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, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay,

Don Buck, 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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350 000 years bp stone axes from Antalya’s Karain Cave:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-axe-found-in-antalya-excavation-145603

Latest finds from Qesem Cave suggest early humans were ‘storing’ and saving bone marrow to eat later:

https://www.aftau.org/news-page-archaeology?=&storyid4677=2487&ncs4677=3&erid=8102588

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-prehistoric-humans-ate-bone-marrow.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/afot-sfp100819.php

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-researchers-discover-400000-year-old-canned-bone-marrow-604099

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/science/marrow-israel-cave.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-discover-400000-year-old-paleo-snack-pack-in-israeli-cave/

https://www.livescience.com/marrow-bones-prehistoric-soup-cans.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8069-191010-deer-bone-marrow

Explaining the statue of floresiensis:

https://www.livescience.com/why-hobbits-were-so-small.html

https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Fast-evolution-explains-the-tiny-stature-of-14502378.php

On the ecosystems early humans evolved in:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/uou-ehe100219.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-early-humans-evolved-ecosystems-today.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007153451.htm

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AFRICA

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Study suggests a human presence on Madagascar some 11 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-timeline-human-presence-madagascar.html

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A pair of discoveries, including remains of an ‘industrial zone’ in the Valley of the Monkeys near Luxor (date?):

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/75718/Hawass-announces-2-remarkable-archaeological-discoveries-in-Luxor

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/352581/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Zahi-Hawass-announces-two-archaeological-discoveri.aspx

https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypt-discovers-archaeological-industrial-zone-182947327.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-luxor/egypt-discovers-archaeological-industrial-zone-in-luxors-valley-of-the-monkeys-idUSKBN1WP2RP

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egypt-archeology-valley-kings-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

https://gizmodo.com/ancient-egyptian-industrial-zone-uncovered-in-luxor-s-1838975156

Brief item on a pair of mummies found in the Valley of the Kings:

https://www.livescience.com/mummies-discovered-egypt-valley-of-kings.html

The Antiquities ministry is trying to figure out how to put the lid of Tut’s sarcophagus back in place:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/352640/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Antiquities-ministry-looking-into-putting-lid-back.aspx

A text found a while back turns out to be one of the oldest (maybe the oldest) coffin text:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/earliest-book-found-in-tomb-written-off-by-archaeologists-8qdwm3pf7

More on that Ptolemy IV temple find near Kom Shaku:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egypt-temple-ptolemy-iv-kom-shaku-tama-hapi-a9144846.html

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/2200-year-old-egyptian-temple-unearthed-on-the-bank-of-the-nile/as71540831.cms

Plenty more coverage of that 5000 years bp Canaanite ‘metropolis’ find in Israel (En Esur):

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-israeli-archaeologists-ancient-city.html

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-city-discovered-israel.html

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/5000-year-old-NYC-style-metropolis-uncovered-in-northern-Israel-603854

https://www.timesofisrael.com/embargo-until-1130-5000-year-old-canaanite-megalopolis-rewrites-history-books-say-archaeologists/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269806

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/5000-year-old-metropolis-discovered-in-northern-israel

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-gigantic-prehistoric-city-found-in-israel-during-roadworks-1.7947733

https://forward.com/fast-forward/432826/next-exit-the-bronze-age-ancient-city-found-in-israel-during-off-ramp/

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2019/10/a-5000-year-old-metropolis-north-of-tel-aviv/

https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/archaeologists-unearth-remains-5000-year-old-northern-israel-1313242

https://www.dw.com/en/bronze-age-new-york-discovered-israeli-archaeologists-say/a-50716230

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/israel-bronze-age-en-esur-scli-intl/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-city-en-ensur-israel-archaeologists-1463452

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/10/07/actualidad/1570454539_061195.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/ancient-bronze-age-new-york-city-found-in-israeli-excavation

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/new-york-of-the-bronze-age-unearthed-in-israel/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-bronze-age-city-was-new-york-southern-levant-180973293/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8061-191009-israel-en-esur

Feature on Gertrude Bell:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/gertrude-bell-dashing-ex-spy-founded-iraqs-national-museum/

