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http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62589 https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/archaeologists-find-1000-year-old-mayan-canoe-in-underwater-cave-in-mexico/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/archaeologists-discover-complete-maya-canoe-in-southern-mexico-cenotes/141853
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/maya-canoe-found-in-yucatan-could-be-1000-years-old-180978972/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10118-211102-mexico-maya-canoe

More on those 29 Wari 'offering' burials from Huaca Santa Rosa:

https://www.livescience.com/wari-human-offerings https://www.sciencealert.com/andes-mountains-reveals-horrifying-secrets-of-peru-s-ancient-civilizations

More on traces of human blood in a 1000 years bp Sican mask's paint:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/1000-year-old-peruvian-masks-red-paint-contains-human-blood-study-finds/
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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 ============================================================
Pondering the naming of the Adirondacks' 'Ampersand' landforms:

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2021/11/ampersand.html

Feature on Hugh Fullerton and the Black Sox:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/baseball/59078788

On the origins of ghost stories:

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/horror-fiction-stories-ancient-history/

Apparently Americans' body temperatures have been dropping:

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-strange-drop-in-american-body-temperatures-might-have-to-do-with-physical-activity

cf: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01254-9

Feature on history paintings:

https://www.artandobject.com/news/history-painting-art-genre-or-manipulation-truth

Feature on Jack O'Legs:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/the-legend-of-jack-olegs/141895

Feature on the 'miracle rings of Ourense':

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0b1mn5r/the-legendary-miracle-rings-of-ourense

Feature on symbols associated with magic and witchcraft:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20211102-why-the-secret-symbols-of-magic-and-witchcraft-fascinate-us

Feature on food origins:

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/food-origins-crops-map/

On 12th century Genoese merchants inventing the concept of risk:

https://psyche.co/ideas/how-12th-century-genoese-merchants-invented-the-idea-of-risk

Feature on silk production and history:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3153989/how-silk-made-fabrics-chinese-history-and

Feature on some 'gruesome' grave robberies:

https://www.livescience.com/51591-gruesome-grave-robberies.html

... and some unlucky deaths:

https://en.ammonnews.net/article/54058

Feature on Americans not celebrating birthdays until the late 19th century:

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/11/history-birthday-celebrations/620585/

A painting recovered 40 years after its theft might be an unknown Rembrandt:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/03/recovered-painting-could-be-unknown-rembrandt

Latest 'lost treasure' seems to be the Lemminkainen Hoard':

https://nypost.com/2021/11/02/worlds-largest-treasure-hoard-worth-over-20-billion-may-soon-be-found/

Feature on the idea of 'taste' in literature:

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-concept-literature-16th-century.html

cf: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/textual/article/view/32841

Feature on Louise Blanchard Bethune:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/nyregion/louise-blanchard-bethune-overlooked.html

Pondering whether any witches were burned at Salem:

https://www.livescience.com/how-salem-witches-were-executed

Interesting feature on the digital reconstruction of the Acts of Appian papyrus:

https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/digitally-reconstructing-acts-appian-papyrus

They're arguing over the name of Prosecco:

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/03/1051967995/prosecco-italy-croatia-name-prosek-fight

Feature on some warrior cultures:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/five-fierce-warrior-cultures

Feature on the Knights Templar:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/the-fall-of-the-knights-templar/141944

On the origins of fireworks:

https://www.mindbounce.com/trivia/fireworks-originated-in-which-country/

On the cultural history of saliva:

https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/the-bizarre-bio-cultural-history-of-saliva/

Feature on the name 'planet':

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-moons-planets.html

Review of Graeber and Wengrow's *The Dawn of Everything*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/arts/dawn-of-everything-graeber-wengrow.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/early-civilizations-had-it-all-figured-out-the-dawn-of-everything

... reaction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Applying a medieval law to the gun control debate:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59158248

The annual piece on Daylight Savings Time:

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/01/1050492391/daylight-saving-time-history-what-you-need-to-know

