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explorator 21.11 July 8, 2018
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Critchley, Bill Kennedy, Richard C. Griffiths, 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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A study of feet suggests Australopithecines could walk upright and
still climb trees:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180704151911.htm
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-human-ancestors-feet-children-backup.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/dc-oha062718.php
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/04/health/selam-toddler-fossil-foot-study/
index.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-lucy-walked-upright-but-bab
y-australopithecines-lurked-in-trees-1.6243522
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/foot-fossil-hominid-kids-lucy-uprigh
t-walkers-33-million-years-ago?tgt=nr
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6767-180705-a-afarensis-toddler-feet

More on Neanderthals hunting in groups:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/dc-oha062718.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/jgum-npc070218.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180702111122.htm

More on Otzi's tools:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180701/copper-age-hunter-repaired-his-too
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AFRICA
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Not sure if we mentioned these petroglyphs from Tanzania:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C30116%2Cpolish-archaeologis
t-discovers-hundreds-rock-paintings-tanzania.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Restoration work on the Pyramid of Djoser revealed a statue of Osiris:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/305974/Heritage/Ancient-Egy
pt/Osiris-statuette-discovered-between-blocks-of-Saqq.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/osiris-statue-found-djoser-pyramid/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53163/statuette-of-Osiris-uncovered
-at-King-Djoser-Step-Pyramid-in
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6763-180702-egypt-saqqara-osiris

Remains of a couple of 4500 years bp 'houses' near the Giza pyramids:

https://www.livescience.com/62976-ancient-homes-giza-pyramids.html
https://www.livescience.com/62966-residences-giza-discovery-photos.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6771-180706-egypt-official-residences

26th dynasty canopic jars from Luxor:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/305454/Heritage/Ancient-Egy
pt/th-Dynasty-canopic-jars-discovered-at-Luxors-South.aspx

A very interesting Ptolemaic-era sarcophagus from Alexandria:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/305971/Heritage/GrecoRoman/
Ptolemaic-tomb-discovered-in-Alexandria.aspx
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53155/In-pics-Antique-sarcophagus-f
ound-by-security-forces-in-Alexandria
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1320371/discovery-%E2%80%98ptole
maic%E2%80%99-tomb-sheds-light-hidden-monuments-alexandria
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-black-sarcophagus-discov
ered-alexandria-egypt-180969551/
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-giant-26meterlong-sarcophagus-h
as-just-been-found-in-egypt/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6764-180703-egypt-alexandria-sarcophagus

A cache of pottery vessels from various periods hidden during WWII:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53278/A-cache-of-pottery-vessels-di
scovered

Feature on Harry Burton (related to an exhibition of his photos):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-44719815/harry-burton-
the-man-who-photographed-king-tut

Hyping China's first archaeological mission in Egypt:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/02/c_137294254.htm
http://www.ecns.cn/news/culture/2018-07-02/detail-ifyvrptq6366553.shtml

Latest Jewish Revolt coin find comes from Emek Zurim National Park:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Bronze-coin-from-4th-year-of-Great-Rev
olt-found-at-national-park-561347
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-coin-from-4th-year-of-jewis
h-revolt-found-in-ancient-jerusalem-drain-1.6223591
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/three-weeks-appropriate
-discovery-bronze-coin-from-the-great-revolt/2018/07/01/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/recently-uncovered-jewish-revolt-coin-show
s-rebels-aware-of-impending-disaster/
https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/07/02/rare-coin-minted-1900-years-ago-di
scovered-in-%E2%80%8Ejerusalem/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rare-coin-sheds-light-on-doomed-jewish-reb
els

2000 years bp pots from an Israeli cave near the border with Lebanon:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/From-on-high-2000-year-old-pottery-dis
covered-in-a-cave-30-meters-high-561351
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-ancient-jars-over-2-000-yea
rs-old-lowered-by-rope-from-cliffside-cave-1.6232836
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248314
https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-lebanon-border-salvage-op-rappels-2000-
year-old-vessels-down-sheer-cliff/
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/178528-180702-2000-years-old-potte
ry-found-in-israeli-cave
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/03/c_137296912.htm
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6761-180702-galilee-cave-amphorae

What Christopher Eames is up to:

https://www.thetrumpet.com/radio/watch-jerusalem/episodes/71-discovering
-biblical-hebron-and-post-excavation-work-at-hebrew-university

Digging has resumed at Tieion (Turkey):

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/07/06/excavations-resume-in-tiei
on-ancient-city-in-turkeys-black-sea-region

