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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, David Critchley, Don Buck, Trevor Watkins, Alan Brockway, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Pettigrew, 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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Evidence of a tumour on the toe of a homo ergaster (maybe) fossil from South Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-cancer-paleo-diet-million-years.html http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36912529 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/oldest-cancer-ever-found-discovered-in-sout
h-africa-potentially-challenging-ideas-about-disease-a7162946.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/27/worlds-oldest-example-of-cancer-found-in-
17-million-year-old-fos/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/28/487775814/ancient-bone-shows-evid
ence-of-cancer-in-human-ancestor http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/health/oldest-human-cancer-found/index.html

The demise of the Neanderthals came hot on the heels of a population peak, apparently:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-sudden-extinction-neanderthals-population-peak.html

… while their brains apparently grew just like ours do:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/neandertal-baby-brains-may-have-grown-ours
?rss=1

That said, they don’t appear to have been able to adapt to the cold very well:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/29/how-parka-jackets-saved-early-humans-fr
om-the-chilly-fate-of-the/

OpEddish sort of thing criticizing media coverage of evolution matters:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-future-human-science-case-media.html

Checking out the Australasian genome suggests there’s a ‘missing ancestor’ in there
somewhere:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2098566-mystery-ancient-human-ancestor-found-in-
australasian-family-tree/

An orangutan which can mimic human speech is being studied:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-36895395 http://phys.org/news/2016-07-voice-orangutan-clues-early-human.html

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AFRICA
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Feature on Cape Verde’s role in the slave trade:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/travel/cape-verde-slave-archeology/index.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Figuring out what some defensive structures on the Middle Nile were used for:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,410546,poles-have-solved-the-riddle-of-defe
nsive-structures-of-the-middle-nile.html

More coverage of Egypt’s putting that Khufu papyrus on display:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3692283/The-diary-pyramid-builder-Oldest-
papyrus-existence-details-workers-shifted-stones-sheep-ate-reveal-secrets-inside-Great-
Pyramid-Giza.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Egypt is putting together a ‘replica tour’:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/236272/Heritage/Museums/AlAhram-and-a
ntiquities-ministry-to-organise-first.aspx

… and they’ve put together a map of sites:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/236187/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/A-map-of-E
gypts-archaeological-sites-to-be-launche.aspx

Overview of Egyptian history:

http://www.livescience.com/55578-egyptian-civilization.html

8000 years bp cave painting from Balikesir:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/8000-year-old-cave-paintings-found-in-turkeys-balikesi
r.aspx?pageID=238&nID=102139&NewsCatID=375

Excavating Pteria (Iron Age):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/lost-city-of-pteria-finally-unearthed-in-turkeys-yozgat.a
spx?pageID=238&nID=102105&NewsCatID=375 http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/07/27/excavation-reveals-ancient-city-in-yozgat

Remains of a Canaanite fort from the Galilee:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=35229 http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/07/26/israeli-teens-unearth-remains-of-3700-year-old-ca
naanite-fortress/

A 2200 years bp ‘dinner set’ from Manisa:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-dinner-set-found-in-turkeys-manisa.aspx?page
ID=517&nID=102272&NewsCatID=375

Remains of an Egyptian statue from Tel Hazor:

http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/31994 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160725090228.htm http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Historic-archeological-discovery-of-Egyptian-statue-un
earthed-in-Tel-Hazor-462312 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/statue-of-egyptian-official-found-at-tel-h
azor/2016/07/25/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/365641 http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/72590/3900-year-old-egyptian-statue-discovered-nort
hern-israel/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.733282 http://artdaily.com/news/89000/Hebrew-University-of-Jerusalem-announces-historic-find-
at-Tel-Hazor--A-statue-of-an-Egyptian-official

Lots of press coverage for Israel putting a mummy on display after undergoing an
examination:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-israel-ancient-mummy-modern-day-afflictions.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-only-mummy-gets-afterlife-spotlight-at-israel-museu
m/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/26/487505112/mummified-egyptian-was-
just-as-sedentary-and-carb-hungry-as-modern-men?sc=17&f=1001

