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explorator 19.13 July 24, 2016 ===============================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Towse Harrison, Don
Buck, David Critchley, Trevor Watkins, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,and Ross
W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... one of the slowest weeks ever ... ================================================================
EARLY HOMINIDS
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Another piece on what you can blame Neanderthal DNA for:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/07/13/blame-your-subpar-fitness-on-that-n
eanderthal-dna/

Documenting Neanderthal populations in Germany:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160721105511.htm


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AFRICA
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Digging to find why historical droughts did not lead to famine in Ghana:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/20/486670144/an-archaeological-mystery-in-
ghana-why-didn-t-past-droughts-spell-famine

Concerns for rock art across Africa:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/africa/rock-art-activism-david-coulson/index.html

More on the possible identification of the lost city of Rhapta:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2016/07/20/The-Big-Read-Is-this-the-lost-city-of-Rhap
ta

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Another piece on Egypt relying on antiquities to solve its economic woes:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-07/23/c_135535042.htm

More on that pyramid workers papyrus going on display:

http://www.livescience.com/55439-ancient-logbook-on-great-pyramid-unveiled.html

More on the ‘traps’ in the Great Pyramid:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3697208/Forget-boobytraps-Ancient-Egypti
an-builders-used-granite-blocks-create-primitive-machine-defend-tomb.html?ITO=1490&n
s_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Parthian burials in Amlash:

http://en.mehrnews.com/news/118172/Archaeologists-discover-graves-belonging-to-Part
hian-era-in-Amlash

Feature on the dig at Lagash:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/07/lagash-sumerian-iraq-babylon.html

Fortifications found suggest Geshur was more powerful than previously thought:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.732284

Assorted ‘after coverage’ of that Philistine necropolis found in Ashkelon:

http://www.alabamanews.net/2016/07/22/troy-archaeological-students-uncover-ancient-p
ast-overseas/ http://www.wandtv.com/story/32506582/troy-archaeological-students-uncover-ancient-pa
st-overseas
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160722/news/307229935/

More on dendrochronological adjustments to the Mesopotamian timeline:

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/PjTh8fE7gK8/
160719161657.htm

Folks might be following that long legal case regarding compensatory claims being
made on Persepolis Fortification Tablets at the OI:

http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/Articles/2016/07/20/Museum-Persian-artifacts-7-20-16
.aspx http://persepolistablets.blogspot.ca/2016/07/the-us-7th-circuit-court-of-appeals.html

I think we mentioned this piece on the early history of cannabis in the Bronze Age:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2096440-founders-of-western-civilisation-were-prehi
storic-dope-dealers/

Some of the damage at Palmyra will require almost a ‘new rebuild’:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-materials-needed--to-rebuild-palmyra-monuments-
.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101958&NewsCatID=375

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Archaic finds from Despotiko:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/07/22/archaeologists-at-despotikos-apollo-sanctuar
y-uncover-mysteries-of-archaic-era-greece/

A Roman silver coin hoard from Empuries:

http://www.catalannewsagency.com/culture/item/200-silver-denarius-discovered-in-empu
ries-largest-treasure-found-so-far-in-the-roman-site

The European Court of Human Rights at the Hague threw out the legal case seeking the
repatriation of the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/elgin-marbles-return-greece-legal-bid-t
hrown-out-eu-court-human-rights-a7145216.html http://www.miragenews.com/elgin-marbles-wont-be-returned-to-greece-as-euro-court-thro
ws-out-first-ever-legal-bid/

… and now there’s some strategy connected to Brexit which I don’t quite understand:

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/07/18/actualidad/1468855660_159195.html


Sponsors have reacted negatively to the discovery of a Greek brothel during a dig in
Side:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid=101916 http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2016/07/22/Sponsors-pull-out-after-Turkish-dig-tea
m-finds-ancient-Greek-brothel.html

Restoration of a Roman bath house at Segedunum is almost complete:

http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/news/local/work-nearing-end-on-restoring-historic-roman-
bath-house-1-8026698

