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Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, David Critchley, Bob
Heuman, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Frank MacKay, Richard Campbell,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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I thought we knew Neanderthals used toothpicks a couple of years ago:

http://www.livescience.com/54407-neanderthals-used-prehistoric-toothpicks.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3540727/Did-Neanderthals-use-toothpicks-
Traces-wood-stuck-ancient-plaque-reveal-relatives-table-manners.html

Next suggestion for the demise of Neanderthals: they caught diseases from sapiens:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-neanderthals-infected-diseases-africa-humans.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uoc-nmh040816.php http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160412-what-really-happened-when-we-met-neandertha
ls https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/10/neanderthals-may-have-died-of-diseas
es-carried-by-humans-from-africa?subid=16450490&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/neanderthals-might-have-contracted-disease
s-from-early-humans-that-helped-make-them-extinct-a6978426.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/health/humans-responsible-for-neanderthal-extinction-by-
transferring-diseases/index.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-diseases-may-have-doomed-neand erthals-180958735/

A new hypothesis on fire use by early humans:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-hypothesis-human-ancestors-advantage.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160412160555.htm http://unews.utah.edu/the-pyrophilic-primate/

Latest naledi controversy:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-erupts-over-strange-new-human-specie
s/

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AFRICA
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Review of Hammer, *The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu*:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/meet-the-bad-ass-librarians-of-tim
buktu/2016/04/15/389e7010-0025-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html

More on dodo extinction:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160408-how-humanity-first-killed-the-dodo-then-lost-it-a
s-well

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A barque station near Aswan from the time of Hatshepsut :

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Templates/Articles/tmpArticleNews.aspx?ArtID=103537

Some colossal Egyptian statues have arrived safely at the British Museum:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/199408/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Colossal-a
ncient-Egyptian-statues-arrive-safely-in.aspx

Pondering the question of whether Jews were slaves in Egypt:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.713849

... and more discussion of Stars of David on Egyptian temples:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/dispelling-rumors-egypt-says-stars-at-ancient-temple-not-n
ew-not-jewish/

Rethinking a 19th century building in Cairo:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/199331/Heritage/Islamic/Cairo-building-tur
ns-out-to-be-th-century-theatre,.aspx

More on the finds at Gebel el Silsila:

http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/14431592.Hereford_man_part_of_new_discovery
_at_Egyptian_site/

Remains of a 6th millennium BCE village in Kurdistan:

http://en.mehrnews.com/news/115674/Relics-of-ancient-six-millennia-old-village-uncover
ed

Some Hittite lions from Sorgun:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-mystery-of-hittite-lions-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=97
807&NewsCatID=375

Plenty of coverage of the find of the site of a Roman-era glass factory:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4192 http://www.livescience.com/54379-israel-oldest-glass-factory-discovered.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-roman-glass-kilns-unearthed-in-is
rael-160411.htm http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-oldest-glass-kilns-point-to-ancient-silicon-valley/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Oldest-kilns-and-Judean-glass-remains-in-country-une
arthed-near-Haifa-450873 http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/65501/archaeological-missing-link-proves-israel-was
-world-center-ancient-glass-trade-jewish-world/ http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ancient-glass-works-prove-israel-was-
world-glass-production-center/2016/04/11/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/11/israeli-archaeologists-announce-sensational
-discovery-of-oldest-ancient-glassworks-ever-found-in-the-country/ http://artdaily.com/news/86474/The-oldest-glassworks-ever-found-in-Israel-was-a-world-c
enter-for-glass-production-in-antiquity- http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0412/Oldest-glass-factory-in-Israel-dates-to-4th-c
entury-AD
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.713942 http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/12/ancient-kilns-prove-israel-was-leader-in-roman-er
a-glass-making/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3533731/