A 1600 years bp rock hewn pottery kiln from Western Galilee:

http://www.livescience.com/55559-roman-pottery-kiln-discovered-israel.html http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Unique-1600-year-old-kiln-pottery-manufacturing-shop-
discovered-in-Western-Galilee-462541 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/high-school-students-help-discover-a-u
nique-1600-year-old-pottery-workshop-in-the-galilee/2016/07/27/ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/215624 http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=35291 http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/72882/unique-1600-year-old-roman-pottery-workshop
-discovered-galilee/


Plans to restore a Byzantine mosaic in the Jewish Quarter’s Cardo section (it’s really
more than that):

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4834148,00.html http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Article.aspx?id=462329

A Bible-based sort of look at the excavations at Gath:

http://www.christianexaminer.com/article/through-the-bible-walking-in-the-footsteps-of-gol
iath-of-gath/50891.htm

Background piece on the Philistines:

http://www.livescience.com/55429-philistines.html

Questioning the existence of the Phoenicians (sort of):

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.733940

Transfer of an ancient library from the Rockefeller Museum in east Jerusalem has been
okayed:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/High-Court-of-Justice-okays-tra
nsfer-of-ancient-library-to-western-Jerusalem-462255

A couple of Waqf employees “attacked” an archaeologist on Temple Mount:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-archaeologist-says-he-was-attacked-on-temple-mou
nt/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/islamic-guards/2016/07/27/ http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/346309/2-muslim-temple-mount-officials-arrested
-for-attack-on-jews/

A good article on ISIL’s role in the illicit antiquities trade:

http://www.iar-gwu.org/content/isil-and-illicit-antiquities-trade-0

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A figurine of Ceres from Arbeia:

http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2016-07-27/mini-figure-of-roman-goddess-uncovered-a
t-arbeia/

Archaic finds from the Sanctuary of Apollo at Despotiko:

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

Romano-British finds from Market Harborough:

http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/mail-news/iron-age-and-roman-relics-found-in-mar
ket-harborough-1-7497101

Possible Roman burials from Burton Latimer:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/video-ancient-skeletons-discovered-at-site-of-n
ew-housing-development-in-burton-latimer-1-7493100

A mosaic uncovered by Mortimer Wheeler at St Alban’s is going on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36922827 http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14644473.Roman_mosaic_to_be_uncovered_for_ second_time_since_discovery/

Nice coverage of Duke’s digs in Italy this summer:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-team-paths-major-archeological-summer.html http://today.duke.edu/2016/07/italydiscoveries http://scienceblog.com/486545/two-approaches-digging-discoveries-italy/

Interesting account of that reunification of statue body with statue head at the Getty:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-curators-keen-eye-reunites-statues-head-with-body/
https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=67dsdo9gqjnln#9011150587

Overview of recent finds in Bulgaria:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2016/07/30/archaeological-finds-in-bulgaria-july-2016-highlights/

Interesting examination of a Roman burial from Naples:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/07/27/ancient-roman-man-tiptoed-thro
ugh-life-from-a-hip-fracture/#4345d7095eda

A shortage of archaeological workers is complicating excavations in Cyzicus:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/07/27/shortage-of-workers-cripple-archaeologica
l-excavation

… where they’re excavating Hadrian’s temple:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archeologist-out-to-unearth-legendry-hadrian-temple.a
spx?pageID=238&nid=102063

Renovations are under way at the Roman theatre at Iznik:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/07/25/ancient-theater-reclaims-original-identity

Apparently they won’t be excavating Chester’s amphitheatre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-36886970

The Yorkshire Museum is trying to raise funds to save a Roman hoard found at Wold
Newton a few years ago:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-36883829 http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/dig-deep-to-keep-hoard-of-historic-treasure-in-yorks
hire-1-8033050 http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art559195-yorkshire-museu
m-roman-coin-hoard-appeal

The Battle Krater from Grave Circle A has gone on display:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/17338-battle-krater-latest-unseen-exhibit
-at-athens-national-archaeological-museum.html

Feature on the Piraeus lion:

http://www.historytoday.com/rhys-griffiths/grand-tour-piraeus-lion

Feature on the Celts of Britain:

http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/opinion/article_bf765130-55dd-11e6-b8d5-8f4128cdd9
8b.html

