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no one out).

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= EARLY HOMINIDS
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= Not quite sure whether this should be classified ‘Early humans’ or ‘Ancient
Near East’ … ‘million year old’ stone tools from Turkey:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/06/23/archaeologists-discover-milli
on-year-old-stone-artifacts-in-turkeys-tunceli

More on the search for evidence of first fire use:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quest-for-clues-to-humanitys-first-fi
res/

More on where homo floresiensis fits into the hominid family tree:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/genetic-modelling-adds-a-new-tw
ist-to-hobbit-ancestry-question

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= AFRICA
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= This probably should be filed under Egypt … a 3400 years bp gold worker’s
tomb from the Sudan:

https://www.livescience.com/59534-ancient-nubia-tomb-of-gold-worker-found.h
tml
https://www.livescience.com/59532-photos-ancient-tomb-along-nile.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-egypt-3400-year-old-tomb-gold-worker-discov
ered-nile-river-island-1627094
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5669-170619-sudan-gold-worker

Concerns for sites in Nigeria:

http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2017/06/expert-urges-ngsg-to-protect-archaeolog
ical-sites/

More on the ‘lost’ city dating back to the 10th century in Ethiopia:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-ancient-city-ethiopia-country-history.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-thriving-trade-city-found
-ethiopia-180963757/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/harlaa-discovery-12th-century
-mosque-bronze-silver-coins-university-exeter-timothy-insoll-a7805956.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/long-lost-city-believed-be-home-giants-unearthed-ethi
opia-1627034
https://qz.com/1008940/an-ancient-islamic-city-has-been-found-under-harlaa-a
n-ethiopian-town-where-local-lore-spoke-of-giants/
http://www.newser.com/story/244589/lost-islamic-city-held-riches-from-a-world
-away.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-thriving-trade-city-found
-ethiopia-180963757/

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= ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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= 6000 years bp (give or take) petroglyphs from south of Luxor are being
connected to the invention of hieroglyphs:

http://news.yale.edu/2017/06/20/yale-archaeologists-discover-earliest-monum
ental-egyptian-hieroglyphs
https://www.livescience.com/59588-billboard-of-hieroglyphs-contains-cosmic-
message.html
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/271427/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/
Inscriptions-showing-early-hieroglyphic-writing-di.aspx
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/75896/20170622/archaeologists-yale
-university-uncovers-breakthrough-egyptian-hieroglyphics-discovery.htm
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/6000-year-old-rock-art-shows-emergence-ancient-egy
pt-hieroglyphs-1627540
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5677-170622-egypt-rock-art

Studying 2000 years bp graffiti in the tomb of Rameses VI:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414643,in-a-pharaoh-tomb-archae
ologist-examines-the-inscriptions--of-ancient-tourists.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5681-170623-egyptian-ancient-graffiti

That wooden prosthetic toe from from tomb in Luxor found a few years ago
was back in the news:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-wooden-toe-swiss-egyptologists-year-old.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uob-awt062017.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170620093118.htm
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archaeology_swiss-examine--extraordinary--egyp
tian-faux-toe/43274046?&ns_mchannel=rss&srg_evsource=rss
https://www.livescience.com/59581-ancient-prosthetic-toe-found-in-egyptian-gr
ave.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/weird-archaeological-find-wooden-prosthetic-big-toe-a
ncient-egypt-2556234
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-reveals-secrets-ancient-ca
iro-toe-180963783/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/health/ancient-egypt-wooden-toe-prosthetic-trn
d/index.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5672-170620-egypt-prosthetic-toe
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2017/egyptologists-stu
dy-3000-year-old-wooden-toe

Feature on Khufu’s second solar boat:

http://www.natureasia.com/en/nmiddleeast/article/10.1038/
nmiddleeast.2017.109

Feature on the al Maala necropolis:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/271375/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/
AlMaala-necropolis-site-in-Upper-Egypt-is-scientif.aspx

Ship waste threatens sunken antiquities in Alexandria’s harbour:

http://www.trtworld.com/mea/egypts-sunken-antiquities-threatened-by-ship-wa
ste-382161