Handwriting analysis is suggesting that Biblical texts may have been written down
earlier than previously thought:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-analysis-clues-dating-testament-texts.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/afot-hap041116.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160412110006.htm http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/04/05/1522200113.abstract http://www.livescience.com/54368-bible-compiled-early.html http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/bible-was-written-earlier-ancient-notes-sugges
t-160411.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/middleeast/new-evidence-onwhen-bible-was-w
ritten-ancient-shopping-lists.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-look-at-ancient-shards-suggests-bible-even-older-than-
thought/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Old-Testament-may-be-older-than-previously-thought-hi
-tech-analysis-indicates-451004 http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4789745,00.html http://bigstory.ap.org/1409f25101b04492b9695990be062c2a http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/12/handwriting-study-suggests-biblical-texts-mi
ght-have-been-written-earlier-than-many-scholars-thought/ http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/handwriting-study-finds-clues-biblical-texts-
written-38329128 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-handwriting-may-shed-light-on-age-of-bible/ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/12/bible-age-tel-aviv-university-findings
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.713885 http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2016/04/659-676124-9-la-primera-escritura-d
e-textos-biblicos-pudo-ser-hace-600-anos-ac.shtml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3534317/

... some reactions:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/12/does-this-ancient-handwriting-prove-th
e-bible-s-age.html
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=708

Three Palestinians were arrested smuggling a statue of 'Herod's lover':

http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Three-Palestinians-arrested-smuggling-statue-of-K
ing-Herods-lover-to-Israel-450977#article=6018MjJFNjU2OTRERTc3MEUxMzhCQzYxQ0 QzNDAzMDlDRjg= http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/busted-palestinian-smugglers-caught-statue-%E2
%80%98king-herod%E2%80%99s-lover%E2%80%99-828268

... but confer (with photo) to question the identity:

https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771079

I think we mentioned the Maccabees Project:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2016/04/12/project-attempts-understand-maccabe
es/5zz0EwooWFR3ZY7FD4uaKN/story.html

Feature on sanitation in Mesopotamia:

http://asorblog.org/2016/04/06/trash-and-toilets-in-mesopotamia-sanitation-and-early-urb
anism/

Turkey is looking for the skull of an Ottoman architect:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36015767

Some interesting early modern maps of Jerusalem came to auction:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/12/nineteenth-century-jerusalem-maps-shed-lig
ht-on-the-holy-city-once-shrouded-in-mystery/ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4790270,00.html

More on that Byzantine church find in Gaza:

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/bulldozed-for-a-shopping-mall-what-might-hap
pen-to-these-church-ruins-13700/

On Babylonian knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-year-journey-classroom.html http://news.yale.edu/2016/04/11/3800-year-journey-classroom-classroom

One of Saddam Hussein's palaces is being turned into a museum:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/12/saddam-husseins-palace-will-become-a-mu
seum-in-iraq/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160411-iraq-saddam-palace-basra-art-muse
um/ http://www.newsweek.com/palace-former-iraqi-dictator-saddam-hussein-transformed-mus
eum-447270

Interesting item on 666:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/morgan-freeman-mark-of-the-beast_us_570be32de4
b0885fb50da7e2

Turkey wants to do more for cultural heritage:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/superpower-turkey-seeks-to-protect-cultural-heritage.a
spx?pageID=238&nid=97702&NewsCatID=375

Reassessing the damage ISIL caused in Palmyra:

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2016/apr/17/pieces-picked-up-in-palmyra-20160417/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/catastrophe-say-experts-after-seeing-palmyra-museum/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/16/experts-give-new-details-of-is-destru
ction-of-syri/

... with the latest photos:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2016/apr/08/palmyra-after-islamic-state-
isis-visual-guide

... and suggestions that Palmyra should not be rebuilt:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/apr/11/palmyra-isis-s
yria-restored-3d-printers-vandalism

... and that there are mines all over the site:

http://www.dw.com/en/deadly-sightseeing-the-mine-fields-of-ancient-palmyra/a-19182311

... and why it will 'live on':

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/palmyras-legacy-is-everywhere-and-isis-could-never-ha
ve-erased-it/?

