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explorator 21.18 August 26, 2018
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Astudillo,
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Laurel Carey, Richard Miller, 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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Much excitement over a DNA study confirming Neanderthal/Denisovan
interbreeding:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-neandertal-mother-denisovan-fathernewly-sequenced-genome.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/mpif-nmd082018.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180822131002.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/science/neanderthals-denisovans-hybrid.html
https://www.livescience.com/63400-neanderthals-denisovans-mated-leg-bone.html
https://www.livescience.com/63401-photos-neanderthal-denisovan-hybrid.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45271644
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/neanderthal-denisovan-human-hybrid-girl-cave-discovery-ancient-humans-russia-siberia-a8503616.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/22/640627452/ancient-bone-reveals-swingin-sex-lives-of-neanderthals
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/a-neanderthal-and-a-denisovan-had-a-daughter/567967/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/health/neanderthal-denisovan-child-discovery/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/08/22/mom-was-neanderthal-dad-was-something-else-entirely-meet-strangest-hybrid-human-history/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/08/22/fossil-female-mom-neanderthal-dad-denisovan/1069543002/
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2018/08/22/bone-found-came-child-two-different-prehistoric-human-species/37567895/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meet-first-known-child-neandertal-and-denisovan?tgt=nr
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/bone-fragment-belongs-to-a-girl-with-denisovan-dad-neanderthal-mom/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=26635
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/08/24/ciencia/1535120316_186140.html
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/08/22/ciencia/1534955666_091393.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-denisova-11-first-known-interspecies-hominin-180970114/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6915-180822-denisovan-neanderthal-girl

Studying/simulating human gripping capabilities 500 000 year bp:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-stone-tools-reveal-modern-human-like.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uok-str082018.php
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stone-age-sussex-archaeology-human-evolution-insight-intelligence-a8504766.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6920-180824-boxgrove-tools-dexterity
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AFRICA
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Very interesting 5000 (and later) years bp burial ground from around Lake
Turkana in Kenya with interesting implications:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-massive-monumental-cemetery-built-eastern.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/mpif-mmc081618.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/science/lake-turkana-burials-pillars.html
https://www.livescience.com/63397-kenya-ancient-cemetery-monument-lothagam.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/20/kenya-burial-site-shows-community-spirit-of-herders-5000-years-ago
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-5-000-year-old-monumental-graveyard-found-in-kenya-1.6406003
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/08/21/this-ancient-burial-ground-tells-story-unity-time-climate-chaos/
https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-uncovered-massive-monumental-cemetery-kenya-5-000-years-ago-turkana-lothagam
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/archaeologists-explore-east-africas-ancient-monumental-cemeteries/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/08/news-ancient-pillar-monument-burial-mound-africa/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6910-180821-kenya-lothagam-north
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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More on the occupants of that large granite sarcophagus that's been in the
news all summer:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/309896/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Initial-analysis-shows-skeletons-from-huge-Egyptia.aspx
https://www.egyptindependent.com/gender-age-of-alexandria-sarcophagus-remains-identified-antiquities-ministry/
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/56274/Important-secrets-about-Alexandria-sarcophagus%E2%80%99-skeletons-revealed
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/black-sarcophagus-egypt-archaeologists-age-mummies-alexandira-waziri-sultan-a8499696.html
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/egyptian-experts-determine-gender-and-age-3-skeletons-inside-sarcophagus-1175940
https://www.livescience.com/63384-black-sarcophagus-alexandria-inscriptions.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/were-learning-more-about-inhabitants-dark-sarcophagus-180970085/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6907-180820-egypt-alexandria-skeletons

More on one aspect of those Egyptian medical papyri which seem to have
caught the press' eye:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/egyptian-papyrus-reveals-old-wives-tale-very-very-old-indeed-180970066/

More on that 'oldest cheese':

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/08/25/the-secret-in-the-worlds-oldest-cheese

Black Desert petroglyphs are shedding light on Neolithic animal life:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/black-desert-petroglyphs-uncover-neolithic-animal-life

DNA evidence suggests an influx of blue-eyed people into the Levant some
6500 years bp:

https://www.aftau.org/news-page-archaeology?=&storyid4677=2407&ncs4677=3&erid=7462278
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-skeletons-israel-upper-galilee-reveal.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180820104204.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/afot-dao082018.php
https://www.jpost.com//Israel-News/DNA-study-in-Israeli-cave-sheds-light-on-origins-of-Chalcolithic-culture-565293
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-mysterious-6-500-year-old-culture-in-israel-brought-by-migrants-1.6389513
https://www.timesofisrael.com/anomalous-blue-eyed-people-came-to-israel-6500-years-ago-from-iran-dna-shows/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/blue-eyed-blondes-invaded-israel-6500-years-ago-dna-study/2018/08/21/
https://www.livescience.com/63396-ancient-israel-immigration-turkey-iran.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6919-180824-israel-chalcolithic-culture-shift