Feature on James Henry Breasted:

https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2019/10/09/james-henry-breasted

Feature on elder care in ancient Susa:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/10/The-Care-of-the-Elderly-in-Susa

Latest feature on the flooding of Hasankeyf:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/10/hasankeyf-moving-an-ancient-town-to-higher-ground/599656/

Concerns for heritage during Turkish military operations in Syria:

https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/turkish-operation-in-northeast-threatens-30-730498.html

Again, Yemen is asking the US to ban the sale of artifacts from Yemen:

https://yemenonline.info/land-sheba/2492

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191010-yemen-calls-on-us-to-ban-sale-of-its-artefacts/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)

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A Minoan woman burial at a ‘monumental archaeological complex’ being excavated in Sissi:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/262875/excavations-at-sisi-crete-bring-to-light-very-important-archaeological-finds/

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/10/03/minoan-era-skeleton-of-female-found-intact-on-crete/

https://www.newsweek.com/rare-ancient-tomb-rich-minoan-woman-monumental-archaeological-complex-crete-1463811

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8058-191008-crete-minoan-sisi

Not sure how much is new in this item on recent finds from Eleftherna:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/10/07/ancient-site-on-crete-reveals-story-of-the-dawn-of-greek-civilization/

Evidence of 2200 years bp fortifications at Pyla-Vigla (Cyprus):

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/10/08/dig-at-ancient-military-site-sheds-light-on-its-fortification/

https://in-cyprus.com/pyla-koutsopetria-ancient-fortifications-explored/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8067-191010-cyprus-hellenistic-fortifications

A Bosporan Kingdom era site from near Kerch:

https://tass.com/society/1082094

A Thracian site at Heraion-Teikhos:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/thracian-civilization-being-unearthed-147359

Latest amazing find from Regio V in Pompeii is a spectacular gladiator fresco:

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-vivid-gladiator-fresco-pompeii.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/pompeii-dig-unearths-fighting-fresco-gladiators-tavern

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pompeii-fresco-gladiators-italy-archaeology-a9152241.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/new-fresco-with-gladiators-discovered-in-pompeii/2019/10/11/7222dd58-ec35-11e9-a329-7378fbfa1b63_story.html

https://www.apnews.com/60d1b6b03b8846508aa577cf8e043f81

https://www.gulftoday.ae/culture/2019/10/12/pompeii-discovers-vivid-fresco-depicting-victorious-gladiator

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8107-191011-pompeii-gladiator-fresco

A 2nd century CE inscription from Plovdiv:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/10/09/archaeology-2nd-century-inscription-found-at-plovdivs-roman-forum-fining-philippopolis/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8068-191010-bulgaria-septimius-severus

An interesting curse tablet:

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-curse-of-dancer-deciphered.html

Tracking the movement of potters with Greek pottery:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C78848%2Cpolish-scientist-tracks-migrations-ancient-greek-potters.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8059-191008-greece-aegina-potters

A study tying burials to territorial claims in Prepalatial Crete:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191009103303.htm

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/dg-ctl100919.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-cretan-tomb-territorial.html

That major inscription found at Pompeii a few months ago has been translated:

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-pompeii-inscription-life-before-tragedy.html

… text and translation available in the JRA here (pdf):

https://www.journalofromanarch.com/v32_firstpages/32PompeiiInsc.pdf

A Roman temple from Tieion:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-temple-in-tieion-unearthed-147390

Interesting suggestion about the Judea Recepta coins:

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/history/historian-linda-zollschan-challenges-world-opinion-on-inscription-of-a-roman-coin/2019/10/07/

Feature on the Minotaur:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/263973/the-minotaur-of-crete-moved-greece-rome-art-literature-myth/

Review of Everitt, *Alexander the Great*

https://www.fredericksburg.com/entertainment/arts/book-review-author-reexamines-the-life-and-death-of-alexander/article_a1fd3aa9-8f04-5f80-88a7-3d6f772b9b79.html

Review of Alice Oswald, *Nobody*:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/nobody-by-alice-oswald-review-mad-about-homer-dcp2p68rg