Feature on mandatory vaccination in the past:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211029-why-mandatory-vaccination-is-nothing-new

Yale is dealing with its past involvement with slavery:

https://news.yale.edu/2021/11/01/yale-publicly-confronts-historical-involvement-slavery

Feature on slavery and the US Constitution:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/books/review/noah-feldman-the-broken-constitution.html

... related:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/opinion/constitution-slavery-lincoln.html

Japan is pondering lending a statue to China:

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3154608/japan-eyes-loaning-china-monk-statue-mark-ties-after-years-panda

Legal online trade of woolly mammoth tusks is apparently putting the Chinese ban on ivory trading at risk:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3154702/chinas-ivory-ban-risk-legal-online-trade-woolly-mammoth-tusks
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
More on the origins of domesticated horses:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/do-we-finally-know-where-horses-evolved
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Wilam Biik:

https://theconversation.com/a-new-artistic-call-for-us-to-recognise-the-connections-of-country-is-a-testament-to-the-power-of-aboriginal-knowledge-169102

Mahgreb:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1205/437990/AlAhram-Weekly/Culture/From-ancient-Egypt-to-the-Maghreb.aspx

Hogarth:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/02/gin-roast-beef-hogarth-proud-european-tate-britain-europe

Shanghai:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/nov/01/shanghai-century-shanghai-spirit-in-pictures

Medieval Cornwall:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62601

Rubens:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-paul-rubens-found-inspiration-in-antiquity-11636135175
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/rubens-picturing-antiquity/

Byron:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/greece-greek-edinburgh-university-athens-aberdeenshire-b963536.html
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/collection-of-lord-byrons-personal-items-go-on-display-at-edinburgh-university-41002462.html

Feature on the underwater museum at Peristera:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/11/07/diving-into-greeces-heritage-experience-of-a-lifetime-at-ancient-wreck/

A new roof is in store for the Jane Austen House Museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/01/jane-austen-house-secures-future-with-funding-to-restore-roof

Ole Miss has a new wing for Greek and Roman antiquities:

https://news.olemiss.edu/new-home-for-greek-roman-antiquities-dedicated/

Celebrating the first anniversary of Egypt's Royal Chariots Museum:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/exhibition-of-rare-photos-held-at-royal-chariots-museum-to-celebrate-its-one-year-anniversary/

Pondering how much museums have in storage:

https://hyperallergic.com/689596/the-age-of-too-much-museum-storage-must-end/

Renaming a gallery in the ongoing trend to 'decolonize' museums:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/779/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/779/pub/779/page/12/article/236041

Opeddish thing on decolonizing museums:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/04/decolonize-museums-us-iraq-artifacts-repatriation-nigeria-benin-bronzes/

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
An auction of a tool used to brand inmates at Auschwitz is causing much ire:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-59092935

A pair of tiaras associated with Josephine Bonaparte are coming to auction:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/napoleon-josephine-tiaras-sothebys-london-sale/index.html

... as are some Russian royal family jewels:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/russia-royal-gems-auction-scli-intl/index.html

... and some bracelets associated with Marie Antoinette:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/marie-antoinette-bracelets-scli-intl/index.html

A wooden bird spotted at an auction turned out to once have belonged to Anne Boleyn:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/nov/07/wooden-bird-bought-for-75-revealed-to-be-anne-boleyns-and-is-now-worth-200000

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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On DNA and relations to royalty:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59041055

More on the genetic origins of the Tarim mummies:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/genetic-study-on-the-origins-of-the-tarim-basin-mummies/141776
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on radiocarbon dating:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/933029 ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Another feature on what climate change is revealing for archaeologists:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/science/climate-change-archaeology.html

Applying a Charles Darwin observation to climate change-related planting of forests:

https://theconversation.com/a-150-year-old-note-from-charles-darwin-is-inspiring-a-change-in-the-way-forests-are-planted-170909
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Olympia:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/11/02/ancient-olympia-one-sites/

