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Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Bob Heuman, David Critchley, Rick Heli, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, 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).

... a slow week ... n.b. links from Eurekalert may or may not be working as they had a
security breach in the past week and might be fixing things ...

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Overviewish thing on what we’re learning from Otzi:

http://m.phys.org/news/2016-09-stone-age-mummy-revealing-secrets.html http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/18/world/science-health-world/quarter-century-
later-stone-age-mummy-otzi-still-revealing-secrets/

More on the antiquity of cancer in humans:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-fossil-evidence-reveals-cancer-humans.html https://theconversation.com/fossil-evidence-reveals-that-cancer-in-humans-goes-back-1-
7-million-years-63430


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AFRICA
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Tools suggest humans were in Tunisia by 100 000 years b.p.:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-tunisian-year-human-presence.html

New archaeological finds from Cape Verde’s ‘lost slave town’:

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/ribeira-grande-cape-verde


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
An 8000 years bp female figurine from Catalhoyuk:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-year-old-female-figurine-uncovered-central.html http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unique-female-sculpture-found-in-turkeys-catalhoyuk-.
aspx?PageID=238&NID=103868&NewsCatID=375 http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/09/13/neolithic-figurine-over-7000-years-old-une
arthed-at-turkeys-catalhoyuk http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/amazing-intact-statue-of-a-woman-unearthed-at-th
e-neolithic-city-of-catalhoyuk-in-turkey/ http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article101996577.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/4832-160913-turkey-catalhoyuk-figurine

Some 6000 years bp fortresses from Jordan:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.742318

A 3000 years bp Hittite seal from Tatarli Mound:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-seal-found-in-tatarli-mound-.aspx?pageID=238
&nID=103834&NewsCatID=375

I think we’ve mentioned this structure dubbed ‘Solomon’s Palace’ from Gezer:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865662245/Does-this-Bible-era-archaeological-findin
g-back-details-in-the-Old-Testament.html?pg=all

A Second Temple priest’s engraved stone weight (found a couple years ago but just
translated recently):

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Article.aspx?id=467832 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4854160,00.html http://www.archaeology.org/4837-160914-jerusalem-scale-weight

More on that Second Temple flooring reconstruction:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/archeologists-restore-flooring-that-adorned-the-
second-temple-of-jerusalem/
https://templemount.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/1374/

… which is raising some questions:

http://www.ritmeyer.com/2016/09/12/flooring-from-the-temple-mount-in-jerusalem/

Latest on concerns raised by the Ilisu Dam (nothing new here, I think):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hasankeyf-turkey-flooded_us_57d2f39de4b03d2d45
9a3f66?section=&

Israel has opened its largest archaeological garden at Camp Rabin:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4217 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Largest-archaeological-garden-in-country-open
s-at-IDFs-Camp-Rabin-467638 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/369290

The Israel National Library has acquired a pile of Jewish documents from Afghanistan:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217792 http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.742109

More on that 1700 years b.p. Greek ‘epitaph’ of a Jewish woman:

https://news.byu.edu/news/byu-professor-translates-jewish-woman%E2%80%99s-1700-y
ear-old-obituary

ISIL is apparently selling items it claimed to have destroyed:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.741730

… and Israel’s antiquities market awaits ISIL-looted items, apparently:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.741730

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Remains of a Roman road beneath a basement in a Rochester shop:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/2000-year-old-roman-road-revealed-by-build
ing-work-in-rochester/ http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/historic-roman-highway-found-under-102181/
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/building-uncovers-2-000-old-101933625.html

A cache of sling bullets from Dumfriesshire:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/biggest-ever-romans-ammunitions-find-8833135

A search for a stolen truck turns up a 2nd century sarcophagus in Bursa:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/09/10/police-searching-stolen-vehicle-finds-2nd-
century-tomb-in-bursa http://www.archaeology.org/news/4830-160912-turkey-marble-sarcophagus

