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https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/oaklawn-exhumations-raise-some-new-questions/article_93c0dee2-cd1b-11eb-b645-e775ea13f8c4.html

... and they're expanding the search:

https://www.newson6.com/story/60cbd7843b335a0bda6bcb13/state-archaeologists-expanding-mass-grave-search-at-oaklawn-cemetery-

Hopes that Oracle will do some archaeology before building its new office campus in Nashville:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2021/06/17/oracle-excavate-native-american-remains-before-nashville-construction/7719148002/

Lost burials concerns in Tampa:

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/special-reports/tampa-old-catholic-cemetery-missing-graves/67-82e970aa-8248-4e7d-8b6e-2e84421bc77d

More on the evidence for a 16th/17th century Mocama settlement on Big Talbot Island:

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county/unf-archaeology-students-unearth-artifacts-almost-500-year-old-native-american-village/AFR4LVGT75HHXA3NLJFH46G32E/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-may-have-rediscovered-long-lost-indigenous-settlement-florida-1-180977973/

Concerns for the Pockoy Island shell rings:

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/half-of-prehistoric-sc-site-may-be-claimed-by-the-sea-by-fall/article_17c57b50-cd33-11eb-a962-73643291160b.html

Feature on flint quarries in Ohio:

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/columns/2021/06/20/archaeology-flint-quarries-were-special-places-indigenous-people/7703319002/

Feature on the Great Serpent Mound:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/the-great-serpent-mound/139468

Feature on the John Brown Farm:

https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/advancing-adirondack-inclusivity-at-john-brown-farm

Features on Juneteenth:

https://www.livescience.com/what-is-juneteenth.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2021/juneteenth-history-texas-emancipation-photos/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/juneteenth-us-second-independence-day-now-federal-holiday-180978015/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/opinion/juneteenth-civil-rights.html ================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================

Restoring a 500 years bp Inca 'woven bridge' in Peru:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/16/bridge-made-of-string-peruvians-weave-500-year-old-incan-crossing-back-into-place

Mexico's Maya train project might be delayed by archaeological finds:

https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/major-archaeological-find-could-hold-up-maya-train
https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/06/archaeological-zone-discovered-on-the-maya-train-route-in-campeche-will-not-be-open-to-the-public/

Feature on rethinking the fall of the Aztec empire:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/an-indigenous-reframing-of-the-fall-of-the-aztec-empire/

Feature on the Aztecs:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6548/1269
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Not sure where to put this bit of experimental archaeology trying to figure out how Paleolithic types illuminated their caves:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-darkness-experimental-paleolithic-cave.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/p-li060921.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210616143034.htm https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-06-16/un-mundo-de-sombras-humos-y-gamas-de-rojos-las-pinturas-rupestres-como-las-vieron-sus-artistas.html
https://www.insidescience.org/news/scientists-recreate-stone-age-lamps-and-torches-see-how-ancient-artists-illuminated-caves
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/paleolithic-lighting-systems-09771.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/archaeologists-recreated-three-common-kinds-of-paleolithic-cave-lighting/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9796-210618-paleolithic-cave-lighting

Similarly, a piece on the damage bat guano does to petroglyphs in caves:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/science/bats-guano-cave-art.html

... and we might as well also put here this study of 30 000 years bp 'hand stencils' at Gargas cave suggesting they depict 'sign language':

http://www.insidescience.org/news/cave-paintings-may-depict-ice-age-sign-language

Feature on Jane Austen's family links to slavery:

https://www.timesunion.com/living/article/Jane-Austen-family-link-to-abolition-movement-16247278.php

Parts of a cut up 16th century panel were reunited:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/acquisitions-june-2021

Feature on the fate of Hideki Tojo's body after execution:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/world/asia/japan-tojo-remains.html

On Caravaggio's Ecce Homo:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-06-14/el-eccehomo-atribuido-a-caravaggio-pertenecio-a-las-colecciones-reales.html

