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, mata kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for

headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS

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Studying the movement and adaptations of hominins into southeast Asia during the Pleistocene:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/mpif-hcd012819.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190128122236.htm

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-humans-colonized-diverse-environments-southeast.html

This mongolian skull find seems connected with the above study:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-ancient-mongolian-skull-earliest-modern.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uoo-am012919.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190130075729.htm

https://www.upi.com/Ancient-skull-provides-earliest-evidence-of-modern-humans-in-Mongolia/7261548865224/

Rethinking the occupation of Denisova Cave by various groups:

https://www.livescience.com/64653-neanderthals-denisovans-shared-siberia-cave.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/science/neanderthals-denisovans-humans.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/world/denisova-cave-archaic-humans/index.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cave-that-housed-neandertals-and-denisovans-challenges-view-of-cultural-evolution/

https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeologists-uncover-timeline-of-denisova-cave-occupation/

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dates-narrow-down-when-denisovans-and-neandertals-crossed-paths

https://theconversation.com/fresh-clues-to-the-life-and-times-of-the-denisovans-a-little-known-ancient-group-of-humans-110504

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/?p=3234

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7337-scientists-develop-new-dates-for-russia-s-denisova-cave

This seems related to the above:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-reveal-deep-history-archaic-humans.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uoo-nsr012919.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190130133032.htm

A 300 000 years bp collection of ‘shiny pebbles’ in Qesem Cave:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-useless-pretty-stones-collected-300-000y-ago-indicate-early-love-of-beauty-1.6871071

Neanderthals were sprinters, not long distance runners apparently:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-neanderthals-sprinters-distance-runners-surprisingly.html

https://theconversation.com/neanderthals-were-sprinters-rather-than-distance-runners-our-study-surprisingly-suggests-110761

Three previously-unrecorded handprints were identified in Altamira Cave:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/30/inenglish/1548850297_888022.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7343-190201-spain-altamira-hands

Not sure about this ‘self taming humans’ theory:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/

More on modern humans replacing Neanderthals in Spain 44 000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uoc-mhr013019.php

More on Neanderthals hurling spears and hunting at a distance:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/neanderthals-could-have-been-long-distance-killers

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neanderthals-used-spears-hunt-targets-afar-180971357/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7330-190128-neanderthal-spear-hunting

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Studying how ancient African cultures responded to fossils:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-ancient-african-people-valued-fossils.html

Feature on Mali’s Mansa Musa and his wealth:

https://www.livescience.com/64641-medieval-map-richest-man-africa.html

https://www.livescience.com/64630-photos-medieval-africa-riches.html

Feature on the wealthy signares of Senegal:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/02/02/660636686/senegals-stunning-gold-jewelry-and-the-controversial-women-who-wore-it

Interesting interviewish thing with Merrick Posnansky:

http://hnn.us/article/170638

More on LiDAR and the ‘rediscovery’ (as it is now dubbed) of Kweneng:

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/archaeologists-uncover-south-africas-lost-city-kweneng/

http://www.africanews.com/2019/01/29/archaeologists-in-south-africa-discover-lost-city-using-laser-technology/

https://www.sciencealert.com/archaelogists-re-discover-an-ancient-city-in-south-africa-lost-for-hundreds-of-years

https://au.news.yahoo.com/4199900-061447888.html

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A ‘family tomb’ with 50 mummies from the Ptolemaic era from Tuna el-Gebel (Minya):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/324859/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypts-first-antiquities-discovery-of–mummyfilled.aspx

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/63937/Exclusive-to-Egypt-Today-A-cemetery-housing-40-mummies-uncovered

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/64164/In-pics-Two-cemeteries-uncovered-in-Tuna-el-Gebel

https://egyptianstreets.com/2019/02/03/first-discovery-of-2019-50-mummies-found-in-minya-tombs/

https://ww.egyptindependent.com/egyptian-antiquities-ministry-announces-new-archeological-discovery-in-minya/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egypt-tomb-mummies-archaeology-minya-cairo-ancient-children-a8760136.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/02/egypt-unveils-pharaonic-tomb-containing-50-mummies/

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-desert-tomb-reveals-50-183324630.html

https://www.dw.com/en/mummies-discovered-in-ancient-egyptian-burial-chambers/a-47337162

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/02/tomb-containing-50-mummies-uncovered-in-egypt

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47103114

https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-discovers-40-mummies-in-ancient-chambers-in-minya/

