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

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

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Alan Brockway Bob Heuman, Maureen Fant,

Kris Curry, David Critchley, Rick Heli, David Emery, Richard C. Griffiths,

and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have

left no one out).

… apologies for lateness … school, travel, and daylight savings

time conspired

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EARLY HOMINIDS

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What analysis of Neanderthal teeth reveals about diet and ‘medicine’:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-dental-plaque-dna-neandertals-aspirin.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/snrc-nae030617.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170308131218.htm

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39205530

https://www.yahoo.com/news/neanderthal-used-aspirin-tooth-pain-study-181706637.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/08/neanderthal-microbes-reveal-surprises-about-what-they-ate-and-who-they-kissed/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/08/neanderthal-dental-tartar-reveals-plant-based-diet-and-drugs

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/03/08/neanderthals-medicines-diet/

http://www.dw.com/en/neanderthals-dined-on-woolly-rhinos-and-used-aspirin/a-37867503

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/health/neanderthal-self-medicate-spain-belgium/index.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/neanderthal-dental-plaque-shows-what-a-paleo-diet-really-looks-like/518949/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/08/519048010/some-neanderthals-were-vegetarian-and-they-likely-kissed-our-human-ancestors?sc=17&f=1007

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5363-170308-neanderthal-dental-plaque

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/08/ciencia/1488991377_990681.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/delving-neanderthal-dental-plaque-understand-how-they-lived-and-ate-180962449/

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2017/the-diet-of-neanderthals-at-el-sidron

On some Denisovan skulls from China:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0305/Ancient-skulls-unearthed-in-China-could-belong-to-little-known-extinct-human-species

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/ancient-skulls-may-belong-elusive-humans-called-denisovans

More on early hominid pointillism:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/science/france-cave-art-pointilism-seurat.html

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AFRICA

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Racing to save Nubian history:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/archaeologists-race-to-save-nubian-history-from-nile-waters-q6r2rnckw

Feature on Great Zimbabwe:

http://www.livescience.com/58200-great-zimbabwe.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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Plenty of excitement over the discovery of a pair of colossal 19th Dynasty statues in a Cairo slum:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/03/10/most-important-recent-discovery-ramsees-ii-colossus-found-in-egypt/

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-idUSKBN16G2A2?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pharaoh-statues-found-muddy-cairo-123716459.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-ozymandias-statue-found-in-mud

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/09/archaeologists-hail-big-discovery-egypt-statue-depicting-ramses/

http://www.dw.com/en/archeologists-in-egypt-discover-massive-statue-of-pharaoh-ramses-ii-in-cairo-slum/a-37893751

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.776563

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-archeologists-egypt-massive-statue-cairo.html

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/statue-probably-depicting-ramses-ii-found/news-story/68da7d27be24a10b592ff493398deb48

http://www.smh.com.au/world/colossus-probably-depicting-ramses-ii-found-in-egypt-20170309-guv2ca.html

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/90271115/Colossus-thought-to-be-of-Pharaoh-Ramses-II-found-in-Egypt-slum-one-of-the-most-important-discoveries-ever

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/world/middleeast/egypt-pharaoh-statue-ramses.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/11/archaeologists-went-digging-in-a-slum-they-found-a-massive-pharaoh-statue/

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-cairo-statue-20170310-story.html

http://www.voanews.com/a/egypt-cairo-likely-ramses-statue-unearthed/3757525.html

http://nhpr.org/post/massive-ancient-statue-discovered-submerged-mud-cairo

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/09/519488251/massive-ancient-statue-discovered-submerged-in-mud-in-cairo

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2017/0310/Buried-treasure-huge-statue-of-Egyptian-king-unearthed-in-Cairo-neighborhood

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/egyptians-find-massive-3-000-year-old-statue-cairo-slum-n731681

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/archeologists-egypt-discover-massive-statue-cairo-slum-46039074

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/egypt-pharaoh-ramses-statue-discovered-cairo/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/huge-statue-egyptian-pharaoh-discovered-cairo-180962497/

… although there was criticism of the excavation methods:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/10/ministry-antiquities-defends-using-excavator-extract-ramses-ii-statue/