Feature on the dig at Masada:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/masada-dig-reveals-a-pleasure-garden-at-king-herods-palace/

Reading a lot into finds of gazelle bones at Shikhin:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-ancient-judeans-wrote-torah-scrolls-on-gazelle-hide-archaeologists-fi-1.6390048

Possible Parthian burials from Agsu (Azerbaijan):

https://www.azernews.az/culture/136506.html

Evidence of 9th century glass production in Samarra:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/p-aef081518.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-archaeological-evidence-glass-industry-ninth-century.html

Islamic era underground aqueduct remains in Fayd:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1358956/saudi-arabia

Remains of a 19th century soap factory in Jaffa:

https://www.israel21c.org/museum-builders-uncover-19th-century-soap-factory-in-jaffa/

On Sennacherib's accounts of his siege of Lachish:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/08/Sennacherib-Siege-of-Lachish

That 3800 years bp 'customer complaint' tablet is in the news again for
some reason:

https://www.newsweek.com/3800-year-old-tablet-worlds-oldest-customer-complaint-goes-viral-who-do-you-1088904
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An intact 3500 years bp Minoan burial from Crete:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/08/08/farmer-discovers-rare-tombstone-from-late-minoan-iii-period-on-crete-photos/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/08/24/spectacular-skeletons-unearthed-from-bronze-age-chamber-tomb-on-crete/#7e85ae29547c
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6908-180820-crete-minoan-tomb

A 1st/2nd century headless statue of a 'magistrate' from Heraclea Sintica:

https://www.novinite.com/articles/191762/Ancient+Roman+Statue+Found+in+Heraclea+Sintica%2C+Bulgaria+%28Video%29
https://www.euscoop.com/en/2018/8/20/ancient-roman-statue-found-heraclea-sintica-bulgaria
http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/08/19/roman-magistrates-statue-from-ca-100-ad-found-by-archaeologists-in-ancient-city-heraclea-sintica-in-southwest-bulgaria/

A metal detectorist has found a huge Roman villa site near Banbury
(timeline of the find is a bit confusing):

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/roman-villa-broughton-castle-banbury-excavation/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roman-villa-as-big-as-buckingham-palace-found-by-chance-wvr5dmjhl
https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/24/roman-villa-the-size-of-buckingham-palace-discovered-in-britain-7879276/

Elsewhere, detectorists found a hoard of silver coins in Yorkshire:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/25/hoard-2000-year-old-silver-roman-coins-unearthed-group-friends/

A head of Aurelian (really?) and other remains from Ulpia Oscus:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/08/25/statue-head-of-roman-emperor-aurelian-unknown-colonnade-found-in-ancient-romes-danube-colony-ulpia-oscus-in-north-bulgaria/

Excavations at 'Odysseus' Palace' in Ithaca are set to resume:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/32358-excavations-at-odysseus-palace-in-greek-island-of-ithaca-to-resume.html

Hopes for Roman finds at a Sandy dig:

http://www.thecomet.net/news/roman-buildings-may-be-found-as-sandy-excavation-enters-final-stage-1-5657245

Feature on the Roman temple dig near Norwich:

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/archaeologists-excavate-ancient-roman-temple-at-caistor-st-edmumd-1-5658164

Studying the lost harbour of Pisa:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-scientists-unravel-history-lost-harbour.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rising-sea-levels-changing-environment-doomed-legendary-pisan-harbor-180970132/

Pondering some buried whetstones from Gallia Belgica:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/the-curious-case-of-the-buried-whetstones

Looking for evidence that a Roman emperor visited Carlisle:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Archaeologists-ponder-whether-Roman-emperor-visited-Carlisle-e8be94c7-48df-49d1-939f-ff3b9b4821e3-dsj
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Discovery-points-to-a-Roman-emperors-visit-to-Carlisle-53d05cad-51b9-41d2-9d83-c10f2bc032ae-ds

What we're learning from Roman poop:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/08/20/ancient-roman-poop-shows-rich-and-poor-were-infected-by-different-parasites/

Feature on the dig at that Roman 'armoury' site in Novae (Bulgaria):

https://www.eurasiareview.com/25082018-bulgaria-grand-armory-of-roman-legions-mystery-unveiled/

