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and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have
left no one out).

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= EARLY HOMINIDS
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= Early hominids pretty much ate anything:

http://www.wtsp.com/news/nation-now/real-paleo-diet-early-hominids-ate-just-
about-everything/458522081

Concern for hominin footprints in the shadow of a volcano in Tanzania:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5748-170720-tanzania-volcano-footprints

Nice feature on Neanderthal evidence from Gibraltar:

http://www.gibraltarolivepress.com/2017/07/22/exciting-archaeological-breakt
hrough-helping-researchers-understand-ancient-relatives/

On the mitochondrial side of interbreeding:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/18/did-human-women-contribut
e-to-neanderthal-genomes-over-200000-years-ago

More of a DNA story, but trace evidence from saliva of some ‘ghost species’
of human as a result of interbreeding or some such thing:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-saliva-clues-ghost-species-ancient.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uab-isc072117.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170721113415.htm
https://www.sciencealert.com/sign-of-a-mysterious-human-ancestor-has-been-
found-in-our-spit

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= AFRICA
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= Kingdom of Kerma era tombs from the Sudan:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1056993.shtml

I think we mentioned this Egyptian-style goldsmith’s burial from the Sudan:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170721090109.htm

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= ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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= Plenty of coverage of the possible discovery of the tomb of Tut’s wife:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/12657/Archaeologists-claim-discovery-of-
Tutankhamun-s-wife-lost-tomb
https://www.livescience.com/59840-king-tut-wife-tomb-possibly-found.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/king-tuts-wife-possibly-buried-new-tomb/
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/king-tutankhamuns-
wife-might-be-hidden-in-newly-discovered-tomb-filled-with-3300yearold-secret
s/news-story/a271484eecb06e04be6ce79507e0a2a8?from=rss-basic
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11893023
http://www.ibtimes.com/tomb-king-tutankhamuns-wifes-discovered-ankhesena
mun-lies-next-her-second-husband-2567662
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/07/19/tomb-king-tuts-wife-discovered-e
xperts-excited-by-find-in-egypt.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tomb-king-tutankhamun-wife-likely-125653687.ht
ml
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/egypt/2017/07/20/
archeology-tomb-of-tutankhamuns-wife-possibly-discovered_6811f305-fefc-40
72-ab78-174fcb8806c7.html

Medieval graffiti from a cave in Upper Egypt (we may have mentioned this
last week):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/273873/Heritage/Islamic/
Medievalera-graffiti-discovered-in-cave-in-Upper-E.aspx
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/no-god-except-allah-medieval-grafitti-by-ancient-pilgri
ms-discovered-egyptian-cave-1631342
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5750-170720-egypt-medieval-graffiti

There’s a Cairo Pass now to help get you to assorted sites:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/273767/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/
Cairo-Pass-available-for-foreigners-to-visit-all-a.aspx
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/12653/Egypt-launches-new-pass-for-Giza-
an-Cairo-archaeological-sites

Antiquities stolen from an Egyptian mosque were recovered:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/274040/Heritage/Islamic/
Antiquities-stolen-from-Egypts-Jani-Bek-AlAshrafi-.aspx

Feature on the Rosetta Stone:

https://www.livescience.com/59858-rosetta-stone-turns-218.html

Egypt is ‘taking stock’ of its neglected antiquities:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/07/egypt-antiquities-campaign
-prevent-theft.html

More on the AUC handing over a pile of items to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/273713/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/
AUC-hands-over-to-Egypt-,-artifacts-from-past-arch.aspx
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/07/19/national-museum-egyptian-civilisation
-receives-453-artefacts/

Study suggesting the Philistines weren’t ‘Aegean pirates’:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.802928

10 000 years bp burials near Dargecit possibly suggest a belief in the
afterlife:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-in-turkeys-southeast-reveal-10
000-year-old-belief-in-afterlife.aspx?pageID=238&nid=115695&NewsCatID=37
5

Plenty of interest for the find of the ‘oldest emoji/smiley’ on a pot at a site
near Gazian Tepe:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/worlds-oldest-smiley-emoji-found-in-turkey.
aspx?pageID=238&nid=115642&NewsCatID=375
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/17/worlds-first-smiley-discovere
d-on-4000-year-old-pot-in-turkey
https://www.livescience.com/59895-oldest-known-smiley-face-emoji.html
https://hyperallergic.com/391472/was-the-oldest-smiley-found-on-a-3700-year-
old-jug/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/historys-oldest-smile-found-on-4000-year-old-pot
-in-turkey/
http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/worlds-oldest-emoji-discovered-on-3-700-year-old
-pottery-1728207
5000 years bp pottery from Cadir Hoyuk:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/20/archaeologists-delicately-exc
avate-5000-year-old-pottery