Review of Drinkwater, *Nero: Emperor and Court*:

https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/1889

Review of Lieberman, *The Emperors and the Jews*:

http://thejewishvoice.com/2019/10/08/the-emperors-and-the-jews-makes-history-come-alive/

Tim Joseph was explaining the Classical side of *Succession*:

https://news.holycross.edu/blog/2019/10/07/classics-professor-tim-joseph-draws-classics-connections-in-hbos-hit-show-succession/

Craig Williams is looking at Native American writing and Classics:

https://news.blog.gustavus.edu/2019/10/07/classics-hosts-lecture-on-native-american-writing/

Peter Jones’ latest is about Extinction Rebellion:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/extinction-rebellion-proves-aristotle-was-right-about-the-follies-of-youth/

On making Classics relevant:

http://catalystnewspaper.com/lifestyle/making-the-classics-relevant/

On assorted ‘stones of Greece’ in Washington DC buildings:

https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/a-piece-of-the-parthenon-in-washington-dc/

On Gibbon and despotism:

https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/heed-gibbon-s-warning-about-despotism

Latest ‘who killed Classics’ piece:

http://wesleyanargus.com/2019/10/11/the-left-didnt-kill-the-classics-public-schools-did-a-response-to-the-age-of-critical-theory/

On ‘quid pro quo’:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/603133/quid-pro-quo-meaning-nefarious-origin

10 facts about the Parthenon:

https://mymodernmet.com/the-parthenon-greece/

That ancient ‘dribble glass’ is getting attention again:

https://mymodernmet.com/?p=239381

On Pliny the Elder as wine critic:

https://www.winemag.com/2019/10/10/pliny-the-elder-first-wine-critic/

Feature on assorted Aegean civilizations:

http://www.china.org.cn/travel/2019-10/12/content_75294684.htm

Feature on pig Latin:

https://www.republic-online.com/opinion/columns/commentary-pig-latin/article_18adecf4-e5ff-11e9-a358-4ffe83a63bf8.html

On Eric DeCosta’s Classics background:

http://www.colby.edu/magazine/a-football-odyssey/

More on the latest attempt to read Herculaneum papyri:

http://uknow.uky.edu/research/uks-brent-seales-using-light-brighter-sun-read-herculaneum-scrolls

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/scientists-use-powerful-light-beams-to-virtually-unwrap-decipher-2-scrolls-from-roman-library/2019/10/04/8187031e-e5f0-11e9-a6e8-8759c5c7f608_story.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767309531/ancient-greek-scrolls-hidden-contents-revealed-through-infrared-imaging

https://eu.greekreporter.com/2019/10/06/scientists-find-ancient-greek-texts-on-papyrus-burnt-after-vesuvius-eruption/

https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/infrared-imaging-promises-new-insight-into-plato

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8057-191007-herculaneum-charred-scroll

Comparing Trump to Tiberius Gracchus:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-isnt-julius-caesar-hes-republic-killer-tiberius-gracchus

… and to Cato the Elder:

https://townhall.com/columnists/gavinwax/2019/10/07/trump-is-our-cato-the-elder-and-china-our-carthage-n2554295

On Boris Johnson’s love of Classics:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/06/boris-johnson-classics-prime-minister-latin-greek

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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Evidence of Neolithic quarrying and tool production at St Dyfnog’s Well:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49986572

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8070-191011-wales-neolithic-quarry

Evidence of social inequality within households in Bronze Age Germany (4000 years bp):

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-social-inequality-bronze-age-households.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/lm-a-s100719.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191010142107.htm

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-prehistoric-downton-abbey-bronze-age-germans-had-earliest-known-household-staff-1.7965527

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/why-are-adult-daughters-missing-ancient-german-cemeteries

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-teeth-reveal-social-stratification-dates-back-to-bronze-age-societies/

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/10/ancient-european-homes-had-invisible-social-complexities-bones

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8102-191011-bronze-age-society

A Viking coin hoard from Estonia:

https://news.err.ee/988737/another-saaremaa-archaeological-haul-includes-viking-era-silver-coins