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/11/618056/

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/officials-deny-any-damage-newly-discovered-king-ramses-ii-statue-during-excavation

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/11/618056/

http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/world/2017/03/09/ancient-egyptian-royal-statues-unearthed-in-cairo/98949710/

… and subsequent digging will be more ‘advanced’:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/ramses-ii-excavation-be-completed-using-more-advanced-techniques-ministry-sources :

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/03/12/Egypt-to-complete-Ramses-II-excavation-using-safe-techniques-.html

A number of Sekhmet statues were found in Luxor:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/trove-of-statues-of-war-goddess-sekhmet-found-in-luxor-20170309-guukaw.html

… alongside a toppled statue of Amenhotep III:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/260538/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Statue-of-Amenhotep-III,–of-goddess-Sekhmet-unear.aspx

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5360-170308-amenhotep-temple-statues

Tourism is down in Egypt:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/09/617775/

… or is it?:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/08/50-increase-foreign-inflow-archaeological-sites/

Feature on the Persian Empire:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-history-magazine/persian-empire-myth-vs-reality

Remember the Jordan Lead Codices? The Antiquities Ministry has finally declared them to be fake:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/antiquities-agency-chief-says-jordan-codices-fake

I think we mentioned this 4000 years bp ‘engraved dolmen’ find from northern Israel:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4255

http://www.livescience.com/58166-rock-art-discovered-in-israel-dark-ages-tomb.html

http://www.livescience.com/58165-photos-ancient-dolmen-rock-art-israel.html

http://www.livescience.com/58168-rare-rock-art-in-dark-ages-tomb-video.html

http://www.timesofisrael.com/massive-4000-year-old-boulder-tombs-force-rethink-of-bronze-dark-age/

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.775318

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/226096

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/4000-years-old-mysterious-tomb-with-rock-art-exposed-in-upper-galilee/2017/03/05/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rock-art-discovered-in-dark-ages-tomb-in-israel/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-experts-mystery-bronze-age-dolmen-174531240.html

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/4000-year-old-structure-with-mysterious-engravings-discovered-in-Galilee-483256

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5354-170306-israel-dolmen-art

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=94294

Remains of a Roman road near Beit Natif and/or Beit Shamash:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4258

http://www.livescience.com/58167-roman-road-unearthed-in-israel.html

http://www.livescience.com/58162-photos-roman-road-coins-israel.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-route-connected-roman-emperors-163200196.html

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archeologists-discover-2000-year-old-Emperors-Road-near-Beit-Shemesh-483480

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.775816

http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/3/8/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-2000-year-old-road-from-roman-period

https://www.israel21c.org/archaeologists-uncover-roman-era-road-near-bet-shemesh/

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/03/07/israeli-archaeologists-discover-ancient-road-near-jerusalem

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5357-170307-israel-roman-road

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=94351

A Crusader shipwreck off Acre:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.776208

Feature on the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Restoring-Christianitys-Holy-of-Holies-481171

Review of a new book on the Babatha Archive:

http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/professor-from-university-of-gloucestershire-discovers-ancient-family-tale-from-dead-sea-documents/story-30177129-detail/story.html

More on that 1800 years bp Hebrew inscription from a Peqiin synagoge:

http://artdaily.com/news/94022/1-800-year-old-Hebrew-inscriptions-found-on-a-column-capital-in-Peqiin-Village

More on items found in Mosul tunnels after ISIL was driven out; details sometimes paired with the sacking of the Museum:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-antiquities-idUSKBN16H1V5

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/mosul-iraqi-troops-find-assyrian-treasures-in-network-of-isis-tunnels

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4934194,00.html

http://pictures.reuters.com/archive/MIDEAST-CRISIS-IRAQ-ANTIQUITIES-RC1F01B071E0.html

http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/isis/1.776536

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jihadist-tunnels-save-assyrian-winged-bulls-mosul-005838652.html

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/assyrian-artifacts-discovered-abandoned-tunnels

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1064576/middle-east

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/middle-east/2017/03/10/493213/Rubble-and.htm

