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,

Val Moore,

Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week

(as always hoping I have left no one out).

… another quiet week

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EARLY HOMINIDS

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On the role of grandmothers in human evolution:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/07/617097908/why-grandmothers-may-hold-the-key-to-human-evolution

On the species difference between sapiens and neanderthal:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/06/05/ciencia/1528187502_438506.html

More on the dating of homo antecessor:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-human-fossil-species-western-europe.html

More on the origins of paleolithic cave art:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/paleolithic-cave-art-animals/

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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A minaret collapse at a 300 years bp mosque in Egypt is complicated by the fact it isn’t on the heritage list:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/301684/Heritage/Islamic/Qena-mosque-whose-minaret-collapsed-is-not-on-Egyp.aspx

An Ottoman-era building in Cairo was damaged by fire:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/301822/Heritage/Islamic/Ottomanera-SabilKuttab-building-damaged-in-downtow.aspx

Plenty of attention being given to a 9th century glass sculpture of a head of a ‘king’ found last year at Abel Beth Maacah:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-sculpted-mystery-biblical-king-israel.html

https://www.livescience.com/62758-biblical-king-sculpture.html

https://www.apu.edu/media/news/inthenews/26220/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/10/3000-year-old-sculpture-leaves-researchers-scratching-their-heads

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/09/a-3000-year-old-glass-head-deepens-one-of-the-bibles-oldest-mysteries/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sculpted-head-mystery-biblical-king-found-israel-n881681

http://www.ibtimes.com/mystery-biblical-kings-3000-year-old-sculpted-head-unearthed-2689112

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6671-180607-israel-sculpted-head

Latest winepress find comes from Tzippori:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/ancient-winepress-found-in-excavation-of-water-reservoir/2018/06/10/

This carbon dating recalibration story first emerged last week, but it has specific ramifications for the ANE:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-cornell-illuminates-inaccuracies-radiocarbon-dating.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/cu-cri060518.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180605112057.htm

https://www.timesofisrael.com/upstart-carbon-dating-study-could-rewrite-holy-lands-biblical-timeline/

https://www.sciencealert.com/radiocarbon-dating-ancient-levant-region-calibration-inaccuracies

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6668-180606-radiocarbon-dating-calibration

Latest kids-find-ancient-coin story from Israel:

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/world_news/students-on-archaeology-program-unearth–year-old-coin/article_cbf2cc9b-676f-5602-800c-2b5405361b84.html

Feature on the earliest surviving texts of the Torah:

https://www.jewishlinknj.com/features/25480-the-earliest-surviving-texts-of-the-torah

In Our Time this week was about Persepolis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b4z075

Russian archaeologists are planning to dig at Palmyra:

http://tass.com/science/1008849

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Plenty of news from Pompeii this week, but the most spectacular hasn’t made it to the English press yet, alas … first, the latest spectacular finds from Regio V:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2458553&CategoryId=13936

see also:

http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Comunicati/visualizza_asset.html_903665641.html

… and the AIA’s dig diary (not Regio V):

https://www.archaeological.org/news/pompeii/28306

… and a travel blogger climbed a column to get a photo and met with much criticism:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/06/04/french-tourist-draws-ire-at-pompeii_be7a0ace-433e-4ca9-a4dc-0d64e7a2c7cf.html

… he later apologized:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pompeii-ruins-travel-blogger-instagram-nils-travel-a8390126.html

https://www.thelocal.it/20180606/nils-travel-instagram-tourist-photo-pompeii-columns

Feature on the last 24 hours at Pompeii:

https://aleteia.org/2018/06/04/what-was-it-like-in-the-last-24-hours-of-pompeii/

A survey of the waters off Naxos has identified a number of sites:

https://news.gtp.gr/2018/06/04/naxos-underwater-excavations-offer-new-insight-ancient-ports/