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8063-191009-estonia-viking-coins

… and more coverage of those Viking sword bits from Estonia:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/10/12/hundreds-of-viking-sword-fragments-discovered-in-estonia/

A 1000 years bp iron arrowhead from the Hardanger mountains:

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/arrowhead-found-in-hardanger/

A medieval ‘royal midden’ near Stirling Castle is revealing all sorts of interesting things:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/midden-pottery-offers-clues-to-scots-kings-and-queens-1-5018914

A medieval silver coin hoard from Denmark:

http://cphpost.dk/news/thousand-medieval-silver-coins-found-in-woods-in-southeastern-denmark.html

Interesting ‘boundary marker’ (probably) of bones from a medieval site in Devon:

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/mystery-surrounds-gruesome-discovery-thousands-3401246

Roadworks have revealed remains of the St Magnus Cathedral on Orkney:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/lost-buildings-of-mighty-island-cathedral-found-during-roadworks-1-5021637

Excavating a ‘lost inn’ site in Sutherland (17th century):

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49985258

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/the-bustling-highland-pub-wiped-out-by-the-clearances-1-5019837

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17952821.archaeological-dig-shines-light-life-clearances/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8065-191009-scotland-wilkhouse-pub

I think we mentioned the remains of possibly illegal whisky stills from the Scottish highlands:

https://www.livescience.com/hidden-scottish-ruins-illegal-whisky-distillery.html

https://www.livescience.com/photos-scotland-whisky-distillery-ruins.html

Remains of 100+ WWI soldiers found during the Dig Hill 80 project will be reburied:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/10/first-world-wars-pompeii-burial-for-british-soldiers-found-in-flemish-field

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7541961/The-Pompeii-World-War-Remains-110-soldiers-Belgian-field.html

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/first-world-war-pompeii-ypres-commonwealth-war-graves-burial-649508

Tram extension in Edinburgh will be revealing some archaeological remains:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/fortifications-from-the-siege-of-leith-and-200-bodies-to-be-unearthed-during-edinburgh-s-tram-extension-excavation-1-5022201

On the myth of the Viking woman warrior:

https://theweek.com/articles/865878/myth-viking-woman-warrior

Feature on Oswald of Northumbria:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/oswald-of-northumbria-an-anglo-saxon-saint-king-of-the-north-for-our-time/

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I think we mentioned these 45 000 years bp stone tool remains from Sri Lanka:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tiny-stone-tools-show-humans-hunted-rainforest-45000-years-ago-180973290/

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/have-microlith-will-travel

… and this evidence of Neolithic fish farming in China:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190916114026.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8051-191007-china-neolithic-aquaculture

Remains of a possible 7th/8th century CE noble residence at Fujiwarakyo:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191003/p2a/00m/0na/014000c

https://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologists-unveil-remains-possible-nobles-residence-ancient-capital-japan-32840

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8054-191007-japan-fujiwarakyo-noble

A pair of ‘large-scale palace relics’ from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/12/c_138466516.htm

An Eastern Han Dynasty era burial from Jiangsu:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/12/c_138466276.htm

A 7th century Jain idol/relief from Prakasam:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/antique-jain-tirthankara-idol-unearthed-in-prakasam/article29669618.ece

A 12th/13th century Bodhisattva head found during excavations at a site in Cambodia:

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bodhisattva-statue-unearthed

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50649940/apsara-archaeologists-unearth-head-of-statue/

On the robots who guarded Buddha’s relics in ancient India:

https://madrascourier.com/insight/how-robots-guarded-buddhas-relics-in-ancient-india/

Interesting feature on John M. Marston’s work with environmental archaeology in Uzbekistan:

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/ancient-agriculture-and-climate-change/

Pondering Cook’s legacy in New Zealand:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/08/new-zealand-wrestles-with-250th-anniversary-of-james-cooks-arrival

Hyping a documentary about finds from Liangzhu:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191009-the-mysterious-ancient-figure-challenging-chinas-history

A lost chapter to the *Tale of the Genji* has been found:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/09/national/history/missing-part-tale-of-genji-found/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/lost-chapter-the-tale-of-genji-murasaki-shikibu-found-japan