Meanwhile, ISIL apparently burst through a section of the wall of Nineveh:

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/ISIS-ruins-part-of-the-ancient-Assyrian-city-
wall-near-Mosul-451239

... and there are reports they actually destroyed the gate:

http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-destroys-2000-year-old-gate-of-god-in-ninevah-m
osul-iraq-161707/

The Vatican and Orthodox churches are cooperating in restoring damaged churches:

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-vatican-and-orthodox-churches-work.
html

Lecture on looting and destruction of antiquities as a calculated strategy:

http://news.yale.edu/2016/04/13/looting-and-destruction-antiquities-calculated-strategy

... and a tool of war:

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/04/13/antiquities-as-tools-of-war/

... and an 'illegal Syrian antiquity' showed up in a London shop:

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Arts/article1688008.ece?CMP=OTH-
gnws-standard-2016_04_16

... while the US Senate imposed a ban on the import of Syrian antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/world/middleeast/senate-votes-to-ban-imports-of-syri
an-art-and-antiquities.html

More on the damage at the St Elian monastery:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/04/06/christian-saints-bones-unearthed-in-monast
ery-destroyed-by-isis.html

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Plenty of coverage of a major villa find in Wiltshire (this story is still trickling out):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36062538 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/16/unparalleled-discovery-of-roman-villa-benea
th-wiltshire-garden/ http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/17/amazing-find-roman-villa http://www.basildonrecorder.co.uk/news/national/14432759.Farmhouse_owner_discover
s__well_preserved__Roman_villa_in_his_grounds/ http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/journalnewsindex/14432871.Tisbury_farmhouse
_owner_discovers__well_preserved__Roman_villa_in_his_grounds/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3543938/Farmhouse-owner-discovers-preserv
ed-Roman-villa-grounds.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/roman-villa-found-house-largest-ever-discovered-u
k_uk_5710b3dee4b0dc55ceea5469

... and some speculation as to ownership already:

http://news.sky.com/story/1679879/was-unearthed-villa-home-to-roman-emperor

More finds from Phalero (however it is transliterated) might be connected to the Cylon
affair:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-mass-graves-greece.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-mass-graves-discovered-in-greec
e-160415.htm http://www.livescience.com/54432-mass-grave-unearthed-in-greece.html http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/04/15/archaeologists-may-have-found-the-grave
s-of-supporters-of-ancient-greek-tyrant-cylon.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/15/newly-discovered-mas
s-graves-could-be-filled-with-an-ancient-greek-tyrants-followers/ http://www.ekathimerini.com/207941/gallery/ekathimerini/life/ancient-mass-graves-found-
in-athens-seen-as-significant-discovery http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/04/14/ancient-grave-with-80-bodies-found-near-athe
ns-may-be-linked-to-cylonian-affair/ http://m.france24.com/en/20160414-ancient-mass-graves-discovered-greece http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3540584/Have-murdered-followers-Cylon-S
keletons-80-ancient-men-hands-bound-heads-belong-7th-Century-Greek-rebels.html?ITO=
1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Evidence of a vast wine-making concern at Vagnari:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-roman-imperial-leaders-wine-empire.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160411082833.htm

Police looking for guns came across antiquities near Enna:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36055120 http://blognotizie.info/179704/archeologia-reperti-sequestrati-in-casa-pregiudicato-enna.h
tml

New digs are going on at Bath:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-36045817 http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Bath-archaeological-digs-start-uncover-hidden/
story-29104616-detail/story.html http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Archaeologists-begin-digging-hidden-Roman-baths/ story-29104193-detail/story.html#ixzz45ilkMDmb

Looking for Roman remains in Gloucester:

http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Archaeologists-search-Roman-remains-city/ story-29096865-detail/story.html

Latest feature mentioning the possible redating of the eruption of Vesuvius:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-features-luxuries-wealthy-percent-ancient.html

... and a feature on Pompeii that seems to be hyping something:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160408-pompeii-roman-vesuvius-eruption-d
isaster/

A profile sort of thing on Mary Beard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/fashion/mary-beard-against-internet-trolling.html

... and one on Danielle Allen:

http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/05/the-egalitarian

What Chris Renaud is up to:

https://www.carthage.edu/live/news/10505-classics-professor--national-geographic-exper
t

What Reviel Netz is up to:

http://news.uark.edu/articles/34262

Nice protest by Classics profs in France:

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/2016/04/classics-professors-in-fra
nce-protest-education-reform-in-style.phtml

There's going to be a pile of reenactors at Maryport:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/people/Romans-take-over-Maryport-for-the-weekend-
790c4b79-621d-47df-9b32-7f076bc17232-ds

... and a major cavalry reenactment at Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-world-s-biggest-roman-cavalry-bat
tle-re-enactment-will-be-staged-at-hadrian-s-wall-next-year-a6977146.html http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/09/hadrians-wall-roman-cavalry

