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Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Bob Heuman, David Critchley, Kris Curry, Feral Boy, 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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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Latest finds related to homo floresiensis lead to the suggestion the species was actually
an isolated population of homo erectus:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-homo-floresiensis-tools-shrank-island.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/gu-nfs060816.php http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/science/hobbit-fossils-flores.html http://www.livescience.com/55014-miniature-hobbit-ancestors-discovered.html http://www.livescience.com/55012-photos-hobbit-ancestor-discovered.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36463668 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/08/481263190/fossils-suggest-that-islan
d-life-shrank-our-hobbit-relatives?sc=17&f=3 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hobbit-flores-ancestor-1.3622484 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/09/bones-long-search-earliest-inhabitants
-hobbits-flores http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/06/08/return-to-flores-hobbit-homini
n-ancestor-discovered/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/08/ancient-teeth-
and-bone-point-to-the-origin-of-our-mysterious-hobbit-cousins/ http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-small-hominin-fossils-20160608-sn
ap-htmlstory.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0608/Who-were-those-mysterious-hobbits-700-0
00-year-old-fossils-hold-clues-video https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/31800211/discovery-provides-new-clues-on-hobbit/
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/australianled-team-unlocked-n
ew-questions-about-human-evolution-and-the-history-of-thehobbit/news-story/805f0b17eb
49171294efd54ed2233e2e http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/hobbits-humans-older-ancestors-island-foss
ils-archaeology/ http://www.nature.com/news/hobbit-relatives-found-after-ten-year-hunt-1.20045?WT.ec_id
=NATURE-20160609&spMailingID=51562085&spUserID=MjA1NzQ4NDU4NwS2&spJobID =941139164&spReportId=OTQxMTM5MTY0S0

… and a couple of items focus on rejecting the ‘Down Syndrome’ theory that was poking
around a while back:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-counters-hobbit-syndrome.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608154037.htm

Feature on the Dmanisi site:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/06/10/visiting-dmanisi-earliest-hom
inin-site-beyond-africa/

General feature on human ancestry:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-humanity-roots.html

Grassland was an important aspect of human development (this seems similar to the
previous item):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/teia-nsf060216.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/grasslands-a-key-element-in
-human-evolution

Feature on ‘Lucy’s neighbours’:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-lucy-neighbors-african-fossils.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606154911.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/cmon-lhn060616.php http://scienmag.com/lucy-had-neighbors-a-review-of-african-fossils/

The ‘genetic burden’ of Neanderthals:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-inbred-neanderthals-left-humans-genetic.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/gsoa-inl060316.php

More on evidence of fire use in Europe some 800 000 years bp:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3627269/Spanish-cave-offers-earliest-evid
ence-fire-making-Europe-Charred-bone-rock-date-800-000-years-ago.html

More on the use of tech to map the ‘Dinaledi chamber’:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/space-age-exploration-for-pr
e-historic-bones


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AFRICA
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Plenty (more) attention for that shipwreck find in Namibia:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/miners-find-500-year-old-shipwreck-filled
-with-gold-coins-in-namibian-desert-a7072221.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0611/Shipwreck-miners-hit-gold-and-something-
more-exciting http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/details-emerge-about-discovery-of-long-lost-shi
pwreck-loaded-with-16-5-million-in-gold-coins http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/06/10/500-year-old-shipwreck-loaded-with-gold-
worth-13-million-discovered-in-namibia http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/23525/20160609/miners-discover-500-year-old-
shipwreck-full-gold-namibian-desert.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3630429/Diamond-miners-500-year-old-shipwrec
k-loaded-9m-gold.html


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
The tombs of Nefertari and Seti I are reopening to the public:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/222595/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Tombs-of-
Nefertari-and-Seti-I-in-Egypts-Luxor-to-r.aspx

Some ICOM best practice awards for Egyptian projects:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/219311/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Khufu-boat
,-MIA,-Wadi-Hittan-museum-win-ICOM-Best-.aspx

