Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,

John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo,

Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,

Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Laurel Carey, Jack Keller,

Richard C. Griffiths, 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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General feature on Neanderthals:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-research-redefining-what-we-thought-about-neanderthals-180971918/

Pondering a 7000 year gap of occupation of a cave in Spain:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/10/ciencia/1554882478_999653.html

On the evolution of the human face:

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-social-skills-modern-human.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uoy-nfs041219.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190415113813.htm

In case you missed the 34 000 years bp cave paintings found in Croatia:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/romualdova-pecina-figurative-cave-paintings-07097.html

https://www.zmescience.com/science/figurative-cave-painting-balkans-13042019/

… and the homo luzonensis find:

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2019/0411/How-a-new-human-species-challenges-textbook-histories

… and the multiple-branches of the Denisovan tree:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/dna-remnants-of-three-separate-denisovan-populations-found-in-human-genomes

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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Using urine salts at Asikli Huyuk to mark the transition between hunting/gathering to herding:

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-herding-ancient-pee.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/eiac-sfh041219.php

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/aaft-usp041719.php

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/10000-year-old-urine-holds-clues-domestication/587260/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pee-stain-urine-salt-early-human-herding-neolithic-a8874576.html

https://www.history.com/news/agricultural-revolution-discovery-pee-study

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/researchers-find-the-sands-of-time-are-soaked-in-urine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-urine-reveals-timeline-turkeys-agricultural-revolution-180971990/

https://www.sciencealert.com/two-spectacular-egyptian-tombs-still-look-freshly-painted-after-thousands-of-years

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7594-190418-turkey-herding-urine

A 3500 years bp ‘saff’ tomb from Luxor:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/330259/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-unveils-newly-discovered-saff-tomb-in-Luxor.aspx

https://egyptianstreets.com/2019/04/19/biggest-saff-tomb-discovered-in-luxor/

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/2019/04/19/Expansive-New-Kingdom-tomb-unveiled-in-Egypt-s-Luxor.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/egypt-reveals-huge-ancient-tomb-in-luxor-vfrvlwn99

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/18/c_137988620.htm

… I *think* this is the same as the above, but maybe not:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/68489/Egypt-announces-tomb-discovery-at-Luxor%E2%80%99s-Draa-Abul-Naga-necropolis

Zahi Hawass has apparently confirmed the existence of tunnels in the Sphinx:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/68568/Hawass-affirmed-the-presence-of-three-tunnels-inside-Sphinx

The newly-restored Opet Temple in Luxor was officially inaugurated:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/minister-of-antiquities-opens-opet-temple-in-luxor/

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/68534/Egypt-inaugurates-newly-restored-Opet-Temple-in-Luxor

http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2019-04/19/content_74701340.htm

A restored statue of Ramses II was unveiled:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/68512/In-Pics-Egypt-unveils-Ramses-II-statue-at-Luxor-Temple

https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypts-king-ramses-ii-unveiled-on-world-heritage-day/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/19/c_137988866.htm

Feature on women rulers in Egypt:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/who-ruled-the-world-in-ancient-egypt-often-times-it-was-a-woman/2019/04/15/0773963a-5628-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html

Feature on mummy portraits:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-mummy-portraits/index.html

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-unraveling-mysteries-ancient-egypts-spellbinding-mummy-portraits

There seems to be a scandal of sorts brewing over possible ‘official’ sales of Egyptian items at Christie’s:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/idsc-denies-sale-of-egyptian-antiquities-in-us/

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/68399/Cabinet-denies-selling-artifacts-in-Christie-s-Auction-Hall-in

More on that Fifth Dynasty ‘colourful’ tomb of Khuwy:

https://www.newsweek.com/4300-ancient-egyptian-tomb-incredible-colorful-artworks-vast-burial-ground-1396284

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/egyptian-tomb-dating-back-4300-years-reveal-new-details-mysterious-fifth-dynasty-111912203.html

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/region/egypt-unveils-colourful-fifth-dynasty-tomb

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/egypt-paintings-color-scli-intl/index.html

https://menafn.com/1098395296/Egypt-unveils-colourful-Fifth-Dynasty-tomb

A recently-discovered inscription suggests Sargon II had big plans for Karkemish:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uocp-mks041819.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-mesopotamian-king-sargon-ii-envisioned.html

I think we mentioned this First Temple eggshell find (actually a decade old):