Latest 'hidden art' is a portrait by Modigliani:

https://hyperallergic.com/654555/oxia-palus-technology-reveals-hidden-modigliani-portrait/

Looking into a possible 'fetish' of Proust:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/proust-and-the-sex-rats

Pondering whether Renaissance philosophy exists:

https://aeon.co/essays/there-was-no-such-thing-as-renaissance-philosophy

Feature on the rise of inequality:

https://aeon.co/essays/for-97-of-human-history-equality-was-the-norm-what-happened

Feature on the roots of rape culture:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-hypocrisies-of-rape-culture-have-medieval-roots

Feature on letterlocking:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210616-how-the-forgotten-tricks-of-letterlocking-shaped-history

Feature on Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210617-the-supper-at-emmaus-a-coded-symbol-hidden-in-a-masterpiece

Feature on the impact of graphs on various things:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/when-graphs-are-a-matter-of-life-and-death

Challenging Darwin's theory of sexual selection:

https://theconversation.com/darwin-got-sexual-selection-backwards-research-suggests-162711

cf; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/evo.14273

Pondering when the Anthropocene began:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/the-human-epoch-when-did-the-anthropocene-begin

Feature on some solstice sites that aren't Stonehenge:

https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/solstice-sites/

Review of Rosemary Hill, *Time's Witness*:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-witness-by-rosemary-hill-review-b72pb2nhl

Review of Scott Borchert, *Republic of Detours*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/books/review/republic-of-detours-scott-borchert.html

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CURRENT EVENTS: ================================================================
Add Chief Justice John Marshall to the list of folks revealed as major slaveowners:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/chief-justice-john-marshall-slaves/619160/

Feature on David Drake's 'poetic jars':

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/arts/design/-enslaved-potter-david-drake-museum.html

OpEd on how history is taught:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-fog-of-history-wars

On teaching race and history in the US:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/teaching-race-and-history-in-americas-schools/

... and scholarly reaction to current legislative efforts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/arts/critical-race-theory-scholars.html

Assorted feature on China's cultural erasure of the Uyghurs:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2021/how-china-is-destroying-the-uyghur-mosques~v440216/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/12/hilton-hotel-built-xinjiang-china-bulldozes-mosque/
https://uhrp.org/bibliography/

Trying to preserve Mayan weaving traditions:

https://elpais.com/planeta-futuro/2021-06-12/las-tejedoras-mayas-que-defienden-sus-creaciones-como-memoria-historica-y-modelo-de-desarrollo.html

More on the University of Sheffield cut situation (various):

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/sheffields-department-of-archaeology-receives-massive-support-from-greece-3278569
https://www.thestar.co.uk/education/sheffield-student-slams-process-to-shut-down-department-of-archaeology-as-unethical-3277758
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/education/university-of-sheffield-release-full-explanation-of-cuts-to-archaeology-department-and-reveal-record-low-student-numbers-but-commit-to-still-taking-part-in-local-digs-3276457
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
Three (possibly related) woolly mammoth skeletons found by gold miners in the Yukon:

https://www.livescience.com/yukon-miners-discover-woolly-mammoths.html

On the origins of brassica rapa:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/brassica-rapa-vegetable-domestication

More on the longevity of ancient chickens:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-murder-most-fowl-chickens-in-antiquity-lived-longer-1.9901105
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Nero:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-9696549/Nero-review-200-objects-exhibition-offers-fascinating-snapshot-imperial-Rome.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-nasty-was-nero-really https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2021/06/17/was-nero-a-hero-seeking-to-rehabilitate-the-reviled-roman-emperor-the-british-museum-exposes-the-politics-of-duplicity/
https://hyperallergic.com/654479/what-to-make-of-nero-man-behind-myth-british-museum/

Pompeii (Georgia):

https://agenda.ge/en/news/2021/1618

Assyrian art:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/reviews/anatolia-to-babylonia-assyrian-art-at-getty-villa
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1877216/middle-east