Pondering the legacy of ancient Greek politics:

http://blog.oup.com/2016/04/ancient-greek-political-legacy/

... and what ancient Rome can tell us about modern politics:

http://www.wpr.org/what-can-ancient-rome-teach-us-about-modern-politics

Nice infographic on assorted Homeric questions:

http://blog.oup.com/2016/04/homer-inspiration-and-controversy/

On Greek/Egyptian interactions:

http://blog.oup.com/2016/04/greek-egyptian-interactions-literature/

Latest essay on Lucretius:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201604lucretius-experience-and-reality

Homerathon coverage:

http://www.theshorthorn.com/classic-literature-lovers-challenge-homerathon-together/
collection_b09bc540-028c-11e6-8b60-57ce5ad85dce.html http://www.salemnews.com/news/lifestyles/interest-days-for-marathon-reading-of-homer-
s-iliad/article_509adb00-900e-550d-833d-bbb737e013a4.html http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/department-of-classics-reads-epic-poem-nonstop-f
or-two-days/article_87e588c4-0166-11e6-9314-5340f18709a3.html

Some NJCL coverage:

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/west-essex/columns/caldwell-west-caldwell-school-district-
in-the-news/articles/james-caldwell-inducts-19-into-national-latin-hon

The impact of Alexander the Great on art:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/16/how-alexander-the-great-changed-the-a
rt-world-forever.html

Features/reviews/etc of Heaney's Aeneid VI:

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/14/474265657/seamus-heaneys-translation-of-the-aeneid-get
s-posthumous-publication http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21696919-music-underworld

On Caroline Alexander's Iliad translation:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/a-womans-version-of-the-trojan-war/?utm_source=Ad
estra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160410_Culture_House_13

We've had this carnyx reconstruction before:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article71289162.html

Last week we labelled this as a review of Mayor's *Amazons* ... it's actually feature on
Amazons by A. Mayor (apologies!):

http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?cat=24

More on that Etruscan inscription:

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/04/13/archaeologists-unearth-rare-etruscan-text-at
-italy-site

More on those curse tablets in an Athenian burial:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/curse-tablets-discovered-in-2400-year-ol
d-grave-160405.htm

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The cave art in Chauvet Cave-Pont D'Arc is older than previously thought:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-radio-carbon-chauvet-pont-darc-cave-art.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-timeline-zeroes-creation-chauvet-cave-
paintings-180958754/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3534242/The-incredible-history-Chauvet-P
ont-d-Arc-Radiocarbon-dating-reveals-early-humans-shared-painted-cave-BEARS-30-000-
years-ago.html

Reconstruction of an 11 000 years bp headdress is shedding light on hunter/gatherer
rituals:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-headdress-reconstruction-hunter-gatherer-rituals.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160413151115.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uoy-hrt041316.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2016/first-scientific-analysis-of-old
est-known-shamanic-costume-in-europe

Vinca culture remains near Alba Julia:

http://www.sebesinfo.ro/asezare-umana-cu-o-vechime-de-circa-7000-de-ani-descoperita-p
e-traseul-autostrazii-sebes-turda-8475.html

3000/4000 bce (maybe) burials halt construction in St Athan:

http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/14424020.Discovery_of_skeletal_remains_
halt_housing_development/

A 7th/8th century burial ground on MOD property in Wiltshire:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36052151 http://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/14431438.Archaeological_find_unearthed_duri
ng_Army_homes_development/ http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/journalnewsindex/14430354._Unexpected__arch
aeological_finds_unearthed_on_Salisbury_Plain/

I'll let you decide what's up with this Bosnian 'sphere' discovery:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-archaeologist-bosnia-stone-sphere-massive.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/giant-rock-sphere-linked-to-mysterious-ci
vilization-160414.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/11/mysterious-giant-sphere-unearthed-in-forest
-divides-opinion/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3527997/Is-rock-proof-lost-European-civilis
ation-Archaeologist-claims-spherical-boulder-world-s-oldest-man-sphere-used-healing.ht
ml

Remains of a 17th century plague victim from an Edinburgh school yard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-36034906 http://www.thenational.scot/news/17th-century-skeleton-discovered-in-edinburgh-school-g
rounds.16280