Feature on Gobekli Tepe:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-site-of-the-earliest-known-temple-on
-earth-continues-to-keep-its-secrets/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/08/c_137309029.htm

Feature on Tappe Sialk:

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/07/04/567028/Iran-culture-Sialk

More on that Islamic amulet from Jerusalem:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-muslim-evil-eye-amulet-discovered-in-a
-jerusalem-parking-lot

More on damage to Bosra's Roman theatre:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2018/07/05/Assad-s-bomb
ings-damage-Roman-theater-in-city-mentioned-by-Pharaohs.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Finds (including Mycenean) from various periods at Hala Sultan Tekke:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/31788-excavations-at-drom
olaxia-vizakia-or-hala-sultan-tekke-in-cyprus.html

A small hoard of 3rd century BCE coins from Vulci:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2018/07/03/
treasure-of-coins-found-at-vulci-archaeological-site_89467e5f-b991-4010-
b0bf-9f4eaa937285.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6765-180703-italy-vulci-coins

Remains of a Thracian settlement on St Thomas Island (Bulgaria):

https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/07/03/archaeology-ancient-thracian-settlemen
t-found-on-bulgarias-st-thomas-island/

A trio of Roman burials from a Lincoln student housing site:

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/these-romans-certai
nly-seemed-good-1744873
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6693783/roman-skeletons-lincoln-take-away-
viking-house/

Latest thing the Romans are being 'credited' for is spreading
tuberculosis:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2173374-dna-reveals-romans-helped-s
pread-tb-across-three-continents/
https://www.sciencealert.com/roman-trade-routes-carried-tuberculosis-acr
oss-globe

Interesting followup to that 'Roman fridge' story from a month or so
ago:

https://www.thelocal.ch/20180706/augusta-raurica-basel-ancient-roman-fri
dge-keeps-beer-cool-for-a-month

The contents of that sarcophagus found in Southwark last year have been
revealed:

https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/contents-of-roman-coffin-finally-reve
aled/

Some ACL conference coverage:

https://missoulian.com/news/local/veritas-classics-scholars-venture-into
-montana-find-no-bear-spray/article_102ba741-fbb4-5652-823f-73b0d38f71c8
..html

Feature on Phil Stinson and his 3d models:

http://news.ku.edu/2018/06/26/classics-professor-uses-technological-tool
s-rebuild-ancient-history
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-classics-professor-d-rebuild-ancient.html

Feature on Curtis Dozier's Pharos project (and related):

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2018/07/far-right-using-anti
quity-re-brand-itself-classicists-are-fighting-back

A couple of scholars talking about 'badass goddesses':

http://www.documentjournal.com/2018/07/authors-emily-wilson-and-maria-da
hvana-headley-talk-badass-goddesses-humanizing-monsters-and-their-new-wo
rk/

Feature on Rodin's Classical influences:

https://hyperallergic.com/449655/rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece/

Feature on Aigai (now open to the public):

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/07/c_137308582.htm

On the US Founding Fathers and Gibbon:

http://digital.vpr.net/post/when-history-rhymes#stream/0

.... and how ancient Greece inspired American independence:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2018/07/04/how-greeks-inspired-american-ind
ependence/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/31825-media-report-how-an
cient-greece-inspired-american-independence.html

On Greeks reclining to eat:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/07/01/why-did-ancient-greeks-reclin
e-to-eat-and-drink/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/gastronomy/31795-report-w
hy-did-ancient-greeks-recline-to-eat-and-drink.html

Learning from Epictetus:

http://www.gulf-times.com/story/598518/How-to-live-a-happy-life-Epictetu
s-lessons

Latest Parthenon Marbles protest:

https://news.gtp.gr/2018/07/04/return-hold-protest-parthenon-marbles/

A replica of the Nike of Samothrace is being made for the site:

http://www.euronews.com/2018/07/05/a-replica-of-the-winged-victory-of-sa
mothrace-is-being-made-in-greece

More on terrorist concerns at Pompeii:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pompeii-at-risk-from-terrorists-and-v
isitors-d3fj8jrpx

More on the followup to that 'latest victim of Vesuvius' story:

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/pompeii-man-not-decapitated-by-flyin
g-stone-archaeologists-find-20180701-p4zovn.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-01/pompeii-victim-was-not-crushed-by-
stone-skull-found-intact/9929058

More on that Latin inscription from Yambol:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6770-180706-bulgaria-kabyle-inscription

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Neolithic 'roadway' and a possible ritual site in Suffolk:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neolithic-trackway-possibly-ri
tual-site-discovered-england-180969493/

