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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-skulls-not-crime-scene-human-sacrifice-ad-900/
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/04/27/mexico-crime-scene-skulls-turn-out-to-be-from-a-d-900/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/04/28/mexico-police-150-skulls-cave/9570622002/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/04/evidence-of-a-tzompantli-skull-rack-in-comalapa-cave/143455
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10515-220429-mexico-comalapa-cave

Concerns for artifacts at a hotel development site on Trinidad and Tobago:

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/25/augustine-on-marriott-project-artefacts-coast-must-be-protected/

Ongoing concerns for sites along the route of the Maya Train:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/29/mexicos-maya-train-carries-catastrophic-archaeological-and-environmental-risks-activists-warn

... and the latest finds:

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2022/04/ancient-vessel-found-on-construction-site-of-the-maya-train-section-3-near-oxkintok/

Feature on the La Quemada site:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/04/la-quemada-the-mysterious-mesoamerican-complex/143441

Feature on Inca child sacrifice:

https://bigthink.com/the-past/inca-ayahuasca-human-sacrifice/
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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 one ... a recently discovered scroll of the Book of Esther in Iran has been proven to be fake:

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.328L9B2

Latest installment of 'tourists behaving badly' (in Rome ... with a drone):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/tourist-crashes-drone-into-rome-monument-piazza-venezia

Latest ship recreation is the Sutton Hoo vessel:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/meet-the-sutton-hoo-archaeologist-building-replica-ghost-ship-to-sail-through-centre-of-york-3673766

How to paint like Rembrandt:

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/portrait-painting-frank-slater/

Some rethinking of the 'noble savage' idea:

https://bigthink.com/the-past/noble-savage-myth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1651204717

Challenging the idea of 'primitive communism':

https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-primitive-communism-is-as-seductive-as-it-is-wrong

Feature on the history of the pawpaw fruit:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220425-the-revival-of-a-forgotten-american-fruit

Feature on a 400 years bp pear tree in Massachusetts:

https://www.wshu.org/podcast/off-the-path-from-new-york-to-boston/2022-04-27/herb-lore-the-400-year-old-fruit-tree-that-keeps-giving

A 72 year-old woman plans to walk Marco Polo's route from Venice to China:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/72-year-old-woman-to-walk-marco-polos-path-from-venice-to-beijing

Marking Ulysses Grant's 200th:

https://www.wamc.org/news/2022-04-27/on-ulysses-grants-birthday-a-new-development-for-grants-cottage-in-saratoga-county

Charlotte Mullins on her *Little History of Art*:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-many-histories-of-art-not-all-equally-well-known-1.4845285

Review of Lucasta Miller, *Keats: A Brief Life*:

http://x.e.knopfdoubleday.com/ats/msg.aspx?sg1=023bace6de57f057aab8e65a1c14568bc0c3ba3d07e19d4de32d7f799d460715
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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On Harvard's plans to atone for its past links to slavery:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/us/harvard-slavery-redress-fund.html

More on Russia's destruction of Ukraine's cultural heritage:

https://www.rferl.org/a/cultural-destruction-ukraine/31821373.html

... and we're reading of looting of museums:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/30/ukraine-russia-art-mariupol/ https://thehill.com/policy/international/3472812-more-than-2000-exhibits-taken-from-mariupol-museums-by-russian-forces-city-council/
https://www.axios.com/russia-loots-museums-ancient-gold-artefacts-ukraine-9e1820c2-8daf-49bc-8c3f-bd8d3cc010fb.html

Feature on a Yeshiva that once was in Mariupol:

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-705106 ============================================================
ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
On the origins of the Patagonian sheepdog:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-patagonian-sheepdogs-closest-ancestor-sheepdog.html

cf: https://phys.org/news/2022-04-patagonian-sheepdogs-closest-ancestor-sheepdog.html

On Central Asia's role in the spread of the domesticated chicken:

https://eurasianet.org/ancient-central-asia-key-to-domesticated-chicken-spread-study

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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A study of the spread of the Uralic languages:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/04/dramatic-events-in-demographics-led-to.html

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Erotic Art of Pompeii:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-was-erotic-art-so-popular-in-ancient-pompeii-180979988/

Persepolis:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/472018/U-S-exhibit-offers-visitors-time-travel-to-Achaemenid-capital

Open Horizons (ancient Greek):

https://greekherald.com.au/community/ancient-greek-statues-speak-migration-multiculturalism-melbourne-museum/

Ancient Greeks:

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7715474/vase-captures-fiery-moment-of-love-and-death/

Incunabula:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-04-19/el-viaje-entre-algodones-del-primer-libro-impreso-en-espana.html

Bernini:

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/04/29/bernini-and-the-roman-baroque-open-until-may-8th-at-the-mfa-st--pete

World of Stonehenge:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-61122130

Blue Period Picasso:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/arts/design/picasso-blue-period-phillips-washington.html

Feature on museums' efforts at restitution of looted art:

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/arts/design/victoria-reed-museum-of-fine-arts-stolen-artwork.amp.html

China has opened two major museums:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xian-china-opens-two-major-083700330.html

... and an archaeological museum in Shaanxi:

http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202204/29/WS626b25fda310fd2b29e5a052.html https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-04-29/NW-China-s-Shaanxi-Archaeology-Museum-opens-19Cu5ZY4QVy/index.html
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-04/29/content_78193774.htm