More on Tut’s meteoric iron dagger:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0601/King-Tut-s-dagger-may-have-come-from-oute
r-space-say-scientists http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/world/middleeast/king-tuts-dagger-made-of-iron-from-
the-sky-researchers-say.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience

Plenty of press coverage for a ‘massive monument’ at Petra using ‘space archaeology’
(although the thing appears to have been previously known?):

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-archaeologist-hidden-monument-jordan-petra.html http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/06/sarah_parcak_uabs_space_arch
ae.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologist-points-to-hidden-monument-in-jordans-petra/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.724417 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36498234 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/09/petra-buried-monument-discovered-jorda
n http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/10/hiding-in-plain-sight-massive-monument-dis
covered-at-petra-by-mo/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/researchers-find-hidden-site-in-the-ancient-jordani
an-city-of-petra/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/10/481532275/massive-structure-found-
hiding-in-plain-sight-at-ancient-site-of-petra http://www.npr.org/2016/06/10/481590386/drones-lead-archaeologists-to-new-discovery-i
n-petra-jordan http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/06/11/Archaeologist-points-to-hidd
en-monument-in-Jordan-s-Petra.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0610/New-technology-reveals-enormous-hidden-
monument-in-Petra-Jordan http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/archaeologist-points-hidden-monument-jord
ans-petra-39777109 http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/09/travel/petra-jordan-massive-new-monument-discovery/
index.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3634008/Can-spot-massive-ceremonial-pla
tform-twice-wide-Olympic-swimming-pool-Incredible-structure-hidden-plain-sight-Petra.ht
ml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/archaeologists-use-satellites-to-discover-enor
mous-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight-at-ancient-city-of-petra http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/space-archaeology-satellite-petra-ancient-ci
ty-discovery-jordan-monument/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-found-gigantic-ancient-monu
ment-jordan-180959368/

An interesting little hoard of Hasmonean era coins from Modi’in is also getting a lot of
attention:

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Rare-cache-of-Hasmonean-Period-c
oins-discovered-in-Modiin-7-June-2016.aspx http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4202 http://www.livescience.com/55009-rare-silver-coins-photos.html http://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-discover-rare-2000-year-old-silver-coins-in-central-i
srael/a-19312610 http://www.timesofisrael.com/cache-of-hasmonean-era-silver-coins-uncovered-in-modiin/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213378 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rare-2000-year-old-silver-coins-discovered-in-central-I
srael-456158
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34213 http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/69386/2100-year-old-coins-bearing-names-maccabe
an-kings-unearthed-israel/ http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/rare-cache-of-silver-coins-dating-to-has
monean-period-discovered-in-modiin/2016/06/07/ http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.723643 http://theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/427963/photos-a-rare-cache
-of-silver-coins-dating-to-the-hasmonean-period-was-discovered-in-modiin.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2000-year-old-coin-collection-unearthed-in-israel/ http://artdaily.com/news/87953/A-rare-cache-of-silver-coins-dating-to-the-Hasmonean-Peri
od-was-discovered-in-Modi-in

On Griffins at Catal Huyuk:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/06/09/griffon-vultures-defleshed-corps
es-to-create-headless-burials-in-ancient-anatolia/#4e65c59c2705

Interesting feature on the Al Aqsa mosque with photos from 1927:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213261#.V1XIPpB4WK0

A driver for the Norwegian embassy was caught trying to smuggle antiquities from the
West Bank:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/norwegian-embassy-driver-busted-with-10-kilos-of-antiquiti
es/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Driver-for-Norwegian-Embassy-caught-smuggling-antiq
uities-456079 http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/69242/customs-authorities-stop-apparent-attempt-sm
uggle-antiquities-country/ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213323 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4813040,00.html

… and Norway is looking into it:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/norway-launches-probe-after-driver-busted-smuggling-artif
acts-from-jordan/

Honours for Rina Talgam:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/thuo-eom060816.php

Latest in the Hagia Sophia saga:

http://www.pappaspost.com/turkey-responds-to-greek-protests-over-hagia-sophia-prayers
/ http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2016/06/06/turkish-govt-allows-koran-recitations-in-ha
gia-sophia-and-shocks-orthodox-christians/

