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https://www.hopestandard.com/news/archaeology-crews-unearth-fire-pit-roasting-pit-at-williams-lake-mall-excavation-site/
https://www.northdeltareporter.com/news/archaeology-crews-unearth-fire-pit-roasting-pit-at-williams-lake-mall-excavation-site/

A 'significant' Wampanoag site from the Plymouth waterfront:

https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/old-colony-memorial/2022/10/18/archaeologists-unearth-evidence-early-wampanoag-site-coles-hill-plymouth-pilgrim-hall-museum/10499387002/

What the wreck of the Guerrero slave ship is revealing:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-a-spanish-shipwreck-reveals-about-the-final-years-of-the-slave-trade-180980938/

More on the 19th century shipwreck revealed by a low Mississippi:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/baton-rouge-drought-mississippi-river-shipwreck-climate/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shipwreck-mississippi-river-bank-water-level-low-rcna52768
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisiana-shipwreck-mississippi-river-low-water-level-apparently-ferry/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/17/mississippi-river-shipwreck-louisiana-baton-rouge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11326245/Mississippi-Rivers-low-water-level-reveals-shipwreck.html
https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/nation_world/mississippi-rivers-low-water-level-reveals-shipwreck/article_e275c4c1-d2b2-5bf0-9ce0-94115c0b6f96.html
https://www.wdsu.com/article/mississippi-river-drought-reveals-19th-century-trading-ship/41637778
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mississippi-rivers-low-water-level-021632494.html https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300715513/shipwreck-unearthed-from-the-depths-of-lowlying-mississippi-river

... and apparently people have been taking souvenirs:

https://www.kwch.com/video/2022/10/21/state-archaeologist-says-people-are-illegally-taking-pieces-an-old-ferry-boat-that-washed-onshore/
https://www.wafb.com/2022/10/21/state-archaeologist-says-people-are-illegally-taking-pieces-an-old-ferry-boat-that-washed-onshore-br/
https://www.wafb.com/2022/10/21/state-archaeologist-says-people-are-illegally-taking-pieces-an-old-ferry-boat-that-washed-onshore-br/

Plans for DNA tests on human remains revealed during repair work at a Norfolk basilica:

https://vpm.org/news/articles/36706/dna-testing-of-remains-found-under-norfolk-basilica-could-shed-light-on-churchs

A 142 years bp Catholic church in New Jersey has been saved from the wrecking ball:

https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2022/10/jersey-shore-church-saved-from-demolition-as-city-weighs-future-of-gothic-work-of-art.html

The wreck of the whaleback Barge 129 has been identified in Lake Superior:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/world/whaleback-barge-129-shipwreck-great-lakes-scn/index.html

Feature on Hopewell views of the afterlife:

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/columns/2022/10/20/hopewell-native-american-indian-groups-may-share-afterlife-views-archaeology/69570767007/

Feature on a 17th century account of demonic possession in New France:

https://theconversation.com/a-tale-of-demonic-possession-and-exorcism-in-17th-century-new-france-can-we-know-what-really-happened-191331
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tale-demonic-exorcism-17th-century-france.html

Feature on belief in vampires in colonial Connecticut:

https://patch.com/connecticut/madison-ct/some-colonial-farmers-believed-vampires-state-archaeologist-explains

Feature on preserving 'privies' in Virginia:

https://alextimes.com/2022/10/out-of-the-attic-preserving-privies/

Review of Stacy Schiff, *The Revolutionary*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/books/review/the-revolutionary-samuel-adams-stacy-schiff.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
5300 years bp human remains from a site in the Dominican:

https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2022/10/18/fossil-determines-who-first-inhabited-the-island/

500+ obsidian mine shafts near Teotihuacan in the Sierra Nevadas:

https://www.inah.gob.mx/images/boletines/2022/473/index.html#foto8.jpg

A Late Classic (I think) dual Maya stele from Uxmal:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/10/dual-maya-stela-uncovered-at-uxmal/145042

Study suggests the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was used as an inter-oceanic passage as early as the 16th century:

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-cartography-isthmus-tehuantepec-inter-oceanic-passage.html

More on 1500 years bp Maya 'salt kitchens' in Belize:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article267446552.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-maya-salt-makers-worked-from-home-too-180980936/

More on the wreck of the Dolphin off the coast of Argentina:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/patagonian-shipwreck-could-be-150-year-old-rhode-island-whaler

More on non-elite use of chocolate among the Maya:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/ancient-residues-tell-us-chocolate-wasnt-just-for-the-elite-maya

Feature/review of an edition of the Maya Codex:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/books/review/codice-maya-de-mexico-andrew-d-turner.html
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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 on paleography of various ancient handwritten scripts:

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ancient-world-multicultural-secrets-revealed.html https://horizon.scienceblog.com/2182/ancient-worlds-multicultural-secrets-revealed-by-handwriting-analysis-of-scrolls/