Baiae:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/30/baiae-naples-ancient-rome-party-town-
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/baia-underwater-archaeological-park-2029596 https://hypebeast.com/2021/11/baiae-ancient-rome-underwater-city

Small town Europe:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/beautiful-towns-europe/index.html

Norfolk (VA):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/norfolk-virginia-historic-district-freemason-street/2021/11/05/9d11769c-3b1f-11ec-8ee9-4f14a26749d1_story.html

Tourism in Jordan is struggling:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/dead-sea-shrinks-as-jordan-turns-tide-on-tourism/index.html
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Lizastrata:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Gettys-Villa-Theater-Lab-Returns-LIZASTRATA-ONLINE-Now-Streaming-20211101

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CRIME BEAT
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Police in Turkey seized some 1000 year (really?) bp gold-embossed jewish books:

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/1000-year-old-gold-embroidered-hebrew-books-seized-in-turkey-683884

Somewhat similar items were prevented from being sold in Libya:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/crimes/official-authorities-frustrate-attempts-sell-historical-manuscripts

Manuscripts are also at the center of a bust in Egypt:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/11/07/egypt-thwarts-attempt-to-smuggle-13-archaeological-manuscripts-at-cairo-airport/
https://www.egyptindependent.com/photos-egyptian-authorities-foil-attempt-to-smuggle-archaeological-manuscripts/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/109613/Egyptian-authorities-seize-a-number-of-manuscripts-dating-back-to

A fisherman in Sardina was busted with a number of ancient items (Italian):

https://www.sardegnalive.net/news/in-sardegna/324453/scoperto-e-denunciato-dalla-polizia-collezionista-di-beni-archeologici
https://www.sardegnareporter.it/2021/11/cagliari-sequestrati-beni-archeologici-greco-romani-video/419156/
https://www.castedduonline.it/tesoro-archeologico-quartu/

The Antiquities Coalition is trying to get the UK to regulate the art market better:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/04/antiquities-coalition-publishes-policy-brief-regarding-post-brexit-antiquities-trade

... although there is some sort of crackdown going on, apparently:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/05/art-market-money-laundering-crackdown-blows-from-uk-to-the-us-but-what-impact-is-it-having-and-are-businesses-taking-it-seriously

Egypt renewed the detention of Hassan Rateb pending more investigation of his involvement in the antiquities trade:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211105-egypt-renews-detention-of-businessman-in-funding-antiquities-excavation-case/
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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 ============================================================
Germany is returning some Maya artifacts to Mexico and Guatemala:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-return-mayan-ancient-artifacts-to-guatemala-and-mexico/a-59689334
https://www.laprensalatina.com/germany-returns-pre-columbian-pieces-to-mexico-guatemala/

Italy is also returning more items to Mexico:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/mexico-recovers-three-ancient-artifacts-italy-2021-10-29/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10119-211103-mexico-italy-repatriation

On the UK not being able to decide whether to return looted items or not:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/britain-can-t-decide-whether-it-should-send-its-looted-treasures-back-to-their-rightful-owners-1.5646564

The Smithsonian is going to be returning its Benin Bronzes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/arts/design/smithsonian-benin-bronzes.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/05/smithsonian-museum-of-african-art-removes-benin-bronzes-from-display-and-plans-to-repatriate-them
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-news-smithsonian-benin-bronzes-restitution/

... as is the National Museum of African Art:

https://observer.com/2021/11/the-national-museum-of-african-art-is-returning-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/

More on US returns to India:

https://hyperallergic.com/689112/nearly-250-antiquities-repatriated-to-india/ ============================================================
NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the influence of the Roman denarius:

https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/the-continuing-influence-of-the-roman-denarius

The National Museum of Oman is restoring a number of Roman/Byzantine coins:

https://timesofoman.com/article/108757-national-museum-restores-age-old-coins

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n44.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n45.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3113-audio-news-from-archaeologica-october-24-through-october-30-2021

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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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Archaeosoup:

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

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