Byzantine finds at Hotalich fortress (Bulgaria):

http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=122603&headline=Ceredigion
%20archaeologists%20unearth%20startling%20finds%20in%20Bulgaria&sectionI
s=news&searchyear=2018

Finds from various periods found during expansion of the Dorset County
Museum:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-44694816

A 500 years bp sword from a Norwegian lake:

https://www.thelocal.no/20180703/norwegian-divers-find-500-year-old-swor
d-in-lake

Latest medieval finds from Auckland Castle:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16330193.medieval-mysteries-uneart
hed-during-in-castle-dig/

The Book of Deer Project has found a Viking game board of some sort:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/medieval-games-board-found-in-search-
for-pictish-monastery-1-4764734
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6768-180705-scotland-medieval-game

Remains of 17th century barracks from Elizabeth Castle:

http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2018-07-07/archaeologists-uncovering-17t
h-century-barracks-at-elizabeth-castle/

Feature/exhibition on all the interesting things found in Amsterdam's
canals over the years:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/jul/02/from-stone-age
-tools-to-false-teeth-the-secrets-of-amsterdams-canals
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/New-website-amsterdam-history-
artifacts-180969497/

Reevaluating the evidence for when brown bears became extinct in
Britain:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180704112036.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uon-nsq070318.php
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44699233

.... and a not-connected but probably related find:

https://www.newstalk.com/Skull-found-in-Aillwee-Cave-dates-from-Irelands
-Stone-Age

Concerns for Albania's underwater heritage:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-urge-albania-underwater-her
itage.html

.... seems related:

http://www.tiranatimes.com/?p=137767

Latest in the France-UK Bayeux Tapestry deal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44732897
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/governments-sign-deal-securing-loan
-of-bayeux-tapestry-to-the-uk-in-2022
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-and-uk-sign-bayeux-tapestry-deal/

Heritage status for Germany's Naumburg Cathedral:

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-naumburg-cathedral-wins-world-heritage-de
signation/a-44481701

More on beer brewing in Sweden:

http://sciencenordic.com/1600-year-old-evidence-beer-brewing-sweden

More on 17th century latrine contents (I think we mentioned this a
while ago):

https://www.livescience.com/62990-wine-barrel-renaissance-bathrooms.html
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2018/07/17thc-wine-barrels-turned-loos
-reveal-theirsecrets/

More on human sacrifice at a German henge site:

http://www.newsweek.com/women-children-brutally-killed-german-stonehenge
-1004937
https://abcnews.go.com/International/dismembered-bodies-women-children-f
ound-german-stonehenge/story?id=56313781

More on the search for the lost standing stones of Devon:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/the-lost-standing-stones-of-devo
n-are-still-hiding-from-archaeologists/
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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Paleolithic stoneware from near the Suifen River in northeast China:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/02/c_137296077.htm

Evidence of equine 'veterinary care' in Mongolia 1300-700 BCE:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-oldest-evidence-horse-veterinary-mongolia.
html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/mpif-oeo062818.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180702154739.htm
https://www.livescience.com/62974-oldest-horse-dentistry-on-record.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mongolians-practiced-horse-dentistry
-early-3200-years-ago?tgt=nr
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/3000-year-old-sawn-tooth-may-be-e
arliest-evidence-horse-dentistry
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-horse-veterinary
-dentist-Mongolia-archaeology/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6766-180703-mongolia-equine-dentistry

Interesting Spring and Autumn Period burials from Henan:

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2018-07/02/content_54475055.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6762-180702-china-horse-pits

Suggestion that the Soga clan in Japan was of Korean origin:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201807030011.html

An Iron Age site in Andra Pradesh was bulldozed (!):

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/070718/iron-age-s
ite-bulldozed-in-ap.html

Marking the 50th anniversary of the find of 'Mungo Lady':

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-fifty-years-lake-mungo-true.html
http://theconversation.com/time-to-honour-a-historical-legend-50-years-s
ince-the-discovery-of-mungo-lady-97785

Digging a colonial Tauranga garbage pit:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=150
3343&objectid=12084504
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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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A study suggests Chaco Canyon people may have grown their own food:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc-apo070318.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-ancestral-people-chaco-canyon-grew.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180703154919.htm

Bones found in Albuquerque thought to be connected to a serial killer
case turn out to be an 1100 years (maybe) bp Native American burial:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/bones-found-in-albuquer
que-link-to-archaeological-site/article_29c7f242-4984-5b30-a74a-b6dc7a63
7794.html
https://www.abqjournal.com/1193665/bones-found-on-west-mesa-were-ancient
-not-connected-to-west-mesa-case.html
https://www.abqjournal.com/1193279/west-mesa-park-where-remains-found-tu
esday-was-site-of-1000-year-old-archaeological-find.html
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Remains-found-in-Albuquerque-near-arc
haeological-13054130.php
https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Remains-found-in-Albuquerque-near-a
rchaeological-13054130.php