Hype for ‘The Greeks’ exhibition … now in Washington:

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/22/486598958/to-rebrand-itself-greece-digs-deep-into-its-cultu
ral-dna

They’re planning an underwater museum for that Iznik basilica found a few years ago:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/underwater-basilica-in-iznik-to-shed-light-on-roman-era
.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101921&NewsCatID=375

What other disciplines can learn from Classics professors:

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Classics-Professors-Can/237129/

Mary Beard on the sex lives of the ancient Romans:

http://bigthink.com/videos/mary-beard-on-sexual-practices-of-ancient-romans

What Briney Kyle is up to:

http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/23029628-113/unc-researcher-has-spent-nearly-a-d
ecade-studying

Honours for Simon Keay:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/heritage/archives/14628444.Honour_for_expert_on_Roman_
ports/

Another feature on Roman toilets:

http://wnpr.org/post/ancient-toilets-sewer-systems-provide-treasure-trove-researchers

Feature on the Delphic Oracle:

http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-secrets-of-the-delphic-oracle-and-how-it-speaks-t
o-us-today-61738

Feature on Classics at Stanford:

http://125.stanford.edu/the-case-for-classics/

Another feature on the Antikythera mechanism:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-world-oldest-ancient-greeks-view.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3699630/Does-Antikythera-mechanism-hid
den-purpose-Experts-say-world-s-oldest-computer-not-just-navigational-aid-all.html

Italy is seeking help from China now to fund restoration of monuments:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/21/cash-strapped-italy-looks-to-china-to-fund-th
e-restoration-of-it/

Once again the ‘fake gladiators’ around the Colosseum have been kicked out:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160720/romes-new-mayor-banishes-photo-gladiators http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/20/romes-fake-centurions-and-legionaries-accu
sed-of-touching-up-you/

A commemorative webpage for Elaine Fantham:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/commemorative-website-founded-elaine-fantham

More on those shipwrecks found off Fourni:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-shipwrecks-greece.html

More on that late Roman bronze belt find from Leicester:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-roman-soldier-ornate-belt-discovered-uk-grave-154
603629.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-roman-grave-artifacts-unearthed-in-england/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3696585/Crouching-dogs-diving-dolphins-
Remarkable-belt-Roman-soldier-discovered-Leicester-grave.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchann
el=rss&ns_campaign=1490


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A 40 000 years bp rope making toll from Hohle Fels Cave:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-rope-years.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160722093459.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/40000-year-old-mammoth-iv
ory-rope-making-tool-from-hohle-fels-cave

Interesting 11 000 years bp finds from Cyprus’ oldest village:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-uncover-cyprus-year-old-village.html

5000 years bp finds from Chlorakas-Palloures:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/07/19/new-finds-chlorakas-palloures/

An arm bone from the Ness of Brodgar dig:

http://www.thenational.scot/news/archaeologists-find-arm-bone-on-dig.20287 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-36854431

Neolithic finds from Seevic College:

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/14626880.College_students__39__archaeological_dig
_proves_there_was_life_on_campus_5_000_years_ago_/ http://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/news/south_essex_news/14626880.College_students_
_39__archaeological_dig_proves_there_was_life_on_campus_5_000_years_ago_/

Bronze Age flanged axe hoard from Cwmbran:

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/NEWS/14634994._Priceless__Bronze_Age_treasure_ found_in_Cwmbran/

Bronze Age finds from Gwent (might be the same as above?):

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/14634994.Treasured_Bronze_Age_artefacts_dis
covered_in_Gwent/

Bronze Age barrows and an Anglo Saxon cemetery from Leicestershire:

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/IzBc8RL_TIk/
160721072831.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/neolithic-to-anglo-saxon-acti
vity-at-site-in-leicestershire

Digging an Anglo Saxon (and Roman?) site at Long Melford:

http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/latest-news/pupils-dig-deep-for-anglo-saxon-artef
acts-1-7490319