… and the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213127


More on the ongoing renovations/restorations at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36464410 http://news.nationalpost.com/news/religion/christians-renovate-jesuss-tomb-together-ove
rcoming-centuries-old-religious-rivalries http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/06/07/religious-rivalries-put-to-one-side-as-wo
rk-begins-to-renovate-christs-tomb/

More on the Cave of Skulls dig:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/222595/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Tombs-of-
Nefertari-and-Seti-I-in-Egypts-Luxor-to-r.aspx https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-archaeologists-rush-to-dig-at-
cave-of-skulls-before-looters-take-everything/2016/06/08/7f0e0e6a-281c-11e6-8329-6104
954928d2_story.html http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2016/06/06/archaeologists-vs-robbers-in-israels-race-
to-find-ancient-scrolls-the-wider-image/

More on what’s being dubbed the ‘glass road’ trade route between Mesopotamia and
Scandinavia:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/tracking-the-glass-road

ISIL appears to have blown up the Temple of Nabu in northern Iraq:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-archaeology-idUSKCN0YV16O?feed
Type=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Punic burials from Malta:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160608/local/more-ancient-tombs-found-dur
ing-bahrija-road-works.614735

Some tourists found a Roman child burial in an Italian cave:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160608/tourists-find-skeleton-of-roman-child-inside-italian-cave

That guy who found a Roman Villa in his garden has written an interesting piece:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/news/the-day-i-stumbled-on-a-roman-villa-in-my-back
-garden/

Another spin on that ‘wing’ found in Gloucester:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art556252-cotswold-glouce
ster-roman-wing-statuette-victory

They’ve found some more info on the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antikythera-mechanism-1.3628648 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-archaeology-antikythera-mechan-idUSKCN0YW
0XQ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mapping-eclipses-worlds-first-computer-104147768.html
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160610/NEWS02/160619917/Ancient-Greek--astronom
y-computer-deciphered- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-may-have-discovered-worlds-oldest-mechanica
l-computer/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=25395916 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/worlds-first-computer-may-have-been-
used-tell-fortunes-180959335/

It was the 200th anniversary of the British Government’s acquisition of the Elgin
Marbles:

http://www.livescience.com/54990-who-owns-parthenon-elgin-marbles.html https://theconversation.com/britain-has-kept-the-elgin-marbles-for-200-years-now-its-time
-to-pass-them-on-55912

Latest on the dig from the Roman fort at Tibiscum in Romania:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,409962,more-information-on-the-facilities-of-
the-roman-fort-tibiscum-in-romania.html

The Palace of Nestor is opening to the public:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/16532-palace-of-nestor-in-pylos-pelopon
nese-reopens-after-3-years-of-restoration.html

They’re redoing the Nemean games again:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/11/ancient-nemean-games-revived-for-three-day
s-video/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ahead-of-rio-runners-re-enact-ancient-gam
es/2016/06/11/27b5fb78-2fc9-11e6-b9d5-3c3063f8332c_story.html http://www.ekathimerini.com/209524/article/ekathimerini/sports/athletes-from-around-the-
world-re-enact-ancient-games-in-nemea

Plans to rebury remains from three cremation urns found at Leintwardine:

http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/14540935.Remains_of_Roman_cremation_urns_to_ be_re_buried_in_Leintwardine_next_week/

For some reason, Ha’aretz was publishing some old finds as if they were new … first, an
oracle of Apollo well site in Athens:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.723632

… and naval bases in the Piraeus:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.723784

Plenty of Classcon in Montesquieu’s thinking:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-montesquieu-a-historian-blended-with-a-political-philosoph
er-1465578784

Pondering how the Romans would have solved London’s housing crisis:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/efb7f574-2d83-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc.html

In case you haven’t heard about plans to eliminate ancient Greek in Greek schools:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/07/education-minister-on-a-mission-to-abolish-a
ncient-greek-lessons-in-greek-high-schools/ http://www.ekathimerini.com/209366/article/ekathimerini/news/ministers-bid-to-scrap-anc
ient-greek-in-schools-fuels-debate