Latest from the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://wunc.org/post/300-years-later-blackbeard-s-nc-shipwreck-continues
-turn-archaeological-treasures#stream/0

.... and this seems to be a semi-new shipwreck find off North Carolina:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-noaa-blake-reidg
e-shipwreck-archaeology/

Plans to study a pre-contact Inuit winter village in the Okak Islands:

http://www.thetelegram.com/news/archaeology-team-set-to-study-pre-contac
t-inuit-winter-village-224268/

Studying remains from burials found at Fort Gibson:

http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/archaeologists-examine-remains-found
-in-fort-gibson/article_c5c8e0da-50bf-5e86-98eb-cdaf43960181.html
http://www.swtimes.com/news/20180704/archaeologists-study-remains-discov
ered-in-eastern-oklahoma

Excavating slave quarters at Poplar Forest:

http://wset.com/news/local/archaeologists-work-to-uncover-slave-artifact
s-at-poplar-forest

Interesting Revolutionary War medal going on display:

http://wamc.org/post/rare-revolutionary-medal-going-display-ft-ticondero
ga

Rethinking a 'forgery rock inscription' about the 'Lost Colony':

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/07/05/dismissed-a
s-a-forgery-could-a-mysterious-stone-found-near-roanokes-lost-colony-act
ually-be-real/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b1505aa43aaf

On news coverage at Gettysburg:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/insider/the-times-at-gettysburg-july-
1863-a-reporters-civil-war-heartbreak.html

On Clovis hunters and Ohio flint:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180701/archaeology-ancient-clovis-hunters
-drawn-to-ohio-flint

On the map that gave America its name:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180702-the-epic-story-of-the-map-that-
gave-america-its-name

On 'God Bless America':

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/arts/music/irving-berlin-god-bless-am
erica.html

.... and 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic':

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/625351953/one-song-glory

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Tombs of 24 Inca nobles in the Valley of the Pyramids (I think we
mentioned this):

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/07/05/world/americas/05reuters-peru
-archaeology-tombs.html
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2460424&CategoryId=14095
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2018-07/05/
content_54995530.htm
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-peru-archaeology-tombs/archaeologists-
in-peru-uncover-incan-burial-site-in-desert-valley-idUKKBN1JV2DY
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6769-180705-peru-pyramid-of-the-bees
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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/

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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What teeth tell archaeologists:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-teeth-reveal-our-r
oots-180969495/

Assorted sites added to the World Heritage list:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/viking-archeological-site-and-
others-earn-world-heritage-status-180969496/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-44680526
https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/07/01/actualidad/1530429696_873094.html

How literature shapes history:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/04/written-world-literature-s
haped-history-martin-puchner-review

On feasting rituals and civilization:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-feasting-rituals-cooperation-require-cruci
al.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/feasting-rituals-crucial-s
tep-toward-human-civilization-180969540/
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Feasting-rituals-and-the-c
ooperation-they-13046031.php

On the 'dancing plague' that broke out in 1518:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-
summer-1518-strasbourg

On some arsenic-laced books found in a university library:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/arsenic-laced-books-discovered
-university-library-180969527/

A copy of the Declaration of Independence from Chichester:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-sussex-44703928/declaration-of-in
dependence-found-in-chichester-archives

Brown has acquired an interesting collection of Jewish texts:

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2018/06/ungerleider

Interesting story behind the St Thomas Way hiking paths:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/07/story-of-resurrected-wel
sh-warrior-inspires-st-thomas-way

Charles I left behind a 'message for the future', apparently:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/05/charles-i-message-poetry-b
ook-university-challenge

Genoa is apparently miffed at England's use of the St George cross:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/england-owes-arrears-over-
st-georges-cross-claims-genoa-mayor

On botched restorations:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180705-the-well-intentioned-copies-th
at-went-wrong

Review of Stephen Platt, *Imperial Twilight*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/books/review/stephen-r-platt-imperial
-twilight.html

Review of Listri, *The World's Most Beautiful Libraries*:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180704-libraries-where-the-worlds-mem
ory-is-stored

Review of a book on the last days of the Romanovs:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/06/30/actualidad/1530381522_415055.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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The House of Herod:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-franciscan-museum-jerusalem-life-jesus.htm
l