Concerns for Pavlopetri:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/210812/article/ekathimerini/life/ ancient-underwater-city-at-risk http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/17431-ancient-underwater-city-of-pavlop
etri-in-laconia-at-risk.html

What Jeanine Diddle Uzzi is up to:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/07/29/former-professor-southern-maine-retur
ns-provost-after-being-laid

Italy is planning to put broadband at all its World Heritage sites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36903603

The annual summer popular press disgust piece on garum:

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/26/12278742/roman-fish-sauce-garum-liquamen

Review of Riley, *The Edge of Empire*:

http://www.providencejournal.com/entertainmentlife/20160728/book-review-engaging-trav
el-guide-across-roman-empire

More on the Fourni shipwrecks:

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/45-ancient-shipwrecks-discovered-off-Greek-islands

More on the Vatican’s digitization of an Aeneid manuscript:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/28/vatican-library-digitises-1600-year-old-e
dition-of-virgil

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A Norwegian petroglyph was seriously vandalized:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3714763/Norwegian-rock-carving-skier-damaged-f
orver-teenager-scratched-make-clearer.html

More finds from 1066 (Battle of Fulford) from York:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/NEWS/14643062.More_1066_artefacts_found_in_York/

A 12th century brooch from an Irish beach:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/American-student-finds-12th-century-Irish-brooch-on-a-
Galway-Beach-PHOTOS.html

Plenty of interest of the find of a 340 years bp piece of cheese in a Swedish shipwreck:

http://www.thelocal.se/20160727/old-stinky-cheese-found-on-swedish-17th-century-ship
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/36914162 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/27/divers-in-sweden-sniff-out-340-year-old-s
hipwrecked-cheese http://abcnews.go.com/WNN/video/shipwreck-discovery-reveals-340-year-tin-cheese-409
53834 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gouda-find-divers-discover-340-year-old-dai
ry-product-in-shipwreck-180959939/ http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/we-think-its-cheese-divers-discover-340-year-ol
d-roquefort-in-swedish-shipwreck http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3714525/Now-S-ripe-cheese-Smelly-Roque
fort-like-substance-pot-340-year-old-Swedish-shipwreck.html

Interesting study of some Baltic shipwrecks:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/07/27/ancient-ships-death-were-they-mission-
politics-plunder/87586278/

Examination of Vordingborg Castle (Norway) is causing a bit of a rethink:

http://sciencenordic.com/new-discovery-rewrites-history-denmark%E2%80%99s-biggest-r
oyal-castle

The Viking sunstone thing is back in the news (not sure if there’s anything new here):

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-experimentation-vikings-sunstone.html

Vikings were buried with board games:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/vikings-were-buried-with-board-games-on-orkney-1-4187
676 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3711273/The-Viking-family-buried-favourite
-board-games-Playing-pieces-Norse-boat-grave-thought-entertain-dead-afterlife.html?ITO
=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Latest from King’s Lynn:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/archaeologists_discover_more_about_the_lives_of_king_s
_lynn_fisherfolk_1_4629760

They’ve dated Perthshire’s timber circle to 5000 years bp:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/perthshires-ancient-timber-circle-older-849
2343

A sword that was stored in a barn turns out to date from the Bronze Age:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36878956

Some Bronze Age finds from Wales have been declared treasure:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art559137-three-axes-burie
d-field-monmouthshire-wales

… as has a pendant from a Shropshire field:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2016/07/28/pendant-found-in-shropshire-field-is-dec
lared-to-be-treasure/

A portrait of Elizabeth I was ‘saved’ through fundraising:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36916720 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/28/elizabeth-i-armada-portrait-saved-for-the-nat
ion/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36922398

… and a painting of St Luke will also be staying:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36892644

Feature on a prince burial (found in 1959) from Beckum:

http://www.medievalhistories.com/prince-beckum-ad-600-650/

Feature on medieval Trier:

http://www.medievalhistories.com/trier-medieval-town-crisis/

Bramall Hall has reopened after a ‘makeover’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36914724

Hidden Victorian waterworks on the outskirts of Glasgow:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14649742.Restoration_work_uncovers_secrets_of_
Victorian_engineering/

Plans to dig at Congresbury Community Cross:

http://www.n-somerset.gov.uk/news/excavation-on-historic-congresbury-monument/

Plans to dig a ‘mysterious mound’ in Eastbourne:

http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/local/archaeologists-hope-to-uncover-secrets-of
-eastbourne-s-mysterious-mound-1-7495516