Rickets seems to have been a feature of Roman health issues:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/20/roman-rickets-vitamin-d-deficiency
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/rickets-roman-britain-industrial-revolution/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/many-roman-children-suffered-rickets-new-study-has-found-180970074/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/20/health/ancient-rome-skeletons-vitamin-d-deficiency/index.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6909-180820-italy-ostia-apartments

That head of Augustus from Meroe is featured in a British Museum
exhibition
in an interesting way:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/aug/23/bronze-head-from-emperor-augustus-statue-to-go-on-display-at-british-museum

Martin Jehne talks about invective in Roman politics:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/coe-iar082418.php

What Martha Nussbaum is up to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/opinion/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human-dont-ask.html

What Dylan Connor is up to:

https://www.wtnh.com/on-air/connecticut-families/stratford-teacher-shares-powerful-message-after-humanitarian-mission-to-syria/1388018085

What Mary Beard is up to:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/23/mary-beard-returns-to-tv-with-exploration-of-nakedness
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/08/24/mary-beard-present-new-show-history-nudity/

What Jesse Weiner (et al) is up to:

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/professor-classics-jesse-weiner-co-edits-frankenstein-and-its-classics

Interview with Peter Bogucki about his *Barbarians* book:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/08/23/barbarians-book-connects-ancient-clues-give-voice-silent-cultures

The Elgin/Parthenon Marbles issue is heating up again:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greece-uk-elgin-marbles-british-museum-parthenon-acropolis-athens-a8500726.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/231869/article/ekathimerini/life/minister-calls-for-intensification-of-talks-on-return-of-parthenon-marbles
https://greekcitytimes.com/2018/08/21/greece-requests-for-return-of-parthenon-marbles-talks-to-resume/
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/08/21/greece-calls-for-new-talks-on-return-of-parthenon-marbles/

A number of things of interest (mostly Minoan) went up at Smarthistory
this
week:

https://smarthistory.org/ancient-mediterranean/

Daisy Dunn on Catullus 64:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-a-love-poet-writes-an-epic-catulluss-poem-64/

Feature on the eruption of Vesuvius:

https://www.ibtimes.com/vesuvius-day-first-recorded-volcanic-eruption-history-2711279

Feature on Boadicea:

https://www.anglotopia.net/british-history/great-britons-boadicea/

Feature on Roman construction (Pula arena, specifically):

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/30549-mysteries-of-roman-construction-how-is-pula-arena-still-standing

Interesting painting find with links to Ben Hur:

http://www.theledger.com/news/20180819/chariot-race-mystery-painting-discovered-at-fsc-has-links-to-ben-hur

Review of Barker, *The Silence of the Girls*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/22/silence-of-the-girls-pat-barker-book-review-iliad

Review of Higgins, *Red Thread*:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/unravelling-ariadne-s-ball-of-red-thread-1.3598531

More on that gilded horse head from Germany:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2463548&CategoryId=13003
https://www.newstimes.com/news/media/Gilded-Horse-Head-Suggests-Ancient-Romans-Had-1323115.php
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sculpted-horse-head-complicates-legendary-roman-conquest-german-barbarians-180970077/

More on rain and the fall of assorted emperors:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-rain-brought-down-roman-emperors-dk5xmqp6n
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A previously-unrecorded collection of artifacts from near Waterford might
hint at one of Ireland's oldest settlements:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/artefacts-found-in-waterford-could-reveal-10-000-years-old-settlement-1.3603628

A Class I Pictish stone find from a river near Aberdeen:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/fisherman-finds-stunning-pictish-stone-in-river-1-4788591
https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/river-drought-reveals-ancient-pictish-stone/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6916-180823-scotland-pictish-stone

A possible 7th century monastery site at St Abb's Head:

https://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/features/town-archaeologists-go-on-the-hunt-for-lost-monastery

Latest from the excavations of the Viking fortress at Borgring:

http://sciencenordic.com/danish-viking-fortresses-were-designed-fend-other-vikings

What they're learning from the Osknes Viking boat burial:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-csi-tromsowhere-forensics-vikings.html

Finds from various periods on St Thomas Island (Bulgaria):

https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/08/20/archaeology-remnants-of-ancient-fortress-found-underwater-off-bulgarias-st-thomas-island/
http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/08/23/archaeologists-find-thracian-byzantine-settlements-medieval-monastery-on-bulgarias-st-thomas-island-in-black-sea/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6921-180824-bulgaria-black-sea-island

What they've learned from a development site in Bristol:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/business/amazing-historic-world-unearthed-building-1934480

