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Erosion concerns for ancient stupas in Taxila:

https://www.dawn.com/news/1713557/ancient-stupas-on-the-brink-of-erosion-after-destructive-rains-in-taxila

Feature on the Bhangarh Fort:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0d3s2bf/the-secrets-of-india-s-haunted-fort

Megafauna in Papua New Guinea survived for quite a while after the arrival of humans, apparently:

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-papua-guinea-megafauna-humans.html

cf: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.2789 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arco.5274

More on the decline of population in the Pacific islands in the wake of European contact:

https://chl.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/2581/new-data-reveals-severe-impact-european-contact-pacific-islands
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/10/06/new-data-reveals-severe-impact-of-european-contact-with-pacific-islands/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10876-221005-pacific-island-population ============================================================
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
An early 20th century Finnish shipwreck off the coast of Western Australia:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/06/glenbank-shipwreck-finnish-vessel-that-sank-off-coast-of-western-australia-in-1911-found
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/100-year-old-wreck-of-a-finnish-vessel-discovered-in-west-australian-marine-park/
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NORTH AMERICA
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Remains of a 1400 years bp Native American canal in Alabama:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-dig-up-1400-year-old-native-american-canal-in-alabama-180980742/

Remains of possible slave quarters in Boston:

https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2022/09/30/boston-archaeologist-possible-slave-quarters-roxbury

Road construction in Montreal revealed remains of an 1800s zoo:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-roadwork-unearths-remnants-of-1800s-montreal-zoo-run-by-the-canadian/

Elsewhere in Boston: the search for evidence of a possible Underground Railroad connection at an abolitionist family's home:

https://www.masslive.com/boston/2022/09/search-is-on-for-underground-railroad-artifacts-near-19th-century-boston-home.html

More on the latest dugout canoe find from Lake Mendota:

https://arkeonews.net/in-lake-mendota-wisconsin-archaeologists-discover-the-oldest-canoe-ever-found-in-the-great-lakes-region/

... and the suggestion there may be remains of a hidden village nearby:

https://www.wxow.com/news/state-news/archaeologists-say-ancient-canoes-found-in-lake-mendota-may-point-to-a-hidden-village-beneath/article_4731a7a9-754f-589d-bf88-4435b2d1bdab.html

More on the Black cemetery at Colonial Williamsburg:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/10/05/graves-williamsburg-black-church-archaeologist/

Review of Greg Melville, *Over My Dead Body*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/books/review/over-my-dead-body-greg-melville.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
5300 years bp finds from a site on Hispaniola:

https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2022/10/05/5300-year-old-set-of-remains-was-discovered-in-samana/

76 Chimu burials of sacrificed children from Peru:

https://www.livescience.com/child-sacrifices-chimu-people-peru/ https://perureports.com/archaeologists-in-peru-unearth-76-graves-of-sacrificed-children-from-ancient-chimu-culture/9737/

Assorted finds from underwater excavations at the Maya site of Ta'ab Nuk Na (600-800 CE):

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/10/new-insights-revealed-during-underwater-excavation-of-maya-salt-mines/144912
https://gizmodo.com/ancient-maya-salt-kitchens-belize-1849626841 https://the-past.com/news/underwater-excavations-shine-light-on-maya-salt-production/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/1500-year-old-salt-works-submerged-in-belize-lagoon-reveals-rare-mayan-architecture-1234642408/

Researchers removing lime from the Tepoztlan convent site have revealed some 16th century pre-Hispanic images:

https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/descubren-pintura-mural-vinculada-al-linaje-de-los-tepoztecos-del-siglo-xvi
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65313 http://www.archaeology.org/news/10878-221006-mexico-convent-mural

Feature on the oldest public library in the Americas (in Puebla, Mexico):

https://apnews.com/article/religion-mexico-caribbean-philanthropy-dea445dc79cd0ba6ae39f6f16187e72c

A study of a Maya site in Belize:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/anthropology/archaeologists-maya-neighborhood-12092022/

A study of theobroma cacao by the Late Classic Maya:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2121821119

A fire on Easter Island damaged some of the Moai statuary:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63167941 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/07/easter-island-fire-causes-irreparable-damage-to-famous-moai-statues
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/moai-face-statues-damaged-in-easter-island-forest-fire-jqhsm3bm3
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/07/easter-islands-sacred-moai-statues-charred-forest-fire/
https://elpais.com/chile/2022-10-08/cerca-de-80-moais-afectados-por-un-incendio-en-isla-de-pascua-hay-danos-irreparables.html
https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/arde-isla-de-pascua-voraz-incendio-deja-moais-calcinados-y-un-dano-patrimonial-irreparable/DH25ZMVKJVATDMY5JENM6IO7DI/
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/10/07/easter-island-fire-causes-irreparable-damage-to-sacred-moai-statues
https://www.dw.com/en/easter-island-wildfire-chars-famous-moai-statues/a-63368187

