation.com/did-the-crusades-lead-to-islamic-state-54478 https://theconversation.com/islamic-state-and-the-assassins-reviving-fanciful-tales-of-t
he-medieval-orient-53873


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Feature on the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities' activities:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/206390/article/ekathimerini/life/ephorate-of-underwater-
antiquities-salvages-lost-chapters-of-history

... and Kathimerini uses the same photo to accompany an antiquities bust story:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/206393/article/ekathimerini/news/police-seize-1-mln-euros-
worth-of-antiquities-from-three-suspects

UQueensland has a Roman medical kit on display:

https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2016/02/ancient-medicines-and-bone-lever-rare-roma
n-medical-kit

Not sure why this new fragment of the Forma Urbis isn't getting more attention (sorry ...
most coverage seems to be in Italian):

https://aquinum.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/rinvenuto-un-nuovo-frammento-appartenente-
alla-forma-urbis-severiana/

Pompeii plans to open more houses to the public:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160226/pompeii-will-open-more-buildings-and-sites-this-spring
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2016/02/25/more-pompeii-houses-to-open
-to-public_6cdecf1d-56e1-4b0e-96bc-f41c5a1e4373.html

Feature on Pompeii wine:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160225/in-an-excavated-and-replanted-vineyards-in-pompeii-a-p
roject-is-bringing-ancient-roman-wine-back-to-life

Feature on the Punic Wars:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/romans/nutshell-facts-punic-wars

Feature on the younger Cato:

http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/22/meet-cato-ancient-romes-george-washington/

Feature on Sparta's coins:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/02/sparta-and-its-coinage-ancients-toda
y.html

I think we mentioned this feature on Oxyrhynchus:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art547313-egyptology-ash
molean-museum-papyrus-archaeology-dumps

Pondering the end of the Republic:

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-end-the-republic%E2%80%94then-now-15298

A metal detectorist found a Roman brooch:

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/14303574.Priceless_Roman_brooch_found_by_ metal_detectorist_donated_to_museum/

... another found a Roman 'medal' (but apparently no one took a picture?):

http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news/14301561.Dumbarton_man_s_rare_Roman_m edal_find_goes_on_display_in_museum/

What Benjamin Hicks is up to:

http://rutgersclassics.com/2016/02/26/whats-new-at-ru-classics-dept-sends-its-first-affil
iated-fellow-to-the-american-academy-in-rome/

More honours for Mary Beard:

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/14294028.Mary_Beard_joins_list_of_famous_names_
to_receive_Bodleian_Libraries_medal/

More Iliad translations in the pipe:

http://www.davidson.edu/news/160225-new-translations-of-the-iliad

... and you can post questions to ask Caroline Alexander about hers:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/live/2016/feb/23/translating-the-iliad-webc
hat-with-caroline-alexander-post-your-questions-now

Classical influences in Saratoga:

https://www.gridsaratoga.com/24784-2/

Funding for the Corinium Museum:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/14298122.Corinium_Museum_wins_Heritage_L
ottery_Fund_support_for_new_interactive_scheme/

(P)review of Seamus Heaney's Aeneid VI translation:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/27/seamus-heaneys-final-work-translation-a
enied-book-vi-6 http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/aeneid-book-vi-seamus-heaney-s-miraculous-ret
urn-from-literary-afterlife-1.2548521

Reviewish on Josiah Ober's latest:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/206344/article/ekathimerini/life/josiah-ober-on-the-rise-
and-fall-of-ancient-greece

Review of Tom Holland, *Dynasty*:

http://adelaidereview.com.au/arts/books/review-dynasty-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-house-of-
caesar-and-dictator/

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Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A Mesolithic 'pendant' from the Star Carr site in Yorkshire:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-year-old-pendant-earliest-mesolithic-art.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoy-1yo022416.php http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/8/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/26/what-the-oldest-musli
m-graves-in-europe-can-tell-us-about-the-past/ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/11000-year-old-pendant-etched-design-found-englan
d http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3464192/Magic-Mesolithic-pendant-olde
st-art-Britain-11-000-year-old-jewellery-worn-shaman-ward-evil-spirits.html

... with a spin:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stone-age-britons-may-have-ha
d-prehistoric-secret-code-a6896596.html

The site of the 'sequel' of the Battle of Hastings has been found in North Devon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-35633783

Medieval burials in France might be the earliest evidence of Muslims there (see also the
DNA section):

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-evidence-early-medieval-muslim-graves.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/p-eoe021816.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160224145552.htm http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35660488 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/24/archaeologists-discover-oldest-musli
m-graves-ever-found-in-europe http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/medieval-muslim-graves-in-france-reveal-a-previ
ously-unseen-history/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3462428/Did-Islam-reach-France-1-300-y
ears-ago-DNA-burial-rituals-reveals-Medieval-skeletons-Muslims-suggesting-faith-sprea
d-previously-thought.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Medieval burials from Aberdeen:

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/92-skeletons-discovered-underneath-ab
erdeen-art-gallery/

Reconstructing the diet of medieval kiddies living around Canterbury Cathedral:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-d-technology-safely-reveal-diet.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160225140248.htm


Medieval foot fungus from a Portuguese cemetery:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/02/23/archaeologists-find-medieval-f
oot-fungus-in-portuguese-cemetery/#30594ea674db

Photo feature on Venice's ghetto:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/21/world/cnnphotos-venice-ghetto-anniversary/index.html

Latest Crossrail finds:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3465918/The-Crossrail-treasure-trove-London-s-r
emaining-shipyard-medieval-moated-manor-Bedlam-burial-ground-haunting-finds-builde
rs-started-work-15bn-line.html

They're not sure what caused the fire that destroyed 'Britain's Pompeii':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35659206

... but storms destroyed 'Britain's Atlantis':

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-35549952 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/23/how-climate-change-
destroyed-britains-atlantis/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3458001/The-storms-devastated-Britain-s
-Atlantis-Scientists-evidence-coastal-erosion-drowned-medieval-town-Dunwich.html?IT
O=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Plans to revisit and study some finds from Exeter from thirty years ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-35641765

Watlington Viking hoard has been declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-35641765 https://www.historytoday.com/rory-naismith/evidence-anglo-saxon-alliance

Again with the Viking sun crystals:

http://sciencenordic.com/did-vikings-use-crystal-sunstones-discover-america

A Saxon child is getting reburied:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14296789.Saxon_child_given_proper_burial_by_
villagers_nearly_1_000_years_after_she_died/

Derry archaeology comes to a standstill:

http://www.derrynow.com/news/derry-archaeological-digs-halted-due-to-lack-of-funding/
76452

More on 'Ava':

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35640049

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Humans are 'off the hook' for the many mammoth deaths at 'Mammoth Village':

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0214-paleothithic-man-not-the-ma
in-cause-of-deaths-at-vast-mammoth-graveyard/

4300 years b.p. cockroach egg impressions in some Jomon pottery:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-japanese-earthenware-capsules-year-old-cockroach.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/ku-jet022116.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2016/jomon-pottery-contains-4300
-year-old-cockroach-egg-case-impressions

Work commences on excavation of a 2000 years b.p. Kushan pond:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/ASI-starts-excavation-work-on-2000-year-
old-Kushan-era-pond-in-Vrindavan-village/articleshow/51111545.cms

The Royal Cave Temple is opening to the public:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3460021/The-secret-chamber-Zen-S
tunning-images-ancient-Chinese-imperial-temple-carved-MOUNTAIN-opens-public.html?I
TO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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A 10 500 years b.p. hunting camp in Chihuahua:

http://westerndigs.org/grave-teenage-girl-southwest-earliest-farmers/

'Internal dissension' led to Cahokia's demise:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-internal-dissension-cited-cahokia-dissolution.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/priu-idc022316.php

Pondering George Washington's slave ownership:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/commemorating-george-washingtons-slaves-mea
ns-acknowledging-the-president-was-a-slave-owner/2016/02/23/11b97976-da56-11e5-891
a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html

Chatting about abolitionism:

http://news.yale.edu/2016/02/19/author-slave-s-cause-offers-interracial-view-abolitionis
m-talk

An interesting black convict's memoir shows up at auction:

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/26/467805819/written-behind-bars-this-1850s-memoir-links-pr
isons-to-plantations?sc=17&f=1008

Brown has restored Bannister House:

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2016/02/bannister

More on food preservation by hunter/gatherers on Sanak Island:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/sfi-hhp021716.php

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Again, droughts and the fall of the Maya:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160222-severe-droughts-explain-the-mysterious-fall-of-
the-maya

NASA imagery of some Nazca lines:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/nasa-airborne-radar-nasca-lines-03600.html

On shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-gulf-mexico-historic-shipwrecks-scientists.html

More on the 'non-demise' of the Easter Islanders:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160222-easter-island-rapa-nui-collapse-ar
chaeology-moai-mataa-warfare-weapons-Jared-Diamond/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/19/easter_island_ecocide_myth_debunked/

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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Voting on who painted a Giustiniani portrait:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/21/who-painted-giustiniani-portrait-
giorgione-or-titian-royal-academy

A Napoleon III collection is coming to auction:

http://www.dw.com/en/billionaire-forbes-puts-napoleon-iii-art-collection-up-for-auction/
a-19080087