A medieval ‘power couple’ burial from Denmark:

http://www.livescience.com/55490-mighty-ax-discovered-in-viking-tomb.html http://www.livescience.com/55487-photos-viking-tomb-in-denmark.html

Amateur ‘bounty hunters’ have found plenty in Denmark:

http://cphpost.dk/news/record-number-of-archaeological-treasures-found-in-denmark.html

Vikings didn’t treat their slaves well, apparently:

http://sciencenordic.com/vikings-abused-and-beheaded-their-slaves

A Scottish chapel apparently had a medieval ‘witch prison’:

http://www.livescience.com/55452-witch-prison-revealed-in-scottish-chapel.html http://www.livescience.com/55451-photos-scottish-church-imprisoned-witches.html

Students dig a medieval site in Stone:

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/more-news/stone-school-pupils-unearth-ancient-artef
acts-1-7488736

Digging Skallvik Castle:

http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2016/07/18/first-week-of-2016-excavations-at-
skallvik-castle/

Studying the effect of medieval water mills on the salmon population in western Europe:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-medieval-power-collapse-salmon-stocks.html http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/medieval-water-mills-caused
-salmon-decline-in-north-western-europe

(Re)finds from various periods at Chateulherault:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/historic-new-finds-chatelherault-reflect-846
4580

Interesting graffiti from Lincoln Cathedral:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-36857607 http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2016/07/ancient-burials-and-artefacts-unearthed-in-lincoln-cathe
dral-dig/ http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art559083-lincoln-cathedral
-medieval-graffiti-connected-restoration

Remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius (17th century) found:

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/72135/excavations-vilnius-uncover-remains-17th-ce
ntury-great-synagogue/ http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/world-news-roundup-archaeologists-find-great-syna
gogue-of-vilnius/

Digging a Victorian site in Haworth:

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/14632947.Domestic_secrets_of_Victorian_Haworth
_discovered_in_church_dig/

Pondering some reburials in Fraserburgh:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/fraserburgh/978097/skeletons/

The results of the Mary Rose makeover:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-36802829 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36830168

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jul/19/mary-rose-newly-decked-out-reopens-5
m-makeover
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/europe/mary-rose-tudor-ship/index.html

… and they’ve found the ship emblem:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/19/the-real-rose-mary-rose-ship-emblem-discov
ered-500-years-on/

The original Bramley apple tree is dying:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-36826038

Sites in Famagusta are going to get some attention:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/07/17/fixing-famagusta/

A very good overview piece on the Must Farm finds:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/architecture/britain-pompeii-bronze-age-discovery/
index.html http://www.livescience.com/55433-bronze-age-textiles-found-britain-pompeii.html

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A 2000 years bp mural from a Mongolian tomb:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-07/19/c_135524309.htm

Interesting study of feces from Silk Road latrines:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-ancient-feces-earliest-evidence-infectious.html http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/uErBEJOaSC
o/160721194021.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uoc-afp071916.php http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ancient-faeces-provides-earliest-evidence-of-infecti
ous-disease-being-carried-on-silk-road https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/22/ancient-bottom-wipers-yield-evidence-o
f-diseases-silk-road-chinese-liver-fluke http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/22/secrets-of-the-silk-road-emerge-from-ancient
-latrine-pit-in-chin/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3701610/Life-toilet-roll-Hygiene-wands-2-0
00-year-old-toilet-reveal-disease-spread-Silk-Road.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&n
s_campaign=1490

… and they’re looking for where the Maritime Silk road began:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-07/18/c_135522510.htm

Remains of a canal at a Yinxu oracle site:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-07/21/c_135530934.htm

Tantalizing underwater finds by a diving group near Hong Kong:

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1991821/hong-kongs-
sunken-treasure-ancient-anchor-and

A fragment of a long lost (and tallest) pagoda (maybe):