Latest UK 'drought reveal' is an 18th century forest path:

http://www.dunmowbroadcast.co.uk/news/visitors-at-hatfield-forest-have-the-chance-to-see-a-newly-discovered-ancient-path-1-5662568
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6913-180822-england-drought-path

Low water levels have revealed a number of 17th century 'hunger stones' in
the Elbe:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-drought-reveals-ancient-hunger-stones.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641331544/drought-in-central-europe-reveals-cautionary-hunger-stones-in-czech-river
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hunger-stones-emerge-drought-parched-czech-river-180970130/

Feature on the Halstatt mines (and the finds, of course):

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-salt-alps-ancient-austrian-bronze.html
https://www.france24.com/en/20180824-salt-alps-ancient-austrian-mine-holds-bronze-age-secrets
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A 30 000 years bp frozen-preserved foal from Siberia:

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/perfectly-preserved-ancient-foal-is-shown-to-the-world-for-the-first-time/
https://www.livescience.com/63431-preserved-foal.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-scientists-perfectly-ancient-foal-siberia.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/foal-permafrost-1.4797543
https://gizmodo.com/we-ve-got-the-meat-scientists-unearth-final-ingredient-1828587496?rev=1535145273625

Coverage of the finds (including a Neolithic step pyramid) from Shimao:

https://www.livescience.com/63406-massive-shimao-pyramid-unearthed-china.html
https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-china-lost-city-pyramid-and-human-sacrifices-rewriting-history-1090117
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6918-180823-china-step-pyramid

Remains of Cham towers from Phong Le (Viet Nam):

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainment/207349/vestige-of-cham-towers-unveiled-in-da-nang.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6917-180823-vietnam-cham-towers

A 9th century inscription of a Pallava king from Porkunam:

https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/stone-inscription-on-pallava-king-found/article24783148.ece

A dig at the site of a new subway station in Melbourne has uncovered a
pile
of artifacts, including 1000+ teeth (!):

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/no-hidden-treasure-but-1000-teeth-found-at-swanston-street-dig-site-20180821-p4zyw3.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeological-dig-australian-metro-station-unearths-1000-human-teeth-180970100/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6911-180821-australia-melbourne-teeth

Pondering how to get missing temple idols back in India:

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/260818/in-an-idol-world.html

Related:

https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/sunday-read/my-life-as-an-idol-hunter/articleshow/65546596.cms
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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ddab09cab5362c9613318bd92&id=b917a20ae5
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NORTH AMERICA
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Feature on the dig at Etzanoa (Kansas):

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html#
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lost-native-american-city-of-etzanoa-opens-its-gates-to-tourists-pfrg87zcm
http://www.fox19.com/story/38926602/in-rural-kansas-the-lost-city-of-etzanoa-comes-to-light
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-discover-the-site-of-a-massive-longlost-city-in-the-us/

Feature on Fort Ticonderoga:

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/picture-gallery/news/2018/08/18/photos-the-storied-history-of-fort-ticonderoga/37530071/
https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/08/20/history-space-legacy-fort-ticonderoga/37529999/

Poking around Egg Mountain (Vermont):

http://digital.vpr.net/post/high-school-students-help-uncover-18th-century-mystery-egg-mountain

Latest Clovis point find in someone's yard:

http://www.courier-tribune.com/entertainmentlife/20180819/caswell-collector-finds-holy-grail-of-arrowheads-in-front-yard

Latest on the search for the Endeavour:

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/kids-news/captain-cooks-endeavour-mystery-close-to-being-solved-250-years-after-it-sailed-to-australia/news-story/0762b55dd59ecaae8377fffbef17faf5

I think we mentioned this study suggesting Canadian Arctic peoples' spun
yarn predated European contact:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-indigenous-canadian-arctic-people-textiles.html

The controversy over John A Macdonald is spreading:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45275651

Concerns for 18th century burials on Cape Breton:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/capebreton/1593221-students-spend-summer-digging-up-preserving-300-year-old-human-remains-at-cape-br
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6912-180821-canada-fortress-of-louisbourg

Oil and gas concerns for sites in Pennsylvania:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/19/639997873/oil-and-gas-drilling-could-endanger-u-s-archaeological-sites
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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I think we mentioned these Ramada culture burial pits from Peru:

https://www.livescience.com/63295-trophy-heads-mummies-ancient-peru-pits.html

"Robots" helped find some new passageways and burials at Chavin de
Huantar:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-archaeology/robots-help-find-new-tunnels-at-ancient-temple-in-perus-andes-idUSKCN1L621S
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/08/robots-help-find-new-underground.html#S1MRBRGsrKJO3XKU.97
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6914-180822-peru-chavin-de-huantar-temple