10 pre-First Temple pots from Shiloh are causing a stir:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=43843
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/7/14/10-ancient-jugs-predating-first-templ
e-unearthed-at-shiloh-site

… and they’re looking for the Ark of the Covenant there too:

http://forward.com/fast-forward/377171/watch-archaeologists-hunt-for-ark-of-th
e-covenant-in-israel/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/with-bibles-and-shovels-a-search-for-the-biblical-
tabernacle-gathers-pace-at-shiloh/

A 2700 years bp reservoir from Rosh Ha’ayin:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=429
9 http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/High-school-students-di
scover-ancient-Assyrian-period-water-system-20-July-2017.aspx
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rare-2700-year-old-Assyrian-era-reservoir-u
nearthed-in-central-Israel-500236
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232744
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/impressive-2700-year-old-water-syst
em-discovered-near-rosh-haayin/2017/07/20/
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.802466
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-high-schoolers-excavate-2700-year-old-w
ater-system/
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/7/20/israeli-students-help-to-uncover-270
0-year-old-assyrian-era-water-reservoir
http://www.aina.org/ata/20170720121416.htm
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/07/21/israeli-students-help-uncover-2700-y
ear-old-assyrian-era-water-reservoir/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5749-170720-israel-water-reservoir

More on the evidence for destruction at Gezer:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-account-of-gezers-destruction-gains-gro
und-with-torched-skeleton-finds/

The Tel Es-Safi/Gath blog is up and running again:

https://gath.wordpress.com/

On the multidisciplinary approach to archaeology in Jordan:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/multidisciplinary-approach-archaeolog
y-improves-research-findings-%E2%80%94-jordanian-expert
http://www.menafn.com/1095628577/Multidisciplinary-approach-to-archaeolog
y-improves-research-findings-%E2%80%94-Jordanian-expert

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-minister-accuses-israel-of-exploiting-attack-to
-dig-under-temple-mount/

More on the dig at Karkamis:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-works-in-ancient-karkamis-end.a
spx?pageID=238&nid=115519&NewsCatID=375

Politics and archaeology clash in Israel once again:

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2017/07/the-worlds-oldest-archaeological-j
ournal-cancels-a-conference-in-order-to-boycott-israel/

Somewhat strange feature on how ISIL chooses what cities to take:

http://www.aina.org/news/20170720120507.htm

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= ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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= A Roman sarcophagus find from Southwark was getting plenty of attention:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40641846
https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/extremely-rare-roman-sarcophagus-fo
und-borough-dig/
http://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/uk_national_news/15417908.Ancient_Ro
man_sarcophagus_found_next_to_baby_bones_near_Borough_Market/
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/national/15417908.Ancient_Roman_sa
rcophagus_found_next_to_baby_bones_near_Borough_Market/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/ancient-roman-sarcophagus-found-
next-to-baby-bones-near-borough-market-35942779.html
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15417924.Ancient_Roman_sarcophagus
_found_next_to_baby_bones_near_Borough_Market/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roman-sarcophagus-unearthed-at-building-s
ite-near-borough-market-southwark-c7nblh3pb
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/archaeologists-lift-the-lid-of-an-
ancient-roman-sarcophagus-news-photo/817569336
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5743-170718-london-roman-sarcophagus

A very interesting mosaic from Perge:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1800-year-old-mosaic-found-in-ancient-city-
of-perge.aspx?PageID=238&NID=115733&NewsCatID=375

Remains of a Temple of Apollo on Despotiko:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26446-remains-of-ancient-apo
llo-temple-unearthed-on-greek-despotiko-islet-west-of-antiparos.html

Roman coin from Orkney:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40606908
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15418643.Roman_coin_found_i
n___39_race_against_time__39__dig_on_Scottish_island/
http://www.scotsman.com/regions/inverness-highlands-islands/rare-roman-coi
n-found-at-orkney-dig-site-1-4509490
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5740-170717-scotland-roman-coin

Late Roman coins from a Chinese tomb:

http://gbtimes.com/china/eastern-roman-gold-coins-found-1500-year-old-chine
se-tomb