An (ongoing?) Paphos antiquities bust:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/06/09/third-suspect-arrested-paphos-antiquities-case/
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/06/07/remands-illegal-antiquities-seized/ http://in-cyprus.com/antiquities/

More on the purported find of Rhapta (not sure about this one):

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/africas-atlantis-lost-roman-city-rhapta-discovered-off-tanzanias-
mafia-island-believes-1564843

Review of Heaney’s Aeneid VI:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/books/review/aeneid-book-vi-by-seamus-heaney.htm
l

More on those wooden tablets from London:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-02/britains-oldest-hand-dated-document-found-in-ro
man-trove/7469254 http://www.timesofisrael.com/2000-year-old-roman-documents-found-in-london-mud/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3620788/The-City-s-IOU-2-000-year-old-lett
ers-reveal-daily-life-trade-debts-Roman-London.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_c
ampaign=1490

More on those ‘non-ruins’ off Zakynthos:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lost-underwater-city-revealed-as-natural-geological-format
ion/ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/science/ancient-civilization-of-microbes-not-greeks-b
uilt-lost-city.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience

More on the ‘Roman lifestyle’ near the Antonine Wall:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art556223-porridge-pasta-w
orms-fleas-dumbartonshire-glasgow


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Evidence of a 6000 years bp massacre in France:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/french-archaeologists-unearth-bones-6000
-year-old-neolithic-massacre http://artdaily.com/news/87889/French-archaeologists-unearth-bones-from-6-000-year-old
-massacre http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3629557/Amazing-discovery-mutilated-rem
ains-ten-people-6-000-year-old-Neolithic-massacre-grave-reveals-violent-past.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/08/ancient-french-warrio
rs-took-limbs-as-trophies-in-6000-year-old-massacre-researcher-believes/

5000 years bp livestock pens from Spain:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-livestock-pens-approximately-years-spain.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608112928.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uotb-lpa060816.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/researchers-study-prehistori
c-animal-enclosures-within-rock-shelters

Interesting defleshing practices in Neolithic burials on Orkney:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3633135/Grisly-Stone-Age-pits-Orkney-isla
nders-chopped-dead-relatives-mixing-mass-graves.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&n s_campaign=1490

Viking era (?) body in an abandoned well in Norway:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/body-in-well-confirms-viking-
saga

Not a heck of a lot found at a Viking fort site in Denmark:

http://sciencenordic.com/viking-fortress-denmark-stumps-archaeologists

Latest ‘bog butter’ find:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/turf-cutters-unearth-prehistoric
-lump-of-bog-butter-34786716.html

Searching for the Welsh burial ground whence Stonehenge stones came:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/archaeologists-dig-welsh-burial-ground-1
1438966 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/05/original-stonehenge-was-dismantled-in-w
ales-and-moved-to-wiltshi/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stonehenge-was-dismantled-in-wales-
and-moved-to-wiltshire-ucl-and-university-of-leicester-scientists-a7066456.html

Studying childhood diet in medieval Italy:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-link-diet-surviving-childhood-medieval.html

Searching for a lost Buchan monastery:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/938313/aden-dig/

Digging has resumed at Bradgate Park (‘Ice Age’ site):

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art556381-bradgate-park-lei
cester-ice-age-hunters

Concerns for the Heritage Status of Liverpool:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-common-ground-liverpool-palmyra-world.html

Suggestion that medieval armies didn’t use ‘fire arrows’:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3636014/Medieval-armies-DIDN-T-use-fire-
arrows-Researchers-claims-not-practical-open-battle.html

York Walls are being restored:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-36490734


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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Neolithic sites in the Gobi Desert:

http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/256377,Polish-archeologists-uncover-Stone-Age-settle
ments-in-Gobi-desert

Foundations of a Ming Dynasty palace in Beijing:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2016-06/12/c_135430417.htm http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-06/12/content_25678913.htm http://www.newser.com/story/226417/palace-marco-polo-called-greatest-ever-may-have-b
een-found.html