Feature on work being done on Ottoman-era manuscripts at the Mount Athos monastery:

https://apnews.com/article/greece-europe-middle-east-religion-24d031814286f0ba905a5cdb92c6c856
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/greek-monastery-manuscripts-tell-new-story-ottoman-rule-rcna53348
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/21/1130424515/greek-monastery-manuscripts-tell-new-story-of-ottoman-rule
https://www.wpr.org/greek-monastery-manuscripts-tell-new-story-ottoman-rule https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greek-monastery-manuscripts-story-ottoman-rule-91848613
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-23/greek-monastery-manuscripts-tell-new-story-of-ottoman-rule/101567446
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2022/10/21/experts-work-rare-manuscripts-greek-monastery/10558623002/
https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2022/10/21/Experts-work-on-rare-manuscripts-in-Greek-monastery
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/oldest-manuscripts-reveal-ottoman-tolerance-on-greek-monastery

Feature on Mary and Elizabeth I:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/10/mary-and-elizabeth-i-sisters-at-odds/145033

Feature on the history of bataireacht:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221016-bataireacht-the-ancient-irish-martial-art-making-a-comeback

Feature on the origins of the 'wicked stepmother':

https://www.livescience.com/evil-stepmother-trope-origins

Feature on the hunt for 'elusive' shipwrecks:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/famous-missing-shipwrecks-cmd/index.html

Feature on the Gospel of Judas:

https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-gospel-of-judas-says-about-the-betrayal-of-jesus

Feature on fear of the number 13:

https://theconversation.com/why-is-13-considered-unlucky-explaining-the-power-of-its-bad-reputation-191477

Feature on the history of cholera:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/04/02/707994461/cholera-101-why-this-ancient-disease-is-making-headlines-in-2019

Feature on Katharine Augusta Carl's portrait of Cixi:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3195121/american-artist-china-who-painted-empress

A Minneapolis church still has services in Norwegian:

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/16/1129385815/norway-minneapolis-mindekirken-norwegian-queen

More on concerns for the Endurance:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wreck-of-shackletons-endurance-may-decay-out-of-existence-180980923/

Review of Malcolm Gaskill, *The Ruin of All Witches*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/books/review/the-ruin-of-all-witches-malcolm-gaskill.html

Review of Sean Connolly, *On Every Tide*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/books/review/sean-connolly-on-every-tide.html

Review of Joseph Sassoon, *The Sassoons*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/books/review/the-sassoons-joseph-sassoon.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on ancient Europe and Ukraine:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/16/2129283/-Ancient-Europe-and-Ukraine

Feature on Howard Baskerville:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/10/16/howard-baskerville-reza-aslan-iran/
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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on the worst ideas of five big-name philosophers:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/worst-ideas-great-philosophers/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Afghan History and Art:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/arts/design/afghan-history-culture.html

Alexander the Great:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/20/new-exhibition-to-explore-the-mythology-of-alexander-the-great-british-library
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/19/alexander-the-great-the-making-of-a-myth-review-british-library-london
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/alexander-the-great-the-making-of-a-myth-british-library-exhibition-review-b1034222.html
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alexander-great-making-myth-british-111100961.html

Cezanne:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221017-the-painter-who-revealed-how-our-eyes-really-see-the-world

Tudors:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/design/tudors-metropolitan-museum.html

Salem Witch Trials:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/design/salem-witch-trials-womens-history.html

Pompeii:

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/10/authentic-artifacts-and-3-d-representations-bring-pompeii-to-life-at-liberty-science-center.html

Rosetta Stone:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/119883/British-Museum-launches-immersive-exhibition-on-Egypt%E2%80%99s-Rosetta-Stone

Chroma:

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/10/20/pure-color/

Herculaneum furniture:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/archaeologists-prepare-for-unusual-furniture-show-at-ancient-roman-city-of-herculaneum-jwmwrlc2k

Feature on security in museums which are being targeted by activists:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/van-gogh-tomato-soup-national-gallery-london/671764/

Feature on the 'research side' of museums:

https://countercurrents.org/2022/10/do-you-know-that-research-was-always-the-core-function-of-ancient-museums/

Possible financial concerns for Beirut's National Museum:

https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1314868/is-beiruts-national-museum-in-danger-amid-the-financial-crisis.html

Feature on the GEM:

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/10/egypts-new-ps889-million-museum-is-fit-for-a-pharaoh

Feature on the Detroit Institute of Arts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/arts/design/detroit-institute-of-arts-what-to-see.html

Tunisians want the Bardo Museum to reopen:

https://thearabweekly.com/tunisians-call-reopening-bardo-museum-world-class-site-history-and-culture

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A 'lascivious' Titian is heading to auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/21/lascivious-titian-masterpiece-set-to-fetch-up-to-12m-at-auction

Big bucks for a Shang dynasty marble frog:

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3196429/ancient-chinese-world-was-awash-bronze-it-was-marble-frog-sold-us37-million

More on the auction of those 1880s Levi's found in an abandoned mine:

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129402193/a-pair-of-vintage-levis-jeans-has-sold-at-auction-for-more-than-87-000
https://www.keranews.org/2022-10-17/a-pair-of-vintage-levis-jeans-has-sold-at-auction-for-more-than-87-000