Assorted leap year items:

http://www.dw.com/en/whats-different-about-a-leap-year-in-germany/a-19070404 http://www.livescience.com/53871-julian-gregorian-calendar-leap-day.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/what-is-a-leap-year-and-why-do-we-have-the
m-a6897486.html

A lost Giotti in a Transylvanian church?:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=85421

The books Shackleton took to Antarctica:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35633374

The 11 biggest volcanic eruptions in history:

http://www.livescience.com/30507-volcanoes-biggest-history.html

Something about philosophy:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/on-the-road-to-humankind-with-leon-f
estinger/

On the origins of the 'red carpet':

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160222-where-does-the-red-carpet-come-from

Pondering 'Plantation':

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/22/cornell-plantations-focus-debate-langu
age-slavery


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Florentine Mannerism:

http://www.dw.com/en/long-necks-fat-bellies-shrill-colors-how-florences-16th-century-arti
sts-saw-people/a-19069074

Towne Watercolours:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160222-the-watercolours-that-were-warnings

Children did some curating in Warsaw:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35670225

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THE TECHY SIDE
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They're (finally?) applying some tech to the Dead Sea Scrolls reconstruction (I thought
they were already doing this?):

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-move-into-the-dig
ital-generation-23-Feb-2016.aspx http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-German-project-uses-advanced-technology-to-pi
ece-together-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-445822 http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.704987 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208425 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4769931,00.html http://www.jewishpress.com/news/dead-sea-scrolls-puzzle-pieces-to-be-matched-via-digi
tizing/2016/02/23/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3459989/The-important-jigsaw-history-1
5-000-Dead-Sea-Scroll-fragments-digitally-scanned-pieced-together.html

On use of medical imaging technology to study Egyptian artifacts:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-medical-imaging-techniques-noninvasive-probing.html

If you'd like to print out a copy of the bust of Nefertiti, some 'sneaky scanners' have
made it possible:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thanks-sneaky-scanners-anyone-can-3d-pri
nt-copy-nefertitis-bust-180958213 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/12172906/Guerrilla-artists-secretly-3D-
scan-Nefertitis-bust.html http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160223-artists-secretly-3d-scan-bust-of-egyptian-queen-n
efertiti-and-release-3d-print-files-online.html

... in a similar vein:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-virtual-museum-thousands-digital-specimens.html

Recreating Otzi's voice box:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italian-scientists-recreate-otzi-the-icem
ans-voice-box-in-bid-to-discover-how-people-spoke-5000-a6890086.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3458680/Helping-tzi-iceman-speak-grave-
Scans-Bronze-Age-mummy-s-throat-used-reconstruct-sounded.html?ITO=1490&ns_mcha nnel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

More on Sarah Parcak's work:

http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.ca/


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Studying Australian DNA:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-genetics-reveal-years-independent-history.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160225135610.htm

DNA reveals the earliest Muslim burials in France (maybe):

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/02/24/dna-from-medieval-skeletons-re
veals-earliest-muslims-in-france/

The Spanish conquest's genetic legacy in Panama:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/stri-scl022216.php

More on the population change in Europe after the last Ice Age:

https://scienmag.com/dna-evidence-uncovers-major-upheaval-in-europe-near-end-of-last-
ice-age/


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Some Roman sites:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160222/breathtaking-roman-ruins-in-italy-that-youve-probabl
y-never-been-to

Archaeology tour of Kenya:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africa/kenya/articles/a-unique-archaeol
ogy-tour-in-kenya/

Royal mummies of Peru:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160216-the-royal-mummies-of-peru

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CRIME BEAT
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Latest Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/02/culture-crime-news-16-21-february-20
16.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 ================================================================
The US will return a statue looted from Mussolini's villa:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/statue-stolen-from-mussolini-s-roman-villa-to-be-r
eturned/ http://www.apollo-magazine.com/us-to-return-statue-stolen-from-mussolinis-villa/

UOklahoma has settled its Nazi loot case:

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/02/24/oklahoma-settles-case-painting-s
tolen-nazis http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/university-of-oklahoma-agrees-to-return-pi
ssarro-painting-looted-by-nazis/


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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n08.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n09.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Pericles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/theater/review-in-pericles-much-ado-about-a-lot-of-thi
ngs.html


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OBITUARIES
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Abul Kalam Muhammed Zakaria:

http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/archaeologist-zakaria-dies-660301


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

http://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2374-audio-news-fro
m-archaeologica-14-feb-2016-20-feb-2016

Latest Strata:

http://archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity/ 2359-strata-february-2016 ================================================================
UPCOMING CONFERENCES ================================================================
(send in your notices!) ================================================================
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

The Book and the Spade:

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