On the Roman villa dig at Zejtun:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170718/life-features/a-roman-vi
lla-inside-a-zejtun-school.653583
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2017-07-19/company-news/GSD-Mark
eting-Ltd-supports-the-UoM-during-the-archaeological-excavations-at-the-Zejtu
n-Roman-Villa-6736176787

Feature on the Herculaneum Graffiti Project:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170720/pompeii-herculaneum-graffiti-history-archaeo
logy-marginalized-groups-ancient-rome-slaves-women-vesuvius-social-media

Feature on garum:

http://www.motherjones.com/food/2017/07/fish-sauce-ancient-rome-garum/

Feature on Nero’s fire and ancient firefighting:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/07/18/july-18-64-the-great-fire
-of-nero-and-the-ancient-history-of-firefighting/

… and the subsequent blame/martyrdom put on Christians:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/nero-the-execution-of-peter-and-paul-and-the-big
gest-fake-news-in-early-christian-history

Feature on Iklaina:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/07/22/iklaina-the-first-city-state-of-ancien
t-greece-and-europe/

In case you missed the news of the earthquake on Kos:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/67-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-greek-islands-tu
rkish-coast

… and there was damage at some sites:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/07/21/earthquake-damaged-kos-sites-an
d-monuments-archaeological-service-reports/

Interesting production of the Eumenides:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opinion/manhattans-district-attorney-vs-
aeschylus.html

Interview with Rossella Rea:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/qa-dr-ross
ella-rea-63-director-of-the-colosseum-rome/news-story/e89de7840a1282bbf32
b72532829d3ab

Valerio Manfredi has written a novel based on the Varian disaster:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/07/08/actualidad/1499549585_749131.html

The Greek Orthodox Church sold the Roman *theater* (not amphitheater) in
Caesarea:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-roman-amphitheater-in-caesarea-sold-by
-greek-orthodox-church-to-mystery-foreign-buyer/
https://www.jta.org/2017/07/17/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/ancient-roman
-amphitheater-in-caesarea-sold-to-foreign-buyer

… and other land too, by the way:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/greek-orthodox-church-sold-land-near-iconic-jaff
a-clock-tower-report/
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/7/18/israels-greek-orthodox-church-sells-i
conic-jaffa-land-in-latest-controversial-deal

Probably not uncommon fallout from the lack of washroom facilities at
Pompeii:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elderly-tourist-reported-after-defecating-one-pompeiis
-best-preserved-homes-1630710

Strange ‘spray attack’ at the Vergina tombs:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26418-no-damage-to-ancient-
artifacts-from-spray-attack-at-vergina-tombs-in-greece.html

On Shakespeare’s idea of the invasion of Britain:

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166456

More on ‘white’ ancient statuary:

https://news.vice.com/story/marble-helped-scholars-whitewash-ancient-histor
y

More on those Roman coins from Rio Tinto:

http://blog.gainesvillecoins.com/2017/07/16/ancient-roman-coins-found-spain/

More on the Fourni shipwrecks:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.801529

More on plans for those burials at Phaleron:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-archaeologists-high-tech-year-old-greek-cold.ht
m http://www.ibtimes.com/are-these-ancient-greek-skeletons-executed-army-oly
mpic-champion-cylon-2567322
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/archaeologists-high-tech-2-500-old-greek-cold-03
0929020.html
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26348-archaeologists-in-athe
ns-discover-2-500-year-old-greek-mystery.html
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists-go-high-tech-in-2500-year-ol
d-greek-cold-case----.aspx?pageID=238&nID=115563&NewsCatID=375
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-15/archaeologists-will-use-csi-technology-
study-2500-year-old-remains-near-athens

More on Lanciani’s images of Rome going online:

https://hyperallergic.com/389365/rodolpho-lanciani-rome-images-archive-onli
ne/

More on the St Catherine’s Hippocrates:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/hippocrates-manuscript-sinai-pal
impsests-st-catherines-monastery-spd/

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= EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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= Bronze Age burials from Romania:

https://www.romania-insider.com/bronze-age-tombs-2017/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5752-170721-romania-bronze-age

A 4500 years bp burial urn from Silsden:

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/15417817.Top_caveman__39_s_urn_fou
nd_at_Silsden_burial_mound/
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15420640.Stone_Age_burial_ch
amber_discovered_on_site_of_new_homes/