Plans to investigate the Clent Hills:

http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/14427991.Archaeologists_aim_to_discover_wha
t_lies_beneath_the_Clent_Hills/

A silk dress from a 17th century Dutch shipwreck:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dutch-divers-discover-400-year-old-dress-in-a-su
nken-ship/ http://www.cnet.com/news/shipwrecked-silk-dress-survives-400-years-under-water/

Trying to figure out a naked woman engraving on Duart castle:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/experts-puzzled-by-naked-woman-carving-on-duart-ca
stle-1-4096169

Pondering Viking motivations:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/vikings-may-have-first-taken-seas-find-women-
slaves

I think we had this Viking jewellery thing a while ago:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3533966/Were-early-Vikings-HIPSTERS-Iro
n-Age-Norse-women-wore-bizarre-jewellery-foreign-designs-stand-out.html?ITO=1490&ns
_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

The Bronze Age battle in Germany story is still making the rounds:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3509388/Battered-skulls-shattered-bones-
arrows-lodged-skeletons-Remains-Germany-point-earliest-largest-brutal-Bronze-Age-battl
e-seen.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

... as is the Vasco da Gama shipwreck:

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/14/shipwreck-hunter-discovers-500-year-ol
d-treasures/

More on Orkney deer being brought by ship:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/06/riddle-of-the-red-deer-orkney-deer-arri
ved-by-neolithic-ship-study-reveals

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================

Studying paleolithic tools from the Sungir site:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-archaeologists-tools-sungarian.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/lmsu-vi041416.php

Paleolithic items from Viet Nam:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/11/c_135268559.htm http://tuoitrenews.vn/features/34260/stone-age-artifacts-found-in-vietnam-archeologists

4500 years bp burials from Sichuan:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/17/c_135287267.htm

The stripes on some Mongolian mummies' shoes were taken to their illogical extreme:

http://www.akipress.com/news%3A575546/ https://www.rt.com/viral/339486-adidas-mummy-mongolia-archaeology/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3537442/Conspiracy-theorists-believe-1-5
00-year-old-Mongolian-mummy-wearing-Adidas-boots-finally-proof-time-travel-exists.html
?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

An early British boundary stone from Hong Kong:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-year-saiwan-boundary-marker-stone.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/tuoh-1yo040816.php

Digging an 'Irish settlement' in Australia:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-archaeologists-home-australia-lost-clachan.html

Liu Yiqian plans on buying more Western antiquities:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/arts/2016/04/16/463570/More-Western.htm http://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-wealth/article/1936137/chinese-tycoon-liu-yiqia
n-says-he-wants-add-more-western-art http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3541260/More-Western-art-shopping-list-Chin
ese-tycoon-Liu.html

Sea level rise threatens sites in Hawaii:

http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/nation-world-news/sea-level-rise-threatens-archaeologi
cal-sites-puukohala-puuhonua-o-honaunau

More on new branches of the Silk Road:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/archaeologists-uncover-another-branch-of-the-s
ilk-road/

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Searching for remains of a star-shaped fort near Lunenburg:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lunenburg-academy-archaeology-cary-saint-
marys-university-1.3539176

Some guy claims there is yet another Norse site on Newfoundland:

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/possible-3rd-norse-site-near-point-rosee-nl-piques
-archeologists-interest/ar-BBrBHly

An early 19th century well from St Augustine:

http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2016-04-12/coquina-well-walls-found-mill-top-exc
avation#.Vw6Cl0f52Iv http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2016-04-13/story/coquina-well-walls-found-mill-top-ex
cavation-st-augustine

The Judaculla Rock was vandalized:

http://www.wyff4.com/news/mysterious-ancient-boulder-vandalized-surveillance-images-
released/38989374

Interesting feature on the Reservoir Stone Mound:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2016/04/17/01-noble-monument-lost-to-t
he-ages-to-build-1823-dam.html

Feature on Harvard's Porcellian Club:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/13/secretive-harvard-clu
b-breaks-225-years-of-silence-to-say-that-admitting-women-could-increase-sexual-misco
nduct/

Some Franklin ship coverage:

http://www.adn.com/article/20160410/stirring-account-finding-franklins-lost-ship

Georgetown U's slave legacy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/us/georgetown-university-search-for-slave-descenda
nts.html?emc=edit_na_20160416&nlid=10296088&ref=cta&_r=0