Latest Aztlander Magazine of the Americas (pdf):

https://aztlander.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/aztlander-v2-n10.pdf
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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 ============================================================
Feature on doodles in medieval manuscripts:

https://theconversation.com/why-so-many-medieval-manuscripts-feature-doodles-and-what-they-reveal-190114
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-medieval-manuscripts-feature-doodles-reveal.html

A pseudonymous astronomical treatise has been attributed to Galileo:

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-attributes-pseudonymous-astronomical-treatise-galileo.html

A Vermeer apparently isn't:

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/08/1127679191/vermeer-girl-with-a-flute-fake-forgery
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/arts/vermeer-impostor-national-gallery.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/10/07/vermeer-national-gallery-girl-flute/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/10/07/vermeer-girl-flute-imitations/
https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-10-08/la-national-gallery-de-washington-pierde-uno-de-sus-cuatro-vermeers.html

Feature on the theft of the Mona Lisa back in 1911:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/arts/design/mona-lisa-vincenzo-peruggia.html?

Feature on slavery traders trying to cheat Africans with impure Cornish copper:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/slavery-traders-tried-to-cheat-africans-with-impure-cornish-copper-says-study

More on the 'purpling' at the Alhambra:

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-famous-golden-palace-in-spain-is-turning-purple-and-now-we-know-why

cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn2541

Concerns for Shackleton's lost ship and prospects it might be raised:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/07/endurance-will-decay-out-of-existence-unless-raised-from-sea-and-conserved
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/shackletons-lost-ship-could-be-raised-from-under-sea-off-antarctica-42047619.html
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/shackletons-endurance-must-be-raised-or-decay-2188479

Pondering the notion of time (I think):

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221003-why-does-time-go-forwards-not-backwards

Review of/hype for Edward S. Cooke, Jr *Global Objects*:

https://news.yale.edu/2022/10/05/global-objects-messy-view-functional-creations-and-their-makers

Review of Andrew Meier, *Morgenthau*

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/books/review/morgenthau-andrew-meier.html ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
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Ongoing concerns for Ukrainian heritage:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-travel-museums-7431f2190d917f44f76dff39b4d5df54

On the history of pumpkins and their use:

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2022/10/october-harvest-of-the-month-pumpkins.html

Feature on the Stolen Relations project:

https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-10-05/stolenrelations ============================================================
ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
Suggestion that humans may have domesticated foxes at some point:

https://gizmodo.com/did-humans-domesticate-foxes-1849634266

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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From Dilmun to Tylos:

https://www.zawya.com/en/life/culture/70-bahrain-artefacts-to-be-showcased-at-louvre-paris-kyt0ss9x
https://www.gdnonline.com/Details/1144508

Salem Witch Trials:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/05/salem-witch-trials-exhibition-new-york-historical-society
https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/salem-witch-trials-reckoning-and-reclaiming

Enheduanna and the Women of Mesopotamia:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/morgan-library-enheduanna-first-author-mesopotamia-1234642189/

Opera is Dead:

https://www.dw.com/en/do-we-still-need-opera/a-63346527

cf: https://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/en/oper.html

The British Museum moved the Rosetta Stone for an upcoming exhibition:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2022/10/02/rosetta-stone-moved-for-first-time-in-18-years/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/03/rosetta-stone-moved-first-time-18-years/
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/rosetta-stone-moved-for-first-time-in-18-years-42034475.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/rosetta-stone-british-museum-egypt-french-b1029684.html

John Oliver was roasting museums over looted art this week:

https://hyperallergic.com/766138/john-oliver-roasts-western-museums-in-episode-on-looted-art/

Pondering colonialism at the Pitt Rivers Museum:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-ghosts-of-colonialism-at-the-pitt-rivers-museum
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Big bucks for that coin hoard found during kitchen renovations in East Yorkshire a while ago:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-63179607

... and a first edition of Austen's *Emma*:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/05/jane-austen-emma-sells-375000-hawton-house-peter-harrington/

High expectations for a 17th century edition of Don Quixote and other books:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/06/rare-don-quixote-short-stories-900k-cervantes

A 'bidding frenzy' really drove up the price of a Chinese vase:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/chinese-vase-bidding-war-france-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chinese-vase-sells-9-millon-osenat-1234641597/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA suggests there were plenty of migrations from Europe and elsewhere to England:

https://www.thenational.wales/news/23023641.dna-skeletons-challenges-perceptions-understanding-ancient-england/
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/west-african-century-skeleton-kent-indigenous-brits-1897686
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11290553/Meet-Updown-Girl-10-year-old-child-buried-Kent-7th-century-West-African-descent.html
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/dna-from-skeletons-challenges-perceptions-and-understanding-of-ancient-england-42044273.html
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THE TECHY SIDE
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More on the facial reconstructions of some medieval Scots:

https://www.livescience.com/medieval-facial-reconstruction-scotland/ https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23015546.university-bradford-archaeologists-create-images-medieval-scots/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-700-years-scholars-recreate-the-faces-of-three-medieval-scottish-people-180980880/