Neolithic ‘butterfly motifs’ from Orkney:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40653877
http://www.scotsman.com/news/neolithic-butterfly-markings-found-on-orkney-1
-4509215
http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/archaeologists-hit-jackpot-af
ter-sun-uncovers-neolithic-markings-1-4509215
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5746-170719-scotland-orkney-art

>From the same Ness of Brodgar site … an incense pot:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40681085

3500 years bp artifacts from the Zadar archipelago:

http://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/20585-archaeologists-uncover-350
0-year-old-artefacts-in-zadar-archipelago

3000 years bp necropolis in Spain with Urnfield Culture items:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/19/inenglish/1500485443_757250.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3000-year-old-necropolis-discovered-spain-contains-
clues-about-urnfield-culture-1630822
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/830541/Graveyard-remains-Sena-Spain-
archeologists-cemetery-site

On recent finds around Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170713-why-stonehenge-was-built

A fish trap in Southampton has been dated to Saxon times:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-40635975
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5747-170719-england-fishing-weir

Studying fenland in Anglo-Saxon times:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-dark-agesanglo-saxon-fenland-re-imagined.htm
l

An update on the Tintagel dig:

https://www.livescience.com/59889-archaeologists-return-king-arthur-birthplac
e.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-40588509

Searching for evidence of 17th century gunfire at Nottingham Castle:

https://nottstv.com/archaeologists-digging-find-evidence-guns-fired-nottingha
m-castle-17th-century-civil-war/

On how bad London smelled in 1858:

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/18/537890448/london-literally-stank-in-the-summe
r-of-1858-just-ask-dickens-and-darwin

Digging some 19th century steel industry sites in Yorkshire:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40669159
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5751-170720-england-steel-industry

There’s an exhibition associated with this but the story is interesting … African-
Caribbean prisoners’ from a medieval castle:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/18/hidden-story-of-2000-african-
caribbean-pows-in-a-medieval-castle

Studying the sale of offices in 17th century Spain:

https://economia.elpais.com/economia/2017/07/21/actualidad/
1500639917_726301.html

The Ely Museum is trying to acquire a gold torc:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/british-museum-gold-torc-e
ly-13353495
http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/can-you-help-raise-8-000-to-keep-bronze-a
ge-gold-torc-found-in-fordham-at-ely-museum-1-5116754

5000 years of Scottish history in 25 objects:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/5-000-years-of-scottish-history-summed-up
-in-25-objects-1-4508701

Plans for another archaeological park in Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/181433/Sofia+will+have+a+Second+Archaeol
ogical+Complex

Chester Castle has reopened:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40657606

A history of the Windsors:

http://www.dw.com/en/100-years-of-the-windsors/g-39700438

What we’re learning from some mummies from Vilnius:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/16/mummies-church-of-the-holy-s
pirit-vilnius-dario-piombino-mascali

There are apparently a pile of undiscovered caves beneath Nottingham:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/22/hundreds-undiscovered-caves-sti
ll-remain-nottinghams-streets/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-40668609

More on ‘St Columba’s purported hut’:

https://www.livescience.com/59841-remains-of-medieval-saints-hut-confirmed.
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= ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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= Plenty of coverage of evidence from Australia’s Northern Territory that
humans were in the area some 65 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-artifacts-humans-australia-earlier-thought.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uow-ash071817.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uoq-kfc071717.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170719132252.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/science/humans-reached-australia-abori
ginal-65000-years.html
https://www.livescience.com/59874-humans-arrived-australia-65000-years-ag
o.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40651473
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/19/dig-finds-evidence-of-
aboriginal-habitation-up-to-80000-years-ago
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2017/jul/20/aboriginal-arch
aeological-dig-80000-australia-video
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/aboriginal-archaeologic
al-discovery-in-kakadu-rewrites-the-history-of-australia-20170719-gxe3qy.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-07-20/aboriginal-shelter-pushes-hu
man-history-back-to-65,000-years/8719314
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1102/Humans-first-settled-in-Australi
a-much-earlier-than-previous-estimates
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-archaeology-aborigines-idUSKBN1
A50J6?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humans-first-settled-australia-early-6500
0-years-ago
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/07/19/the-first-australian
s-arrived-65000-years-ago/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/indigenous-archaeology-rewri
tes-the-history-of-australia.aspx
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/buried-tools-and-pigments-tell-a-ne
w-history-of-humans-in-australia-for-65-000-years/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v547/n7663/full/nature22968.html?foxtro
tcallback=true
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5745-170719-australia-madjedbebe-shelter