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/assyrian-treasures-found-in-is-tunnels/news-story/ae530944b023068cbf3091a13f728770

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-mosul-museum-ruins-iraq-forces-advance/

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-antiquities-idUSKBN16H1V5?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

http://www.news24.com/World/News/archaeologists-find-treasures-in-mosel-tunnels-20170307

More on the ‘empty Museum’:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-mosul-museum-ruins-iraq-forces-advance/

http://www.wsj.com/video/mosul-antiquity-museum-they-destroyed-everything/7390BBCE-B6A6-40D4-B966-7184E2E0BBE5.html

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/rubble-and-ash-in-mosul-museum-retaken.aspx?pageID=238&nid=110617&NewsCatID=375

https://www.yahoo.com/news/priceless-remains-lie-ruins-mosul-museum-114143267.html

More on the damage in Palmyra:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-palmyra-ancient-roman-monument-damaged-isis-war-1.4010440

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/226162

http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/isis/syria/1.775283

http://www.newsweek.com/isis-damages-ancient-roman-monument-palymyra-563943

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/islamic-state-destroys-ancient-roman-monument-in-palmyra/news-story/81937188390443ecee57bd4736c2ecf4

More on remains of a palace beneath Jonah’s tomb:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mosul-palace-ancient-2600-years-discovered-isis-shrine-destroyed-archaelogists-iraq-a7620076.html

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Another planter-is-actually-a-Roman-sarcophagus story … from Blenheim Palace:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/08/blenheim-palace-discovers-marble-flowerpot-actually-300k-roman/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/world/europe/roman-sarcophagus-english-garden.html

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/03/10/Ancient-Roman-coffin-used-as-flowerpot-for-centuries-restored/5171489157295/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5369-170310-blenheim-palace-sarcophagus

Finds are causing issues in Thessaloniki again:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/23798-new-archaeological-find-in-thessaloniki-subway-rekindles-old-tensions.html

This Roman coin hoard from Merano doesn’t seem to be getting much attention:

http://video.repubblica.it/socialnews/un-tesoro-a-merano-oltre-3mila-monete-romane-sotto-terra/269730/270182

Concerns for a Roman wall in Slovenia:

http://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/17241-slovenia-constructing-border-fence-on-ancient-roman-wall

Doing math Roman style:

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/do-the-math/Content?oid=3904957

Feature on Britannia on Roman coinage:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=28493

On the origins of the Scythians:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/lmsu-wdt030717.php

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-scythians.html

Feature on the Battle of the Aegates Islands:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/10/day-241-bc-battle-aegates-brings-roman-victory-first-punic-war/

Feature on Norba:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170303-the-italian-city-that-stood-up-to-rome

Feature on Ambiorix:

http://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/7683/ambiorix-and-belgium-a-mythical-bond

On the demise of the Library of Alexandria:

http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/books/who-killed-the-library-of-alexandria-an-excerpt-from-james-crawfords-fallen-glory-the-lives-and-deaths-of-the-worlds-greatest-lost-buildings

Studying the effects of the ‘falling’ Roman empire:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/as-the-roman-empire-fell-its-people-stopped-talking-to-1793011377

What Jay Mickelson is up to:

http://www.capjournal.com/news/latin-banquet-turns-the-clock-back-to-ancient-rome/article_b65886c4-0229-11e7-8fbf-ebbeccda0eda.html

What Michele Salzman is up to:

https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/45162

Brock was honouring Richard Parker:

http://www.brockpress.com/2017/03/brock-university-archaeological-society-celebrates-the-career-of-dr-richard-parker/

Another piece explaining Trump via Thucydides:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/thucydides-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war-a-2400yearold-text-that-explains-trump-20170303-guq08m.html

Review of Heaney’s Aeneid VI translation:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/aeneid-vi-seamus-heaney-review-virgil-epic-underworld

More on that orichalchum found in a shipwreck off Gela:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/orichalcum-the-lost-metal-of-atlantis-may-have-been-found-on-a-shipwreck-off-sicily/news-story/e52dfb6ee238fcfd3e583e75e26d6bd8

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

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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Interesting study of 4000 years bp pollen found in that ‘Ava’ burial from Scotland a while ago:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-39191527