Potential effects of Brexit on UK archaeology:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/jul/30/big-issue-orkney-finds-archaeology

Pondering the origins of the Orkney vole:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/25/how-did-the-orkney-vole-arrive-f
rom-mainland-europe

More hype for the Tintagel Castle dig:

http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2016-07-26/tintagel-castle-archaeologists-begin-vit
al-dig-to-find-out-about-historic-sites-past/

More on that 40 000 years bp rope-making tool:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-rope-years.html http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/rope-making-tool-germany-04047.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3706824/Ice-Age-mystery-unravels-40-000-
year-old-carved-mammoth-tusk-used-make-ROPE-not-musical-instrument.html?ITO=1490
&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/40000-year-old-mammoth-iv
ory-rope-making-tool-from-hohle-fels-cave

More on water mills and the medieval salmon population:

http://www.medievalhistories.com/salmon-suffered-medieval-water-mills/

More on that piece of a human armbone found at the Ness of Brodgar:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-36854431

More on that Viking ‘power couple’ burial:

http://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-uncovered-one-of-the-biggest-viking-axes-ev
er

More on evidence for the first monastery at Lindisfarne:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/evidence-found-for-first-mon
astery-on-lindisfarne

More on the Pompeii of the Fens (the first one focuses on a ball of yarn found there):

http://www.ecouterre.com/archaeologists-just-found-a-3000-year-old-ball-of-yarn/
http://www.livescience.com/55549-bronze-age-village-burned-by-warriors.html http://www.livescience.com/55547-photos-must-farm-bronze-age-village.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/prehistoric-village-likely-torched-bronze-age-warriors-1351
38014.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3710616/Was-Pompeii-Fens-destroyed-rai
d-Bronze-Age-settlement-newly-built-burned-down.html

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A pre-hispanic burial ground from CamSur town (Philippines):

http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/234062/pre-hispanic-burial-ground-unearthed-in-camsur-town

Concerns for the Great Wall of China:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/29/travel/china-great-wall-crack-down/index.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3714175/The-Great-War-China-Coun
try-vows-crack-damage-ancient-fortress-30-cent-wall-disappeared.html

Studying ancient earthquakes in the Himalayas:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-ancient-temples-himalaya-reveal-earthquakes.html http://www.livescience.com/55546-ancient-temples-reveal-india-earthquake-risk.html

The Forbidden City’s 600 years bp plumbing still works just fine:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/29/the-forbidden-citys-60
0-year-old-plumbing-keeps-it-dry-as-the-rest-of-china-floods/

Some interesting finds during repairs to Singapore’s Catholic Cathedral:

http://eglasie.mepasie.org/asie-du-sud-est/singapour/2016-07-18-les-tresors-enfouis-de-l
a-cathedrale-du-bon-pasteur-a-singapour

More on latrines and disease along the Silk Route:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/silk-road-transported-goods-and-dise
ase/ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/parasitic-worm-eggs-found-silk-road-latrine-artifacts
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-poop-sticks-offer-clues-spread-dise
ase-along-silk-road-180959900/

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An Ice Age hunting camp from Utah:

http://westerndigs.org/ice-age-hunting-camp-replete-with-bird-bones-and-tobacco-found-in
-utah-desert/

Pre-Clovis finds from Texas:

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

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of the location of Fort San Marcos under a South
Carolina golf course:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-lost-spanish-fort-south-carolina.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/remains-lost-spanish-fort-found-151507701.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0727/How-archaeologists-uncovered-a-long-lost-
Spanish-fort-without-lifting-a-shovel https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/26/spanish-fort-found-san-marcos-south-c
arolina http://savannahnow.com/news/2016-07-26/uga-archaeologist-helps-unearth-long-sought-
after-spanish-fort-lowcountry http://www.cbsnews.com/news/remains-of-lost-spanish-fort-found-on-south-carolina-coast
/
https://www.rt.com/usa/353454-spanish-fort-south-carolina/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/26/remains-of-lost-spanish-fort-found-on-
south-caroli/ http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/san-marcos-spanish-fort/493091/