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607090039.html

Remains of a 9th century Jain temple:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/amateur-archaeologists-find-9th-centu
ry-jain-temple/article8867900.ece

“Pre-historic” tools from Mumbai:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/558741/pre-historic-tools-found-mumbai.html

A shortage of archaeologists in Peshawar:

http://dailytimes.com.pk/pakistan/24-Jul-16/archaeological-treasures-stay-hidden-in-khyb
er-pakhtunkhwa

An anchor and other items from Wellington Harbour:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/82419972/archaeologists-lift-old-anchor-and-n
otsoold-purse-from-wellington-harbour

Digging for evidence of colonial history in Western Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-22/unearthing-wa-history-greenough-archaeology/
7653922

Feature on the Koh Sdech shipwreck:

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/115802-115802/

Concerns for the Mogao Grottoes:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-07/23/content_26193405.htm

Recreating a Japanese migration (to Taiwan) theory:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36828655

A Canadian (!) shipwreck in Tasmania:

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/shipwreck-uncovered-in-tasmanian-storms
-revealed-to-be-160yo-canadian-vessel/news-story/c51808c8ce70aeb48129e545a46844 7d

I think we mentioned these SIberian dog burials last week:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-000-old-dog-graveyard-discovered-siberia-132020975.ht
ml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3699805/Ancient-dog-graveyard-discovere
d-2-000-years-ago-Siberians-used-hounds-hunting-sledding-feasted-them.html

Honours for Peter Bellwood:

http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/anu-archaeologist-inducted-british-academy

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16 000 years bp tools from Texas:

http://westerndigs.org/16000-year-old-tools-discovered-in-texas-among-the-oldest-yet-fou
nd-in-the-west/

An archaeology camp in upstate New York found some 6000 years bp items:

http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2016/07/upstate_ny_summer_camp_students_
dig_up_ancient_artifactup_to_6000_years_old.html http://www.whec.com/news/gradeschool-archaeologists-dig-up-ancient-dart-head-suny-ge
neseo/4207344/?cat=565 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3702671/New-York-summer-camp-students-dig-a
ncient-artifact.html

1000 years bp finds from Verdun:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/verdun-archeological-dig-1.3682114?cmp=rss
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/verdun-archaeological-dig-a-historically-rich-site-1.2990691

Interesting finds from a dig in Montevideo (Iowa):

http://www.wctrib.com/news/region/4078191-archaeological-dig-montevideo-proves-infor
mation-rich

Finds from various periods at a Coon Valley (WI) site:

http://www.wxow.com/story/32501223/2016/07/21/mvac-archaeologists-find-artifacts-at-n
oskedalen-heritage-farm

Remains of an old railway project in St Augustine:

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2016-07-21/story/old-logs-linked-st-augustine-rail

Digging at the Alamo has resumed:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-texas-alamo-idUKKCN1002S9 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-alamo-idUSKCN1002S9?feedType=RSS&feedNa me=lifestyleMolt
http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/177277970-story http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Digs-may-unearth-Alamo-s-multilayered-
history-8399418.php http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/archeologists-dig-into-history-in-the-heart-of-san-
antonio

Finds from various periods at a construction site in Fredericton:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/19th-century-artifacts-uncovered-at-downt
own-fredericton-construction-site-1.3691340?cmp=rss

The Inuit are claiming co ownership of the Franklin artifacts:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/franklin-hms-erebus-inuit-parks-canada-hms-terror-1.368
9503?cmp=rss

Toronto is running out of places to store artifacts:

http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2016/07/20/toronto-archaeological-treasures-lang
uish-in-basements-.html

Latest from the Miami Circle:

http://www.miamitodaynews.com/2016/07/19/display-miami-circle-properly-fund-long-ter
m-operations/