More on child burials near Amarna:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0617/ancient_egyptian_juvenile_graves.p
hp3

More on that 2500 years bp tomb find:

http://observer.com/2017/06/egyptian-tomb-artifacts-discovered/

Finds from various periods at a site in Huqoq:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4976864,00.html

A 900 years bp women’s jewellery collection from Modin:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=429
5 http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Modi%E2%80%99in-stud
ents-uncover-a-gem-of-an-excavation-.aspx
http://www.timesofisrael.com/school-pupils-help-find-900-year-old-crusader-je
welry-trove/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/900-year-old-womens-jewelry-collecti
on-discovered-in-modiin/2017/06/20/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Students-unearth-rare-900-year-old-jewelry-
collection-in-Modiin-excavation-497399
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231297
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/6/20/volunteers-discover-900-year-old-an
cient-jewelry-in-crusader-fortress
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4979084,00.html
http://forward.com/fast-forward/375177/israeli-kids-help-excavate-900-year-old
-crusader-fortress/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5670-170620-crusader-fortress-jewelry

Finding that ‘hidden text’ on a potsherd in a museum in Israel has spurred the
search for more hidden texts:

http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2017/6/18/discovery-of-hidden-text-prompts-n
ew-approach-to-biblical-digs-in-israel

… in case you missed it:

https://www.livescience.com/59545-ancient-inscription-requests-more-wine.ht
ml
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-pottery-message-more-wine/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hidden-calling-wine-found-ancien
t-pottery-shard-180963780/

An aerial survey of sites in Iraq:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/06/iraq-uses-aerial-survey-for-
antiques.html

Feature on Ishtar:

http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-legend-of-ishtar-first-goddess-of-l
ove-and-war-78468

Some artworks destroyed/damaged by ISIL in Palmyra have been restored:

http://www.dw.com/en/two-palmyra-artworks-destroyed-by-is-restored-for-first-t
ime/a-39344347

More on the redating of that tower in Jerusalem:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/carbon-dating-undermines-biblical-narrative-for-
ancient-jerusalem-tower/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5673-170621-jerusalem-stone-tower

More on the antiquities bust near Tzippori:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hiker-helps-stop-antiquities-robbing-gang-in-nort
hern-israel/

Major tourism hopes for the Hittite site at Comum:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-hittite-capital-corum-hopes-for-half-a
-million-tourists.aspx?pageID=238&nid=114591&NewsCatID=375

An overview of monuments lost in conflicts in the Middle East:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/architecture/precious-monuments-lost-in-middl
e-east-conflicts/index.html
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/major-heritage-centres-that-the-isl
amic-state-has-destroyed/article19134355.ece

ISIL was much in the news this week … first, they lost control of Sergiopolis:

https://english.almanar.com.lb/289236

… and they blew up the 12th century Al Nuri mosque in Mosul:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40363671
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/world/middleeast/mosul-nuri-mosque-isi
s.html?emc=edit_na_20170621&nl=breaking-news&nlid=10296088&ref=cta
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/21/islaimic-state-blows-landmark-gr
eat-mosque-al-nuri-famous-leaning/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/22/533903315/isis-destroys-h
istoric-mosque-in-mosul-as-iraqi-forces-close-in
http://www.dw.com/en/is-destroys-mosul-mosque-where-leader-baghdadi-decl
ared-caliphate/a-39357749
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/isis-blows-up-mosque-in-mosul-where-
baghdadi-declared-caliphate/2017/06/21/7070ff30-56b9-11e7-840b-512026319
da7_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/is-blows-up-mosul-mosqu
e-latest-heritage-site-destroyed/2017/06/22/71b50772-5747-11e7-840b-51202
6319da7_story.html
http://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/isil-militants-destroy-fa
med-12th-century-mosque-in-iraqs-historic-city-of-mosul/wcm/cce78951-0b0a-
40ee-981d-1e85eaae5ce2
https://www.yahoo.com/news/blows-mosul-mosque-latest-heritage-123237913
..html

