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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo, Trevor Ogden, Jona Lendering, Christopher Stacy, Barbara
Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross
W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no
one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Some potentially interesting hominin teeth (much older than Lucy) from
Germany:

http://www.dw.com/en/archaeology-fossil-teeth-discovery-in-germany-could -re-write-human-history/a-41028029

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Feature on Great Zimbabwe;

http://www.herald.co.zw/unravelling-the-mystery-of-great-zimbabwe/

Libyan officials deny antiquities looting has been going on in Sultan:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/office-antiquities-sirte-denies-loo ting-ancient-city-sultan https://www.libyaherald.com/2017/10/16/philaeni-statues-disappearance-re futed-by-antiquities-authorities/

More on that royal palace in Rwanda:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201710110018.html


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Remains of a temple of Ramses II from Abusir:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/czech-excavation-uncovers-temple-king-ra mses-ii-abusir/ https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/10/16/remains-of-king-ramses-ii-temple- uncovered-in-egypts-abu-sir/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egyptian-lost-pharao h-tomb-ramses-cairo-discover-archaeology-ancient-a8005466.html http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/desert-discovery-l ost-temple-of-ramses-ii-uncovered-by-archaeologists/news-story/ 1a55d03f3f4b8fd96348710bd10a2c26 http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-lost-temple-ramses-ii-reveals-3000 -year-old-mysteries-god-king-685603 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/temple-powerful-egyptian-phara oh-discovered-180965325/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/5989-171016-abusir-ramses-temple

I think we mentioned this find of a 4000 years bp wooden statue of
Queen Ankhesenpepi II:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-egypt-archaeologists-year-old-statue.html http://www.egyptindependent.com/head-queen-ankhnespepy-ii-statue-unearth ed-sakkara/ http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2017/Oct-19/423138-in-egypt -archaeologists-find-4000-year-old-statue.ashx https://www.livescience.com/60714-statue-of-egyptian-queen-found.html http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-4000-year-old-statue-pharaoh-queen -uncovered-near-great-pyramid-688307 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/egypt-archaeologists-find-par t-4000-year-statue-50553964 https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/10/18/Archaeologists-find-4000-yea r-old-wooden-statue-head-in-Egypt/6931508338487/

… or perhaps it was this pyramidion:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/10/15/new-pyramidion-discovered-sakkara- necropolis/

Marking the anniversary of the discovery of Abu Simbel:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/9/28637/Antiquities-to-mark-200th-anni v-of-Abu-Simbel-discovery-in http://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-italy-celebrate-the-200th-annivers ary-of-the-discovery-of-abu-simbel/

… and there was a solar alignment observation too:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/9/28870/3-500-tourists-watch-solar-ali gnment-at-Abu-Simbel-Temple

Plans to develop Salamlek Palace:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/antiquities-ministry-develop-salamlek-pa
lace/

Review of Lehner and Hawass’ tome on recent pyramid research:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/550330a.html

Traces of Elamite urban remains from northern Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/417642/Traces-of-Elamite-urban-life-dete cted-in-northcentral-Iran

Roughly 400 stone structures (dubbed ‘gates’) found in Saudi Arabia (didn’t we have something like this before?):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/science/saudi-arabia-gates-google-ear th.html https://www.livescience.com/60698-mysterious-stone-structures-discovered -saudi-arabia.html https://www.livescience.com/60697-photos-stone-structures-saudi-arabia.h
tml
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/10/18/400-mysterious-stone- gates-discovered-in-remote-saudi-arabia/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/saudi-arabia-stone-structures- ancient-gates-volcanoes-lava-flows-david-kennedy-a8008156.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/archaeologist-spots-hundreds-mysterious-ancie nt-stone-gates-google-earth-085944860.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/australian-archaeologist-chron icles-mysterious-stone-gates-found-in-saudi-arabias-desert-20171020-gz50
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/mysterious-ancient -stone-structures-found-around-remote-saudi-lava-domes/news-story/ e0c0b23b026a4cddf9fe0957dbda7191 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=1193552
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/37533796/australian-scientist-finds-ancient- stone-structures-on-google/ http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mysterious-gates-400-ancient-stone-structures-e dge-volcanoes-discovered-saudi-arabia-746161 http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-ancient-stone-structures-discovered -687568 https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/archaeologists-are-mystified-by- ancient-gates-in-saudi-lava-fields/