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5358-170307-scotland-achavanich-pollen

Studying remains of some 7000 years bp clothing from France:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5362-170308-france-shell-embroidery

Studying cattle in Finland:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170310091946.htm

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2017/finnish-cattle-and-sheep-endured-harsh-conditions-in-the-middle-ages

Feature on women’s guilds in the Middle Ages:

http://theconversation.com/the-fragility-of-womens-rights-how-female-guilds-wielded-power-long-ago-73265

Caynton Caves are getting some press attention:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39193347

… another cave site in Nottingham has items dating to the 13th and 14th century:

https://nottstv.com/archaeologists-previously-undiscovered-cave-site-find-hundreds-artefacts/

https://nottstv.com/previously-undiscovered-city-centre-caves-completely-changing-understanding-of-nottingham/

I think we mentioned this interesting Crossrail burial:

http://www.livescience.com/58146-2-male-skeletons-found-holding-hands.html

On the Great Storm of 1703:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170309-in-1703-britain-was-struck-by-possibly-its-worst-ever-storm

On Viking fighting techniques:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/vikings-fight-warfare-battle-weapons/

The Neolithic flint mine at Grime’s Graves is opening to the public:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-39235113

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/06/prehistoric-norfolk-mine-grimes-graves-to-open-second-pit-to-public

More voices suggesting the Stonehenge tunnel plan will ruin the site:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/stonehenge-tunnel-plan-would-ruin-site-say-international-advisers-35509099.html

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/15139779.International_experts_join_call_to_scrap_Stonehenge_tunnel_bid/

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15139779.International_experts_join_call_to_scrap_Stonehenge_tunnel_bid/

Arguing over the Galloway Viking hoard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-39217039

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15135992.Row_over_Galloway_s_Viking_hoard_deepens/

More on that Bronze Age weapon hoard from Scotland:

http://artdaily.com/news/94015/Archaeologists-discover-rare-Bronze-Age-weapon-hoard

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2000 years bp Bronze items from Sichuan:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/599686/2000-year-old-bronze-ware.html

On the search for Genghis Khan’s tomb:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39038615

Study suggests the Silk Road may have followed routes created by Nomadic herders:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/wuis-nsr030217.php

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-silk-road-evolved-grass-routes-movement.html

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-nomadic-herders-beat-path-silk-road

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5364-170309-silk-road-paths

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2017/silk-road-was-structured-by-ecological-strategies-of-nomadic-herders

… and they’re still looking for the ‘starting point’:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-03/08/c_136113141.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5361-170308-china-port-city

Remains of a 10th century tree-lined street from Japan:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201703090001.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5367-170310-japan-aoyayokogi-trees

Finds from various periods from Khargone:

http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/350-rare-ancient-antiquities-found-in-khargone-district.html

More on the finds from Chanhon jo Daro:

http://www.thedailystar.net/world/french-team-uncovers-mysteries-indus-civilisations-industrial-hub-1373833

I think we mentioned these medieval burials from Siberia:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5327-170223-russia-medieval-burials

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http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html

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I think we mentioned this study of the Ute ‘trail/road system’:

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/routes-trails-crisscrossed-area-long-before-europe

Reinterring remains found at UGa:

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-03-07/uga-going-ahead-reinterment-plans-remains-uncovered-construction-project

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-03-11/sting-death-uga-s-handling-baldwin-hall-remains-faces-criticism

A pile of ‘historic’ burials from a Philadelphia construction site:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/A-race-to-excavate-huge-number-of-historic-graves-found-on-building-site.html

http://www.phillytrib.com/construction-site-unearths-centuries-old-coffins/article_0daf0fc8-bd1d-5d02-b28d-828a16386960.html

http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2017/03/rutgers_team_helping_with_philly_burial_site_excav.html

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2017/03/10/Construction-unearths-centuries-old-coffins-in-Philadelphia/stories/201703100166

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Race-to-dig-at-historic-cemetery-a-mere-hint-of-what-ails-Philadelphias-oversight-of-buried-treasures.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5368-170310-philadelphia-historic-cemetery