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NORTH AMERICA

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Nice overview of this season’s finds at the Alamo:

http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/archeologists-just-confirmed-an-alamo-legend-as-an-alamo-fact

https://therivardreport.com/dig-uncovers-human-bone-fragments-below-alamo-church/

A 19th century shipwreck from Lake Huron:

https://www.sooeveningnews.com/news/20191012/team-uncovers-long-lost-great-lakes-wreck

On the changing perception of Italian immigrants in the US:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html

Puff piece on evidence of Native Americans in New Hampshire:

https://www.concordmonitor.com/archaeology-holocene-nh-28928356

More on early hunter-gatherers interacting on the coast of Georgia:

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-early-hunter-gatherers-interacted-sooner-previously.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/bu-ehi100719.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007123232.htm

Studying treatment of slaves at the University of Virginia:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/06/two-centuries-ago-university-virginia-students-beat-raped-enslaved-servants-historians-say/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Rethinking Drake’s purported landing on the west coast:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/08/sir-francis-drake-landed-in-oregon-not-marin-county-new-book-states/

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/10/08/sir-francis-drake-landed-in-oregon-not-marin-county-new-book-states/

Feature on Joe Bagley’s work in the Boston City Archaeology Lab:

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/chinatown-boston-archaeological-dig/

On the motives for impeachment in the Founding Fathers:

https://theconversation.com/founders-removal-from-office-is-not-the-only-purpose-of-impeachment-124254

Victor Nuovo on manifest destiny:

https://addisonindependent.com/opeds/victor-nuovo-americas-obsession-manifest-destiny

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

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1000 years bp dog remains from a site in Sechin (Peru):

https://andina.pe/ingles/noticia-peru-archaeologists-unearth-ancient-dog-remains-in-sechin-768739.aspx

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8060-191008-peru-sechin-dog

Evidence of ‘massive agricultural features in wetlands’ constructed by the Maya in response to population and environmental pressures:

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-ancient-maya-canals-fields-early.html

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/06/ciencia/1570386526_893141.html

Plenty of carved stone bowls (various dates) from near the Raso river in Jalisco:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexicolife/carved-stone-bowls-are-a-mystery/

Finding Maya sites with LiDAR images available online:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/science/archaeology-lidar-maya.html

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/public-lidar-map-new-maya-discoveries-1675327

On psychedelic plant use in Chile 1000 years bp:

https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2019/10/11/estudio-indico-que-tipos-de-plantas-psicoactivas-utilizaba-cultura-que-habito-el-norte-de-chile-hace-mas-de-1000-anos/

Rethinking ‘Father Nazario’s Stones’ (Puerto Rico):

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article235714732.html

Fire concerns for petroglyphs in Brazil (I think we mentioned this):

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-brazil-amazon-threaten-millenary.html

Feature on the Huascar:

https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2019/10/08/bbc-recuerda-al-huascar-la-fascinante-historia-del-barco-que-divide-a-peru-y-chile-desde-hace-140-anos/

More on the San Jose dispute:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/10/10/actualidad/1570692427_446524.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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Study suggests private property precipitated the Neolithic agricultural revolution:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/sfi-ppn101119.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191011131858.htm

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-private-property-productivity-precipitated-neolithic.html

A steamy scene from Le Roman de La Rose turned up:

https://www.livescience.com/lost-medieval-romance-manuscript-discovered.html

A guide to ‘history’s rudest texts’:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2019/oct/09/vintage-literary-filth

Some Columbus myth busting:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/us/christopher-columbus-myth-buster-trnd/index.html

The last of the mammoths apparently died on Wrangel Island:

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-mammoths-died-remote-island.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007081750.htm

https://gizmodo.com/how-the-last-woolly-mammoths-met-their-demise-on-a-remo-1838848130

Some previously-unpublished Proust texts have been released:

https://www.dw.com/en/unpublished-texts-from-marcel-proust-released/a-50760623

Feature on map orientation:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2019/10/09/articulo/1570629793_819681.html