Interesting Tartescia culture finds from Badajoz:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/06/06/inenglish/1528274778_511883.html

http://www.turkeytelegraph.com/life-style/found-in-the-tartessian-site-of-the-turunuelo-human-bones-and-a-unique-marble-statue-on-the-peninsula-h18235.html

A huge Roman ‘jar’ from Fiumicino:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/06/07/huge-ancient-roman-jar-found_f5761ecb-cd90-4754-9053-86b0bb7d2b45.html

A fire in Phthiotida revealed a number of (probably illicit) antiquities in plastic and other bags:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/229431/article/ekathimerini/news/firemen-recover-antiquities-in-phthiotida

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/06/08/fire-reveals-over-200-antiquities-in-the-mountains-of-profitis-elias-phthiotida/

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/greek-wildfire-reveals-hoard-of-plundered-antiquities/

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/618339736/in-greece-fire-reveals-ancient-artifacts-possibly-hidden-by-thieves

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greek-wildfire-reveals-hoard-plundered-antiquities-55749573

Digging has resumed at Magarsus:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-continue-in-ancient-magarsus-132818

Searching for a Roman harbour at Lancashire:

https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/in-search-of-the-lost-roman-harbour-in-lancashire-1-9197346

Pondering how the Romans didn’t ‘get past’ Glasgow:

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/how-romans-came-glasgow-no-14748487

Celebrating Fishbourne Roman Palace:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/fishbourne-at-50-celebrating-half-a-century-at-a-unique-roman-palace.htm

Probably should be categorized as ‘Asia’ but a feature on the so-called Pillar of Heliodorus should be of interest to Classics types:

https://thewire.in/history/how-the-historic-pillar-of-heliodorus-became-khamba-baba

Feature on ancient Greek music:

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/overnights/ancient-instruments-to-air/9854458

Jeremy Corbyn says he’ll return the Parthenon Marbles if elected prime minister:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/06/03/jeremy-corbyn-says-would-return-elgin-marbles-greece-elected/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/corbyn-return-elgin-marbles-greece-british-museum-a8381681.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-vows-to-give-back-elgin-marbles-6qxtw6bn7

https://neoskosmos.com/en/116421/corbyn-the-parthenon-sculptures-belong-to-greece/

https://neoskosmos.com/en/116594/mikakos-urges-hellenes-to-support-corbyn-for-return-of-parthenon-marbles/

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-pledges-to-return-parthenon-marbles-to-greece

https://hyperallergic.com/445582/uk-labor-leader-says-he-would-return-parthenon-marbles-to-greece-if-elected/

… which prompted an opposing opEd:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/why-returning-the-elgin-marbles-would-be-madness/

… and a supporting opEd:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/jeremy-corbyn-parthenon-marbles-greece-brexit-second-referendum-abortion-plastic-bags-a8382816.html

… and a BM response:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/972093/Elgin-Marbles-British-Museum-Jeremy-Corbyn

Mary Beard is now a Dame:

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/mary-beard-dame-2018-honours-14762372

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-44423736/dame-mary-beard-dead-chuffed-with-honour

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/mary-beard-says-damehood-tribute-to-greeks-and-romans-36991560.html

There was a screening of *Gladiator* in the Colosseum … Russell Crowe et al in attendance:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/russell-crowe-visits-real-life-colosseum-charity-screening/story?id=55691862

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2458415&CategoryId=13003

Review of Pamela Mensch’s translation of Diogenes Laertius:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/aristotles-lisp-why-socrates-loved-dancing-and-other-tales-of-ancient-thinkers/2018/06/06/ece2fc44-64ff-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

More on that intact burial from Rome with strigils etc.:

https://www.thelocal.it/20180604/ancient-tomb-of-athlete-discovered-rome

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6663-180604-rome-chamber-tomb

More on that oldest jar of olive oil from Italy:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-jar-contained-italys-oldest-olive-oil-180969226/