Remains of a wall from the Alamo:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Adode-wall-found-at-Alamo-site-8408385
.php http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20160725-archaeologists-excited-to-di
scover-adobe-brick-wall-at-alamo.ece http://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/archaeologists-make-exciting-discovery-at-the-alam
o http://www.wideopencountry.com/archaeologists-make-huge-historical-find-at-alamo-dig-s
ite/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3710137/Archaeologists-Texas-make-exciting-dis
covery-finding-ruins-adobe-brick-wall-dig-site-legendary-Alamo.html

A possible 19th century shipwreck off the coast of Nova Scotia:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coast-guard-shipwreck-discovery-nova-scoti
a-1.3695456

Digging at Fort Vancouver:

http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/jul/28/digging-into-history-at-fort/

The dig at Fort George continues:

http://poststar.com/news/local/unlayering-the-earth-to-reveal-the-past/article_ea32735c-9
721-5282-91ac-aa2322cabc9c.html

… as does the dig at Jamestown:

http://www.dailypress.com/features/dp-nws-jamestown-dig-update-20160731-story.html

Digging a site at Tors Cove (Newfoundland):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/memorial-university-archeologica
l-field-school-tors-cove-1.3691139

… while Sarah Parcak and crew are back looking for evidence of a Viking settlement in
Newfoundland:

http://www.thewesternstar.com/News/Local/2016-07-25/article-4597710/Archeologist-retur
ns-to-Codroy-Valley-to-hunt-for-evidence-of-Viking-presence/1

Digging a New Mexico Pueblo site:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2016/07/30/nmsu-students-excavate-ancient-new-
mexico-pueblo/87749290/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

On Native American oyster fishing on Chesapeake Bay:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/28/487618421/oyster-archaeology-ancient-tr
ash-holds-clues-to-sustainable-harvesting

Folks in Chaco Canyon appear to have had special reverence for folks with extra digits:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-ancestral-puebloans-honored-people-w
ith-extra-digits-180959919/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/chaco-canyon-pueblo-bonito-social-implicati
ons-polydactyly-extra-toes/

Concerns for coastal native sites in California’s Redwood Park:

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/26/486471614/as-storms-erode-californias-cliffs-buried-villag
e-could-get-washed-away?sc=17&f=1001

It seems to be becoming an annual thing that wildfires in the Western US reveal archaeological sites:

http://www.wsj.com/video/wildfires-uncover-historic-treasures-for-archaeologists/
31263190-90AC-48E1-9464-A44AD3327093.html

Revisiting the idea that ancient Polynesians might have made it to California:

http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-ancient-Polynesians-visit-California-Maybe-2661327
.php?cmpid=fb-desktop

Feature on Syracuse’s typewriter past:

http://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2016/07/typewriter_capital_of_the_worl.html

Feature on Pueblo ball courts in Arizona:

http://azdailysun.com/lifestyles/columnists/ask-a-ranger-the-ball-court-league/article_90f
6cd43-ec1b-5008-a369-4466e5a5636d.html

On slave labour and the White House:

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/27/487667955/slave-labor-and-the-longer-history-of-the-white-
house http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/bill-oreilly-and-the-long-tradition-of-sl
avery-apology/493223/

On the role of coffee in assorted US conflicts:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/25/485227943/if-war-is-hell-then-coffee-has-o
ffered-u-s-soldiers-some-salvation

More on efforts to preserve Bears Ears:

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-4-july-august/green-life/fight-protect-bears-ears


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Important stelae (and other items) from a tomb at Xunantunich (Belize):

http://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2016/06/15/xunantunich-tells-archaeological-find/
http://www.sanpedrosun.com/arts-culture/2016/07/28/major-discovery-at-xunantunich-tell
s-an-unknown-story/ http://www.reporter.bz/general/largest-mayan-tomb-discovered-at-xunantunich/

