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More on the remains of a 19th century stone house from downtown Montreal:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/archeological-dig-hydro-quebec-artifacts-montreal-1.6886600
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11554-230626-canada-montreal-house

Overview/feature on the UMass Boston dig at the Jeremiah Lee Mansion in Marblehead:

https://www.salemnews.com/news/student-archaeologists-wrap-up-five-week-lee-mansion-excavation/article_029f3cfe-15eb-11ee-8d5e-372aab3e6f7e.html

Feature on ISU's field school at the Noble-Wieting site near Heyworth:

https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2023/06/video-isu-students-unearth-history-of-ancient-native-american-village-during-archaeological-field-school/

Feature on the West Virginia State University field school at the John P Hale house in Malden:

https://www.coalvalleynews.com/news/john-p-hales-historic-malden-home-now-site-of-archaeology-field-school/article_ef965892-7be8-513e-b846-923041c59015.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Remains of a 400 years bp wooden ship from Chalco de Diaz Covarrubias (Mexico):

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/possible-remains-of-16th-century-ship-discovered-in-chalco/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/06/remains-of-400-year-old-wooden-ship-found-in-mexico/147854

A large labyrinth of underground chambers for the burial of Zapotec elite from the Mitla site in Mexico:

https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-may-have-found-lyobaa-the-zapotec-land-of-the-dead/

A 1000 years bp wall in Peru was built to protect against El Nino flooding:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1000-year-old-wall-in-peru-was-built-to-protect-against-el-nino-floods-research-suggests

A study of the catacombs beneath the church of St Bartholomew in Hueypoxtla:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/06/inah-archaeologists-explore-catacombs-of-hueypoxtla-ancestors/147859

More on the find of the Maya city of Ocumtun in the 'jungles of Mexico':

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lost-maya-city-discovered-deep-in-the-jungles-of-mexico
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/mayan-city-remains-laser-scanning-b2364050.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-discover-a-long-lost-maya-city-deep-in-the-mexican-jungle
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-ancient-maya-city-was-hidden-in-the-jungle-for-over-1000-years-180982427/

Feature on Maya comet tracking:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/search-proof-maya-tracked-comets

Feature on the restoration of Ixil Maya wall paintings in Guatemala:

https://archaeonewsnet.com/2023/06/centuries-old-paintings-of-guatemalan-dancers-and-guitarists-restored.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 ============================================================
The release of the new Indiana Jones movie released a lot of different interviews and opeds on what real archaeologists think about him:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/what-do-real-archaeologists-think-of-the-legacy-of-indiana-jones
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23614295.indiana-jones-real-life-swindon-archaeologist-cosplays-star/
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-27/what-real-archaeologists-think-of-indiana-jones.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/indiana-jones-archeology-hollywood-truth-history-facts/
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/real-life/real-life-indiana-jones-says-27212334
https://today.tamu.edu/2023/06/28/indiana-jones-and-archaeology-fact-vs-fiction/
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/indiana-jones-real-archaeologist/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/06/28/indiana-jones-racism-books/ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/does-last-indiana-jones-film-end-indy-effect-archaeology
https://sarahparcak.substack.com/p/indiana-jones-and-the-straw-man-of

... and things about the Antikythera Mechanism:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-history-behind-archimedes-dial-in-indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-180982435/

A study of foraging societies around the world suggests that women did a lot of the hunting too:

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-shattering-myth-men-hunters-women.html https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/men-hunt-and-women-gather-large-analysis-says-the-long-held-idea-is-flat-out-wrong
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2380011-the-myth-that-men-hunt-while-women-stay-at-home-is-entirely-wrong/
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-29/women-have-always-hunted-as-much-as-men.html
https://archaeonewsnet.com/2023/06/shattering-the-myth-of-man-the-hunter.html https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/01/1184749528/men-are-hunters-women-are-gatherers-that-was-the-assumption-a-new-study-upends-i
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-women-were-hunters-not-just-gatherers-study-suggests-180982459/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11565-230630-labor-hunter-gatherers

cf: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/01/1184749528/men-are-hunters-women-are-gatherers-that-was-the-assumption-a-new-study-upends-i