… related op eds:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39339373
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2017/0622/ISIS-destroys-Mosul
-mosque-thought-to-be-act-of-desperation
http://theconversation.com/destroying-mosuls-great-mosque-islamic-states-sy
mbolic-war-to-the-end-80002

Overview of cultural destruction in Mosul:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/Mosul-ISIS-Islamic-State-Iraq-Nur
i-Mosque-Hadba-Minaret/

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= ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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= Evidence of ‘wine culture’ emerging at Ipplepen:

http://www.devonlive.com/new-findings-show-ancient-devon-folk-had-a-taste-fo
r-exotic-food-and-drink/story-30398815-detail/story.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40330840
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/06/further-evidence-pre-roman-brito
ns-had-wine-culture/

1600 years bp mosaic from Adiyaman:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1600-year-old-mosaic-found-in-turkeys-adiy
aman-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=114479&NewsCatID=375
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/19/c_136377893.htm

An ancient road find at Termessos:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-road-found-in-termessos-ancient-cit
y-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=114632&NewsCatID=375

Surveying at Idomeni:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/25990-archaeologists-idome
ni-has-always-been-an-important-north-south-route-in-greece.html

Feature on the dig at Hawara:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/canadian-scholars-explore-ancient-na
bataean-site-hawara

Suggestion Shetland ponies may have pulled chariots in Colchester:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/19/shetland-ponies-could-have-pulle
d-chariots-colchester-find-suggests/

Studying skulls to track migrations in the Roman empire:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-ancient-skulls-migration-roman-empire.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/ncsu-ass062017.php

Evidence of earthquake ‘awareness’ at Troy:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-measures-against-quakes-seen-in
-troy-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=114452&NewsCatID=375

How China viewed Rome in the third century:

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ancient-text-roman-chinese
-2006-2017/

Big bucks for a Roman sculpture:

https://www.livescience.com/59543-roman-sculpture-auctioned-for-nearly-1-mi
llion.html

That recovered Hercules sarcophagus is on display in Geneva:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-hercules-on-display-in-geneva-.asp
x?pageID=238&nid=114537&NewsCatID=375

Victor Nuovo’s latest looks at Machiavelli and Livy:

http://addisonindependent.com/201706victor-nuovo-machiavelli-living-dark-ti
mes-livy-0

What the Wonder Woman movie gets right:

http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2017/06/13/amazons-in-all-shapes-sizes-and-c
olors-what-the-wonder-woman-movie-got-right/

Honours for Jack Davis:

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/albaniaaward.html

More on threats against Sarah Bond:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/19/classicist-finds-herself-targ
et-online-threats-after-article-ancient-statues
http://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/2017/06/22/ui-classics-professor-d
eserves-support-during-online-attacks/419512001/
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2017062315475874

What Jesse Weiner is up to:

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/professor-classics-jesse-weiner-leads-cl
assical-traditions-seminar

Nice feature on mosaics:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-world-of-mosaics-from-tivoli-to-tottenha
m-court-road/

Wallsend Roman Fort gets its centurion:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-40319065

Review of Man, *Amazons*:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/she-devils-on-horseback-in-search-of-the-
fabled-amazons/
http://www.theartsdesk.com/books/john-man-amazons-review-real-warrior-wo
men-ancient-world

More on the catacombs of Domitilla:

https://www.livescience.com/59424-paintings-of-christ-in-roman-catacombs.ht
ml

Assorted coverage of the revelation of the popularity of Thucydides among
assorted folks in the White House:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/21/why-the-white-house-is-re
ading-greek-history-215287
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/21/steve_bannon_likes_thucy
dides_for_all_the_wrong_reasons.html
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2017/06/22/politico-trump-administration-seeks-i
nsight-in-u-s-a-china-relations-from-ancient-greek-historian/

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= EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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= Interesting dig of a burial mound at Bryn Celli ddu Angelsey:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/21/archeologists-unearth-prehi
storic-ritual-area-bryn-celli-ddu-anglesey
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/bryn-celli-ddu-burial-angles
ey--13226143
http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/177473/a-celebration-of-anglesey-
s-neolithic-past-draws-the-crowds-to-bryn-celli-ddu.aspx
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/inside-5000-year-old-tomb-13
227182
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5675-170621-bryn-celli-ddu