A mysterious donor has given a major collection to the Bruce Museum:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bruce-museum-receives-unprecedented-gift-edward-hoppers-last-painting-1234626144/

Lebanon has opened a Phoenician museum:

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2022/04/23/lebanon-opens-phoenician-museum-after-joining-council-of-europe039s-cultural-routes

The Leeds Art Gallery has acquired a Grimshaw work:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-61122130

Museums are trying to not be some white-male-centric in their exhibitions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/arts/design/museums-white-male-artists.html

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A Roman bust of Antoninus Pius is coming to auction:

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/20094722.roman-bust-set-go-sale-reeman-dansie-colchester/

The Everlov Viking hoard came to auction and was removed at the last minute:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63957 https://norwaytoday.info/news/swedish-viking-hoard-to-go-on-display-in-museums-instead-of-being-sold-to-private-buyers/

More on Charlotte Bronte's 'mini book':

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/25/charlotte-brontes-125m-little-book-of-10-poems-returns-home
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/arts/design/charlotte-bronte-book-of-rhymes.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63933

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of genetic drift in Maniq hunter-gatherers in Thailand:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/04/extreme-genetic-drift-in-maniq-hunter.html

A study of the genetic origins of people in the Tibetan-Yi corridor:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/04/genomic-study-reveals-complex-origins.html
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest dendrochronology project is working on oak trees from north west Europe:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/04/ancient-oak-trees-to-shed-light-on.html

Terahertz imaging revealed a hidden inscription on a 16th century lead funerary cross:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-terahertz-imaging-reveals-hidden-inscription.html https://scitechdaily.com/hidden-inscription-on-early-modern-funerary-cross-revealed-by-terahertz-imaging/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/terahertz-imaging-reveals-hidden-inscription-on-16th-century-funerary-cross/

Latest CT scan is of a mummified bird at Cornell University:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/world/mummified-bird-cornell-museum-exhibit-scn/index.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Cyrene:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/25/cyrene-the-impressive-ancient-greek-city-of-libya-video/

Delphi:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/04/28/delphi-top-3-attractions-2/

Stratonikeia:

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/travel/city-of-gladiators-turkeys-stratonikeia-revives-after-restoration

Ostia:

https://www.lagazzettaitaliana.com/travel/9964-when-in-rome-go-to-ostia-antica-rome-s-ancient-port

Cappadocia:

https://www.dw.com/en/cappadocia-journey-to-a-fairy-tale-world/g-61572841

Alexandria:

https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/alexandria-egypt-guide/

Caesarea:

https://www.thetravel.com/visit-caesarea-a-location-in-israel-full-of-history/

Jerash:

https://www.thetravel.com/jerash-ruins-how-far-was-ancient-romes-reach/

Trier:

https://www.thetravel.com/visit-trier-the-oldest-city-in-germany/

Hadrian's Wall:

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2022/04/hadrians-wall-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-romans-in-northumberland
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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
Lady Sapiens:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/29/prehistoric-women-were-hunters-and-artists-not-just-mothers-book-reveals
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CRIME BEAT
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Police recovered an 1800 years bp marble bathtub from smugglers at Aphrodisias:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/04/25/marble-bathtub-aphrodisias/ https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/25/ancient-marble-bathtub-from-greek-city-of-aphrodisias-seized/

A British geologist is facing the death penalty in Iraq for taking some potsherds:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-61274804 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/30/jim-fitton-family-of-british-geologist-facing-death-penalty-in-iraq-urge-uk-to-intervene
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-geologist-death-penalty-iraq-b2068207.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10763907/British-geologist-66-faces-DEATH-PENALTY-Iraq-smuggling-historical-artefacts.html
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-british-german-tourists-detained-accused-smuggling-antiquities

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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 ============================================================
Dartmouth College has returned the 18th century papers of Samson Occom to the Mohegan people:

https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2022-04-27/in-repatriation-ceremony-dartmouth-returns-historic-occom-papers-to-the-mohegan-tribe
https://amp.norwichbulletin.com/amp/9541817002 https://www.theday.com/article/20220427/NWS01/220429547 https://www.concordmonitor.com/Dartmouth-College-to-return-Samson-Occom-papers-to-tribe-45814940

... background:

https://www.wcax.com/2022/04/05/dartmouth-college-return-samson-occom-papers-tribe/
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-mohegan-papers-return-darmouth-20220404-4zp5bxyq5rdyfm6h56cyfh4vgm-story.html
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/04/dartmouth-to-return-samson-occoms-possessions-to-mohegan-tribe

An 18th century gold box stolen from Waddesdon Manor 19 years ago has been recovered:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63940

More on 'India Jones' and his efforts to repatriate looted antiquities:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/india-jones-on-a-mission-to-recover-looted-treasures-ckx80qz2m

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on identifying ancient Roman coins:

https://coinweek.com/education/identifying-ancient-roman-coins-an-ocre-tool/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n17.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n18.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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C.H. Roberts:

https://brentnongbri.com/2022/04/27/c-h-roberts-at-blackwells/

Emily Batinski:

https://laclassical.wordpress.com/2022/04/28/the-passing-of-emily-batinski/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3172-audio-news-from-archaeologica-april-17th-2022-through-april-23th-2022
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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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