A gold coin of Nero from Jerusalem:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-rare-roman-gold-coin-jerusalem.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160913150507.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-09/uonc-rrg091316.php http://publicrelations.uncc.edu/news-events/news-releases/rare-roman-gold-coin-found-m
ount-zion-archaeological-dig http://www.livescience.com/56092-gold-coin-with-emperor-nero-face-found.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217914 http://www.timesofisrael.com/gold-coin-with-face-of-young-nero-found-in-jerusalem-dated-
to-soon-after-crucifixion/ http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/rare-roman-gold-coin-found-in-jerusale
m-dig/2016/09/16/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-gold-coin-neros-face-discovered-jerusalem-120400014
.html http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/09/14/Rare-Roman-coin-unearthed-at-Mount-Zion
-archaeological-dig/3011473795369/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/4835-160914-jerusalem-gold-coin

A couple Aphrodite statues from Petra:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-unearth-ancient-mythological-statues-jordan.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160912132735.htm https://news.ncsu.edu/2016/09/aphrodites-in-petra-2016/ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-09/ncsu-rua091216.php http://wunc.org/post/north-carolina-researchers-make-rare-find-ancient-city http://www.livescience.com/56100-aphrodite-statue-from-petra.html http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2016/marble-statues-of-aphrodite-
discovered-during-petra-excavations http://www.archaeology.org/news/4838-160915-petra-aphrodite-statues

A statue of Diana (maybe) from a Croatian beach:

http://www.total-croatia-news.com/item/14038-a-2nd-century-ad-statuette-washes-up-on-a-
popular-zadar-beach http://www.archaeology.org/4836-160914-croatia-diana-figurine

Pondering whether one of the Huqoq mosaics depicts Alexander:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/mysterious-mosaic-alexander-the-great-isra
el/ http://world.greekreporter.com/2016/09/12/you-be-the-judge-is-this-mosaic-at-an-ancient-
synagogue-in-israel-alexander-the-great/

Some basic Latin knowledge lacking, it seems:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-lamb/mike-pence-opposes-word-vice_b_12029
434.html

On still-standing buildings on Roman coins:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/09/some-roman-coins-depict-buildings-t
hat-still-stand.html

A Flavian-era bust acquired by the Toledo MoA:

http://www.toledoblade.com/Art/2016/09/16/Toledo-Museum-of-Art-acquires-ancient-Roma
n-bust.html

That bronze wing from Gloucester is going on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-37386847

They’re going to build a new learning centre at Bath:

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/archway-project-at-the-roman-baths/ story-29721977-detail/story.html

The latest Homer translation … with a twist of sorts:

http://flathatnews.com/2016/09/12/a-new-translation-of-homer-the-odyssey-gets-an-updat
e-with-folk-music/

A Classics class in Taiwan:

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/13/lee-classics-reoriented/

What W.V. Harris is up to:

http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2016/09/16/columbia-professor-chronicles-1000-year
s-roman-empire

What Dorota Dutsch is up to:

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017122/loss-and-community

What Jennifer Trimble is up to:

http://cornellsun.com/2016/09/15/prof-explores-representation-transformation-of-slaves-i
n-roman-tomb-sculptures/

What Maarten Jansen is up to:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160914113553.htm

What Victoria Emma Pagan is up to:

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/09/11/classicist-victoria-emma-pagan/ personalities/in-the-green-room/

On Ovid and trigger warnings:

http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-ovids-metamorphoses-and-reading-rape
-65316

Feature on some AIA lectures coming to Walla Walla:

http://www.union-bulletin.com/things_to_do/arts/la-dolce-vita-in-italy-years-ago/
article_cda9e490-7abf-11e6-82c1-6fdd7212e2ad.html


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Petroglyphs from Scotland:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/17/rock-art-amateur-archaeologist-scotla
nd

An elite 5000 years bp nomadic burial from the Ukraine:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,411146,scientists-reconstructed-5-thousand-
years-old-elite-tomb-discovered-in-ukraine.html