Mardi Gras Shipwreck:

https://www.raynetoday.com/lifestyle/%E2%80%98mardi-gras-shipwreck%E2%80%99-exhibit-open-thursday

Slavery:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/podcast/slavery-at-the-rijksmuseum-leonora-carrington-and-a-rubens-reunion

Documenta:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/arts/documenta-deutsches-historisches-museum.html

Hilma af Klint:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/15/hilma-af-klints-miraculous-art-in-dialogue-with-spirits-she-found-her-own-voice
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint/

Keros:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/06/16/keron-settlement-that-began-4500/

European Masterpieces:

https://theconversation.com/european-masterpieces-from-the-met-demonstrates-arts-power-to-speak-to-the-human-condition-160462

Australian impressionists:

https://theconversation.com/she-oak-and-sunlight-the-best-feelgood-show-i-have-seen-since-covid-158311
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/she-oak-and-sunlight/

Nowashe Village:

https://www.wtnh.com/on-air/nyberg/nowashe-village-immersive-outdoor-museum-gives-first-hand-look-at-indigenous-life/

Becket:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/thomas-becket-is-5th-ave-a-future-pilgrimage-site-11623595741

Napoleon:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/napoleon-review-the-generals-garden-11624028579 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/napoleon-s-stolen-masterpieces-the-plunder-that-formed-the-louvre-1.4589616

Weathervanes:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/weathervanes-get-their-second-wind

Treasure of Chianti:

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/family/2021/06/16/ancient-coins-discovered-fsu-team-view-italy/7688885002/

Golden Coach:

https://www.dw.com/en/controversial-golden-coach-becomes-museum-exhibit/a-57936853

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir was marking World Music Day:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/105092/Egyptian-Museum-in-Tahrir-exhibits-22-unique-artifacts-in-celebration

The Acropolis Museum is celebrating its 12th birthday:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/06/20/acropolis-museum-12-today/

Feature on the Charlestown Shipwreck Treasure Museum:

https://www.cornwalllive.com/whats-on/whats-on-news/death-defying-treasure-seeking-pioneers-5537193

Feature on the Hatay Archaeology Museum:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/local-tourists-rush-to-hatay-archaeology-museum-165548

Feature on the soon-to-be-open Musee de Mariana at Lucciana:

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/patrimoine/archeologie/la-corse-sapprete-a-ouvrir-un-nouveau-musee-archeologique-a-lucciana_4661357.amp

Feature on how COVID has affected Italy's museums:

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2021/06/17/colosseum-pompeii-how-have-italy-museums-changed-post-covid

On decolonizing efforts by European museums:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-06-13/los-museos-europeos-aspiran-a-descolonizarse.html

An apology from a Shanghai museum:

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3137871/chinese-art-museum-shanghai-apologises-and
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
A 3000 years bp bronze Irish horn is coming to auction:

https://www.christies.com/features/a-remarkable-Bronze-Age-Irish-horn-11713-1.aspx

Assorted Scots history items too:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19369804.rare-scots-history-collection-go-auction/

A Toulouse-Lautrec painting is coming to auction:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/105048/Rare-painting-by-Henri-de-Toulouse-Lautrec-to-be-auctioned

Big bucks for a gold medal cast to mark Henry VIII becoming head of the Church of England:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/632/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/632/pub/632/page/43/article/183949

Ethiopia managed to get some items pulled from a UK auction:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ethiopian-artifacts-pulled-british-auction-1234596039/
https://www.art-insider.com/uk-auction-removes-looted-objects-after-objections-from-ethiopian-embassy/2381

Sotheby's has delayed an auction of Bronte-related manuscripts:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57525932 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/17/uk-libraries-and-museums-unite-to-save-astonishing-lost-library-from-private-buyers
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/arts/design/bronte-sothebys-fundraiser.html

We mentioned this Van Gogh-friend painting purchased very cheaply in an antique shop:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/discovered-a-picture-by-van-gogh-s-colleague