Feature on the Venus of Willendorf:

https://mymodernmet.com/the-venus-of-willendorf/

On the history of ‘interchangeable parts’:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49499444

On horses and civilization:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/09/of-horses-and-civilization/

On DaVinci’s bridge design:

https://www.livescience.com/da-vinci-bridge-never-made.html

An original Van Dyck portrait has been identified:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/digital-art-detectives-identify-original-van-dyck-portrait-spanish-royal-180973308/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a29426711/da-vinci-bridge/

Nice intro to ‘orientalist’ painting:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/an-introduction-to-orientalist-painting/

A tunic worn by St Francis has been identified:

https://www.livescience.com/1855-tunic-worn-saint-francis-identified.html

Overviewish thing on the history of the cross:

https://theconversation.com/the-history-of-the-cross-and-its-many-meanings-over-the-centuries-123316

Feature on Hiwi al-Balkhi:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-jewish-freethinker-iwi-al-balkhi-criticised-the-bible

Feature on some ‘insanely incorrect’ theories about ancient monuments:

https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/insanely-incorrect-theories-about-how-famous-ancient-monuments-were-built

I think we had this thing on the social history of beds:

https://theconversation.com/the-bizarre-social-history-of-beds-122517

On ‘illicit drinking’ in the US:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/10/scotch-pods/599662/

Review of Tom Holland, *Dominion*:

https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/a-new-history-of-christianity-that-upends-edward-gibbon/

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Pompeii and Santorini:

https://eu.greekreporter.com/2019/10/11/new-exhibit-on-history-of-santorini-and-pompeii-opens-in-rome/

Al Ula:

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/al-ula-exhibition-introduces-7-000-years-of-saudi-history-to-paris-1.921143

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/major-exhibition-presenting-treasures-ancient-123600664.html

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1565486/saudi-arabia

Persepolis:

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2019/october/-persepolis–then—now–brings-ancient-capital-to-artistic-pres.html

Verrocchio:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/arts/design/verrocchio-review-national-gallery-leonardo.html

Touch of Color:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/11/766885784/versatile-smudgy-suitable-for-women-exhibition-traces-the-history-of-pastels

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/touch-of-color-pastels.html

Maximilian I:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/emperor-maximilian-i-brand-arts/

Inspired by the East:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/oct/08/worlds-first-travel-guide-to-be-displayed-at-the-british-musuem

https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/inspired-by-the-east

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-first-travel-guide-set-go-view-london-180973303/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/inspired-by-the-east-review-british-museum-looks-at-how-islamic-world-influenced-western-art-0bf5td9vs

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/11/inspired-by-the-east-british-museum-exhibition

Nubian Art:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/arts/nubian-art-mfa-boston.html

Cabarets:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191003-cabarets-the-ultimate-spaces-for-hedonism-and-satire

Women artists at the Prado:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2019/10/04/articulo/1570199921_783152.html

A judge is preventing the Louvre from lending the Vitruvian Man to Italy:

http://en.rfi.fr/europe/20191009-leonardo-s-vitruvian-man-may-miss-paris-louvre-expo-after-court-ruling-0

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/italian-court-blocks-loan-of-leonardo-da-vincis-vitruvian-man-to-louvre

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/10/08/actualidad/1570558715_217716.html

Chania will soon have an archaeology museum:

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/37031-greek-culture-minister-archaeological-museum-of-chania-to-open-in-2021.html

Feature on the British Museum:

https://mymodernmet.com/the-british-museum/

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AUCTIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

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A Botticelli is up for sale:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/10/07/actualidad/1570465213_698639.html

An Andrea Mantegna drawing:

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2019/rare-andrea-mantegna-drawing-estimated-to-make-over-12m-at-sotheby-s-auction/

A screen of the Conquest of Mexico City failed to get a buyer:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/10/11/actualidad/1570816876_593072.html

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THE TECHY SIDE

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Interesting use of Lithodomos VR technology in the classroom:

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/oct/12/virtually-ancient-pompeii/

LiDAR reveals 1000 or so previously-unknown sites on the Isle of Arran:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/1-000-lost-ancient-sites-found-on-scottish-island-1-5020356