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/First-Temple-era-eggshells-offer-crack-at-historical-eating-habits-586827

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/israeli-scientist-reveals-first-temple-period-eggs-differ-little-than-todays-fare-on-the-passover-plates-of-jerusalem-residents/2019/04/14/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/2600-year-old-chicken-egg-shells-from-jerusalem-first-evidence-of-use-in-diet/

Suggestion that the efforts of Shishak may have contributed to the creation of Israel:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-move-over-moses-a-pharaoh-may-have-created-the-ancient-kingdom-of-israel-1.7114102

Feature on the Exodus:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-for-you-were-not-slaves-in-egypt-the-memories-behind-the-exodus-myth-1.7138961

Feature on David:

https://www.livescience.com/65241-king-david.html

Latest kids-on-a-field-trip-find-an-artifact story has a group finding a gold coin of Theodosius II in Galilee:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/1600-year-old-gold-coin-of-emperor-who-abolished-sanhedrin-discovered-by-pupils/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262080

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/israeli-kids-discover-1600-year-old-gold-coin-in-galilee/2019/04/16/

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Group-of-schoolchildren-find-1600-year-old-gold-coin-in-the-Galilee-587014

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5495895,00.html

Feature on archaeology and the City of David:

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2019/04/archaeology-the-city-of-david-and-the-future-of-jerusalem/

Feature on Megiddo:

https://english.tau.ac.il/news/match_meggido

Feature on Phoenician/Punic masks:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/04/Phoenician-and-Punic-Masks

Italian plans for the restoration of Persepolis:

https://iranian.com/2019/04/16/italian-archaeologists-to-partially-restore-persepolis/

Honours for Jodi Magness:

https://religion.unc.edu/professor-jodi-magness-elected-to-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/

There’s a new vistor center in Yokneam:

https://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-archaeological-visitor-center-opens-in-Yokneam-586983

Not sure where to put this item on 220 sites being found in Larestan:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/434729/220-historical-sites-objects-found-in-Larestan

More on that Nathan-Melek seal from the City of David:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bible/nathan-melek-servant-of-the-king/

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A study of a pre-Roman Italian Celtic burial ground near Verona:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/p-fcd041019.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-funerary-customs-diet-social-behavior.html

A statuette of Aprodite from the Thessaloniki metro construction:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/239612/article/ekathimerini/life/goddess-of-love-rises-out-of-metro-excavation

A shipwrecked fleet of 11 Hellenistic (or so) ships off the coast of Lebanon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2019/Apr-17/481315-underwater-find-points-to-fleet-of-ancient-greek-ships.ashx

https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/wreckage-11-ancient-greek-ships-found-lebanese-coast-1280454

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1484711/middle-east

… and a 1st century CE shipwreck off Croatia (we may have mentioned this one):

https://www.croatiaweek.com/1st-century-ad-shipwreck-found-off-croatias-molat-island/

Advances in artifact testing provide evidence of at least one rabbit in Britain during Roman times (1st century CE):

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47963324

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/18/ben-fur-romans-brought-rabbits-to-britain-experts-discover

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/17/britains-first-pet-rabbits-kept-romans-new-historic-england2/

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bones-of-britians-oldest-rabbit-discovered-in-roman-palace-a4120851.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/rabbit-skeleton-roman-remains-arrival-species-invasive-fishbourne-palace-a8874376.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roman-rabbit-find-is-one-giant-hop-for-archaeology-dn0dhtfk8

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7596-190418-england-roman-rabbit

A Roman kiln in Trastevere:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-unearths-ancient-roman-kiln-in-trastevere.html

Pondering the logistics of cremation in ancient Greece:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/social-sciences/burning-questions-the-awkward-logistics-of-cremation-in-ancient-greece

Athens put up a statue of Alexander the Great:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/239642/gallery/ekathimerini/news/statue-of-alexander-the-great-installed-in-athens

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/04/17/first-and-only-statue-of-alexander-the-great-in-athens-to-be-unveiled/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/18/c_137985623.htm

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/city-breaks/35279-statue-of-alexander-the-great-placed-in-athens-30-years-after-its-purchase.html

A Roman coin hoard will be staying in Warwickshire:

https://leamingtonobserver.co.uk/news/roman-coin-hoard-will-be-staying-in-warwickshire-12474/

https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/campaign-to-bring-home-rare-roman-coins-found-near-edge-hill-hits-target-1-8893047