Feature on how to buy art:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/14/t-magazine/how-to-buy-art.html ================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Reflecting on a decade of human genome analysis:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/sjcu-tyo061521.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210616113824.htm https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/18/ten-years-of-ancient-genome-analysis-shows-what-it-means-to-be-human/

A new method might reveal what genes we inherited from Neanderthals:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-method-reveal-genes-inherited-neanderthals.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/uoc--nmc061721.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210617115536.htm

Using DNA to postulate a population turnover in East Asia during the last Ice Age:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/last-ice-age-wiped-out-people-east-asia-well-europe
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9724-210528-asia-ancient-genomes

More on DNA connecting a couple of Viking burials 900 km apart:

https://www.icenews.is/2021/06/15/two-viking-era-skeletons-reunited-in-denmark-after-a-millennium/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/ancient-dna-finds-family-ties-between-viking-age-warriors/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/14/new-light-on-the-movement-of-the-vikings/
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THE TECHY SIDE
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More on machine learning and pot sherd sorting:

https://www.wvxu.org/post/archaeologists-beginning-leave-tedious-work-sorting-computers

More on using bacteria to clean heritage monuments:

https://www.dw.com/en/could-bacteria-help-save-historic-buildings-from-environmental-damage/a-57767479
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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
The Taj Mahal has reopened:

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-taj-mahal-reopens-as-india-cases-slow/a-57914558

German castle road:

https://www.dw.com/en/german-castle-road-a-scenic-route-to-the-past/g-57775372

Uros Islands:

https://matadornetwork.com/read/visiting-lake-titicacas-uros-islands-experience-peruvian-indigenous-traditions/
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Atalanta Forever:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57427065

Feature on Josquin:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/the-musical-mysteries-of-josquin

Feature on Aeschylia 2021:

https://www.athina984.gr/en/2021/06/17/me-22-ekdiloseis-erchontai-ta-aischyleia-2021/

The Regensburger Domspatzen boy's church choir is opening to girls:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57510809 ================================================================
CRIME BEAT
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Something about money laundering and art sales:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/arts/design/money-laundering-art-market.html

I suspect this is the category for a pair of 17th century European paintings found at a roadside dumpster in Germany:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/19/europe/german-police-paintings-dumpster-scli-grm-intl/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57536940 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/german-police-say-17th-century-paintings-found-highway-dumpster-n1271371

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 ================================================================
A list of the 1127 Benin Bronzes held by German museums:

https://www.cp3c.org/benin-bronzes/

... and pondering whether the Queen will return hers:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/double-loot-of-queen-s-bronze

The Met returned two Benin bronzes:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/benin-bronzes-metropolitan-museum-barnaby-phillips/

Feature on some artifacts 'stolen' from Nepal:

https://kathmandutribune.com/nepals-stolen-artifacts/ https://english.onlinekhabar.com/some-historic-idols-stolen-from-nepal-have-returned-home-challenges-galore-have-stopped-others.html

Some German citizens returned some items to Mexico:

https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-recovers-archaeological-pieces-from-germany/a-57930126

The Smithsonian returned a pre-Inca gold item to Peru:

https://hyperallergic.com/654025/smithsonian-repatriates-pre-incan-gold-ornament-to-peru/

More on US returns to Cambodia:

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/cambodia-artifacts-new-york/index.html https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/14619-u-s-returns-3-8-million-worth-of-looted-artifacts-to-cambodia
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n24.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n25.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Elizabeth French:

https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/news/it-immense-sadness-faculty-reports-elizabeth-lisa-french-passed-away-yesterday-cambridge-10

Xu Yuanchong:

https://en.appledaily.com/prominent-translator-of-chinese-literary-classics-dies/AVEJELKLZ5GCRJ4UGFU54BG5JU

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3079-audio-news-from-archaeologica-june-6-through-june-12-2021
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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/

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