Bronze age ‘toys’ from southern Turkey (I think we mentioned these a
while ago):

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6025-171017-bronze-age-toys

Wasn’t quite sure where to put this one … plenty of attention for a
Roman era ‘theatre’ (odeion?) next to some newly found courses of the Western Wall:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=
4315
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-israel-uncovers-section-western-wall.html http://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/new-stone-courses-ancient-th eater-discovered-in-western-wall-tunnels/2017/10/16/ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/236757 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Jerusalems-lost-theater-and-8-ancient-s tone-courses-discovered-under-Western-Wall-507544 https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.817500 https://www.jta.org/2017/10/16/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/ ancient-roman-theater-stone-courses-discovered-in-western-wall-excavatio
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/massive-section-of-western-wall-and-roman- theater-uncovered-after-1700-years/ https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5029353,00.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/lost-roman-theatre-j erusalem-western-wall-archaeologists-discover-middle-east-a8003481.html https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roman-theatre-found-at-jerusalem-s-we stern-wall-after-150-year-hunt-b66pmjmhc https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/16/newly-discovered-portions-of-weste rn-wall-and-roman-theater-unveiled-in-jerusalem/ https://www.livescience.com/60692-roman-amphitheater-found-under-western -wall.html https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/archaeologists-unearth-roman- structure-at-the-foot-of-jerusalems-western-wall https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-uncovers-buried-section-western-wall-1 12100227.html http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/roman-theater-uncovered-base-j erusalems-western-wall-50504573 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/roman-theater-uncovered -at-base-of-jerusalems-western-wall/2017/10/16/faae970e-b251-11e7-9b93-b 97043e57a22_story.html http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/16/middleeast/ancient-theater-western-wal l/index.html http://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-just-unearthed-buried-roman-theat er-western-wall-686333 http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-find-ancient-roman-ruins-underneat h-holy-site-jerusalem-2602121 http://www.euronews.com/2017/10/16/ancient-amphitheatre-found-in-jerusal
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/ancient-roman-theater-discove ry-jerusalem-video-spd/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/5988-171016-jerusalem-stone-courses

See also: http://www.foundationstone.org/

A Roman-era cave system beneath a home in Lower Galilee was plundered:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Roman-era-cave-system-in-Lower-Galilee- plundered-by-thieves-507750
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.818044 http://www.newsweek.com/israel-biblical-roman-stables-discovered-area-wh ere-jesus-lived-and-preached-688666

Feature on the Tel Kabri dig:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/dining/israel-ancient-wine-canaanite.
html

A permanent home for the Lod Mosaic:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/breathtaking-lod-mosaic-to-finally-have-a- floor-to-call-home/ http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/the-most-spectacular-mosaics-expo sed-in-israel-to-receive-the-most-spectacular-permanent-home-in-lod/ 2017/10/20/

Excellent feature on a disputed papyrus fragment of Galatians owned by
the Museum of the Bible:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-an-ancient-text-in-the-museum-of-the-bi ble-real-or-fake

… related review:

http://www.startribune.com/review-bible-nation-the-united-states-of-hobb y-lobby-by-candida-r-moss-and-joel-s-baden/451695703/

Hasankeyf will soon be under water:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-ancient-turkish-town-floodwaters.html http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/9/28563/Ancient-Turkish-town-prepares- to-vanish-under-floodwaters


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Coverage of the dig at Thirassia:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/10/17/clues-of-early-cycladic-life- on-islet-of-thirassia-santorini-photos/ http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-greek-monument-discovered-inexplicably-a bandoned-settlement-baffles-687486 https://www.archaeology.org/news/6036-171020-greece-thirassia-buildings