Yale Library has made Ottoman-Turkish manuscripts accessible:

https://news.yale.edu/2023/06/26/project-makes-ottoman-turkish-manuscripts-accessible-scholars

Feature on women soldiers in various cultures and times:

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-forgotten-female-soldiers-who-fought-long-ago-and-why-their-stories-matter-today-208455

Feature on the Suda:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/06/25/suda-byzantine-encyclopedia-written-1100/

Feature on Anupgiri Gosain:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65785171

Feature on J.C.Leyendecker:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/arts/design/jc-leyendecker-the-arrow-collar-man-who-hid-a-radical-idea.html

Feature on motivation to dig up the past:

https://aleteia.org/2023/06/27/why-dig-up-the-past-to-help-us-better-see-what-is-present/

Vienna's Wiener Zeitung has stopped print production after 320 years:

https://apnews.com/article/vienna-wiener-zeitung-newspaper-ends-daily-21376b5b0154bde12451f12d962e2e51

Constance Garnett on translating Tolstoy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/books/review/constance-garnett-russia-revolution-translation.html

Review of Stacy Schiff, *The Revolutionary*:

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

Reviews and related items on Elizabeth Winkler, *Shakespeare Was a Woman*:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jun/27/elizabeth-winkler-shakespeare-was-woman-author
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/18/shakespeare-was-a-woman-and-other-heresies-review-elizabeth-winkler-in-search-of-the-bard
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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OpEd comparing Prigozhin and Julius Caesar:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/26/prigozhin-julius-caesar-rubicon-wagner-putin

Feature on July 4th traditions:

https://apnews.com/article/fourth-of-july-meaning-facts-a3376f7b1898300ff3116fd221cd30a6

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on Aristippus of Cyrene:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/202307/meet-the-ultimate-hedonist

On Aristotle and living well (this is a book review):

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/how-to-flourish-an-ancient-guide-to-living-well-aristotle-susan-sauve-meyer-book-review
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Chaeronea:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/06/29/chaeronea-exploring-alexander-the-greats-historic-day-at-the-museum-of-cycladic-art/

Alexander the Great;

https://mondediplo.com/2023/07/12alexander

Codex Atlanticus:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leonardo-da-vinci-sketches-exhibition-washington-dc-180982442/

Thomas Commeraw:

https://www.timesunion.com/art/article/thomas-commeraw-fenimore-exhibit-18179357.php

cf: https://fenimoreartmuseum.org/future-exhibitions/commeraw

Diva:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/arts/design/diva-victoria-and-albert-museum.html

Joshua Reynolds:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-66029946

Last Supper Tapestry:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67609 https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/06/28/in-leonardos-shadow-tapestries-and-ceremonies-at-the-papal-court/

Constable:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66009017

Colonial issues are being raised at the Pitt Rivers Museum:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1383/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1383/pub/1383/page/17/article/NaN

Latest update on progress at the Grand Egyptian Museum:

https://cloudflare.egyptindependent.com/grand-egyptian-museum-heads-towards-completion-with-160-artifacts-installed-per-day/

The British Museum is under fire for using translations of Chinese poems without crediting the translator:

https://theconversation.com/controversy-over-poems-at-british-museum-shows-urgent-need-for-more-recognition-for-translators-208781
https://hyperallergic.com/830282/translator-yiling-wang-calls-out-british-museums-erasure-of-her-work/

A Vermont museum has received a gift of a major collection of Native American art:

https://apnews.com/article/native-american-art-shelburne-museum-vermont-b936bd3630ea6e8ed5676e3f72232196

The Hermitage Amsterdam is rebranding:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/arts/design/h-art-museum-hermitage-amsterdam.html
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hermitage-amsterdam-rebrands-2327639 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230626-amsterdam-s-hermitage-museum-renamed-over-russia-link
https://www.artdependence.com/articles/hermitage-amsterdam-changes-its-name-to-hart-museum/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/27/hermitage-amsterdam-gets-new-name-and-three-new-museum-partners