LiDAR reveals remains of medieval cities in Angkor:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-lasers-uncover-hidden-secrets-cambodia.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/archaeologists-cambodia-medieval-cities-
hidden-rainforest-angkor-wat-lidar-laser-a7076326.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/11/lost-city-medieval-discovered-hidden-be
neath-cambodian-jungle?subid=16450490&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/jun/11/new-technology-reveals-lost-cities-
in-the-angkor-region-video http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3636956/Secrets-lost-Cambodian-cities-revea
led-report.html http://artdaily.com/news/88028/Secrets-of-lost-Cambodian-cities-to-be-revealed--report
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/31818622/secrets-of-lost-cambodian-cities-to-be-re
vealed-report/

On what the guys who made the Terracotta Army were eating:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1969934/craftsmen-who-built-chinas-terr
acotta-army-ate-dogs-study

On the British role in an Indian famine:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524

Another case of vandalism to an Aboriginal petroglyph site:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vandals-destroyed-8000-year-old-aborigina
l-artworks-in-tasmania-180959328/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmed ia

More on that Siberian Ice Princess going on display:

http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0675-2500-year-old-tattooed-ice-princess-we
ars-fur-to-go-on-public-display-at-next-new-moon/

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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
================================================================
Working out when the ‘ice free corridor’ was open with evidence of bison remains:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ice-age-bison-fossils-early.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uoc--iab060116.php http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bison-fossils-people-1.3619065 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/06/bison-migration-ancient-america-archaeo
logy http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/ice-age-bison-fossils-shed-li
ght-on-early-human-migrations
http://gu.com/p/4k9dq?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/06/bison-migration-ancient-america-archaeol
ogy http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/humans-didn-t-wait-melting-ice-settle-americas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/07/how-did-the-fi
rst-people-migrate-to-the-americas-bison-fossils-could-help-settle-the-debate/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0608/What-can-bison-fossils-teach-us-about-the-
original-American-migrants

Evidence of Old World trade of metals with ‘Alaskans’ prior to European contact:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-world-metals-alaska-coast-hundreds.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608095556.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/pu-owm060716.php

Latest from the Camp Security dig:

http://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2016/06/07/artifacts-found-hunt-revolutionary-war-pri
son-camp-security/85321898/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin= http://www.ydr.com/videos/news/2016/06/06/85527298/?from=global&sessionKey=&auto
login= http://www.yorkdispatch.com/picture-gallery/news/2016/06/08/photos-security-camp-dig/
85611282/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

Utah’s building a nice archaeological database:

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=40078893&nid=1296&title=utah-archaeological-database-has-ne
arly-120k-records-online http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865655985/Utah-archaeological-database-has-nearly
-120K-records-online.html?pg=all http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2016/06/05/state-archaeology-records-go-digital/
85450076/

… while Ontario is messing up their archaeological heritage handling:

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/06/10/ontarios-hidden-archaeological-
scandal.html

Plans for the Beaubassin Acadian Village site:

http://www.sackvilletribunepost.com/news/2016/6/9/parks-canada-to-put-park-at-beaubas
sin-acadian-village-site.html


That Iowa pipeline thing is turning into a saga:

http://www.kdlt.com/news/local-news/Iowa-Official-Says-Pipeline-Should-Avoid-Burial-Site
/39920068 http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/dakota-access-disputes-archaeologist-over-tribal-land
/article_34672629-cdd5-5b4a-a0bf-e008052cd9e3.html

Interesting ‘hobo graffiti’:

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/11/481695146/anthropologist-discovers-100-year-old-graffiti-
by-americas-most-famous-hobo

Feature on the Brandeis court:

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/07/481076322/revisiting-the-tenure-of-supreme-court-justice-l
ouis-brandeis-the-jewish-jeffers?sc=17&f=1008

Plans to remove Confederate Flags from the Washington National Cathedral stained
glass:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/09/481360313/national-cathedral-will-re
move-confederate-flag-stained-glass-windows?sc=17&f=1001