Another one which made me wonder where to put it … an interesting study
(spun in various ways by the press) suggesting that climate effects
caused by volcanic eruptions and responses thereto may have contributed
to the demise of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt:

https://news.yale.edu/2017/10/17/study-reshapes-understanding-climate-ch anges-impact-early-societies https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/fe-vel101317.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171017124335.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/science/volcanoes-ancient-egypt-revol ts.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/17/asp-or-ash-climate-histo rians-link-cleopatra-demise-volcanic-eruption-nile https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/volcanic-eruption-led-cleopatra- to-kill-herself-838dcpmxh https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/10/17/ climate-change-sparked-revolts-in-ancient-egypt-study-says/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/did-a-volcanic-eruption-bring-down-cleopat ra-ancient-egypts-last-ruler/ https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/volcanoes-spurred-the-fall-of-ancient
-egypt
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-fall-volcano-eruptions-686919 https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/97991154/ancient-egypts-rulers-mishandled- climate-disasters-then-the-people-revolted https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/10/18/demise-of-ancient-e gypt-linked-to-a-climate-changing-volcano/ https://www.seeker.com/earth/climate/climate-changing-volcanic-eruptions -may-have-helped-topple-cleopatra http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/10/17/volcanoes-egypt/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/volcanoes-Nile-flood-climate-
Egypt/
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2017/volcanic-erupti ons-connected-to-social-unrest-in-ancient-egypt http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/volcanoes-may-have-triggered-riot s-ancient-egypt http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-volcanic-eruptions-spurred- revolts-ancient-egypt-180965306/ https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/17/ciencia/1508227377_259419.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/6027-171017-egypt-volcano-nile

Cf:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00957-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00957-y/figures/1

A study suggests ancient Greek theatres weren’t as great acoustically
as touted:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-acoustics-ancient-greek-theaters-good.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/16/whisper-it-greek-amphith eatre-legendary-acoustics-myth-epidaurus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/greek-acoustics-at-epidaur us-seemed-pretty-magical-to-me

… but then there was reaction:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27726-helina-guardian-art icle-on-epidaurus-failed-to-cross-check-the-science.html https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greek-academics-sound-off-over-report -on-epidaurus-theatre-acoustics-7hhqd8ghf

… see also:

http://www.amna.gr/home/article/197661/

… and:

http://www.nacca.nl/2017/10/19/myth-busting-the-acoustics-of-ancient-gre ek-theatres-or-not/

Meanwhile, a Greek theatre was excavated in Thouria:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/222618/article/ekathimerini/news/archaeologi sts-unearth-ancient-theater-of-thouria-in-messinia http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/10/20/archaeologists-unearth-ancien t-theater-of-thouria-southern-greece/ https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/theater-ancient-greece/ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/20/c_136692291.htm

Really a repatriation story, but worth mentioning here … a piece of
Roman mosaic flooring, purportedly from one of Caligula’s ships at
Nemi, was found as a coffee table in New York:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/arts/design/a-remnant-from-caligulas- ship-once-a-coffee-table-heads-home.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/20/stolen-mosaic-adorned-emperor -caligulas-lavish-pleasure-barge/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/piece-caligula-s-ship-found-new-yor k-apartment-n812511 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/20/newly-disco vered-a-mosaic-from-caligulas-pleasure-barge-being-used-as-a-coffee-tabl e-in-new-york/ http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/10/20/caligula-ship- mosaic-returned-to-italy-2_c717679f-3645-41ba-8d31-67ef7725e6aa.html http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-culture-caligula/italy-gets-back -looted-mosaic-from-emperor-caligulas-ship-idUSKBN1CP23I?feedType=RSS&fe edName=lifestyleMolt https://www.archaeology.org/news/6035-171020-italy-repatriation-mosaic

Another Roman coin hoard from a Spanish mining site:

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/10/ancient-roman-coins-f ound-at-spanish-mining-site.all.html

… and one from Bulgaria, which is raising more questions:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/16/archaeology-187-silver-roman-imperial-c oins-found-in-bulgarias-mezdra-but-were-there-more/

A 4th century sarcophagus find from Ljubljana:

https://english.sta.si/2441745/4th-century-sarcophagus-found-during-exca vations-in-ljubljana

Phaselis is slowly submerging:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27679-turkish-archaeologi sts-ancient-greek-roman-city-of-phaselis-slowly-submerging.html

Feature on Egyptian connections to Athens:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27708-report-following-th e-trail-of-egyptian-connections-in-athens.html

Feature on the Nika riots:

http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/10/20/nika-riots-chariot-racing

Feature on the Antikythera device:

http://asorblog.org/2017/10/17/antikythera-device-working-model-cosmos/

Feature on sunken Alexandria:

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/wonder-list-bill-weir-egypt/index.html


Studying the traffic of Pompeii:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/10/16/pompeii-had-some-int ense-rush-hour-traffic-too/

Feature on a bust of Livia coming to auction:

http://www.christies.com/features/5-minutes-with-a-Roman-marble-portrait -bust-of-the-Empress-Livia-8628-1.aspx?sc_lang=en

Feature on that sarcophagus found at Southwark a while back:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/roman-sarcophagus-found-southwark
.htm

Another bit of Classical Dylan coverage:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/11/a-classicists-dylan

What Bettany Hughes is up to:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/bettany-hughes-generation-worked-e very-hour-god-sent-todays/

What Andrea de Giorgi is up to:

http://www.utdailybeacon.com/news/campus_life/visiting-assistant-classic s-professor-shares-secrets-of-ancient-city/article_5e52796c-b5bb-11e7-84 72-6b2e9ca1268c.html

On some of the names in Asterix comics:

http://www.dw.com/en/5-unusual-character-names-from-the-asterix-comics-s eries/a-40980772

… and there’s a new comic out:

http://www.dw.com/en/asterix-and-the-chariot-race-latest-edition-of-clas sic-comic-series-launches/a-41032975

Comparing Trump to Hiero:

http://theconversation.com/a-hiero-in-the-white-house-trumps-resemblance -to-a-greek-tyrant-83866

Some Pythagorean humour:

http://www.theonion.com/article/new-evidence-reveals-pythagoras-wrote-do zens-unhin-57230

Brexit won’t involve the Parthenon/Elgin marbles:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/10/18/eu-directives-dont-apply-to-parth enon-marbles-return-after-brexit/

More on that Roman hoard with the dog figurine/statue:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/roman-hoard-holds-unique-dog-stat
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Food consumed at Stonehenge apparently came from as far away as
Scotland:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-41669774 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/19/stonehenge-builders-feas ted-animals-scotland-feast-exhibition http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/19/stonehenge-builders-ate-anima ls-scotland-study-shows/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stone-age-britons-feasted-hard- while-building-stonehenge-180965324/

Possible Neolithic ‘stones’ on a construction site in St Clements:

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/10/18/archaeologists-find-stones -of-interest-on-estate-site/

Vague item on a body “hundreds of years old” being found in Ireland (we might be hearing more about this one):

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/body-hundreds-years-old-found- 11363065

Trying to undo the Viking impact on Iceland:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/20/climate/iceland-trees-ref orestation.html

A missing piece of a jewellery box associated with Harald Bluetooth may
have been found:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6026-171017-denmark-silver-box https://www.archaeology.org/issues/162-features/top10/2791-denmark-vikin g-king-bluetooth-fortress

More on the reaction to ‘Allah’ in a Viking textile find:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/allah-viking-burial-fabri cs-false-kufic-inscription-clothes-name-woven-myth-islam-uppsala-sweden- a8003881.html https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/viking-funeral-clothes-arabi c-sweden-spd/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/ viking-couture-allah/543045/

Seeking protection for Royston’s Royse Stone:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-41570144