7000 years bp remains (burials and more) from Sion (Switzerland):

https://www.thelocal.ch/20170623/archaeologists-find-7000-year-old-human-re
mains-in-sion-city

Evidence of the popularity of amber some 3500 years bp:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414642,archeologist-amber-was-
popular-in-europe-already-35-thousand-years-ago.html

Mapping hill forts in Ireland:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/22/hillforts-uk-ireland-mapped-
first-time-online-database-atlas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40359829
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/explore-ancient-british-isles-hill-
forts-using-new-online-atlas-180963803/

A metal detectorist found a 1400 years bp jewellery box:

http://www.westsussextoday.co.uk/news/i-thought-it-was-a-bomb-says-treasur
e-hunter-who-found-1-400-year-old-jewellery-1-8018371
http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/i-thought-it-was-a-bomb-says-treasure
-hunter-who-found-1-400-year-old-jewellery-1-8018371
http://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/county-news-i-thought-it-was-a-bomb-tr
easure-hunter-s-amazing-find-1-8018412

Burials found during the search for a Saxon church in Staffordshire:

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/staffordshire/penkridge/
2017/06/23/skeletons-uncovered-at-staffordshire-church/

A sword came out of one of those Viking boat graves in Iceland that we
mentioned last week:

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2017/06/17/video_viking_sword_remo
ved_from_boat_grave/

A Viking toilet from southern Denmark:

http://sciencenordic.com/1000-year-old-viking-toilet-uncovered-denmark
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/unexpected-viking-toilet-discovery-le
ads-to-controversy/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5682-170623-denmark-viking-privy

Feature on Viking plates:

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/06/24/viking-culture-food

Searching for the Old Deer monastery:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40379384

Evidence of brutal medieval punishment from a Portuguese necropolis:

https://www.livescience.com/59529-medieval-skeletons-with-hands-feet-amput
ated.html

A medieval sword from a bog in Poland:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414626,lubelskie-medieval-sword
-discovered-at-a-peat-bog.html
http://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/amazing-14th-century-longs
word-found-polish-bog/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5667-170619-poland-medieval-sword

Medieval stones from the site of Coventry’s new water park:

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/archaeologists-find-me
dieval-carved-stones-13204501
http://world.einnews.com/article/387822549/live

Medieval glass bracelets from Plovdiv:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/06/24/archaeology-ancient-glass-bracelets-found-a
t-newly-discovered-necropolis-near-plovdivs-small-basilica/

Plenty of bits of medieval pottery from Pembrokeshire:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-40393391

Remains of a 250 years bp ‘lost’ estate near Exeter:

http://www.devonlive.com/archaeologists-accidentally-stumble-across-250-ye
ar-old-lost-mansion-on-estate-near-exeter/story-30400537-detail/story.html

Finds from various periods during bypass construction in Lincoln:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/nine-fascinating-archaeol
ogical-finds-lincolnshire-121565

A 17th century shipwreck off Stockholm has been identified (I think we
mentioned this):

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.797286

On the crisis British archaeology is facing:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/20/trouble-brewing-british-arch
aeology

On the battle that settled the War of the Roses:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-40292647

A prehistoric site in Plovdiv was bulldozed:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/06/22/archaeology-oldest-prehistoric-settlement-sit
e-in-bulgarias-plovdiv-bulldozed/

Colorizing some Pictish stones:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-40286318

Raising funds to put a Bronze Age skeleton on display in a Scots museum:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15367632.Bronze_Age_skeleton_is_a_s
tep_closer_to_rattling_its_way_into_the_limelight_thanks_to___50_000_don
ation/

Feature on petroglyphs in the Swabian Jura:

http://www.dw.com/en/caves-and-ice-age-art-in-the-swabian-jura/a-39314348
http://www.dw.com/en/the-worlds-oldest-ice-age-artworks/g-39306118

More on possible medieval cat skinning:

https://www.livescience.com/59443-medieval-farmers-skinned-cats.html

More on that abbey wall find in Canterbury:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/remarkable-historic-find-at-univer
sitys-127687/