That site where possible remains of the Lost Colony were found might be saved from
development:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/what-happened-to-the-lost-colony-u-s-developer
-wants-millions-to-save-land-that-might-hold-clues http://www.northaugustastar.com/20160723/160729812/site-with-clues-to-fate-of-fabled-lo
st-colony-may-be-saved&source=RSS http://www.richmond.com/news/latest-news-ap/article_5fee8a42-49d3-5a3a-a69e-e6abe0
113075.html

Feature on the Glenwood culture:

http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/verdun-archaeological-dig-a-historically-rich-site-1.2990691

On Cassius Clay’s namesake:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/ cassius-clay-muhammad-ali


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Plenty of coverage of Spanish/Taino graffiti in a cave on Mona Island:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-cave-discoveries-native-european-religious.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160719091631.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uol-cds071816.php http://www.livescience.com/55467-pre-columbian-cave-art-discovered.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/19/evidence-religious-dialogue-europeans
-native-americans-caribbean-cave-mona https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/21/more-nuanced-than-
mere-oppression-colonist-and-native-puerto-rican-cave-art-shows-respect-archeologists-
say/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/smart-news/cave-graffiti-shows-natives-and-e
uropeans-had-early-dialogue-caribbean-180959857/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/cave-art-caribbean-mona-island-first-contact
-archaeology/

Studying slave shipwrecks off St Croix:

http://stcroixsource.com/content/news/local-news/2016/07/21/slave-wrecks-project-unear
ths-more-5000-artifacts

Followup to the find of Moche princess/priestess burials back in 2013:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-excavated-tombs-peru-moche-priestesses.html http://scienceblog.com/486192/where-women-once-ruled/

The media village for the Olympics is built on a mass slave grave site:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/media-village-rio-olympics-built-mass-grav
e-slaves-180959873/

What Maya bones reveal about daily life:

http://www.wctrib.com/news/region/4078191-archaeological-dig-montevideo-proves-infor
mation-rich


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A Viking ship recreation is having regulatory issues in the Great Lakes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/viking-ship-draken-harald-harfagre-great-lakes.ht
ml

A sound-based method of ‘recovering’ proto Indo European language:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-mother-tongue.html

An ‘irrelevant note’ in a DaVinci notebook apparently isn’t irrelevant:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-reveals-leonardo-da-vinci-irrelevant.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/19/irrelevant-note-in-leonardo-da-vinci-sketchb
ook-holds-key-to-the/

While some scribblings in medieval manuscripts were probably made by children:

http://www.livescience.com/55489-doodles-found-in-medieval-manuscript.html

What hunter-gatherers tell us about social networks:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/cp-whc071316.php

A shipwreck hunter feature:

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/21/best-job-ever-shipwreck-hunter-unearth
s-lost-history-and-treasures/

A handy guide to dating old maps:

http://xkcd.com/1688/

Pondering Rembrandt’s self portraits:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-rembrandt-have-help-180959809/

Assorted ‘lost’ mysteries:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/amelia-earhart-famous-lost-city-shipwreck-p
lane-nefertiti/

On Louis XVI’s flight from Paris:

http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/louis-xvis-flight-paris

Feature on ‘bezoars’:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3702274/The-human-pearls-Balls-ingested
-food-worn-charms-Persian-doctors-Kings-Queens-revealed.html

Concerns for Carrara marble:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36865396

The history of ‘food porn’:

http://www.livescience.com/55522-food-porn-is-actually-centuries-old.html

Some Bronte material is returning home:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-36844945

On the history of war and food:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/19/485827670/quiz-how-much-do-you-know-a
bout-war-and-food

Folks will probably be interested in this bookstore:

http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Snack-Bites/100-Year-Old-Theater-Converted-Into-St
unning-Bookstore-460622

On collecting antiquities:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/amazon-exhibition_the-changing-attitude-to-collecting-artefa
cts-/42306856?&ns_mchannel=rss&srg_evsource=rss

On assorted ‘forgotten’ cultures:

http://www.livescience.com/55430-bizarre-ancient-cultures.html

More on the sites which have just received heritage status:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-are-unescos-new-world-heritage-sites
-180959822/