Feature on Audrey Munson:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/08/opinions/audrey-munson-monument-model-opinion-jame
s-bone/index.html


================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Feature on Hiram Bingham:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-hiram-bingham-remembered-60-years-since-passing-
109688

More on those petroglyphs from Montserrat:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/03/montserrat-petroglyphs-ancient-stone-car
vings-hikers


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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 ================================================================
A Sistine Chapel replication in Mexico:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2016/06/viva-cristo-rey-sistine-chapel-replicated-in-mexico-over-th
e-tomb-of-plutarco-elias-calles/

Assorted lost ‘underwater worlds’:

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/stories/7-lost-underwater-worlds

Assorted meteoric iron artifacts:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/from-king-tut-to-kitchen-knives-meteorite-made-relics-span
-centuries/

The Shlomo Moussaieff glass collection is coming to auction … here’s the catalog:

http://www.christies.com/zmags/?ZmagsPublishID=4cd752a3&SaleTitle=&SaleId=0&GUI D=&JumptoLot

The adventures of that Noah’s Ark recreation:

http://gu.com/p/4kqc2?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A call for the burial of the Elephant Man’s remains:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/09/elephant-man-skeleton-should-be-give
n-christian-burial-say-campaigners

A database of human reproductive habits or something like that:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-centuries-old-database-reveals-clues-human.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608154505.htm

Latest identification of the strain of plague:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608142540.htm

Mapping 6000 years of human settlements:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160607093505.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/ysof-yrm060316.php

Searching/finding property belonging to Holocaust victims:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-items-belonging-to-auschwitz-victims-newly-u
ncovered http://www.newser.com/story/226338/16k-items-that-vanished-from-auschwitz-are-found.
html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3631444/Lost-possessions-Holocaust-victims-tak
en-sent-gas-chamber-Forgotten-items-snatched-Jews-Nazis-discovered-Poland.html?ITO
=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Some humour:

http://assets.amuniversal.com/95290c700a91013463a7005056a9545d

Feature on restoring Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’:

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/features/magazine-36466835/36466835

… and one on restoring Piombro’s ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’:

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-06-08/decade-long-restoration-of-masterpiece-is-co
mplete/

On cross dressing in Victorian England:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160608-the-cross-dressing-gents-of-victorian-england

Feature on how humans have affected the planet over the millennia:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606154851.htm

On the history of antiquities collectors:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/marble-mad-and-very-extravagant/
485666/

Xrays reveal hidden text in bookbindings:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/04/x-rays-reveal-medieval-manuscripts
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/12/are-your-books-secretly-worth-millions.
html

On the decline of humanities jobs:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/06/new-study-documents-long-term-losse
s-new-humanities-faculty-jobs https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/06/06/responding-state-humanities-today-es
say

Australia’s English sparrows didn’t come from England:

http://theconversation.com/city-sparrows-came-to-australia-via-india-59730

A Shakespearean twitter war:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/09/two-scholars-engage-debate-twitter-an
d-elsewhere-over-king-lear

Feature on Rembrandt’s first masterpiece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/arts/design/rembrandts-first-masterpiece-a-portrait-o
f-a-biblical-betrayal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Interesting ‘love letters’ coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/arts/design/letters-from-a-secret-courtship-in-19th-ce
ntury-brooklyn-evoke-a-jane-austen-plot.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fde
sign&_r=0

Feature on ‘death photography’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36389581

More on dog domestication:

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/06/10/481501974/did-man-make-his-best-friend-twi
ce http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/science/dogs-domestication-dna-study.html?rref=col
lection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience

Review of a bunch of books about Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/books/review/shakespeare-in-full.html?rref=collectio
n%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Sunken Cities:

http://theartnewspaper.com/comment/reviews/exhibitions/the-greeks-in-egypt-on-sunken-
cities-at-the-british-museum/

Odysseys:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/16566-greek-national-archaeological-mu
seum-150th-anniversary-exhibition-odysseys-to-open-in-october.html

Black Shackle:

http://news.brown.edu/articles/2016/06/black-shackle


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