[continued from previous message]

http://www.theledger.com/article/20160821/NEWS/160829925?Title=4-arrested-for-illegal
-archaeological-dig http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/21/4-arrested-for-illegal-archaeological-
dig/

A California doctor pleaded guilty for illegal digging:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_30255642/california-doctor-admits-steali
ng-native-american-artifacts-from http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-doctor-looting-artifacts-20160815-snap-stor
y.html

Two weeks’ worth of Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/08/culture-crime-news-15-21-august-201
6.html http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/08/culture-crime-news-1-7-august-2016.h
tml


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 ================================================================
Feature on Nazi-looted art:

http://newsletters.apollo-magazine.com/c/1Gtj3QzUJHeHmdIMMKY7FbW

… and speaking of which:

http://www.dw.com/en/judge-says-california-museum-can-keep-nazi-looted-art/ a-19494354

Chilean filmmakers want an Easter Island moai returned:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-12/campaigners-demand-britain-return-easter-island
-statue/7723168 http://www.apollo-magazine.com/chilean-film-makers-demand-return-of-easter-island-stat
ue-from-uk/

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NUMISMATICA
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Some 12th century silver coins from Derbyshire were declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-37109225 http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/medieval-coins-found-in-derbyshire-confirmed-as
-treasure-1-8078712

An Anglo Saxon coin find near York:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-37118242

The Seaton Down hoard is staying in Exeter:

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/seaton-down-roman-coin-hoard-to-stay-in-exeter-
thanks-to-donations/story-29623782-detail/story.html

Feature on Julio Claudian provincial ‘imitations’:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/08/imitations-abound-in-provinces-und
er-julio-claudians.html

Feature on the christianization of Roman coinage:

http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-christianization-ro
man-coinage/

Three issues of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n35.html http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n34.html http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n33.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 ================================================================
That messed up Jesus fresco is now an opera:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/12/12454212/potato-jesus-ecce-homo-opera-musical-sp
ain

Feature on Liszt:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160817-franz-liszt-the-worlds-first-musical-superstar

Talking about Alexander Hamilton, man and musical:

http://news.yale.edu/2016/08/11/conversation-joanne-freeman-alexander-hamilton-man-a
nd-hamilton-musical

Merchant of Venice:

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/29/487831441/new-merchant-of-venice-recasts-shylock-as-a-
sympathetic-everyman?sc=17&f=1008

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

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2471-audio-new
s-from-archaeologica-14-aug-2016-20-aug-2016 http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2470-audio-new
s-from-archaeologica-7-aug-2016-13-aug-2016

The August edition of Strata: Portraits of Humanity is out:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity/ 2468-strata-august-2016 ================================================================
OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Ernst Nolte:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/world/europe/ernst-nolte-historian-whose-views-on-h
itler-caused-an-uproar-dies-at-93.html

Paul House:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/23/paul-house-obituary

Edgar Peltenburg:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/08/19/antiquities-department-issues-condolences-death-emi
nent-archaeologist/

Elizabeth Spillius:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/08/08/elizabeth-spillius-social-anthropologist-
and-melanie-klein-schol

Mohenjo Daro:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/movies/review-mohenjo-daro-depicts-a-go-to-heros-e
xertions-in-antiquity.html


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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:

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