More on ‘Firehenge’:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/excavations-near-av
ebury-uncover-mysterious-firehenge-800-years-older-than-stonehenge/
news-story/5c77e180d84d2ca6bfc04a5d465ad845?from=rss-basic

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= ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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= Remains of a 3000 years bp ‘sun altar’ from Xinjiang:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/media/China-Ancient-sun-altar-918201.php

Excavations have started at a 1000 years bp site in Xinjiang:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/21/c_136383422.htm
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=91910

A woven basket and other items from a site in Kashihara:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201706220039.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5679-170622-japan-basket-stand

Remains of a colonial garden in Whanghanui:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=118
79627

Praise for a Chinese citizen who turned over finds from his garden to a
museum:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-06/23/content_29857304.htm

Hype for a documentary about China:

http://www.pbs.org/show/story-china/

More on those human sacrifice remains at Yinxu:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-skeletal-sacrificial-victims-shang-dynasty.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/human-sacrifice-victims-killed-bloody-rituals-china-3
000-years-ago-were-war-captives-1626856
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-human-sacrifices-were-prisoners-16241
9239.html
https://qz.com/1011851/archaeologists-have-found-proof-that-the-ancient-chin
ese-shang-dynasty-used-foreign-slaves/

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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
===============================================================
= A prehistoric fish trap and petroglyphs from Kodiak Island:

https://alaska-native-news.com/prehistoric-fish-trap-and-petroglyphs-found-on-
kodiak-island-29163

A 1000 years bp dugout canoe from Louisiana:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/history/2017/06/22/
caddo-tribe-canoe-found-red-river/417765001/
http://www.timesunion.com/news/texas/article/Archaeologists-find-prehistoric-
canoe-in-north-11244285.php
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/texas/article_281710c6-e4d0-5592-9f
e5-05876172c383.html
http://www.ksla.com/story/35727059/caddo-parish-couple-find-centuries-old-ca
noe-in-red-river
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5678-170622-louisiana-dugout-canoe

Revolutionary War era lock from Fort Michilimackinac:

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/06/revolutionary_war
-era_lock_une.html

Finds from a Confederate prison site on an island in Sandusky Bay:

http://www.toledoblade.com/Education/2017/06/19/Big-finds-in-tiny-pieces-at-C
onfederate-prison-site.html

Excavating an 1837 house in Van Buren (Arkansas):

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/jun/19/university-sets-to-work-on-1
837-house-2/?f=news-arkansas

Digging a site associated with Emily Dickinson:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Dig-aims-to-unearth-details-of-
Emily-Dickinson-s-11230949.php

Feature on petroglyphs in Parowan Gap:

http://stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2017/06/18/raw-petroglyph-day-interpret
ations-and-mysteries-of-parowan-gap/#.WUgi7uvythG

Pondering whether the Maya visited Florida:

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/20/florida-frontiers-did-ancien
t-maya-visit-florida/411801001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

A shipwreck off Florida:

http://keysnews.com/article/story/archaeologists-uncover-likely-acorn-wreck/

A Jesuit church from Shreveport:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2017/06/21/archeology-shrevepor
t-old-jesuit-church-excavated-clay/403655001/

Digging a ‘native American village’ site in Illinois:

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170624/news/306249998/
http://www.wjbc.com/2017/06/22/isu-archaeological-team-digs-through-native-
american-village/

Digging a site in Delphi (Indiana):

http://wishtv.com/2017/06/23/archaeologists-uncovering-delphis-history/

Feature on Roanoke:

http://www.carolinacountry.com/carolina-stories/stories/roanoke-the-persistent
-mystery-of-a-lost-colony

Concerns for a site in Sacramento:

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/06/22/runoff-from-record-winter-could-en
danger-secret-archaeological-site/

Nunavut is arguing with the Canadian government about Franklin Expedition
artifacts:

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/nunavut-complains-to-trudeau-that-feder
al-scientists-took-franklin-artifacts-without-permission/wcm/a670e186-ef66-49
28-8594-a31436baf1e4