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-47963547

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/roman-coins-warwickshire-archeology-16143114

Cyprus was thinking about fires at sites this week:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/04/17/antiquities-department-working-to-minimise-fire-hazards-at-ancient-sites/

More on that Bronze Age shipwreck full of copper ingots off the coast of Turkey:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/copper-ingots-ancient-shipwreck-turkish-coast/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidanderson/2019/04/19/bronze-age-shipwreck-discovered-off-the-coast-of-turkey/

What Cornel West is up to:

https://ndsmcobserver.com/2019/04/west-lectures-on-education/

What Thomas Martin and Jeremiah O’Connor are up to:

https://news.holycross.edu/blog/2019/04/17/diverse-voices-are-key-to-a-healthy-democracy-holy-cross-professor-writes-in-the-washington-post/

What Emily Anhalt is up to:

https://workplaceinsight.net/ancient-greek-wisdom-for-the-leadership-crisis-of-the-21st-century/

A marathon reading of the Odyssey is coming up at Cornell:

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/04/daylong-odyssey-event-feature-community-campus-readers

… and UIowa just had one:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/rosemary-moore/blog-connecting-community-university-iowas-homerathon

Learning typing via ancient Greek punishments:

https://indiegamesplus.com/2019/04/increase-your-wpm-through-ancient-greek-punishments-with-this-typing-game

Review of Mary Norris, *Greek to Me*:

https://www.thetelegraph.com/entertainment/article/Book-World-A-grammar-queen-s-Greek-odyssey-13781068.php

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-grammar-queens-greek-odyssey/2019/04/19/ad6d7762-475b-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html

Reviewish of Simon Critchley, *Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us*:

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714586951/tragedy-the-greeks-and-us-examines-how-classical-philosophers-saw-early-dramas

Reviewish of Donald Robertson, *How to Think Like a Roman Emperor*:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-is-ancient-philosophy-the-future/

Interview with Madeline Miller:

https://www.bustle.com/p/circe-author-madeline-miller-on-why-readers-are-drawn-to-retellings-you-get-the-best-of-both-worlds-17031861

Feature on assorted books which are ‘rad’ retellings of Classical tales:

https://www.autostraddle.com/18-books-that-are-queer-feminist-or-otherwise-rad-retellings-of-classics/

Feature on the French Revolutio and Neoclassical revivalism:

https://hyperallergic.com/495416/how-artists-of-the-french-revolution-embraced-neoclassical-revivalism/

What Socrates can teach us about social media:

https://qz.com/1599699/socrates-shows-why-moral-posturing-on-social-media-is-so-annoying/

On an interesting use of simulations at Bowdoin:

https://bowdoinorient.com/2019/04/19/the-presidential-equation-reform-and-fundraising-2/

The Domus Aurea has a VR feature:

https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/15/watch-visit-emperor-nero-s-palace-via-virtual-reality

… as does the Colosseum:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/whatson/see-the-colosseum-come-to-life-with-a-3d-virtual-reality-tour.html

Pondering German intellectuals’ fascination with Athens:

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2019/04/german-intellectuals-dangerous-choice-of-athens-over-jerusalem/

Pondering the relevancy of Classics:

https://www.thewilkesbeacon.com/opinion/2019/04/16/is-antiquity-losing-its-relevancy-in-todays-modern-society/

An Ode to Classics:

https://thriveglobal.com/stories/an-ode-to-classics/

Pondering paper still having a purpose:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/paper-persists

Coverage of the Exelauno Day Latin Oratory competition:

https://canton.wickedlocal.com/news/20190416/strongcanton-holbrook-students-perform-in-latin-and-greek-oratorical-competitionstrong

http://hingham.wickedlocal.com/news/20190416/hingham-students-perform-in-latin-and-greek-oratorical-competition

Coverage of the NEAHC spring meeting:

https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/news/2019/04/brown-classics-participates-neahc-spring-2019

Coverage of the Eta Sigma Phi competition:

https://news.uark.edu/articles/47865/u-of-a-classical-studies-students-triumph-at-national-convention

Feature on Flavius Scorpus the charioteer:

https://www.livescience.com/65258-ancient-rome-chariot-superstar.html

Feature on crucifixion:

https://www.livescience.com/65283-crucifixion-history.html

More/ongoing calls for the return of the Parthenon Marbles by various folks:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-greece-marbles/greece-free-our-marbles-from-british-museums-murky-prison-idUSKCN1RR17S