Plenty of coverage for the discovery of a water tunnel beneath Pakal’s tomb at Palenque:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-mexico-tunnels-pakal-tomb-palenque.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/25/palenque-mexico-pakal-underground-wat
er-tunnel-system http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/07/27/canal-found-under-mayan-temple-believed?vid
eoId=369401456&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=TopNews&videoChannel=1 http://www.euronews.com/2016/07/27/canal-discovered-beneath-mayan-temple-could-be-
gateway-to-afterlife http://globalnews.ca/news/2851415/possible-gateway-to-afterlife-found-under-mayan-tem
ple/ http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/82519636/Ancient-canals-found-under-Mayan-temple-i
n-Palenque-Mexico http://www.dw.com/en/ancient-mayans-didnt-fly-to-space-they-flushed-themselves-down-
a-canal-say-mexican-archaeologists/a-19427003 http://artdaily.com/news/89017/Mexican-archeologists-find-canal-under-Maya-pyramid--G
ateway-to-afterlife- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-finds-water-tunnel-under-pa
kal-tomb-in-pal/2016/07/25/d48fdbde-52ce-11e6-b652-315ae5d4d4dd_story.html http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/07/26/actualidad/1469490503_973577.html

… including what is possibly the worst-edited piece from the Daily Mail I’ve ever seen:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3707409/Mexico-finds-water-tunnels-Pakal
-tomb-Palenque.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Is there a hidden ‘treasure chamber’ beneath Machu Picchu?:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2016/07/26/will-a-hidden-treasure-chamber-disco
vered-under-machu-picchu-finally-be-revealed/

Studying mummy hair from pre-hispanic Chile:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mummy-hair-points-to-a-low-stress-life-in-ancie
nt-south-america/

Studying dental remains from Oaxaca’s Rio Verde Valley:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-bioarchaeologist-dental-explore-ancient-people.html

Latest (such as it is) on the elongated skulls from Paracas:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-paracas-elongated-skulls-changing-history-110054

Feature on Maya society:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/laying-bare-the-bones-of-ancient-maya-society/


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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 copy of David on display in Russia is causing concern:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36913915

… while Renaissance nudity is still shocking, apparently:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jul/25/renaissance-a
rt-nudity-cover-up-sistine-chapel-leonardo-censorship

… related in an illuminated manuscript:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/fitzwilliam-museum-experts-get-to-the-bottom-of-a-histo
rical-cover-up/story-29548781-detail/story.html

Pondering the voices Joan of Arc heard:

http://www.livescience.com/55597-joan-of-arc-voices-epilepsy.html

Some neglected women of history:

http://www.livescience.com/55485-amazing-women-history-forgot.html

On the history of arsenic:

http://www.livescience.com/29522-arsenic.html

Hidden adult themes in Beatrix Potter:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160728-the-hidden-adult-themes-in-beatrix-potter

Feature on sites we’ve lost over the past century or so:

http://www.livescience.com/55560-historical-treasures-recently-lost.html

Study tying the rise of tuberculosis to fire use:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-early-emergence-tuberculosis.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-26/did-early-campfires-trigger-the-emergence-of-tube
rculosis/7658818

Feature on Edwardian postcard use:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-postcards-link-edwardian-social-media.html http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/EVIIpc/

A ‘lost’ Charles le Brun painting has been restored:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36882097

On ‘technopanics’ in history:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160701-historys-greatest-technopanics

A database of whalers:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-ancestor-whales-museum-database-clues.html

Tracking population heights over the past century or so:

http://www.dw.com/en/study-finds-dutch-men-are-the-worlds-tallest/a-19428519 http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/07/27/487391773/americans-are-shrinki
ng-while-chinese-and-koreans-sprout-up

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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James Brindley:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36912826

BP is cutting its sponsorship with the British Museum (a bit):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36916283

DaVinci’s designs:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160727-leon

Midas:

http://6abc.com/entertainment/penn-museum-king-midas---6abc-loves-the-arts/1447056/

Illuminated Manuscripts:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/28/colour-the-art-and-science-of-illumi
nated-manuscripts-review-a-rainbow-of-agony-and-ecstasy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jul/28/colour-the-art-and-science
-of-illuminated-manuscripts-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other http://www.newsweek.com/adam-and-eve-naked-once-again-new-exhibition-483717

Seaton Down Hoard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-36875938

The curator of China’s largest private museum has gone missing:

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-07/29/content_38982895.htm

Allegations of ‘inside jobs’ thefts at museums in Cyprus:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/07/26/phedonos-lashes-antiquities-head-refuses-retract-alle
gations-artefact-thefts/


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