A Neolithic snowshoe from the Dolomites:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/12/worlds-oldest-snowshoe-found-on-a-glacier-i
n-italys-dolomites http://www.archaeology.org/4831-160912-italy-neolithic-snowshoe

Remains of a Bronze Age settlement found during bypass construction in Norwich:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-37370589

Finds from various periods at a Plymouth building site:

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/ancient-coins-pottery-and-bone-comb-found-at-building-
site/story-29710510-detail/story.html

I think we mentioned these recently-found Viking burials from Denmark:

http://sciencenordic.com/new-viking-graves-discovered-denmark

A ‘medieval pit’ beneath a Tamworth parking lot:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-37378188

A 3000 years bp pot with traces of burnt cheese from Denmark:

http://sciencenordic.com/burnt-cheese-casts-light-3000-year-old-family-drama http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-find-ancient-pot-traces-3000
-year-old-burnt-cheese-180960475/ http://www.archaeology.org/4841-160915-denmark-pot-cheese

Recent finds from Iceland suggest it may have been settled as early as 800 CE:

http://icelandreview.com/news/2016/09/15/major-archaeological-find-iceland http://www.archaeology.org/news/4840-160915-iceland-longhouse-settlement

They’ve found some burials in the search for Henry I’s resting place:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-37340498 http://www.archaeology.org/news/4829-160912-reading-abbey-grave

A lime kiln associated with Henry VIII’s Beaulieu Palace (maybe):

http://www.essexlive.news/chelmsford-archaeologists-may-have-unearthed-henry-viii-82
17-s-50-year-old-oven-at-beaulieu-park/story-29719399-detail/story.html http://www.essexlive.news/henry-viii-archaeological-dig-beaulieu-developers-reveal-chel
msford-8217-s-hidden-gem-really-is/story-29721914-detail/story.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/4842-160916-new-hall-kiln

They’re digging at Lochmaben Castle:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/new-archaeological-study-set-unlock-8818
138

A 400 years bp Torah scroll from Portugal used by ‘crypto Jews’:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/portuguese-city-unveils-16th-century-torah-used-by-crypto-j
ews/ http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/350101/portuguese-town-unveils-400-year-old-tor
ah-used-by-crypto-jews/

More on that Cochno Stone:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37340378


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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Ice Age petroglyphs from Australia’s Kimberley region:

http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/scientists-find-ice-age-art-in-the-kimberley-20160905-gr
8u2z.html

Artsakh was apparently part of the Kingdom of Van in the eighth century BCE:

http://asbarez.com/154990/archaeologists-trace-artsakhs-origins-to-7th-century-bc/

They’re mapping sites in Afghanistan:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-archaeologists-afghanistan-cultural-heritage.html http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists-dig-afghanistan-map-its-cultural-heritag
e-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=103890&NewsCatID=375

Feature on the Ganesh festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/world/asia/mumbai-india-ganesh-festival.html

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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A mammoth skull find on a California island is raising human migration questions:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/us/mammoth-skull-fossil-found-california/index.html

A 6000 years bp ‘anvil’ and grinder from Mount Carleton:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mount-carleton-artifacts-discovered-1.375
9553?cmp=rss

The wreck of the Terror has been found in Arctic waters:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-ancient-british-explorer-ship-canadian.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/hms-terror-found-1.3758400 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/americas/canada-franklin-arctic-hms-terror.htm
l?_r=0 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/mysterious-mosaic-alexander-the-great-isra
el/shipwreck-discovered-hms-terror-franklin-arctic-canada/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170
-years-northwest-passage-attempt?subid=16450490&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/12/wreck-of-franklins-doomed-1846-expedition-t
hrough-the-northwest/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/12/493676137/second-vessel-from-doo
med-franklin-expedition-found-in-the-arctic http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6853670-inuit-hunter-s-tip-leads-to-hms-terror-second
-lost-ship-of-doomed-franklin-expedition/ http://www.livescience.com/56110-doomed-shipwreck-hms-terror-possibly-found.html
http://globalnews.ca/news/2941416/looking-at-a-time-capsule-underwater-video-shows-h
ms-terror-shipwreck/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/second-ship-sir-john-franklins-19th-century-
expedition-found-180960437/ http://www.archaeology.org/4833-160913-canada-franklin-shipwreck