More on that burial from Viminacium:

http://micetimes.asia/serbian-archaeologists-have-made-an-incredible-discovery/

More on that purported evidence of Roman crucifixion from Italy:

https://www.livescience.com/62727-jesus-roman-crucifixion-found.html

https://aleteia.org/2018/06/04/rare-archaeological-evidence-of-ancient-roman-crucifixion-discovered-in-italian-remains/

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/extremely-rare-evidence-of-crucifixion-found-on-ancient-skeleton/

http://www.newsweek.com/crucified-skeleton-remains-italy-were-likely-nailed-cross-967191

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6665-180604-italy-crucifixion-ankle

More on that Ptolemy coin from Egypt:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/116435/archaeologists-unearth-2200-year-old-coin-depicting-greek-born-king-in-egypt/

http://world.greekreporter.com/2018/06/05/archaeologists-discover-2200-year-old-ancient-greek-writing-in-egypt/

More on ash from Santorini being found at Smyrna:

http://www.euronews.com/2018/06/04/ancient-ashes-reveal-details-of-huge-volcano

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/santorinis-ashes-to-shed-light-on-izmirs-history-132775

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6664-180604-turkey-ashes-smyrna

More on those burned skeletons from Philippopolis:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/goth-invasion-roman-empire-bulgaria-skeletons-archaeology-science/

More on Philip II’s palace at Aigai opening to the public:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/31507-palace-of-philip-ii-opens-to-tourists-at-aigai-in-northern-greece.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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High tech scanning may have located the oldest ‘Christian temple’ in Russia (300 AD):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/nuos-iso060718.php

A prehistoric roundhouse from Tore near Inverness:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44398322

Drone footage suggests there may be an Iron Age roundhouse at a housing development site in Balderstone:

https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/campaigners-say-drone-footage-shows-14761021

A 1000 years bp burial from South Downs appears to be the victim of an execution of other violent end:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-44397636

https://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/skeleton-of-executed-1-000-year-old-man-found-near-shoreham-1-8525697

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/skeleton-of-man-whose-neck-was-slashed-found-during-wind-farm-excavation-847464.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6676-180608-england-executed-man

They’re digging at Coldingham Abbey:

https://aleteia.org/2018/06/06/lindisfarnes-sister-monastery-in-scotland-to-be-site-of-summer-volunteer-dig/

I’m somewhat confused, but this find at St Oswald’s Priory might be related to the above somehow?:

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids/gloucester-schoolchildren-discover-st-oswalds-1657468

From Austria comes word of a mass grave of soldiers killed during the Napoleonic wars:

https://www.livescience.com/62774-mass-grave-napoleonic-wars.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6675-180608-austria-war-graves

Possible remains of an 18th century cottage in Worcester (I think):

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/16273329.Has_a_historic_find_been_made_at_the_new_Hanbao_rooftop_bar_site_/

A 19th century diary of sorts, written on the floorboards of a French chateau:

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44265475

Overviewish thing on various finds from Kent:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/surrounded-by-historic-treasures-184216/

Latest finds from the HMS Invincible:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-44357695

Bizarre investigation of the sexual orientation of some bog bodies:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-evidence-europe-bog-bodies-gay.html

http://sciencenordic.com/no-evidence-europe%E2%80%99s-bog-bodies-were-gay

Reading Abbey has reopened to the public:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/07/reading-abbey-reopens-to-public-but-theres-no-sign-of-henry-i

Plans for a visitor’s centre at Clifford’s Tower were scuttled:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/07/cliffords-tower-visitor-centre-plan-scrapped-mound-york

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

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Human mandibles from the late Pleistocene Niah Caves might reveal things about ancient diets:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/p-lph053118.php

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-late-pleistocene-human-mandibles-niah.html

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/30000-year-old-jawbone-records-tough-diet-in-pleistocene-southeast-asia/

Neolithic marble bracelets from a site in Henan:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/05/c_137232145.htm