Discovering King Tutankhamun's Tomb:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44636774

Islamic Art:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/joint-exhibition-shows-florenc
e-medici-familys-connections-islamic-world-180969553/

Gold of the Pharaohs:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53457/The-Gold-of-the-Pharaohs-Mass
ive-Egyptian-exhibition-in-Monaco

Bolivia is planning a museum at the bottom of Lake Titicaca:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-bolivia-museum-bottom-sacred-lake.html

Sharing a Cezanne from the Gurlitt hoard:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/arts/design/cezanne-cornelius-gurlitt
-kunstmuseum.html

Viking exhibition hype talking about the Vinland Map:

http://wnpr.org/post/vikings-invade-connecticut
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AT THE AUCTIONS
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Interesting collection of Roman, Greek, Viking and medieval rings:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/how-much-collecti
on-rare-ancient-1738345

Egyptian antiquities at Sotheby's:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53190/Sotheby-s-auction-vies-with-C
hristie-s-on-selling-Egyptian
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53399/In-Pics-Ancient-Egyptian-arti
facts-sold-in-auction-in-London
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA reveals much about the first domestic dogs in North America:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180705143544.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoia-fdi070218.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc-adt070618.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/science/dog-american-genome.html
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-first-american-dogs-
20180705-story.html#
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/go-for-launch/la-sci-sn-first-
american-dogs-20180705-story.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-european-dogs-devastated-i
ndigenous-american-pup-populations-180969561/
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/north-america-earliest-d
ogs-came-siberia?tgt=nr
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6772-180706-north-american-dogs

.... less attention being paid to a DNA study of dogs in New Zealand:

https://massivesci.com/articles/ancient-dogs-history-archaeology-new-zea
land

Using DNA to track goat domestication:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/tcd-aga070318.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180705143907.htm

DNA is also solving a mystery about Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers in
Southeast Asia:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc-adt070618.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-ancient-dna-year-old-controversy-southeast
..html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180706105950.htm

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Studying climate from evidence in Brazilian caves:

http://agencia.fapesp.br/pesquisa-traca-2-mil-anos-da-historia-das-chuva
s-no-brasil-/28151/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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The five 'culture setting' countries of the world:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180701-the-five-countries-that-set-wor
ld-culture

Hildene:

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2018/07/04/
hildene-manchester-vermont-robert-todd-lincoln-lincolns-son-home/
36558587/
https://www.hildene.org/

Nimes:

https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/
roman-ruins-museum-nimes-france

Homes of the US Founding Fathers:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/07/03/declaratio
n-independence-historic-homes/757243002/
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CRIME BEAT
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In case you haven't heard about Operation Demetra yet:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44717855
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2018-07/05/
content_54922231.htm
https://www.dw.com/en/italian-police-nab-ancient-artifact-trafficking-ga
ng/a-44526923
http://www.euronews.com/2018/07/05/-40-million-worth-of-roman-and-greek-
antiquities-seized-in-european-crackdown-on-trafficki

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
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Feature on the Benin Bronzes:

https://guardian.ng/life/rediscovering-the-benin-art-a-universal-vessel-
for-cultural-importance/

cf:

https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2018/07/05/french-leader-promises-qu
ick-return-of-stolen-african-relics/

Ethiopia wants a looted tabot returned from Westminster Abbey:

https://inews.co.uk/culture/ethiopia-calls-on-westminster-abbey-to-retur
n-looted-sacred-tablet/

Egypt is displaying the items it received back from Italy:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-puts-relics-recovered-smugglers-it
aly-display/
http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2018-07-01/detail-ifyvrptq6366045.shtml
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1320586/egypt-puts-artifacts-ret
rieved-italy-display
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2018-07/05/
content_54941890.htm

On the Getty's 'Victorious Youth':

https://hyperallergic.com/449866/should-the-getty-return-its-famed-victo
rious-youth-statue/

More on Sotheby's and that horse:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sothebys-strikes-back-against-greekrep
atriation-claim-1311500
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n26.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n27.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/
2752-audio-news-from-archaeologica-24-june-30-june-2018
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OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Ada Yardeni:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dead-sea-scrolls-decoder-remembered-as-gra
nde-dame-of-semitic-paleography/
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologis
ts-biblical-scholars-works/in-memoriam-ada-yardeni/ (tribute)

Lawrence E Stager:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologis
ts-biblical-scholars-works/giant-of-iron-age-research-lawrence-stager/
(tribute)
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CONFERENCES
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CBA Wessex 60th Anniversary Conference (November 2018):

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

Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

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

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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