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Dunfermline:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221002-dunfermline-scotlands-forgotten-ancient-capital

Titanic:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221007-ocean-gate-a-new-mission-to-see-titanic
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
The Empress:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/movies/the-empress-corsage-sisi.html

Lady Macbeth:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/arts/music/shostakovich-lady-macbeth.html

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
The Lost King (they're still angry):

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221006-the-controversy-over-an-incredible-archaeological-discovery
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/09/the-lost-king-review-sally-hawkins-richard-iii-dig-drama-leicester-car-park-stephen-frears-jeff-pope-steve-coogan
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CRIME BEAT
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A man who was angry he couldn't meet the Pope smashed a couple of busts in the Vatican Museums:

https://hyperallergic.com/767551/disgruntled-american-tourist-smashes-roman-busts-at-the-vatican/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/man-topples-ancient-roman-busts-vatican-museums-2022-10-05/
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vatican-museum-tourist-smashes-statues/index.html
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/man-topples-ancient-roman-busts-in-vatican-museums/47956386
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/man-topples-ancient-roman-busts-in-vatican-museums
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-tourist-vatican-busts-arrested-b2197265.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican-american-tourist-smashed-two-ancient-roman-busts-pope-francis/
https://www.adnkronos.com/musei-vaticani-abbatte-2-statue-fermato-turista_5CeznfjBQo7scdk5qlqlpt
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/06/man-arrested-after-attacking-ancient-sculptures-at-vatican-museums-in-italy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/10/06/vatican-museum-statue-american-tourist/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11288181/US-tourist-smashes-two-ancient-Vatican-busts-told-Pope-Francis.html
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-10/vatican-museums-visitor-throws-two-busts-to-the-ground.html

Feature on when the Stone of Destiny was stolen back in the 1950s:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63130942

Latest on the Monson Mavunkal fraud case:

https://english.janamtv.com/news/50267/antiquities-scam-case-against-monson-mavunkal-reshuffling-in-crime-branch-investigation-team/

Not sure where this item on graverobbing goes:

https://www.livescience.com/grave-robbing-for-uk-human-remains-trade/ ----------
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 ============================================================
274 artifacts were returned to Colombia from the US:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/u-s-returns-274-archaeological-artifacts-to-colombia/ar-AA12gZFa?ocid=EMMX
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10862-220929-colombia-repatriation-artifacts

Switzerland returned a statue of Isis to Egypt:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/119538/Statue-of-goddess-Isis-recovered-from-Switzerland

Maori human remains taken by an Austrian taxidermist in 1877 have been returned:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/rage-but-also-joy-and-completeness-bringing-new-zealands-stolen-ancestors-home

Calls for the British Museum to return the 11 Ethiopian tabots in its possession:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11264787/Former-Archbishop-Canterbury-calls-Ethiopian-tablet-Westminster-Abbey-repatriated.html

... and Westminster Abbey too:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/30/king-charles-faces-pressure-to-return-sacred-tabot-to-ethiopia
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/holy-tabot-restitution-ethiopia-westminster-abbey-king-charles-iii-1234641523/

Folks want the Monteleone Chariot back from the Met (Italian):

https://www.umbriaecultura.it/biga-di-monteleone-di-spoleto/

More on Cambodian teams looking at UK collections for looted items:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63075846 https://ca.news.yahoo.com/cambodian-team-hunting-looted-treasures-002521088.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museums-treasures-cambodia-archaeologists-b2182125.html

More on the UK's new Charities Act:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1194535/new-charities-act-may-compel-museums-to-return-cultural-artifacts/

Feature on a UK museum's return of Haida Nation artifacts:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/haida-nation-artifacts-repatriated-uk-1.6602014

There was a big UNESCO meeting of cultural ministers who agreed to expand their efforts to return items:

https://www.reuters.com/world/cultural-ministers-pledge-more-action-return-priceless-artifacts-2022-10-01/
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/cultural-ministers-pledge-more-action-to-return-priceless-artifacts/47945274
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-09-30/cultural-ministers-pledge-more-action-to-return-priceless-artifacts

More on the return of a 1000 years bp looted manuscript being returned by the Museum of the Bible to a Greek monastery:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/world/christian-gospel-manuscript-return-greece-trnd/index.html?
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Aztec 'rotting currency':

https://bigthink.com/sponsored/aztec-mesoamerican-chocolate-money/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n40.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n41.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Joyce Reynolds:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/29/joyce-reynolds-obituary

T. Leslie Shear Jr.

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/10/07/t-leslie-shear-jr-classical-archaeologist-rigorous-scholar-and-inspiring-teacher

Arthur Jelinek:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/10/07/t-leslie-shear-jr-classical-archaeologist-rigorous-scholar-and-inspiring-teacher

Theo Richmond:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/books/theo-richmond-dead.html ============================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3210-audio-news-from-archaeologica-september-25th-through-october-1st-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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