An Alexandrian shipwreck is popular:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/alexandrians-cant-get-enough-of-t
his-excavated-18th-century-ship/2016/04/15/80ea7e00-0281-11e6-b823-707c79ce3504_s
tory.html

The federal government has purchased Burnt Corn Pueblo:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/burnt-corn-pueblo-site-in-galisteo-b
asin-gets-federal-protection/article_1e40369b-74c8-5e94-ab02-5b269f6d866a.html

Pondering sea-level rise and sites in Florida (and elsewhere):

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/16/474395637/what-can-we-learn-from-early-floridians-on-sea
-level-rise http://phys.org/news/2016-04-history-sea-threatens-historic-sites.html

Plenty of Toronto neighbourhoods are built on cemeteries, apparently:

http://www.citynews.ca/2016/04/13/watch-where-you-walk-key-toronto-areas-built-on-cem
eteries/

Feature on the SD Archaeological Center:

http://www.valleycenter.com/news/2016-04-14/Valley_Life/SD_Archaeological_Center_tur
ning_out_future_Indian.html

Canada has no strategy to protect shipwrecks from looting:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/shipwrecks-looting-prevention-strategy-1.353
3233 http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/archeologist-calls-for-national-strategy-to-protect-shipwre
cks-from-looting-1.2856112

What Lincoln's letters reveal:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/abraham-lincoln-fool/?rref=collection%2Fs
ectioncollection%2Fbooks

Preserving the legacy of Sing Sing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/nyregion/building-a-museum-where-david-berkowitz-
did-time-and-james-cagney-spent-it.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel

More on the Wright Brothers' patent find:

http://www.livescience.com/54409-wright-brothers-missing-patent-found.html

More on that North Carolina Civil War shipwreck:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-36033056

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
A construction crew found the grave of one of Mexico's first Catholic priests:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-mexico-unearths-spanish-priest-ancient.html http://phys.org/news/2016-04-mexican-experts-early-burial-colonial.html http://artdaily.com/news/86564/Mexican-archaeologists-unearth-Spanish-priest-s-ancient
-tombstone http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/construction-crew-uncovered-grave-one-me
xicos-first-catholic-priests-180958771/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/13/mexico-priest-grave-spanish-conquest-azt
ec-archaeology https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tomb-of-a-16th-century-catholic-
priest-found-in-remains-of-aztec-temple/2016/04/15/0aa7800e-0262-11e6-9d36-33d198ea
26c5_story.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3538476/Mexican-experts-early-burial-1st-
colonial-cathedral.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Interesting holes add to our picture of Nazca:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3537828/Has-puzzle-Nazca-holes-solved-
Ancient-spirals-Peruvian-desert-sophisticated-irrigation-system.html

On the role of humans in spreading seeds:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-seeds-human-migration.html

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http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Suggestion that STIs led to monogamy:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-sexually-transmitted-infections-peer-pressure.html http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160412-sexually-transmitted-infections-may-have-resh
aped-our-lives https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/12/stis-may-have-driven-ancient-humans-
to-monogamy-study-says http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/12/ciencia/1460464009_412113.html

A different way to interpret prehistoric footprint remains:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160414-we-have-found-a-new-way-to-read-prehistoric-fo
otprints

In case you were wondering what it was like to sleep in Elsinore:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/14/design/shakespeare-hamlets-castle-the-spaces/ index.html

... or that thing about Eskimo (yes, they used that word) words for snow:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160413151235.htm http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/651637/?sc=c52

More on that first folio found in Scotland:

http://www.livescience.com/54397-shakespeare-first-folio-authenticated.html

... and suggestions what it would be like if Shakespeare had to include acknowledgements:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/04/14/if-william-shakespeare-h
ad-included-acknowledgements/

On the Dutch bulb trade:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-dutch-bulb-garden-depicts-golden.html

Latest claim of a Caravaggio find in an attic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36024865 http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/12/lost-caravaggio-causes-rift-in-art-
world http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/europe/treasured-french-painting-recovered/index.html
http://m.france24.com/en/20160412-caravaggio-painting-found-french-attic-italian-art
http://m.jpost.com/International/120-million-euro-lost-Caravaggio-discovered-in-French-at

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