More on the auction of coins found during kitchen renovations in North Yorkshire:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/couple-finds-rare-coins-800000-renovating-kitchen-floors-rcna52533
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A DNA study suggests that exposure to the bubonic plague may have affected immunity to other diseases:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221019111321.htm https://www.livescience.com/black-death-natural-selection-in-humans/ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63316538 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/science/bubonic-plague-black-death-genetic-protection.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/10/19/1129965424/how-black-death-survivors-gave-their-descendants-an-edge-during-pandemics
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-death-bubonic-plague-dna-susceptible-certain-diseases-today-study/
https://apnews.com/article/oddities-science-health-plague-bubonic-04349f994460d01c56fe5a57960b6ce8
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-death-immunity-gene-crohns-disease-health

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05349-x

A study of plant DNA from sediments of the Armenian Aghitu-3 cave is shedding live on early plant use:

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-dna-sediments-insights-humans-paleolithic.html https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/10/18/the-thread-to-the-needle-how-our-ancestors-used-the-native-flora/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10930-221017-armenia-plant-dna

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TOURISTY THINGS
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AlUla:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/alula-things-to-do/archaeological-trip/

Latest piece on tourists behaving badly in Italy:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/naked-tourist-amalfi-cathedral/index.html

... and another:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/tourists-steal-gondola-venice/index.html ============================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Feature on four American composers:

https://www.carnegiehall.org/explore/articles/2020/11/13/four-american-composers-to-know-better
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CRIME BEAT
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Authorities seized three ancient sculptures from a shop in Madurai:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/idol-wing-cid-seizes-three-antiquity-sculptures-from-handicrafts-shop-in-madurai/article66026382.ece

Egypt foiled a fairly large smuggling attempt at the port of Nuweiba:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/478311.aspx

Four arrests at an illegal dig at a site in Macedonia:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/north-macedonia-ukrainians-arrested-archeological-site-91925762
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-macedonia-4-ukrainians-arrested-at-archeological-site/2022/10/22/f0add236-524e-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11344415/North-Macedonia-4-Ukrainians-arrested-archeological-site.html

A guy in Italy was trying to sell three 2nd century CE amphorae online:

https://www.lanazione.it/viareggio/cronaca/anfore-antiche-1.8203235
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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 ============================================================
307 antiquities were returned to India from various US sources:

https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-returns-307-stolen-antiquities-to-the-people-of-india/
http://us.cnn.com/style/article/india-artifacts-returned-subhash-kapoor/index.html
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/us-restores-307-antiquities-valued-at-nearly-4million-to-india/articleshow/94934687.cms
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/in-single-largest-repatriation-us-gives-to-india-307-antiquities-worth-4m/articleshow/94952274.cms
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/united-states-returns-307-antiquities-valued-at-nearly-usd-4-million-to-india/article66026108.ece
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/more-than-300-looted-artifacts-linked-to-subhash-kapoor-returned-to-india-1234643498/
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/10/20/denver-art-museum-subhash-kapoor-manhattan-district-attorney/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kapoor-looted-objects-returned-to-india-2195110
https://www.thedailybeast.com/307-antiquities-linked-to-prolific-looter-returned-to-india

The US also returned 46 artifacts to Pakistan:

https://www.dawn.com/news/1716447/us-repatriates-46-smuggled-artifacts

Maori human remains were returned from a museum in Austria:

https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/19-10-2022/our-stolen-ancestors-are-finally-returned-from-vienna-to-aotearoa-to-rest-in-peace

Turkiye is returning seized items to Iraq:

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkiye-returns-smuggled-artifacts-to-iraq/news
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/turkey-to-hand-over-iraqi-artifacts-seized-in-istanbul-to-baghdad/
https://ina.iq/eng/22529-mofa-iraq-receives-6-artifacts-seized-in-turkey.html

Feature on Seminole efforts to recover some human remains at the Smithsonian:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2022/10/14/1129123705/who-can-claim-native-american-remains-bodies

Indonesia is seeking the return of 'Java Man' and more from museums in the Netherlands:

https://www.reuters.com/world/indonesia-asks-netherlands-send-home-bones-java-man-2022-10-21/
https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2022/10/19/indonesia-wants-java-man-art-back-from-dutch-museums.html
https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/10/20/news/world/indonesia-seeks-return-of-java-man-artifacts/1862953
https://tvpworld.com/64072664/indonesia-asks-netherlands-to-send-home-bones-of-java-man

Cambodia continues to check out museums (now in Singapore and Asia) for looted objects:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/cambodia-lost-treasures-singapore-asian-civilisations-museum-looted-stolen-artefacts-uk-3014446

More on the Smithsonian returns of Benin bronzes:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/10/16/african-bronzes-us-museums-stolen-british/10517798002/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n42.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n43.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Ian Hamilton:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/europe/ian-hamilton-dead.html

Roger Welsch:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/business/media/roger-welsch-dead.html

Peter Schjeldahl:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/nyregion/peter-schjeldahl-dead.html ============================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3214-audio-news-from-archaeologica-october-9th-through-the-15th-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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