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A ‘prehistoric labyrinth’ from east Godavari:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/prehistoric-labyrin th-discovered-in-e-godavari/article19892482.ece

2000 years bp children’s burials from northern China (I think we
mentioned this):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/17/c_136686009.htm https://www.archaeology.org/news/6029-171018-china-child-graves

A major 1000 years bp coin hoard from Jingdezhen:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/20/c_136693602.htm http://www.nerve.in/news%3A2535003962274

Feature on Minakata Kumagusu:

http://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00415/

A once-banned Confucian is back in China’s good books:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/world/asia/china-guiyang-wang-yangmin g-confucian.html

A possible mass grave on the site proposed for the Tauranga Museum:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/97765741/Mass-grave-possibly-uncovered- in-assessment-of-land-for-Tauranga-museum

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What they found at that pre-Confederation parliament dig in Montreal:

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/canadas-first-parliament-arti facts-relate-high-low-point-in-montreals-history http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/pointe-a-calliere-parliament-mont real-archeological-dig-1.4357319?cmp=rss https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/17/archaeological-dig-at-sit e-of-former-parliament-in-montreal-turns-up-rare-stamps-burned-books-and -oyster-shells.html http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/stamps-dishes-books-among-objects-retrieved -from-montreal-parliament-dig-site-1.3636451

Studying turquoise mining in the American southwest:

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/ua-research-sheds-new-light-early-turqu oise-mining-southwest https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoa-rsn101817.php https://phys.org/news/2017-10-early-turquoise-southwest.html

Studying middens in Maine:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/science/native-americans-shell-midden s-maine.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

More on the Irma canoe:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/98015335/Wooden-canoe-found-in-Fl orida-could-date-back-to-1600s


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Pre-Columbian items from Bolivian road construction:

https://www.prlog.org/12670939-ibt-of-miami-unearths-pre-columbian-artif acts-in-bolivian-road-project.html

Some Pacopampa burials show serious injuries which had healed:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pacopampa-peru-andes-archaeolo gy-ritual-violence-skeletons-ancient-civilization-discovery-torture-a801 1076.html http://www.businessinsider.com/andean-civilizations-pacopampa-ritual-vio lence-study-2017-10 https://www.archaeology.org/news/5991-171016-peru-pacopampa-injuries

Studying sacrificial ritual in Mexico:

https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/10/17/la_serpiente_emplumada/ 1508203743_341649.html

What Ivan Sprajc is up to:

https://english.sta.si/2440192/archaeologist-sprajc-returns-to-yucatan-f or-vital-answers-about-the-maya


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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
On the origins of the tarantella:

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/553751656/the-folk-music-festival-that-sta rted-with-a-spider-bite

Feature on Leibnitz:

http://www.dw.com/en/rooms-of-wonder-gottfried-leibniz/av-40952900

Feature on Mata Hari:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41595828

Rethinking the impact of agriculture:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-agriculture-greatest-blunder-human-history
.html

When wealth inequality arose:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/10/20/
wealth-inequality-arose/

An interview with Sarah Parcak:

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/18/space-archaeology-a-conversat.html

Pondering the orb in daVinci’s Salvator Mundi:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/19/mystery-jesus-chris t-orb-leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-painting

A tourist was killed when an architectural feature fell off a Florence basilica:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41685760 https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-italy-church-death/fragment-falls-off- florence-basilica-killing-spanish-tourist-idUKKBN1CO29K https://in.reuters.com/article/italy-church-death/fragment-falls-off-flo rence-basilica-killing-spanish-tourist-idINKBN1CO2LF https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2017/10/19/actualidad/ 1508425817_539172.html

A stolen Dali turned up in Lebanon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-41677929

… and a long forgotten Rodin turned up in New Jersey:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/21/us/rodin-bust-in-new-jersey/index.html

In case you haven’t heard about Trump’s ‘Renoir’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41686623