A mask of Pakal the Great (maybe) from Palenque:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/palenque-mask-believed-to-represent-7th-century-mayan-ruler/
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexico-Archaeologists-Discover-Ancient-Mask-of-Mayan-Ruler--20180825-0017.html

Something about carbon reservoirs and the collapse of the Maya:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180820113055.htm
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/carbon-impact-of-ancient-maya-farming-may-still-be-felt/

.... and something about 'low density urbanism' at Maya sites:

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-scale-maya-civilizations-strange.html

More on those 3800 years bp wall reliefs from Caral:

https://gizmodo.com/these-3-800-year-old-peruvian-carvings-look-like-modern-1828460770
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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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Pre Islamic poetry is gaining in popularity:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180820-the-6th-century-poems-making-a-comeback

On old books as travel guides:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180819-the-travel-guides-that-charted-our-world

Feature on Mayan blue:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180816-the-rare-blue-the-mayans-invented

Why Czechs don't speak German:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180820-why-czechs-dont-speak-german

On 'quietism':

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/what-is-quietism-and-why-we-all-need-a-bit-of-it/

On St Patrick's origins:

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/saint-patrick-born-scotland

On pink throughout history:

https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/voceviu/2018/08/a-curiosa-trajetoria-da-cor-rosa-ao-longo-da-historia.shtml

Review of de Courcy, *The Husband Hunters*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/books/review/husband-hunters-anne-de-courcy.html

Review of Hurston, *Barracoon*:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/barracoon-review-zora-neale-hurston/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Humphrey Llwyd:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45241579

Yup'ik artifacts:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2018/08/19/new-cultural-center-unveils-thousands-of-yupik-artifacts-rescued-in-race-against-climate-change/

Advancing Women Artists:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2018/08/20/articulo/1534767978_990703.html

More on the 3d models the Uffizi has put online:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3d-scans-put-sculptures-at-our-fingertips-5tvn72ghx

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Hopes that muon imagery can help save the dome of the Cathedral of St Mary
of the Flower:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/cosmic-rays-could-help-unlock-the-secrets-of-brunelleschis-dome/

On the use of 'smart' nanotech to preserve shipwrecks (like the Mary
Rose):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/acs-bsw071718.php
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/how-magnetic-nanoparticles-will-help-preserve-a-500-year-old-shipwreck/

Not sure if we've had this facial reconstruction of 'Eve' from Quintana
Roo:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/scientists-reconstruct-face-woman-whose-13109728

More on the fiddling with the dating of Thera:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-carbon-dating-tool-could-determine-if-ancient-eruption-tied-to-exodus/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Thessaloniki:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/travel/what-to-do-in-thessaloniki.html

Malana:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180821-malana-a-himalayan-village-shrouded-in-myth

Amsterdam finds it has to limit tourism:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/amsterdam-tries-to-limit-impact-of-tourism-a-1223505.html

Dubrovnik is overrun with Game of Thrones fans:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/world/europe/dubrovnik-croatia-game-of-thrones.html
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PERFORMANCES
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The Happytime Murders:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641378152/a-new-addition-to-the-long-tradition-of-puppets-behaving-badly
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641241537/raunchy-but-thin-the-happytime-murders-isn-t-deeply-felt
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CRIME BEAT
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Looters hit a site in Unalaska:

http://www.thedutchharborfisherman.com/article/1834archaeological_dig_looted_in_unalaska

A coin bust in Egypt:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/56285/Tourism-and-Antiquities-Police-recover-83-ancient-coins

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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A 12th century Buddha will be returned to Nalanda Museum:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/patna/missing-12th-century-buddha-idol-to-be-soon-returned-to-nalanda-museum/story-PxwCcBoBd4Y9tJk8M4XpTL.html

Switzerland is returning a St George icon to Cyprus:

http://www.financialmirror.com/news-details.php?nid=35769

More on Easter Island wanting their Moai back from the British Museum:

https://www.latercera.com/nacional/noticia/gobierno-concreta-primer-paso-recuperar-moai-del-museo-britanico/289854/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n33.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n34.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Alex Storm:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/obituaries/alex-storm-dead.html

Peter van Geersdaele:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/08/24/peter-van-geersdaele-made-plaster-cast-sutton-hoo-ship-obituary/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2773-audio-news-from-archaeologica-12-august-18-august-2018
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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-americas-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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

The Book and the Spade:

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