Chinese Wuzhu coins from a Korean burial:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1105807.shtml

Remains of a 4000 years bp chariot from Uttar Pradesh:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/asi-unearths-first-ever-physical-evidence-of-chariots-in-copper-bronze-age/articleshow/64469616.cms

https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/asi-unearths-first-ever-physical-evidence-of-copper-bronze-age-chariots-1250351-2018-06-04

https://www.news18.com/news/india/in-a-first-chariot-from-pre-iron-age-found-in-excavation-in-uttar-pradeshs-sanauli-1768085.html

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sinauli-village-in-up-becomes-archaeological-hotpost-with-excavation-of-5000-year-old-chariots/story-KJwCpXlnMOftCICzLUdggM.html

https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/preiron-age-artefacts-from-sanauli-excavation-site-to-be-tested-further-manjul/1326414

http://www.ecns.cn/news/society/2018-06-07/detail-ifyuyvzv3225136.shtml

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/07/c_137237324.htm

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.asianage.com/india/all-india/050618/pre-iron-age-relics-excavated-in-up-district.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-08/bronze-age-chariots-point-to-ancient-warrior-class-india-claims/9848232

https://www.ibtimes.co.in/chariot-pre-iron-age-found-during-excavation-uttar-pradeshs-sanauli-770969

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6666-180605-india-copper-decorations

A 7th century statue of Siva from Andhra Pradesh:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/chalukyan-sculpture-of-siva-found/article24098511.ece

A possible burial urn (date?) from Tamil Nadu:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/remains-of-ancient-urn-found-near-perambalur-in-tn/articleshow/64506369.cms

Also in Tamil Nadu, someone has been tasked with counting lakh idols:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/one-man-army-starts-counting-tamil-nadus-1-lakh-idols-in-37000-temples/articleshow/64515924.cms

Rat remains are being used to study human impacts on assorted Polynesian islands over two millennia:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/mpif-prt053118.php

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-pacific-rats-years-human-impact.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rat-bones-reveal-how-humans-transformed-their-island-environments-180969260/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6673-180607-polynesia-rat-diets

Feature on the 1790 eruption of Kilauea and the rise of Kamehameha:

http://hawaiipublicradio.org/post/how-kilauea-s-1790-eruption-strengthened-kamehameha-s-rise

More on the death of an archaeologist by a bomb outside Kabul:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/02/c_137225081.htm

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http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

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

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NORTH AMERICA

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What they’re finding in that cellar in the Jamestown church:

https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018/06/04/jamestown-unearthed-cellar-under-church-catches-experts-by-surprise/

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/centuries-old-cellar-discovered-at-historic-jamestown/291-562738800

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6662-180604-virginia-church-cellar

Latest finds from Fort Frederica:

https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/group-digs-up-history-at-fort-frederica/article_59008107-2cea-531e-9d96-56cfe50ba455.html

Overview of the history of Helena as a crossroads of sorts:

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://helenair.com/news/nuggets-from-helena-helena-as-an-ancient-crossroads/article_5fded004-5f06-5717-b3aa-f968f9dc0176.html

Feature on Hannah Marie Wormington’s contribution to Colorado archaeology:

https://www.gjsentinel.com/lifestyle/columns/a-woman-pushed-early-research-into-archaeological-sites-in-region/article_22ef2bf6-67bb-11e8-8659-10604b9f1ff5.html

Studying a 19th century schooner unearthed at a construction site in Toronto a while ago:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-schooner-cargo-ship-texas-a-m-researchers-fort-york-1.4692870

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6669-180606-lake-ontario-schooner

Digging for Shaker remains in New Lebanon:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/in-digging-for-shaker-remnants-history-unearthed-veterans-find-avenue-of-rehabilitation,541738

Concerns for coastal sites in Maryland:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/02/616151979/flooding-and-rising-seas-threaten-americas-oldest-farmland