There's a new Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-new-chinese-canadian-museum-opens-its-doors-in-historic-vancouver/
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A medieval hand cannon purchased at a flea market in Hertfordshire fetched a nice price:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66042064

And Eid Mar silver denarius also fetched a nice price:

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/eid-mar-realizes-616-747-in-bruun-rasmussen-auction

Really big bucks for that Klimt we mentioned last week:

https://apnews.com/article/klimt-painting-sothebys-auction-record-f7b88db1c1769d45b320c60a2b67be9d
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/arts/design/klimt-lady-with-a-fan-auction.html

An auction of a Mesoamerican stone yoke in Austria was cancelled and the piece returned to Mexico:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/28/ancient-stone-yoke-mexico-restituted-austria
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11564-230630-stone-yoke-repatriation

A pair of portraits by Rembrandt are coming to auction:

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/rembrandts-extraordinary-rarity-heading-auction-204001183.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
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New camera technology for use in restoration of paintings:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/26/camera-brings-unprecedented-clarity-to-restoration-of-historic-artworks

A facial reconstruction of homo floresiensis:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/see-the-face-of-the-hobbit-an-extinct-human-relative
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11560-230628-flores-digital-model

Facial reconstruction of a Bronze Age woman from 3800 years bp Scotland:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/see-the-face-of-ava-a-bronze-age-woman-who-lived-in-scotland-3800-years-ago

More on the facial reconstruction of a teenaged Anglo-Saxon girl:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/face-of-elite-7th-century-girl-buried-in-a-bed-with-gold-and-jewels-revealed-after-1300-years
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-747638 https://archaeonewsnet.com/2023/06/face-of-anglo-saxon-teen-revealed-with-new-evidence-about-her-life.html
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/06/face-of-anglo-saxon-teen-vip-revealed-with-new-evidence-about-her-life/147840

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Jordan:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230625-jordans-beautiful-cursed-landscape

On the tourists behaving badly side of things, there was plenty of coverage of the guy who carved his girlfriend's name into the Colosseum:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12233979/Fury-Italy-tourist-scrawles-girlfriends-wall-Romes-ancient-Colosseum.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12235615/California-man-filmed-tourist-etching-wall-Romes-ancient-Colosseum-brands-jerks.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/26/tourist-carves-fiancee-name-rome-colosseum-italy-fury/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/graffiti-vandal-carves-name-on-colosseum-wall-8nv0ljlqk
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-colosseum-vandalism-gennaro-sangiuliano-b2364708.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/outcry-after-tourist-carves-name-on-wall-at-the-colosseum-in-rome
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/world/europe/tourist-carves-colosseum-rome.html
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/tourist-filmed-carving-name-into-romes-colosseum.html
https://apnews.com/article/italy-colosseum-tourists-graffiti-9cea0f4c74ad80549feafad28510362c
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2023/06/26/tourist-who-carved-girlfriend-name-into-colosseum-risks-jail_6ee5b952-158f-4445-b8f0-db527bcc59e9.html
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/tourist-inscribes-name-colosseum-rome-intl-scli/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tourist-carving-fiancees-name-onto-colosseum-vandalism/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/italy-man-viral-video-carving-graffiti-romes-2000-100402642
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/06/27/colosseum-vandalism-graffiti-rome-tourism/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/27/italy-condemns-tourist-who-vandalised-colosseum-with-love-note
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/video-tourist-vandalism-colosseum-rome-180982449/

