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https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/123988540/lost-at-sea-a-shipwreck-obscured-by-ocean-waves-and-mysterious-circumstances
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NORTH AMERICA
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Feature on the source of the wood used at Mesa Verde:

https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/mesa-verde-ancestral-puebloan/

Feature on Rob Rondeau's plans to look for underwater sites off the coast of British Columbia:

http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2021/02/sfu-archaeologist-seeks-clues-to-ancient-migration-route-in-b-c-.html
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/marine-archaeologist-looking-clues-ancient-235818895.html

On Schenectady as the 'Electric City':

https://dailygazette.com/2021/02/20/electric-evermore-longtime-schenectady-moniker-is-firmly-rooted-in-history/

More on the burials recently found at the North Greenwood Cemetery in Clearwater:

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/local-state/2021-02-15/archeologists-find-29-grave-shafts-in-north-greenwood-cemetery
https://news.wjct.org/post/archeologists-find-29-grave-shafts-north-greenwood-cemetery
https://www.tbnweekly.com/clearwater_beacon/article_7266e5aa-714c-11eb-a6c8-27a85f665555.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/graves-lost-african-american-burial-ground-discovered-florida-180977051/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9475-210217-florida-unmarked-graves

More on the Utah horse remains:

https://www.livescience.com/utah-horse-native-americans.html

More on Venetian beads from Alaska:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/venetian-glass-beads-arctic-alaska-09357.html
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alaskan-archaeologists-uncovered-venitian-glass-beads-date-back-540-years-meaning-made-north-america-columbus-1945050

More on South Carolina moonshine sites (associated with Al Capone):

https://www.livescience.com/hell-hole-swamp-al-capone-liquor-still.html ================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Feature on how the illustration for that 9000 years bp Peruvian huntress was created:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/how-illustrate-9000-year-old-female-hunter

Feature on Aunt Ciata and her work on Brazil's Carnival culture:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/17/her-name-is-rio-aunt-ciata-the-guardian-of-samba-who-created-carnival-culture

More on pre-Columbian palisades being built around areas of Terra Preta:

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-ancient-amazonian-farmers-fortified-valuable.html

More on shark hunting by ancient indigenous groups in Brazil:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-indigenous-groups-brazil-hunted-sharks-food-and-arm-weapons-180976941/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Feature on Basil Brown:

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/lions-donkeys-and-suffolk-anglo-saxon-king

On what we can learn from Eliabeth Barrett Browning during lockdown:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/15/what-we-can-learn-from-elizabeth-barrett-brownings-years-in-lockdown

On the history of bathing rituals and their implications:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cultural-history-of-bathing-rituals/index.html

On why February has 28 days:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/why-does-february-have-28-days-reason-short-month-and-why-there-leap-year-every-fourth-year-3138751

On the history of the corset:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210215-how-the-controversial-corset-made-a-comeback

Marking the bicentennial of the death of John Keats:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/19/poetry-world-prepares-to-mark-bicentenary-of-john-keats
https://ksh.roma.it/events/premiere-death-keats-narrated-bob-geldof

Feature on the Canary Islands' Silbo Gomero 'whistling language':

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/world/europe/silbo-gomero-canary-islands.html

On an important detail in the Mona Lisa:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210211-the-detail-that-unlocks-the-mona-lisa

There's a high-res version of the Bayeux Tapestry online now:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/explore-medieval-masterpiece-bayeux-tapestry-stunning-detail-180977020/

France is looking for centuries-old oaks to rebuild Notre Dame's spire:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/france-centuries-old-oaks-rebuild-spire-notre-dame-fire-trees
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/513/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/513/pub/513/page/57/article/142821

Pushing for a statue of Howard Carter in Swaffham:

https://www.derehamtimes.co.uk/news/bid-for-howard-carter-statue-in-swaffham-7323380

Feature on the science behind Dali's surrealism:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/21/salvador-dali-drawings-meticulous-artist-surrealist-eccentric

On Viking imagery in popular culture:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/feb/20/why-have-vikings-taken-over-pop-culture

More on the (re)burial of soldiers killed during Napoleon's retreat from Russia:

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/2/15/in-pictures-200-years-after-napoleon-defeat-russia-and-france-b
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CURRENT EVENTS: ================================================================
Some Black History Month items...