Honours for Bill Ross:

http://lakesuperiornews.com/News/Bill-Ross-Recognized-for-Distinguished-Service-

Feature on Mary Ann Shadd Cary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/obituaries/mary-ann-shadd-cary-abolitionist-overlooked.html?nytapp=true&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Feature on Benedict arnold:

https://www.weeklystandard.com/gordon-s-wood/benedict-arnolds-villainous-perfidy

Feature on the War of 1812:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18481542

… and things looted from Washington in 1814:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28833238

Reviewish of Canova’s George Washington:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/canovas-george-washington-review-the-very-model-of-a-lost-masterpiece-1528542000

More on the coastal route hypothesis:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180530144144.htm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-evidence-shows-first-americans-could-have-migrated-along-coast-180969217/

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/when-and-how-did-the-first-americans-arrive–its-complicated-/

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Studying Incan trepanation skills:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-holes.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180608200055.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6690-180608-peru-trepanation-techniques

Latest suggestion on how they put hats on the Easter Island statues:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/ps-hof060118.php

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-hats-easter-island-statues.html

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/theory-workers-easter-island-statues-hats

https://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-how-did-easter-islanders-lift-statues-13-ton-hats-researchers-may-have-the-answer/

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-mystery-about-easter-islands-statues-might-finally-be-solved/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/how-easter-islands-famous-statues-got-their-giant-stone-hats/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6667-180605

Not sure if this is a new Chimu child/llama sacrifice story or not:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-mass-child-sacrifice-peru-012705981–spt.html

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/remains-30-children-150-llamas-killed-in-peru-sacrifice-quell-effects-el-nino-discovered

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/world/science-health-world/pre-columbian-mass-child-sacrifice-site-peru-may-biggest-ever/

What Izumi Shimada is up to:

https://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu/grant-to-fund-siuc-professor-s-research-in-peru/article_01f6c5dd-8bf4-5fef-9c4a-8979800cf1ef.html

https://news.siu.edu/2018/06/060418-anthropology-professor-gets-nsf-grant-for-research-in-peru.php

More on recently-found Nazca geoglyphs:

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-find-a-wealth-of-new-geoglyphs-near-the-famed-nazca-lines-in-peru/

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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 beginnings of agriculture:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-agriculture-uncover-clues.html

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-the-dawn-of-agriculture-not-born-of-necessity-says-new-study-1.6157188

… related:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-history-agriculture.html

Big bucks for an early van Gogh:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44365070

Pondering when humans first learned to count:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-humans.html

On the beginnings of monotheism:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/06/Making-of-Monotheism

Feature on Sophia Perovskaya:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/obituaries/overlooked-sophia-perovskaya.html

Pondering ownership of historic shipwrecks:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44302476

Feature on Vatican digitization of manuscripts:

https://fr.aleteia.org/2018/06/05/le-vatican-donne-acces-a-15-000-manuscrits-gratuitement/

On creating replicas of cave paintings:

https://hyperallergic.com/445675/the-art-of-creating-replicas-of-ice-age-cave-paintings/

Archaeologists among the Queen’s Birthday honorees:

https://antiguaobserver.com/archaeologist-named-as-queens-birthday-honoree/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44397888

Emory acquired some nice Piranesi tomes:

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2018/06/er_piranesi_acquisition/campus.html

Review of a biography of DaVinci (I think):

http://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2018/06/04/biografo-da-vinci-era-un-inadaptado-autentico-ilegitimo-homosexual-zurdo-y-vegetariano/

https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/06/04/actualidad/1528128156_899203.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

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

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Black Classicists:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/04/hidden-figures-the-importance-of-remembering-black-classicists

Ancient scents:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/03/c_137227669.htm

Heavenly Bodies:

https://www.npr.org/613155526

Iranian antiquities are coming to the Netherlands:

http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/some-200-iranian-antiquities-to-be-exhibited-in-netherlands/