Recreating Native American water bottles from California:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/bc-src061917.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170623110551.htm
https://www.wired.com/story/plastic-water-bottles-might-have-poisoned-ancien
t-californians/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5683-170623-california-bitumen-bottles

Some features relating to Canada’s 150th anniversary (probably will be more
next week):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/world/canada/
canada-family-histories.html

Review(ish) of Kaplan, *Lincoln and the Abolitionists*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/books/review/lincoln-and-the-abolitionist
s-fred-kaplan.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

===============================================================
= CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
===============================================================
= Stadium construction in Nicaragua reveals a 1200 years bp burial ground:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30318662

Latest finds from Machu Picchu:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-machu-picchu-new-archaeological-finds-fro
m-inca-citadel-released-111879
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5680-170622-peru-ritual-vessel

Excavating a coffee plantation in Cuba:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/saint-mary-s-university-archaeolo
gical-havana-slave-plantation-1.4171755

More on the El Volcan pyramid in Peru:

https://www.livescience.com/59544-mysterious-volcano-shaped-pyramid-in-pe
ru.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5674-170621-peru-el-volcan

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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
===============================================================
= A trove of Nazi artifacts from Argentina:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-hidden-trove-nazi-artifacts-argentina.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hidden-trove-suspected-nazi-art
ifacts-found-argentina-48145123
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40349808

Feature on the history of money:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/06/20/when-did-people-start-usi
ng-money/
https://www.livescience.com/59560-when-did-people-start-using-money.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/making-cents-currencys-ancient-rise-
180963776/

Next up in the search for Amelia Earhart … forensic dogs:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/amelia-earhart-island-dogs/
http://www.newsweek.com/amelia-earhart-fred-noonan-remains-search-nikuma
roro-627886
http://www.newser.com/story/244593/new-earhart-search-less-a-shot-in-dark-t
han-any-before.html
http://theweek.com/speedreads/section/where%20oh%20where%20could%20s
he%20be%3F
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/22/did-amelia-
earhart-die-on-a-remote-pacific-island-bone-sniffing-border-collies-may-find-ou
t/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11880888

Feature on the evolution of Christian portraits from pagan icons:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-short-step-from-pagan-portraits-to-early-
christian-icons/

Apparently there is a shortage of archaeologists:

http://observer.com/2017/06/archaeologist-shortage-britain/

On the history of music:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-story-music-humans.html

On the use of periods … or not:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/13/
stop-using-periods-period-2/

Feature on pirates:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170621-the-timeless-allure-of-pirates

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/
===============================================================
= MUSEUM MATTERS
===============================================================
= Coins of the Realm/Faces of Power:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.796986
http://www.imj.org.il/en/exhibitions/faces-power

Age of Empires:

https://hyperallergic.com/374312/from-a-jade-burial-suit-to-terracotta-warriors-
a-blockbuster-display-of-chinas-ancient-treasures/

Cutty Sark:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/22/c_136384609.htm

Nazca culture:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/22/c_136384909.htm
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1052911.shtml

Catal Huyuk:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2017/06/23/excavation-story-of-catal
hoyuk-on-display
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/koc-university-reveals-the-curious-case-of-c
atalhoyuk.aspx?pageID=238&nid=114682&NewsCatID=375

Silk Road (requires translation):

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/sjGsU5CpDkc1K9T_-3NgPQ

Letters from Baghdad:

http://www.startribune.com/lawrence-of-arabia-s-female-counterpart-finally-get
s-the-attention-she-earned/430165663/

Expansion plans at the Victoria and Albert:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/arts/design/victoria-and-albert-museum-t
o-unveil-expansion.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

===============================================================
= THE TECHY SIDE
===============================================================
= On the facial reconstruction front, we have an 18th dynasty mummy:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5671-170620-nebiri-mummy-reconstruction

… and a Herculaneum victim:

https://3dprint.com/178803/3d-recreate-faces-herculaneum/
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20170622-3d-scanning-helps-scientists-recreate-
2000-year-old-exploded-head-of-mount-vesuvius-victim.html

The French military is funding the use of tech to document heritage sites in
conflict zones:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/french-military-funds-technolo
gy-to-document-heritage-in-conflict-zones/