... then his identity was revealed as a fitness instructor from Bristol:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12246717/Tourist-carved-Ivan-Hayley-Colosseum-wall-revealed-Bristol-fitness-instructor.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/colosseum-wall-carving-suspect-england-bristol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/29/man-carved-name-rome-colosseum/
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1383/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1383/pub/1383/page/50/article/NaN
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/colosseum-graffiti-carver-named-as-british-tourist-lszsq0nlt
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italian-police-blame-couple-england-colosseum-graffiti-2023-06-29/
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-748236 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/29/italy-colosseum-vandals-tourism/ea3a4b94-169f-11ee-9de3-ba1fa29e9bec_story.html
https://www.cnn.com/travel/rome-colosseum-ivan-hayley-graffiti-identified/index.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/italian-cops-identify-british-tourist-caught-defacing-the-colosseum

... and he was begging forgiveness:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12252177/Bristol-fitness-instructor-carved-Colosseum-wall-begs-Italian-forgiveness.html
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-tourist-rome-colosseum-carving-ivan-hayley-into-brick-prosecutor/

... and then there were related OpEds:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/the-long-and-noble-history-of-defacing-ancient-monuments/
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-tourists-bad-behavior/index.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12239069/Idiotic-tourists-enrage-Italians-desecrating-treasured-ancient-sites.html
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Democracy Project:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/theater/the-democracy-project-federal-hall.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Police in Spain recovered a 1900 years bp Roman bust and other items during a raid:

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-06-26/a-treasure-trove-of-119-archaeological-pieces-was-hidden-in-a-storage-room-in-cordoba-spain.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-police-seize-1900-year-old-roman-bust-amid-trove-archaeological-treasures-2023-06-26/

Four metal detectorists were caught at the Baylham Roman site:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12244485/Metal-detectorists-caught-red-handed-plundering-Roman-villa.html
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23621664.norfolk-nighthawking-detectorists-targeted-roman-site/

Feature on anti-smuggling busts in Turkiye:

https://famagusta-gazette.com/2023/06/27/turkiye-smuggling-crackdown-raids/

Feature on illegal digging and smuggling in Iran:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/486266/Illegal-diggers-smugglers-responsible-for-historical-properties

More on restitution paid by Latchford's daughter:

https://artreview.com/estate-of-accused-dealer-of-stolen-antiquities-settles-case-for-12-million/

More on the conviction of a California man for smuggling a mosaic from Syria:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-747681 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230626-california-man-smuggled-2000-year-old-roman-mosaic-from-syria/
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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 ============================================================
Iraq has apparently recovered some 23 000 artifacts over the past three years:

https://english.aawsat.com/culture/4402161-iraq-recovers-23000-sumerian-babylonian-assyrian-archaeological-artifacts

... related:

https://famagusta-gazette.com/2023/06/29/more-cultural-relics-return-to-iraq/

The National Museum of Denmark returned a 17th century feather cape to Brazil:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67653

More on US returns to India:

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/1st-century-bc-plaque-among-105-antiquities-to-be-returned-by-us-8695098/

More on the return of a smuggled Sassanid relief from the UK to Iran:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/486131/UK-returns-smuggled-ancient-artifact-to-Iran
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/486325/Tehran-museum-to-put-Sasanian-relief-recovered-from-smugglers
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230626-uk-returns-smuggled-sassanid-era-artefact-to-iran/

More on the US return of a number of coins to Greece:

https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/customs-immigration/federal-agents-national-hellenic-museum-conduct-largest-repatriation-of-ancient-coins-to-greece-in-recent-hsi-history/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/06/26/largest-repatriation-of-ancient-coins-to-greece-in-recent-hsi-history/

Feature/review of Elizabeth Kadetsky, *The Goddess Complex*:

https://www.psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/story/professors-search-indian-sculptures-featured-american-scholar-magazine/

Feature on Arthur Brand's efforts to recover some smuggled mosaics:

https://aleteia.org/2018/11/21/modern-day-indiana-jones-rescues-1600-year-old-mosaic/

OpEd on repatriation by museums:

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-01/the-restitution-of-art-to-its-origins.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n26.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n27.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Rita Reif:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/obituaries/rita-reif-dead.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3295-audio-news-from-archaeologica-june-18th-through-the-24th-2023
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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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email source) without my express written permission. I think it
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