A ‘hidden attic’ in Westminster Abbey is being turned into a museum:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hidden-attic-westminster-abbey-opening-museum-180969209/

The Uffizi has devoted a special gallery to Michelangelo and Raphael:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/arts/design/uffizi-gallery-raphael-michelangelo.html

More hype for the GEM opening:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-inaugurate-one-largest-antiquities-museums-soon/

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THE TECHY SIDE

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Feature on the Digital Archaeological Record project:

https://asunow.asu.edu/20180607-discoveries-next-big-archaeological-discovery-may-not-come-out-ground

Another method for detecting archaeological elements not visible to the naked eye:

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-invisible-archaeological-elements.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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DNA suggests a Bronze Age, Russian origin for the bubonic plague:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/mpif-obp060618.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180608085625.htm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/plague-black-death-skeletons-grave-russia-bubonic-discovery-genetics-a8389566.html

https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/08/bubonic-plague-bacteria-russia/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6677-180608-russia-bubonic-plague

Feature on Svante Paabo:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/06/06/ciencia/1528297453_612819.html

More on Icelandic DNA:

http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/2018/06/icelands-founding-fathers-underwent.html?m=1

More on that men-died-off-7000-years-bp suggestion:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6672-180607-male-gene-bottleneck

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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TOURISTY THINGS

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Saudi Arabia:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/saudi-arabia-hidden-archaeology-alhijir-petra-charles-doughty-a8373686.html

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CRIME BEAT

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That letter of Columbus that was stolen a while back has been recovered:

http://www.euronews.com/2018/06/07/spanish-american-police-recover-stolen-columbus-letter

A long court upholds a conviction of theft of some church murals:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/229279/article/ekathimerini/news/court-upholds-italian-art-dealers-conviction-over-rare-church-murals

Tracing how ISIL loot gets to Western markets:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/priceless-antiques-looted-by-is-smuggled-into-western-markets/9833554

Latest in the search for a stolen Caravaggio:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/former-mobster-offers-clues-search-stolen-caravaggio-180969231/

More on that foiled attempt to smuggle papyri from Egypt to Libya:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/51425/In-Pics-Smuggling-attempt-of-Pharaonic-papyri-to-Libya-foiled

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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Egypt recovered nine items from France:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/301963/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Nine-smuggled-ancient-Egyptian-artefacts-recovered.aspx

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6674-180607-france-repatriation-egypt

… and an Egyptian official was elected head of UNESCO’s counter-illicit-antiquities committee:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/301910.aspx

Crete continues to campaign for the return of items looted during Nazi occupation:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/116507/fight-continues-for-return-of-cretan-antiquities-looted-during-nazi-occupation/

The BM is loaning an Oregon tribe some objects:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/ap-exclusive-tribe-welcomes-artifacts-from-british-museum/2018/06/05/a04dbf98-688f-11e8-a335-c4503d041eaf_story.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/ap-exclusive-tribe-welcomes-artifacts-british-museum-55652551

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/AP-Exclusive-Tribe-welcomes-artifacts-from-12967820.php

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-06-05/oregon-tribe-welcomes-artefacts-from-british-museum/

Sotheby’s v Greece over ownership of a bronze horse statue:

https://www.ft.com/content/e8c59de8-68cd-11e8-8cf3-0c230fa67aec

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NUMISMATICA

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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n22.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n23.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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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2745-audio-news-from-archaeologica-27-may-2-june-2018

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OBITUARIES

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Ken Fairless:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16273818.Tributes_paid_to_respected_archaeologist__teacher_and_gentleman/

Ira Berlin:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ira-berlin-transformative-historian-of-slavery-in-america-dies-at-77/2018/06/06/eddb33fc-6994-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html

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CONFERENCES

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CBA Wessex 60th Anniversary Conference (November 2018):

http://cba-wessex.org.uk/cba-events/annual-conference-2018/

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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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