Plans to use tech to figure out an El Greco:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40275610

A ‘exciting’ item from Roanoke thought to be gold turns out to be brass:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-roanoke-endures-yet-anothe
r-cruel-twist-180962837/?utm_source=keywee-facebook.com&utm_medium=s
ocialmedia&utm_campaign=keywee&kwp_0=413564

===============================================================
= ON THE DNA FRONT
===============================================================
= Using DNA to track cat domestication:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/kl-adr061617.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170619125825.htm
https://www.livescience.com/59538-cat-domestication-dispersal-in-ancient-wor
ld.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/06/19/ancient-dna-unrav
els-cat-domestication-like-ball-of-yarn/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40306897
http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/ancient-modern-dna-cats-conquered-world-0
4972.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ancient-egypt-cats-colonise-plane
t-sacred-animals-a7798021.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/19/africats-to-the-purr-ymids-d
na-study-reveals-long-tale-of-cat-domestication
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5668-170619-dna-cat-domestication

More on that mummy DNA study:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/health/ancient-egypt-mummy-dna-genome-heri
tage/index.html

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
===============================================================
= TOURISTY THINGS
===============================================================
= Blue Mountains (Australia):

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/australia-aboriginal-history-tour-blue-
mountains-180963600/

Petroglyphs in Scotland:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/jun/19/scotland-prehistoric-rock-carv
ings-walking-holidays

Italian libraries:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/travel/italian-libraries-hidden-treasures-
books-architecture-art.html?_r=0

Baths of Diocletian:

https://thewest.com.au/travel/europe/bathing-in-ancient-roman-history-ng-b884
09471z

Georgia (not the one in the US):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/travel/music-ancient-history-in-the-cauca
sus-georgia-turkey.html

Galapagos:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/travel/galapagos-islands-ecuador-afford
able-vacation.html

===============================================================
= CRIME BEAT
===============================================================
= More on that thwarted Ottoman era Qurans smuggling attempt:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/06/19/authorities-stop-five-ancient-handwritt
en-qurans-illegally-smuggled-egypt/
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/egypt-smuggling-five-ottoman-era-qur
ans-foiled-987500

A museum theft in New Jersey:

https://apnews.com/4c286e4e232e402992a205bfb4291d84

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/06/culture-crime-news-12-18-j
une-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/

===============================================================
= REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
===============================================================
= Egypt marks a pile of successful repatriation efforts:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-restored-archaeological-pieces/

The Aboriginal shield in the British Museum is becoming a saga:

https://hyperallergic.com/385885/why-an-australian-aborigine-wants-the-britis
h-museum-to-return-his-ancestors-shield/

===============================================================
= NUMISMATICA
===============================================================
= A 4th century gold coin from Chattisgarh:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/rare-gold-coin-on-repose-techniq
ue-unearthed-in-chhattisgarh/articleshow/59237784.cms

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n25.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n26.html

------------------------
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
===============================================================
= PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
===============================================================
= Feature on Felix Mendelssohn:

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/23/533805082/meet-felix-mendelssohn-composer-
of-the-original-song-of-the-summer

Boston Early Music Festival:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/arts/music/review-boston-early-music-fe
stival.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic

Brooklyn Academy of Music has put a pile of materials online:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/arts/brooklyn-academy-of-music-puts-70
000-archive-materials-online.html

On some ‘Classical Couples’:

http://www.wqxr.org/story/5-classical-couples-gave-us-lovely-music/

… and some musical knives:

http://www.wqxr.org/story/listen-these-knives-can-carry-tune

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

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/
2627-audio-news-from-archaeologica-11-june-2017-17-june-2017

Latest Strata: Portaits of Humanity:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity/
2626-strata-june-2017
===============================================================
= OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Ben Finney:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/ben-finney-dead-hawaii-tahiti.html?rr
ef=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries

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

https://independent.academia.edu/ConferenceCanadabeforeConfederationEarl
yMappingandExploration14981763
===============================================================
= 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/
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= PODCASTS/VODCASTS
===============================================================
= Archaeosoup:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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