More on van Gogh’s ear:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36848666


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Age of Velazquez:

http://www.dw.com/en/the-age-of-vel%C3%A1zquez/a-19407426

Dresden Antiquities collection:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=88870

Garden Palace:

http://theconversation.com/lighting-spotfires-under-a-palace-of-colonial-power-62620

Treasures of Versailles:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=88829


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Studying teeth for evidence of ancient vitamin deficiencies (etc.):

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/teeth-vitamin-d-deficiency-archaeology.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-hundreds-years-teeth-story-people.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/mu-hoy071116.php http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1381604-teeth-from-as-far-back-as-1200s-show-signs
-of-vitamin-d-deficiency-mcmaster

Restoring Buddhist cave sites with 3d scanning:

https://3dprint.com/142812/tianlongshan-buddhist-caves/

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
This week, it’s the domesticated barley genome that is getting attention:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-genome-year-old-barley-grains-sequenced.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/bu-go6071816.php http://www.timesofisrael.com/6-millennia-old-but-almost-fresh-masada-seeds-unravel-bar
leys-origins/ http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Health-and-Science/Israelis-part-of-gene-s
equencers-of-6000-year-old-barley-grains-460774 http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.731807 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36805233 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-6000-years-farming-barley-still-more-o
r-less-same-180959838/?no-ist http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/07/20/in-a-first-6000-year-old-fresh-barley-geno
me-sequenced/

Studying the DNA of late Iron Age horses from Switzerland:

http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2016/07/19/bone-detective-work-late-iron-age-horses-in-switze
rland/

Identifying Albert I’s blood … messing with conspiracy theories about his death:

http://www.livescience.com/55512-king-albert-bloody-leaves-are-authentic.html http://scienmag.com/blood-of-king-albert-i-identified-after-80-years/

More on the origins of early farmers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36788165 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0717/What-did-the-first-farmers-look-like

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
More on climate not affecting human technological response:

http://scienmag.com/technological-and-cultural-innovations-amongst-early-humans-not-s
parked-by-climate-change/

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Olympus:

http://www.tntmagazine.com/travel/big-trip/olympus-more-than-just-a-mountain


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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/07/culture-crime-news-11-17-july-2016.ht
ml


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 ================================================================
The US returned some Maya artifacts to Guatemala:

http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/07/23/fbi-returns-ancient-mayan-artifacts-to-g?videoId
=369364623&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=LatestVideosUS&videoChannel=1 http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/FBI-Returns-Ancient-Mayan-Artifacts-to-Guate
mala--387993552.html

Another case in Australia in the making:

http://www.indialivetoday.com/antiquity-trafficker-sells-1800-year-old-buddha-statue-to-na
tional-gallery-of-australia-awaits-return-to-india/14602.html http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/ngas-stolen-buddha-slowly-homing-in-on-re
turn-to-india/news-story/a6289912e44664c5ce1ce7deb3b4a305

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some Jewish War coins came to auction:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/215092

… results:

https://winners-auctions.com/en/content/silver-shekel-fourth-year-jewish-war-against-rom
e https://winners-auctions.com/en/content/silver-shekel-second-year-jewish-war-against-ro
me-1

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n29.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n30.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 ================================================================
Backgrounder for the Wagner festival:

http://www.dw.com/en/11-things-to-know-about-wagner-and-bayeuth/a-19420956

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

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2447-audio-new
s-from-archaeologica-10-july-2016-16-july-2016

The July edition of Strata: Portraits of Humanity:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity/ 2444-strata-july-2016 ================================================================
OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Christine Mahany:

http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/local/well-known-stamford-archaeologist-dies-1-
7491074

Jack Rogers:

http://www.drjackrogers.com/

John Lidstrom:

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/renowned-gj-archaeologist-dies-at-age-67


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CONFERENCES
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6th Rye Medieval Academic Conference (October 22):

https://sussexpast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rye-conf-poster.pdf

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