Feature on the first 'black superstars' in the US:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210216-the-forgotten-story-of-americas-first-black-superstars

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American religion:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/books/review/henry-louis-gates-jr-the-black-church.html

Review of *Liner Notes for the Revolution*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/books/review-liner-notes-for-revolution-intellectual-life-black-feminist-sound-daphne-brooks.html
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
Figuring out where dingoes fit into the dog domestication thing:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/ps-wda021721.php

Feature on dogs and the origins of lap dogs:

https://www.livescience.com/when-lap-dogs-popular.html ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Thomas Becket:

https://www.livescience.com/stained-glass-miracles-becket.html

The British Museum has appointed a curator to research the history of the Parthenon Marbles and other disputed artifacts in its collection:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/185631/british-museum-appoints-a-curator-to-research-history-of-parthenon-marbles-and-other-contested-objects/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/02/17/british-museum-curator-parthenon/

Calls for a museum honouring Aboriginal fighters of the frontier wars:

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-its-time-for-a-new-museum-dedicated-to-the-fighters-of-the-frontier-wars-155299
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
Queen Victoria's 'mourning jewels' are coming to auction:

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/queen-victorias-mourning-jewels-set-for-auction/
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/510/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/510/pub/510/page/12/article/142053

A bit of Lincoln's hair and assorted other presidential memorabilia:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/us/presidents-day-auction.html

A gold Alexander the Great coin and an 'imitation':

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/ancient-greek-gold-coin-and-imitation-offered-in-cng-auction

Auction of some 19th century Jewish burial records in Romania was halted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/arts/auction-house-suspends-sale-jewish-burial-records.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Million years bp (really?) DNA from a mammoth is getting press attention:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210217114416.htm https://www.livescience.com/mammoth-oldest-sequenced-dna-on-record.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/world/mammoth-oldest-dna-million-years-ago-scn/index.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-oldest-dna-unlocks-lineage-of-ice-age-mammoths-11613577600
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/514/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/514/pub/514/page/76/article/143183
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00436-x https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-02-17/el-adn-mas-antiguo-desvela-la-odisea-del-mamut.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/worlds-oldest-dna-reveals-how-mammoths.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/02/19/worlds-oldest-dna-reveals-how-mammoths-evolved/

Marking 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany:

https://www.dw.com/en/celebrating-1700-years-of-jewish-life-in-germany/a-56131698
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using soot in stalagmites to record/date human activity in caves:

https://eos.org/articles/sooty-layers-in-stalagmites-record-human-activity-in-caves

Feature on assorted tech used to uncover ancient cities:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933220-200-how-archaeologists-are-using-futuristic-tech-to-uncover-ancient-cities/
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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Climate change is letting humans off the hook for megafauna extinctions in North America some 13 000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/mpif-ccl021221.php https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/02/18/climate-change-and-the-extinction-of-north-americas-largest-animals/
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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Amsterdam:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/feb/18/kate-mosse-history-novel-medieval-amsterdam

Haifa:

https://bklyner.com/events/a-virtual-tour-of-israel-haifa-a-shared-city/

Tomb of Joshua:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/world/middleeast/baghdad-iraq-joshua-tomb.html
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
The Dig:

https://www.varsity.co.uk/film-and-tv/20804 https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/the-dig/

Live from Mount Olympus:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/theater/live-from-mount-olympus-review.html

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ================================================================
The Great British Dig:

https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/17/roman-stronghold-discovered-in-back-garden-on-the-great-british-dig-14097349/

Lost Maya Cities:

https://www.popmatters.com/ivan-sprajc-los-maya-cities-2650556037.html ================================================================
CRIME BEAT
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Spanish police recovered a 2000 years bp Roman bronze inscription:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/19/spanish-police-seize-rare-2000-year-old-bronze-roman-tablet/
https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/02/19/police-recover-rare-ancient-roman-legal-document-before-auction/

A bust in Thessaloniki occasioned by an attempted sale online of a 19th century crucifix:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/02/17/he-was-searching-for-a-buyer-on-the-internet-for-a-19th-century-crucifix/
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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 ================================================================
Not sure where to put this feature on a pair of looted Greek statue heads from a few decades ago:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1155235/the-mystery-of-two-looted-heads/

Not sure if 'repatriated via auction' goes here either ... a 17th century Korean panel folding screen depicting a hunt:

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/02/21/culture/koreanHeritage/horyeopdo-korean-heritage-joseon-dynasty/20210221142009674.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on ancient coins and prices:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/prices-and-coins-in-the-ancient-world/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n07.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n08.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Cyril Mango:

https://ocbr.web.ox.ac.uk/article/obituary-emeritus-professor-cyril-mango https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/02/16/prof-em-cyril-mango-passed-away/

Neil Hopkinson:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/neil-hopkinson-obituary-3bdx62qvb

Norman Golb:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/science/norman-golb-dead.html

Peter G Davis:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/arts/music/peter-g-davis-dead.html

Philip Stadter:

https://classics.unc.edu/2021/02/15/philip-a-stadter-november-29-1936-february-11-2021/
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsobserver/obituary.aspx?n=philip-stadter&pid=197767979
https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-philip-stadter ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3025-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-7-through-february-13-2021

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Atlas Obscura:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Heritage Daily:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/

Sapiens Archaeology:

https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ================================================================
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