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/15/greek-president-brands-british-museum-murky-prison-elgin-marbles/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/16/c_137979614.htm

https://greekcitytimes.com/2019/04/16/greeces-president-calls-for-return-of-parthenon-sculptures-from-murky-prison/

http://famagusta-gazette.com/2019/04/16/greece-again-calls-for-return-of-parthenon-sculptures-from-uk-museum/

https://news.gtp.gr/2019/04/18/greek-culture-minister-says-return-parthenon-marbles-only-option/

… and more on the ‘non-firman’:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/239586/article/ekathimerini/life/case-for-parthenon-marbles-return-boosted

https://www.thenationalherald.com/239810/acropolis-museum-director-says-parthenon-marbles-stolen-by-lord-elgin/

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http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

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Really a DNA sort of study but with the suggestion that megalithic tombs were ‘stone age’ family graves:

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-megalith-tombs-family-graves-european.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uu-mtw041119.php

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/were-europe-s-megalithic-societies-patrilineal

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stone-circles-avebury-may-have-surrounded-house-neolithic-one-percent-180971974/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7592-190417-megalithic-tomb-kinship

… and with a patrilineal spin:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/were-europe-s-megalithic-societies-patrilineal

17 Piliny culture cremation burials from Slovakia:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22099293/archaeological-research-uncovered-17-cremation-graves.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7591-190417-slovakia-cremation-burials

Iron Age (and Roman) remains found during waterworks in Oxfordshire feature some ‘ritual’ burials (maybe human sacrifice):

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-47934361

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/04/14/iron-age-skeletons-may-have-victims-ritual-human-sacrifice/

https://www.livescience.com/65245-26-skeletons-unearthed-by-water-company.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/incredibly-wellpreserved-iron-age-and-roman-remains-found-in-stream-in-oxfordshire-a4117566.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victims-of-human-sacrifice-oxfordshire-united-kingdom-thames-water-pipes/

https://news.sky.com/story/iron-age-settlement-and-3000-year-old-skeletons-discovered-during-work-to-lay-water-pipes-11693810

https://gizmodo.com/utility-workers-in-england-stumble-upon-grisly-graves-o-1834056214

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/victims-of-human-sacrifice-found-by-water-crew-at-3000yearold-burial-site/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/uk-construction-unearths-neolithic-skeletons-may-have-belonged-victims-human-sacrifice-180971976/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7590-190416-england-pit-burials

I think we mentioned these 2000 years bp woman’s remains from a cliff burial in Poland being analyzed:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C33623%2Czachodniopomorskie-womans-remains-fell-out-cliff-bagicz-are-2-thousand-years-old

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-skeleton-that-fell-out-of-a-cliff-may-belong-to-a-princess/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7593-190417-poland-bagicz-burial

A huge section of a Pictish fort wall from Burghead:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/1726465/archaeological-dig-at-north-east-pictish-fort-unearths-huge-section-of-wall-still-standing-after-1000-years/

A ‘sonar anomaly’ leads to the discovery of a 500 years bp shipwreck in the North Sea:

https://www.livescience.com/65276-16th-century-shipwreck-copper-cargo.html

A ‘call’ for folks who have found ‘witch bottles’ during their renovation activities and the like:

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-17th-century-witch-bottles.html

… and a feature on ‘witches’ marks’:

https://www.ft.com/content/98ab77e2-579c-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1

A metal detectorist found a hatpin possibly owned by Edward IV:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorist-unearths-gold-hat-pin-potentially-owned-edward-iv-180971956/

An Anglo Saxon silver mount find is declared treasure:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/south-shropshire/2019/04/16/anglo-saxon-silver-mount-found-in-south-shropshire-is-treasure/

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http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

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17 000 years bp pottery fragments from Guangdong:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/15/c_137979077.htm

Interesting 13 500 years bp ‘squatting woman’ burial from Guangdong:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/16/c_137982200.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7595-190418-china-prehistoric-burial

Also from Guangdong comes evidence of what folks were eating 25 000 – 10 000 years bp:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/19/c_137990891.htm

Construction in Xi’an keeps running into sites, apparently:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1146293.shtml