‘Historic’ burials beneath a St Augustine wine shop (we may have mentioned these):

http://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/historic-skeletons-found-under-florida-shop-during-repairs/NAsFlCNUBptyArrF91atEM/

http://www.wftv.com/traffic/news/historic-skeletons-found-under-florida-shop-during-repairs/501209015

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/lifestyles/historic-skeletons-found-under-florida-shop-during-repairs/NAsFlCNUBptyArrF91atEM/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-early-colonists-unearthed-st-augustine-180962385/

There might be plenty of burials beneath an Austin chapel:

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local-govt–politics/dozens-graves-may-under-oakwood-cemetery-chapel-officials-say/mdQN6fOOHPvSyNd4lXzDTO/

Catching up with the Old Vero Man site:

http://www.tcpalm.com/picture-gallery/news/local/indian-river-county/2017/03/09/old-vero-man-dig-site-telling-a-13000-year-old-story/98970470/

Trying to connect platinum and Clovis:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/uosc-udo030917.php

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2017/discovery-of-platinum-may-help-solve-clovis-people-disappearance

Still talking about Jefferson’s mistress:

http://wwlp.com/2017/02/23/archaeologists-dig-up-more-on-thomas-jeffersons-alleged-mistress/

Marking Andrew Jackson’s 250th:

http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2017/03/11/andrew-jackson-250-presidents-legacy-isnt-pretty-but-neither-history/98816804/

On Dolly Madison:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/arts/design/dolley-madison-saving-washington-new-york-historical-society.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

More on concerns for sites in Utah:

http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2017/03/02/archaeology-utah-culture-history-preservation/98535848/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

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Asking developers on Antigua to be more aware of archaeology:

http://antiguaobserver.com/leading-archaeologist-pleas-for-developers-to-assess-their-sites/

More on that Maya jade pendant:

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/a_pendant_fit_for_a_king

More on the ‘Lost City of the Monkey God’:

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/People-hadn-t-set-foot-in-this-ancient-lost-10981239.php

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/this-adventurer-found-the-trip-worth-it–despite-the-flesh-eating-disease/2017/03/03/fcb4cfec-f94b-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html

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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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Pondering the February Revolution in a ‘what if’ sort of way:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/opinion/the-february-revolution-and-kerenskys-missed-opportunity.html

On early Mormon polygamous marriages:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/early-polygamous-mormon-marriages-through-the-eyes-of-the-wives/2017/03/03/15a08ec4-f537-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html

Latest incunabula digitization:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-russian-library-digitizes-oldest.html

Checking out a claim about a bust of Nicholas II:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39192971

On Jane Austen’s eyesight issues:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-39208356

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/books/jane-austen-arsenic-glasses-death.html

On Zaida ben Yusuf’s photography:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/us/gallery/tbt-zaida-ben-yusuf/index.html

Feature on Luther:

http://www.dw.com/en/luther-is-famous-but-we-know-so-little-about-him/a-37907857

They’ve ‘decoded’ Mona Lisa’s smile:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-mona-lisa-decoded-science-happy.html

Identifying Jack the Ripper’s last victim:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-jack-ripper-victim.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/uol-uol031017.php

Theorizing about hunter-gatherer movements:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-dartmouth-modern-hunter-gathers-relocate-maximize.html

In case you need to brush up on your leprechaun lore:

http://www.livescience.com/37626-leprechauns.html

Concerns for the Titanic:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170310-the-wreck-of-the-titanic-is-being-eaten-and-may-soon-vanish

On Hollywood portrayals of archaeologists:

http://www.timesunion.com/technology/businessinsider/article/11-things-Hollywood-gets-wrong-about-being-an-FBI-9178234.php

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/11-things-Hollywood-gets-wrong-about-being-an-FBI-9178234.php

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Hercules Segers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/arts/design/a-dutch-masters-surreal-visions.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&_r=0

Colosseum History:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/06/exhibition-reveals-hidden-history-colosseum-fall-rome-fortresses/

http://www.dw.com/en/new-exhibition-reveals-secret-history-of-romes-colosseum/a-37835265

Terracotta Warriors:

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/terracotta-warriors-met-883898

A Third Gender:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/arts/design/when-japan-had-a-third-gender.html

Michelangelo and Picasso:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39232650

Seurat:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170306-why-the-circus-fascinated-modern-artists

Tang Dynasty Shipwreck:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-03/07/content_28469581.htm

Henry Hudson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/nyregion/new-york-map-henry-hudson-river.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fsam-roberts

There was a strike at the Louvre:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/arts/design/vermeer-louvre.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

I think we mentioned the Grand Egyptian Museum is opening next year:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/grand-egyptian-museum-open-mid-2018-antiquities-minister-0

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THE TECHY SIDE

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Still talking about pictish facial reconstructions:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-murder-victim-pictish-man-face-digitally-recreated/

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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What DNA tells us about the origins of Australia’s aborigines:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-aboriginal-hair-years-country.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/science/aboriginal-australians-dna-origins-australia.html

http://theconversation.com/dna-reveals-aboriginal-people-had-a-long-and-settled-connection-to-country-73958

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39202348

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5365-170309-australia-first-australians

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0309/Hair-apparent-Study-links-modern-Australian-Aboriginals-with-the-continent-s-earliest-settlers

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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TOURISTY THINGS

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Sudan:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20170228-africas-most-misunderstood-country

Sabine hills:

http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2017-3-8/sabine-hills

Petra:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/middle-east/90225830/Petra-Jordan-Why-this-world-wonder-continues-to-woo-tourists

Ramla:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170307-an-underground-boat-to-islamic-glory

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CRIME BEAT

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A bust at Beit Shana:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/226206

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Antiquities-theft-from-Second-Temple-period-prevented-in-central-Israel-483386

http://www.pressreader.com/israel/jerusalem-post/20170307/281711204441372

A stolen book from Syria surfaces in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-book-stolen-in-syria-seized-in-turkey.aspx?pageID=238&nid=110579&NewsCatID=509

… also in Turkey:

http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2017/03/10/historical-artefacts-dating-back-1000-years-seized-during-vehicle-control-in-istanbul

Some Islamic shrine elements stolen in Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/260626/Heritage/Islamic/Door-and-decorative-elements-of-Sultan-AlKamel-AlA.aspx

Another burial mound bust:

http://navajotimes.com/wires-wp/index.php?id=1716684000&kid=Kmv1uov5e9yd9HYx

Latest Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/03/culture-crime-news-27-february-05-march-2017.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 Lewis Chessmen are becoming a repatriation issue of sorts:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/islands/western-isles/1189811/time-for-chessmen-to-be-return-to-their-home-on-isle-of-lewis/

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NUMISMATICA

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A Kushan coin find:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/kushan-dynasty-coins-found-in-tonk-village-baffle-experts/articleshow/57484211.cms

http://www.ptinews.com/news/8483483_800-ancient-copper-coins-discovered-in-Budgam.html

http://www.kashmirmonitor.in/Details/119352/state-archaeology-recovers-hoard-of-1000-year-old-coins-in-budgam

Feature on coins of Akragas:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-greek-coins-eagles-akragas/

Three weeks’ worth of e-Syla … I messed up last week:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n11.html

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n10.html

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n09.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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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED

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A lost work by Fanny Mendelssohn:

http://www.dw.com/en/british-premiere-of-lost-work-by-fanny-mendelssohn/a-37848722

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/arts/fanny-mendelssohn-lost-sonata-trnd/index.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39191514

… related:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39216375

A lost Liszt opera:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/arts/music/listen-to-part-of-long-lost-liszt-opera-sardanapalo.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic

Celebrating lost works by five female composers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38079139

Jean Michel Jarre is at the Dead Sea:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/french-godfather-of-electronic-music-to-play-for-the-dead-sea/

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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/2571-audio-news-from-archaeologica-26-february-2017-4-march-2017

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OBITUARIES

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Marilyn Young:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/books/marilyn-b-young-dead-antiwar-historian.html

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CONFERENCES

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Canada Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping (Nov. 2017)

https://independent.academia.edu/ConferenceCanadabeforeConfederationEarlyMappingandExploration14981763

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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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