… and now there’s an argument over who controls the relics:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/discovery-of-hms-terror-heats-up-battle-o
ver-who-controls-artifacts/article31863146/

… and other questions:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/terror-erebus-arctic-tourism-1.3765559?cmp=rss

An 1800s shipwreck in Lake Superior:

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4114607-spectacularly-intact-two-masts-rigging-
intact-119-year-old-shipwreck-near-apostle http://www.startribune.com/missing-1800s-shipwreck-found-at-the-bottom-of-lake-superior
/393489211/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/15/shipwreck-hunters-find-missing-180
0s-barge-in-lake/ http://www.wpr.org/shipwreck-hunters-find-missing-1800s-barge-lake-superior

19th century finds from a Boston trash/sewage pit:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/09/12/near-old-north-church-neighborhood-histor
y-emerges-layers-trash/yGq3mxScMvLGFHyn2ICHbI/story.html http://www.archaeology.org/4843-160916-boston-tenement-privy

I think we’ve heard this Jack Daniels slave origins story before:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/15/493980358/jack-daniels-heralds-a-slaves-
role-in-its-origin-story

There’s a new guidebook for the Antietam battlefield:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-aims-people-explore-antietambattlefield.html

More on the search for Fort Howard:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/5/archaeologist-looks-for-remains-of-gr
een-bay-milit/


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
6200 years bp indigo-dyed fabric from Peru:

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-oldest-textile-dyed-indigo-blue.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160914150426.htm http://www.livescience.com/56099-oldest-indigo-dyed-fabric-discovered-peru.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/peru-indigo-cotton-discovery-textiles-archae
ology-jeans-huaca/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0916/Did-ancient-South-Americans-wear-blue-jea
ns http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earliest-evidence-indigo-dye-found-ancient-
peruvian-burial-site-180960477/?no-ist http://www.archaeology.org/news/4839-160915-peru-cotton-indigo

1000 years bp dog sacrifice (etc.) site from Peru:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-animal-reminds-found-in-city-zoo-110421 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-14/peru-archaeologists-find-dog-sacrifice-site/
7842892
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4834-160913-peru-dog-burials

… and other burials from Chotuna-Chornancap possibly suggest human sacrifice:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/10/ancient-tombs-peru-human-sacrifice-c
hotuna-chornancap

Latest studies suggest there were various styles of government at Teotihuacan:

http://www.statepress.com/article/2016/09/spscience-rethinking-royal-ruins-asu-archaeol
ogy-team-finds-new-findings-in-teotihuacan

Interesting finds from various periods from a Chihuahua site:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/en/boletines/5391-hallan-guacamaya-momificada-en-un-contexto
-arqueologico-de-chihuahua

Fire destroyed a 16th century church in Cuzco:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37394702

More on that Maya Codex authentication:

http://www.livescience.com/56058-disputed-maya-codex-is-authentic.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/disputed-maya-codex-authentic-scholars-135113390.html


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Suggestion (surely this can’t be new) that Van Gogh suffered from some form of
psychosis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/arts/design/vincent-van-gogh-doctors-historians-wei
gh-in-amsterdam.html http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/17/experts-chip-away-mystery-
van-goghs-breakdowns/90574058/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37381900

A half dozen Dutch old masters paintings have now been attributed to Hercules Segers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/arts/international/rijksmuseum-attributes-six-works-t
o-a-dutch-old-master.html

A stuffed human being in a Spanish museum:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37344210

… and other strange relics:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160915-are-these-the-strangest-relics-in-history

On the history of electronic tolls:

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/09/15/487804992/music-spies-and-e
xact-change-the-strange-history-of-electronic-tolls