A weekly overviewish thing on finds from China:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/20/c_137992487.htm

Feature on puppy sacrifices found in some Shang Dynasty tombs:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=33811

Feature on the private lives of Chinese empresses:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/new-scholarship-revealing-private-lives-chinas-empresses-180971958/

Hundreds of petroglyphs on Kaimear Island:

https://en.antaranews.com/news/123786/numerous-motifs-discovered-in-rock-art-site-on-kaimear-island

Feature on ‘rebuilding’ some Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-47954950/once-destroyed-by-the-taliban-the-buddha-statues-live-again

In case you need a primer on Australian history:

https://theconversation.com/australias-epic-story-a-tale-of-amazing-people-amazing-creatures-and-rising-seas-115701

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ddab09cab5362c9613318bd92&id=b917a20ae5

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NORTH AMERICA

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A possible historic log cabin find in Kentucky:

https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Crews-discovers-possible-historic-log-cabin-while-demolishing-Lincoln-Co-home-508699561.html

Feature on copper use by Hopewell (and other) people in Ohio:

http://news.jrn.msu.edu/2019/04/copper-culture-shapes-ancient-history/

Assorted finds from various periods at a dig at a church in Roxbury (MA):

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/19/pieces-history-unearthed-archaeological-dig-first-church-roxbury/uu0hAj2ktiClBUBbj5OzxI/story.html

Monitoring possible Tsawout sites during trailer park construction on reserve land:

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/archaeologist-monitoring-building-work-on-tsawout-first-nation-amid-burial-ground-concerns/

There are issues with protecting sites in Chaco Canyon:

https://www.knau.org/post/checkerboard-chaco-canyon-complicates-effort-protect-sacred-sites

On the ‘mental rigours’ of being US president:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47671986

More on those Cherokee cave inscriptions:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/newly-translated-cherokee-cave-writings-reveal-sacred-messages

https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/cherokee-cave-inscriptions-13042019/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

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A pre-Columbian text on a painted vase brom Belize gives some insight into the breakdown of Maya society:

https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=208875

A Maya ‘figurine factory’ from Guatemala:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/archaeologists-unearth-largest-mayan-figurine-factory-date

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7597-190419-guatemala-maya-figurines

Interesting study of an ancient Peruvian brewery:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/fm-tst041219.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-secret-stable-society-steady-beer.html

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-first-empire-andes-ensured-steady-beer-supply

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/04/beer-diplomacy-dying-days-wari-empire/

I think we mentioned these ‘imperial’ items found at the site of Brazil’s zoo:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/rio-de-janeiro-s-national-museum-to-receive-archaeological-pieces-discovered-beneath-zoo

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-30000-artifacts-found-rio-zoo-be-given-fire-ravaged-national-museum-180971994/

A graphic novel of the conquest of the Aztec Empire:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2019/04/16/mexico/1555372290_724009.html

More on those sacrificed guinea pigs from Peru:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/04/ritually-sacrificed-guinea-pigs-adorned.html#fCliP18D3Qzg3xfk.97

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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/

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

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Photo features on Notre Dame before the fire:

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/713571132/images-notre-dame-cathedral

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/on-the-roof-of-notre-dame-before-it-burned

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47967759

… and the history of the cathedral:

https://www.livescience.com/65240-notre-dame-cathedral-history.html

https://www.npr.org/713822050

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47971044

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/notre-dame-in-the-french-imagination?utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Humor_041719&bxid=5be9cac024c17c6adf39b8ec&user_id=17854151&esrc=auto_captionentrants

Then there was the coverage during the fire:

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/notre-dame-fire/index.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-47942947

https://www.livescience.com/65237-notre-dame-cathedral-on-fire.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pariss-notre-cathedral-is-on-fire/2019/04/15/c487906e-5fa1-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/world/europe/notre-dame-fire.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/world/europe/notre-dame-cathedral-fire.html

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/04/15/actualidad/1555351385_404402.html

The ‘crucial half hour’ in which Notre Dame was saved:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47953795

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/world/europe/notre-dame-fire-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

… and the first photos of the aftermath:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/notre-dame-fire-shocking-picture-of-inside-charred-shell-of-iconic-cathedral-shows-altar-still-a4118736.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-paris-damage-photos-before-after-a8871846.html

https://www.newsweek.com/pictures-notre-dame-cathedral-interior-show-altar-giant-cross-survived-fierce-1397580