On the history of medical quackery:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/15/557479531/quackery-c hronicles-how-our-love-of-miracle-cures-leads-us-astray?sc=17&f=1007

On the importance of the ‘s bend’:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41188465

On the Endangered Poetry Project:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171013-the-people-saving-lost-words

Feature on Appalachian English:

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/10/16/
appalachian-english/
http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/

Review of Fulton, *The Butchering Art*:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/13/557367840/the-butche ring-art-how-a-19th-century-physician-made-surgery-safer?sc=17&f=1007

Review of Zimmerman, *Lady Killers*:

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/14/555690824/lady-killers-cherchez-la-femme-f atale?sc=17&f=1032

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Poster Girls:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41552276

Eleusinian Mysteries:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27663-acropolis-museum-sh ow-on-eleusinian-mysteries-%E2%80%9Csacred-way%E2%80%9D-in-december.html


Ancient Mediterranean:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-field-ancient -mediterranean-1019-story.html

Rembrandt:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/going-out/see-the-brilliance-of-rembrandt-in-new- norwich-castle-museum-exhibition-1-5241077

Art of Laughter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/arts/humor-17th-century-dutch-art.htm
l

Scythians:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/review-scythians-warriors-ancient -siberia.htm

Imagining the Divine:

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/art/15610333.Imagining_The_Divine_e xhibition_explained_by_The_Ashmolean__39_s_expert_curators/

I think this is related to the above:

https://www.ft.com/content/baeb0bbe-b532-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/oct/21/ david-hepworth-radio-review

The Freer and Sackler Galleries have reopened:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/reopened-after-18-m onths-the-freer-and-sackler-galleries-inspire/2017/10/16/14e0a40a-b284-1 1e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html

Plans for the Vatican Museums:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vatican-city-museums-seeing-major-chan ge-new-director-1117547

Again we’re hearing that the Benghazi Palace might become an
archaeological museum:

https://www.libyaherald.com/2017/10/18/benghazi-palace-may-become-archae ological-museum/


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Studying indigenous Australian ochre sources:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-indigenous-australian-ochre-sources-microb ial.html http://theconversation.com/when-bacteria-tell-a-story-tracing-indigenous -australian-ochre-sources-via-microbial-fingerprinting-85455

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
40 000 years bp genome derived from Tianyuan Cave remains:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-genome-wide-year-old-china-reveals-complic ated.html

More on that study of genes and race:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/skin-color-race.html

More on Easter Island DNA:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/easter-island-dna-south-ameri ca.html

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CRIME BEAT
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An Egyptian pot was recovered in Larnaca:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/10/17/larnaca-cid-seize-stolen-ancient-egypt ian-pot/

An anti-smuggling operation in Istanbul bore fruit:

https://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2017/10/18/28-historical-artif acts-seized-during-anti-smuggling-op-in-istanbul

An attempt to smuggle some 19th century items to Lebanon was foiled in
Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/280050/Heritage/Islamic/ Attempt-to-smuggle-th-century-antiques-to-Lebanon-.aspx http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/28468/Historical-Porcelain-Pots-smug gling-attempt

A bust in Upper Egypt:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/28768/99-Artifacts-seized-by-Police- in-Upper-Egypt

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/10/culture-crime-news-9-15-o ctober-2017.html


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 ================================================================
Saudi Arabia has recovered a pile of items over the years:

http://www.menafn.com/1095969353/Saudi--KSA-Reclaims-More-than-52000-Art ifacts-from-Inside-and-Outside
http://www.bna.bh/portal/en/news/806863

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NUMISMATICA
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On collecting ancient coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-ancient- coins-100/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n42.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n43.html


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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Loving Vincent:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/13/loving-vincent-van-gogh-pai nted-animation-dorota-kobiela-hugh-welchman

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/ 2663-audio-news-from-archaeologica-8-october-2017-14-october-2017 ================================================================
OBITUARIES
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Fred Willard:

http://www.dailyadvance.com/News/2017/10/22/Willard-historian-of-Lost-Co

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