Hype for the forthcoming Atlas Obscura:

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/09/15/493797964/think-youve-seen-it-all-this-atlas-
might-change-your-mind

On the hobbit-like existence of archaeologists:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/people/how-an-archaeologists-day-is-a-lot-like-a-h
obbits.aspx http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/13/i-just-realized-archaeologists-are-basic
ally-hobbits/

Just in case you’ve forgotten this side of the Amelia Earhart theorizing:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/amelia-earhart-castaway-on-island-for-months-d
esperately-trying-to-make-radio-contact-as-searches-failed-group-says

On shopping for cars a century ago:

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/12/492841796/gas-electric-or-steam-car-shopping-100-years-
ago

Archaeological therapy for injured soldiers:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/09/18/archaeological-therapy-injured-soldiers/

On ‘Broadside Ballads’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37386026

Pondering a potential Degas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/arts/design/did-degas-make-this-plaster-an-expert-n
ow-says-yes.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

The tank is 100 years old:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-37302722

Beethoven apparently snubbed the aristocracy:

http://www.dw.com/en/why-beethoven-snubbed-princes-and-put-his-music-first/ a-19544501

Review of Kluger, *Indelible Ink*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/books/review/indelible-ink-richard-kluger.html?rref=c
ollection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks


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THE TECHY SIDE
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On 3d imaging and the Mary Rose:

http://www.livescience.com/56091-mary-rose-warship-3d-models.html

LiDAR is helping to reveal Tongan history:

http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2016/using-lidar-imaging-sfu-archaeologist-sheds-mor
e-light-on-tonga.html

MIT has developed technology to read books without opening them:

http://www.slashgear.com/mit-researchers-develop-camera-that-can-read-books-without-o
pening-them-11455613/

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Ramat Rachel:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-kibbutz-outside-jerusalem-built-atop-an-ancient-palace/

Bardo Museum:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/national-bardo-museum-tunisia-worlds-large
st-collection-roman-mosaics-180960204/

Kosovo Monasteries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/travel/the-medieval-monasteries-of-kosovo.html


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CRIME BEAT
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A couple weeks’ worth of Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/09/culture-crime-news-21-august-4-septe
mber-2016.html http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/09/culture-crime-news-5-11-september-2
016.html


conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
The Ukraine is still trying to get its Scythian gold back:

http://uatoday.tv/society/ukraine-takes-to-court-in-a-bid-to-return-scythian-gold-745625.ht
ml

Some stolen Dutch paintings will soon be returned:

http://m.france24.com/en/20160912-stolen-dutch-masterpieces-soon-back-museum

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the ‘widow’s mite’:

http://www.coinweek.com/dealers-companies/ngc-dealers-companies/ngc-ancient-coins-r
edefining-biblical-widows-mite/

Latest on the Jersey hoard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-37329266

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n37.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n38.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2479-audio-new
s-from-archaeologica-4-september-2016-10-september-2016 ================================================================
OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Desmond M Clarke:

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/desmond-m-clarke-fearless-philosopher-
and-distinguished-scholar-1.2793591

Florence Lister:

http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20160906/NEWS01/160909925/0/FRONTPAGE/ Florence-Lister-prominent-archaeologist-dies-at-96

Elizabeth Colson:

http://www.dailycal.org/2016/09/11/campus-anthropology-professor-emerita-elizabeth-col
son-dies-99/

John Belle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/nyregion/john-belle-restoring-new-york-city-landmark
s.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries


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CONFERENCES
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Maya at the Playa (September 29-October 2):

http://www.mayaattheplaya.com/registration

Dumbarton Oaks Annual Symposium (October 7-8):

http://www.doaks.org/research/pre-columbian/scholarly-activities/sacred-matter-animism
-and-authority-in-the-pre-columbian-americas

6th Rye Medieval Academic Conference (October 22):

https://sussexpast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rye-conf-poster.pdf ================================================================
GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm ================================================================
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