… and there were concerns for the sacred items there:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/crown-of-thorns-notre-dame-cathedral-fire-jesus-relic-destroy-damage-interior-a8871581.html

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/treasures-notre-dame-102822207.html

https://www.thelocal.fr/20190416/what-happened-to-the-treasures-of-notre-dame-during-the-blaze

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/the-priceless-art-and-artefacts-housed-inside-the-notre-dame-cathedral-in-pictures-1.849696

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/art-destroyed-in-fire-notre-dame-paris-artifacts-13769096.php

… and on the crown of thorns:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/04/20/sacred-mysteries-french-kings-ransom-crown-thorns/

… and the rose windows:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/europe/notre-dame-artifacts/index.html

… and the magnitude of the damage in general:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/notre-dame-architecture-cultural-loss/index.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/which-notre-dame-treasures-survived-the-fire

https://fr.aleteia.org/2019/04/16/incendie-de-notre-dame-ce-qui-a-ete-epargne-les-oeuvres-qui-sont-perdues/

https://au.news.yahoo.com/treasures-notre-dame-102822931–spt.html

https://www.thelocal.fr/20190416/how-bad-is-the-damage-to-notre-dame

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-what-was-saved-lost-crown-of-thorns-tunic-windows/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-was-saved-in-the-notre-dame-cathedral-fire-11555514066

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/04/15/notre-dame-paris-burning-irreplaceable-artworks-inside-may-gone/3476611002/

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/04/16/actualidad/1555412193_499224.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fire-ravages-historic-notre-dame-cathedral-180971967/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-weve-learned-aftermath-notre-dame-fire-180971998/

… on why it was a ‘tinderbox’:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/17/world/europe/notre-dame-cathedral-3d.html

… and the plans to rebuild:

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-rebuilding-notre-dame-fraught-expensive.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47952055

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613314/this-digital-scan-of-notre-dame-offers-hope-for-its-restoration-after/

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-american-hard-accurate-d-notre-dame.html

… a curious oped:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/do-not-rebuild-notre-dame.html

Feature on the 1837 fire that destroyed Russia’s Winter Palace:

https://theconversation.com/in-notre-dame-fire-echoes-of-the-1837-blaze-that-destroyed-russias-winter-palace-115546

… and other famous buildings destroyed by fire:

https://m.jpost.com/International/Notre-Dame-tragedy-Fire-has-gutted-important-buildings-around-the-world-586936

We should also mention there was a fire at a building associated with the Al-Aqsa Mosque at almost the same time:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-april-16-stories-1518343

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/small-fire-broke-out-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-flames-ravaged-notre-dame-180971983/

A new technique for studying textiles:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/mh-nss041719.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-people-natural-dyes-thousands-years.html

Feature on the development of the codex:

https://aeon.co/ideas/the-birth-of-the-book-on-christians-romans-and-the-codex

A sample of Charlotte Bronte’s hair turned up on the Antiques Road Show:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/17/charlotte-bronte-hair-ring-antiques-roadshow-bronte-society-braid-1855

Pondering Robinson Crusoe:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/19/robinson-crusoe-at-300-its-time-to-let-go-of-this-toxic-colonial-fairytale

The Life of Brian is 40:

https://theconversation.com/life-of-brian-at-40-an-assertion-of-individual-freedom-that-still-resonates-114743

Feature on the ‘Holy Stairs’:

https://www.livescience.com/65244-holy-stairs-jesus.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/holy-stairs-opened-1st-time-131000986.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/marble-holy-steps-have-been-uncovered-first-time-300-years-180971984/

On the history of dentistry:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/

On faking texts in the 19th century:

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/2019/04/faking-it.phtml

On the dates of Easter and Passover:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/why-dont-easter-and-passover-always-line/587572/

Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages:

https://www.livescience.com/65274-good-friday-middle-ages-jews.html

On the history of charoset:

https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/food/the-history-of-charoset-1.483220

Some Guggenheim recipients:

http://www.dailycal.org/2019/04/14/5-uc-berkeley-faculty-members-receive-2019-guggenheim-fellowship/

http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2019/04/10/two-cuny-arts-and-humanities-professors-awarded-guggenheim-fellowships/

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/04/18/five-faculty-win-guggenheim-fellowship/

Suggestion there are still human remains on the Titanic:

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/human-remains-on-titanic

On the evolution of religion:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190418-how-and-why-did-religion-evolve

On the spread of superstition:

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/how-superstitions-spread

Using 9th century techniques to construct a monastery in Germany:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/worlds-weirdest-architectural-feat-building-cathedral-ninth-century-tools-180971909/

Pondering heaven:

https://theconversation.com/what-and-where-is-heaven-the-answers-are-at-the-heart-of-the-easter-story-115451

… and hell:

https://theconversation.com/what-is-hell-exactly-we-might-joke-its-other-people-but-the-bible-has-a-more-complicated-answer-113732

An archaeology video game that is actually about archaeology:

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/4/16/18311381/heavens-vault-review-ps4-steam-inkle

Mona Lisa didn’t have a thyroid issue:

https://www.theweek.in/news/health/2019/04/19/mona-lisa-didnt-suffer-from-thyroid-problem-study.html

https://www.newsnation.in/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/mona-lisa-did-not-suffer-from-thyroid-problem-study-article-221210.html

Feature on the political power of women:

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-acknowledging-royal-women-political-power.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/sfi-ala041619.php

On memories of megafauna surviving in art:

https://theconversation.com/of-bunyips-and-other-beasts-living-memories-of-long-extinct-creatures-in-art-and-stories-113031

On being near-sighted before the invention of glasses:

https://www.livescience.com/65229-nearsighted-people-before-glasses-invented.html

Interesting feature on the ‘whirling speculum’:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47161370

A full-size sculpture of the Sutton Hoo ship has gone on show:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-47976309

Latest professional organization having a #metoo sort of controversy was the SAA:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/metoo-controversy-erupts-archaeology-meeting

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/15/archaeology-group-faces-backlash-over-how-it-handled-known-harassers-attendance

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/group-apologizes-after-appearance-by-banned-alaska-professor/

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/archaeologists-ask-society-for-harassment-policy-change-65745

https://hyperallergic.com/495500/2000-archaeologists-and-scholars-ask-society-for-american-archaeology-to-review-sexual-harassment-policy/

More on DaVinci being ambidextrous:

https://www.livescience.com/65225-da-vinci-ambidextrous.html

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Early photos of Athens:

https://usa.greekreporter.com/2019/04/15/stunning-exhibition-of-first-known-photographs-of-athens-metropolitan-museum/

Picasso and antiquity:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/239674/picasso-and-antiquity-line-and-clay-at-museum-of-cycladic-art/

Tintoretto:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47870742

Hammershi:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190417-why-hammershi-is-europes-great-painter-of-loneliness

Hoards:

https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/whats-on/rare-chance-to-see-historic-treasures-at-buxton-museum-art-gallery-1-9716646

Tuna el-Gebel:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/68320/Why-Tuna-el-Gebel-exhibition-in-Egyptian-museum-will-be

The Michael C Carlos Museum has acquired some of the Senruset II collection:

https://news.emory.edu/features/2019/04/carlos-ancient-art/

Not sure where to put this item on Marie Antoinette’s Versailles apartments being on display:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-47928976/marie-antoinette-s-versailles-apartments-on-display

There are issues about a planned Le Corbusier museum:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/controversy-over-le-corbusier-museum-grows-amid-reports-architects-fascist-past-180971949/

Hyping the new museum in Giza:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africa/egypt/articles/inside-the-grand-egyptian-museum/

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AT THE AUCTIONS

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Big bucks for a rare Australian penny:

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2019/04/australian-penny-rarity-tops-1-million-australian-dollars.html

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THE TECHY SIDE

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In case you missed the Orkney dog facial reconstruction:

https://www.livescience.com/65262-neolithic-dog-looked-like-wolf.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/13/neolithic-dog-reveals-tales-behind-orkney-monuments

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thanks-facial-reconstruction-you-can-now-look-eyes-neolithic-dog-180971961/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7587-190416-scotland-orkney-dog

More on declassified U2 spyplane photos and archaeology:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/declassified-u-2-spy-plane-photos-are-boon-aerial-archaeology

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CLIMATE MATTERS

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Climate change is putting UNESCO Heritage sites at risk of flooding:

http://discovermagazine.com/2019/may/future-flooding-of-our-past

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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Spinning the genetic legacy of Crusaders via a mass burial pit in Lebanon:

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-history-crusades-told-crusaders-dna.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190418131410.htm