Why it’s important:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/what-globally-signifi
cant-archaeological-discovery-in-australia-actually-means/news-story/
e5744f4826789b7300afe581d1521f98?from=rss-basic

Related:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/how_to_m
ake_a_study_reproducible.html

A Sumatran cave preserves 5000 years of evidence of tsunamis:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/5000-year-long-record-of-tsunami
s-found-in-sumatran-cave-encrusted-in-bat-guano
https://www.livescience.com/59880-5000-year-long-tsunami-record-found.html

Latest frozen mummies from Siberia (1300 years bp) seems to have had
Persian connections:

http://www.newsweek.com/medieval-mummies-siberia-arctic-civilization-6376
02
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/copper-covered-mummies-discovered-remote-siberia
-long-lost-arctic-civilisation-1630804
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4032080/mysterious-mummies-were-cocooned
-in-copper-and-fur-for-1300-years-in-icy-siberian-male-only-necropolis-with-link
s-to-persia/

Hype for a Chinese survey and dig of a Mongolian burial ground:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/19/c_136456132.htm

A report on the Tao River Archaeological Project:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/07/harvard-summer-archaeology-ancient-ch
ina

Plundering tombs is on the rise in China:

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/thieves-plunder-tombs-in-china-as-
demand-for-antiquities-rises

-----

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html
===============================================================
= NORTH AMERICA
===============================================================
= Searching for the grave of the “Maryland 400:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-maryland-400-20170713-
story.html

Digging up the remains of Canada’s (torched) parliament:

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreals-pompeii-archeologists-
sift-through-ruins-of-canadas-torched-parliament

On some detached skulls in a Middle Woodland mound:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170717/archaeology-science-solves-myster
y-of-detached-skulls-in-burial-mound

Concerns for artifacts from Annapolis Royal as Canada centralizes storage
facilities:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1487514-annapolis-royal-mayor-trying
-to-keep-local-artifacts-in-the-province
http://www.novanewsnow.com/news/local/2017/7/18/saving-history----annapoli
s-royal-mayor-hopes-artifacts-wont-be-.html
http://www.annapoliscountyspectator.ca/news/local/2017/7/18/saving-history--
--annapolis-royal-mayor-hopes-artifacts-wont-be-.html
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/regional/2017/7/18/saving-history----annap
olis-royal-mayor-hopes-artifacts-wont-be-.html

Remembering the Salem Witch trials:

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2017/07/20/325-years-later-wit
ch-trial-victims-remembered/103840534/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/site-salem-witch-trial-hangings-finally
-has-memorial-180964049/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
media

They’re ‘downsizing’ the Franklin dig:

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674ship_glitch_scales_back_f
ranklin_wreck_survey_in_nunavut/

Vandalism at Mesa Verde:

http://www.9news.com/news/local/someone-destroyed-archaeological-artifacts
-to-vandalize-mesa-verde/458781379

More on that French and Indian War cannonball find in Quebec:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/cannonball-quebec-city-seven-
years-war-british-french-canada
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/quebec-cannonball-90kg-e
xplode-britain-1759-canada-photos-a7843056.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/potentially-live-cannonball-frenc
h-and-indian-war-found-quebec-city-180964093/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5741-170717-canada-quebec-cannonball

===============================================================
= CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
===============================================================
= A dig on St Thomas is looking at 18th/19th century lifestyles:

http://stthomassource.com/content/2017/07/17/bethlehem-dig-sheds-light-on-h
ow-crucians-lived-and-died/

More on Easter Island:

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-archaeological-analysis-is-rewriting-the-his
tory-of-easter-island

-----
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
===============================================================
= Plenty of Jane Austen stuff (these all vary in focus):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40644085
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jane-austen-symposium/
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/on-the-money-jane-austen/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/07/17/200-years-after-her-death-jan
e-austen-beloved-heroine-her-own-story/480464001/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/12/books/review/
jane-austen-quiz.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/books/review/jane-austen-death-has-no-
dominion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/books/review/jane-smiley-on-jane-auste
n-legacy-roots.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40647121
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40643883
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/18/537247637/it-is-a-truth-univers
ally-acknowledged-that-jane-austen-pairs-well-with-tea

… there was particular attention paid to the quotation put on the Jane Austen
banknote:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/18/jane-austen-banknote-unv
eiled-with-strange-choice-of-quotation
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40641382
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40649721

… and related to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38257375
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40649712