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17958107.archaeologists-deploy-lidar-ancient-finds-arran/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17959351.lasers-find-thousand-new-archaeological-sites-arran/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49989351

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/10/1-000-ancient-monuments-discovered-with-lidar-on-isle-of-arran/

3d scanning at La Brea Tar Pits:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/world/la-brea-tar-pits-3d-scanning-scn/index.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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Checking out the DNA of Neolithic Battle Axe Culture remains:

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-dna-people-neolithic-axe-culture.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/uu-dss100919.php

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CLIMATE MATTERS

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Rising seas threaten sites on Florida’s Gulf coast:

https://theconversation.com/rising-seas-threaten-hundreds-of-native-american-heritage-sites-along-floridas-gulf-coast-118500

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TOURISTY THINGS

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Pavlopetri:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/10/12/pavlopetri-greeces-most-ancient-underwater-city-video/

Isle of Man/Manx:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191008-the-british-isle-that-doesnt-belong

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PERFORMANCES

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Antigone:

https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/antigone-review-1203360911/

Bakkhai:

https://www.portlandmercury.com/theater/2019/10/10/27280933/aries-osiris-perfectly-embodies-the-mysteries-of-dionysos-in-shaking-the-trees-bakkhai

Odyssey:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/theater/volksbuehne-odyssey-dont-be-evil.html

Medea:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/buffalo/article/WallByrd-Theatre-Company-Presents-a-New-Adaptation-of-MEDEA-20191010

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CRIME BEAT

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Israel recovered a number of Alexander the Great coins being smuggled from Gaza:

https://world.greekreporter.com/2019/10/08/ancient-greek-coins-from-alexander-the-great-era-recovered-by-israel/

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Ancient-Greek-coin-haul-caught-being-smuggled-from-Gaza-to-Israel-604052

https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-caught-trying-to-smuggle-rare-ancient-coins-out-of-gaza/

More on that bust in Egypt (figurines, sarcophagus):

https://www.egyptindependent.com/photos-police-arrests-gang-in-possession-of-pharaonic-figurines-sarcophagus/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/06/c_138450549.htm

Vandals graffitied Colchester’s Roman wall:

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/17960615.disgust-graffiti-tarnishing-colchesters-ancient-roman-wall/

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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Nice feature on that recovery and repatriation of a Syrian mosaic from Canada a while ago:

https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/how-assads-man-got-a-priceless-antiquity-out-of-canada-and-into-syria/

A looted Cambodian statue turned up in a California auction house and will be returned:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/8066-191011-cambodia-statue-recovered

Finland is returning someitems to Mesa Verde:

https://durangoherald.com/articles/296788-artifacts-taken-from-mesa-verde-are-coming-home

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8101-191011-repatriation-mesa-verde

The Manchester Museum is returning items to indigenous Australians:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/07/manchester-museum-to-return-artefacts-to-indigenous-australians

https://mancunion.com/2019/10/10/manchester-museum-return-sacred-objects-to-indigenous-australians/

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NUMISMATICA

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Feature on silver coins of ancient Greece:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ngc-ancients-silver-coin-pocket-change-of-central-greece/

In case you missed this fifth-century CE hoard of gold coins from near Varna:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/09/30/archaeology-hoard-of-gold-coins-found-in-bulgarias-devnya/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n40.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n41.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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Myles Burneat:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/10/07/myles-burnyeat-classicist-whose-wit-imagination-made-leading/

Michael Coe:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/10/08/michael-coe-influential-archaeologist-helped-unlock-secrets-mesoamerica

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/world/americas/michael-coe-dead.html

Robert Goelet:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/arts/robert-goelet-dead.html

Frederick Brengelman:

https://www.theindependent.com/obituaries/dr-frederick-brengelman/article_ddeafb84-ed42-11e9-9e80-77c20f7f43fd.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2888-audio-news-from-archaeologica-september-29-through-october-5-2019

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CONFERENCES

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CBA Wessex Annual Conference (November 2019):

https://www.cba-wessex.org.uk/product-category/conference/

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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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