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/wtsi-cml041719.php

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/cp-aho041119.php

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/world/crusaders-dna-discovery-scn/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/crusades-genes-white-europeans-population-dna-lebanon-a8876411.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7599-190419-crusader-burial-pit

… there was an interesting ‘isolated skull’ found near the skeletons mentioned above:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/04/18/crusader-skull-used-spread-disease-slash-morale-discovered-archaeologists/

More on ‘Greek farmers’ replacing hunter-gatherers in Britain ca 8500 years BCE:

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-aegean-farmers-hunters-ancient-britain.html

https://eu.greekreporter.com/2019/04/17/ancient-greeks-were-britains-first-farmers/

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/35255-study-aegean-farmers-replaced-hunters-of-ancient-britain-6-000-years-ago.html

https://www.apnews.com/a711c89f6fc8471ba0a117b2b315eacf

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7588-190416-britain-early-farmers

… and the Anatolian ‘origins’ of the folks who built Stonhenge (sort of … seems to be the same story as above):

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stone-henge-builders-origin-dna-migrant-farmers-a8872336.html

https://news.sky.com/story/stonehenge-built-by-descendants-of-early-immigrants-study-finds-11695281

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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TOURISTY THINGS

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Coptic Antinopolis:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2019/04/16/splendors-of-coptic-antinopolis_b6e8f31f-2d79-4f15-8d6a-b23c5fd7db5c.html

Walled cities of Spain:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/16/paco_nadal/1555410282_765094.html

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PERFORMANCES

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Socrates:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/theater/socrates-public-theater-review.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/socrates-theater-review-1202339

https://www.newsweek.com/tim-blake-nelson-1398692

Bacchae:

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2019/04/bacchae

http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/a-stylish-translation-of-euripides,12667

Hadestown:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/hadestown-arrives-on-broadway-and-well-it-all-goes-to-you-know-where/2019/04/17/ed83afa8-6112-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html

Oresteia (in Mosul):

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/theater/orestes-in-mosul-milo-rau.html

Semele:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/arts/music/english-concert-semele-review.html

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CRIME BEAT

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Three arrested in Kyparissia for illegal possession of antiquities:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/239717/article/ekathimerini/news/three-arrests-in-southern-greece-over-illegal-possession-of-antiquities

Looters did some damage at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park:

https://www.dailyastorian.com/news/local/looters-hit-lewis-and-clark-national-historical-park/article_7150c982-61e6-11e9-8ab3-63856463b6fe.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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A statue owned by Roberto Benigni that was stolen a few years ago was recovered:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2019/04/16/art-cops-recover-benignis-roman-statue_51bfefe9-f9e3-4d02-a7f6-65f2ac88a7d4.html

https://roma.fanpage.it/ritrovata-una-preziosa-statua-rubata-dalla-villa-romana-di-roberto-benigni/

More on that stone axe head being returned to an Irish museum:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/returning-the-axe-to-rural-ireland-1.3858825

More on that Egyptian fragment being returned from Australia:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/stolen-tomb-fragment-returned-to-egypt

More on that Bonn library recovering 600 books looted after WWII:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bonn-library-receives-600-valuable-books-looted-after-world-war-ii-180971955/

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NUMISMATICA

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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n15.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n16.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES

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Jayne Wrightsman:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/obituaries/jayne-wrightsman-dead.html

Jerry Clack:

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2019/04/20/Obituary-Jerry-Clack-Duquesne-Classics-professor-Pittsburgh-Festival-Opera/stories/201904180136

Eugene Bondar:

https://buffalonews.com/2019/04/13/eugene-bondar-95-retired-professor-of-archaeology-and-anthropology/

David Brion Davis:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/obituaries/david-brion-davis-dead.html

https://news.yale.edu/2019/04/15/david-brion-davis-pulitzer-prize-winner-and-renowned-historian-slavery

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713925992/david-brion-davis-who-helped-remake-the-study-of-slavery-dies-at-92

Jayne Wrightsman:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/obituaries/jayne-wrightsman-dead.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2844-audio-news-from-archaeologica-7-april-13-april-2019

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CONFERENCES

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European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference (August 2019):

https://www.eabs.net/EABS/Conferences/Warsaw_2019/EABS/Abstract_system/Call_for_papers_Warsaw.aspx

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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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

The Book and the Spade:

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

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