On German condoms and the Russian Revolution (!):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/opinion/german-condoms-russian-revolu
tion.html

Not sure if we’ve mentioned the legal action being taken by the Aboutaams
over allegations they sold ISIL-related items:

http://www.courthousenews.com/defamed-isis-conduit-antiquities-dealer-says/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/arts/design/antiquities-dealer-sues-wall-
street-journal-over-isis-article.html
https://www.artsjournal.com/2017/07/antiquities-dealer-sues-wall-street-journa
l-over-article-suggesting-he-trafficked-with-isis.html
http://observer.com/2017/07/isis-looting-wall-street-journal-lawsuit/

A nice APOD over Pisa:

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170718.html

On Handel’s ‘Water Music’:

http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/07/17/536493418/
300-years-of-handels-water-music-with-a-splash-of-politics

On the ‘Book of Miracles’:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/17/arts/book-of-miracles/index.html
https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/44613/
facts.the_book_of_miracles.htm

On defending Western civilization with science:

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/07/18/537882769/to-defend-western-civ
ilization-start-with-science

Pondering ‘who owns antiquity’:

http://wnpr.org/post/who-owns-antiquity

They exhumed Dali and his moustache is intact:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-exhumation-dali-mustache-intact.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=97664

Feature on Tesla:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-nikola-tesla-sparked-the-electric-age

Latest Victor Nuovo piece on Hobbes:

http://addisonindependent.com/201707victor-nuovo-lingering-problems-hobbe
s

On automata in various cultures:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/17/fotorrelato/1500306240_136785.html#15
00306240_136785_1500379119

Where to see assorted old maps:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/where-see-some-worlds-oldest-maps-1
80963855/

Feature on five languages which have yet to be ‘deciphered’:

https://www.livescience.com/59851-ancient-languages-not-yet-deciphered.htm
l

Marking the centennial of the NAACP Silent Protest parade:

http://news.yale.edu/2017/07/18/beinecke-display-marks-centennial-1917-naa
cp-silent-protest-parade

Feature on Martin Luther:

https://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/07/21/actualidad/
1500642089_505462.html

Why they can’t find Genghis Khan’s tomb:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170717-why-genghis-khans-tomb-cant-be-fo
und

Not really within our purview, age-wise, but remains of a couple who
disappeared some 75 years ago emerged from a swiss glacier:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/bodies-of-swiss-couple-missin
g-for-75-years-found-on-glacier
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/victims-of-decades-old-accident-found-on-swiss-g
lacier-1.3507868
https://www.livescience.com/59903-two-bodies-mummified-in-swiss-glacier.ht
ml

A history-what-if piece on the Ottoman Empire:

http://econ.st/2v9ie73

Review of a book on the changing attitudes towards what is considered ‘vice’
in various periods:

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/07/19/review-mark-stein-vice-cap
ades-sex-drugs-and-bowling-pilgrims-present

Review of a book on balloonist/photographer Nadar:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/he-photographed-victor-
hugo-and-jules-verne-now-the-spotlight-is-on-him/2017/07/19/76c2b5f4-6aff-11
e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/
===============================================================
= MUSEUM MATTERS
===============================================================
= Franklin Expedition:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/franklin-exhibition-in-london-features-items-fro
m-shipwreck-inuit-artifacts-1.3505001

Anishinaabeg:

http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2356421/anishinaabeg-art-and-power-at
-royal-ontario-museum-toronto

Emotions:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/events/26395-%CE%B5xhibition-%CE%B5
motions-opens-at-the-acropolis-museum-in-athens-on-tuesday.html

Animal mummies;

http://observer.com/2017/07/brooklyn-museum-secrets-of-animal-mummies-e
xhibition/

Hokusai:

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/

===============================================================
= THE TECHY SIDE
===============================================================
= 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

===============================================================
= ON THE DNA FRONT
===============================================================
= 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/
===============================================================
= CLIMATE MATTERS
===============================================================
= 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

===============================================================
= TOURISTY THINGS
===============================================================
= Cape Breton’s Gaelic culture:

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

===============================================================
= CRIME BEAT
===============================================================
= 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/

===============================================================
= REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
===============================================================
= 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

===============================================================
= NUMISMATICA
===============================================================
= 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

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

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
===============================================================
= AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
===============================================================
= 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
===============================================================
= OBITUARIES
===============================================================
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

===============================================================
= 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/
===============================================================
= 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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