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http://sciencenordic.com/viking-sailors-took-their-cats-them
http://www.nature.com/news/how-cats-conquered-the-world-and-a-few-viking-ships-1.206
43
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-23/viking-cats-travelling-high-seas-helped-felines-c
onquer-world/7873452
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4853-160921-cat-dna-domestication


… and there’s a study of elephant genomes too:


http://www.nature.com/news/elephant-history-rewritten-by-ancient-genomes-1.20622


More on plague DNA from London:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-17th-century-teeth-confirms-cause-lon
dons-great-plague-180960405/




Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:


http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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A computer simulation is connecting ‘Out of Africa’ migrations to climate shifts (cf the
DNA section, however):


http://phys.org/news/2016-09-climate-orchestrated-early-human-migration.html
http://www.livescience.com/56188-humans-left-africa-due-to-earth-wobbles.html
http://www.archaeology.org/4859-160922-milankovitch-cycles-simulation


Elsewhere, climate connections are is being connected to human migration and the
Faroe Islands:


http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/umass-amherst-research-traces-past-climate-human-
migration-faroe-islands


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Hyderabad tombs:


http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/18/travel/hyderabad-restored-tombs-india/index.html


Oppenheim tunnels:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/exploring-underground-tunnels-oppenheim-germ
any-180960147/


Basque Spain witch trial sites:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/visit-site-biggest-witch-trial-history-180959946/


Edinburgh:


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/19/travel/what-to-do-36-hours-in-edinburgh.h
tml?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel


Crete/Henry Miller:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/travel/in-crete-henry-miller-found-his-muse-amid-the
-ruins.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel




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CRIME BEAT
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The illegal antiquities trade is thriving in Bulgaria:


http://www.novinite.com/articles/176404/Der+Standard%3A+Antiquities+Traders+Have+L
ittle+to+Fear+of+Bulgarian+Authorities


On the flow of artifacts to the US (we may have had this before):


http://www.livescience.com/56141-looting-artifacts-from-syria-to-us.html


Latest Culture Crime News:


http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/09/culture-crime-news-12-18-september-
2016.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
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The Gweagal Shield is the latest British Museum item at the centre of a repatriation
storm:


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/25/the-gweagal-shield-and-the-fig
ht-to-change-the-british-museums-attitude-to-seized-artefacts


Australia’s National Gallery is returning some items to India:


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/nga-hands-back-suspect-antiquities-to-i
ndia/news-story/ddd9844e5220168fe2751bd228d70fb8
http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/gallery-returns-more-indian-antiquities/
news-story/92f0cf253803122913d01310d38924df
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/19/national-gallery-of-australia-returns-in
dian-antiquities-worth-more-than-2m
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1006999.shtml
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/09/19/11/38/gallery-returns-more-indian-antiquit
ies


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Julius Caesar:


http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-coins-julius-caesar
/


Latest e-Sylum:


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


… and the one which should appear later today:


http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n39.html




------------------------
Ancient Coin Collecting:


http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/


Ancient Coins:


http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/


Coin Week:


http://www.coinweek.com/
====


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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:


http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2481-audio-ne
ws-from-archaeologica-11-september-2016-17-september-2016
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OBITUARIES
===============================================================
John Mulvaney:


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-22/professor-john-mulvaney-dies-aged-90/7867808
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/john-mulvaney-father-of-australian
-archeology-dies-aged-90/news-story/930df6c0d486666a8f73bde0796a66c9




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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-animis
m-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
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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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/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:


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


The Book and the Spade:


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