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/in-photos-egypt-unveils-pharaonic-tomb-with-50-mummies-1.6898362

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1445956/lifestyle

https://www.france24.com/en/20190202-egypt-unveils-more-40-ancient-greek-mummies

https://www.dw.com/en/mummies-discovered-in-ancient-egyptian-burial-chambers/a-47337162

https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/02/egyptian-archaeologists-discover-50-unidentified-mummies

https://neoskosmos.com/en/128556/50-mummies-from-ptolemaic-era-when-ancient-greeks-ruled-in-egypt/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-03/archaeologists-discover-50-mummies-at-burial-site/10774576

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/02/c_137795582.htm

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/02/c_137795571.htm

A Roman-era winery complex (plus some earlier things) from the Nile Delta:

https://www.livescience.com/64613-ancient-winery-egypt.html

https://ww.egyptindependent.com/ancient-wine-press-and-other-artifacts-discovered-in-beheira/

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2019/01/28/ancient-wine-press-factory-unearthed-in-beheira/

https://egyptianstreets.com/2019/01/29/archeologists-discover-ancient-wine-cellar-in-nile-delta/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egypt-archeology-wine-pyramids-sphinx-giza-a8750911.html

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article225174580.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7334-190129-egypt-winery-complex

Feature on what the pyramids of Giza looked like back when they were made:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/great-pyramid-giza-egypt-casing-stone/

Feature on ‘women who love mummies’ (UK):

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47093041

More on the completion of the restoration of Tut’s tomb after nine or so years:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2019/02/01/iconic-king-tutankhamun-tomb-unveiled-to-public-after-restoration/

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-tomb-savers-conservationists-unveil-tutankhamun.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47077663

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/king-tuts-tomb-unveiled-after-being-restored-to-its-ancient-splendor/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/king-tut-conservation-getty-1450801

https://www.france24.com/en/20190131-tomb-savers-conservationists-unveil-work-tutankhamun-grave

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-tutankhamun/tutankhamuns-tomb-shines-after-decade-of-renovations-idUSKCN1PP2WM

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/king-tuts-face-and-feet-take-central-stage-in-new-photos-from-his-restored-tomb/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-01/tutankhamans-tomb-to-restored-after-years-of-damage/10770272

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/king-tuts-tomb-restored-reopened-after-nineyear-project/news-story/e449ada660837c773681e380baa3b1a8

More on Zahi Hawass denying any Cleopatra tomb find:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2019/01/26/hawas-denies-detecting-cleopatras-burial-chamber/

Studying the markings on some Chalcolithic stone bowls from around the Levant:

https://www.haifa.ac.il/index.php/he/2012-12-16-11-30-04/2015-01-25-11-22-48/3497-2019-01-31-14-05-33.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/haifa-u-archaeologists-uncover-mysterious-6500-year-old-triangle-code

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7339-190131-israel-basalt-bowl-marks

Not sure if we mentioned this Bronze Age burial from northern Iran:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/432584/Bronze-Age-skeleton-objects-unearthed

Vague item on Chinese ceramic shards from the al-Nudud site (UAE):

https://tvcnews.tv/large-amount-of-chinese-ceramics-shards-unearthed-by-archaeologists/

Among the items on display at that somewhat controversial Hecht Museum exhibition are items from Shivta that were once thought lost in a fire:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-after-being-lost-in-a-fire-a-1938-letter-yields-up-secrets-from-ancient-shivta-1.6876872

More on that Agrippa coin find:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rare-coin-from-Second-Temple-period-discovered-in-West-Bank-578791

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/student-discovers-rare-2000-year-old-coin-near-shiloh/2019/01/27/

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A wind farm project revealed three ancient quarries on Evia:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/01/30/ancient-quarries-discovered-at-wind-turbine-sites-on-evia/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7342-190201-greece-euboea-quarries

A Roman-era burial chamber from Sanliurfa:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-era-burial-chamber-found-in-sanliurfa-140887

Hellenistic and Roman finds from Kition:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/128434/hellenistic-and-roman-treasures-uncovered-at-ancient-kition-site-in-cyprus/

https://greekcitytimes.com/2019/02/02/new-hellenistic-and-roman-era-discoveries-shed-light-on-cyprus-history/

Not sure where to put this one on apparent trade between India and Rome:

https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/finding-an-amphora-in-arikamedu/article26148454.ece

Some Antikythera Mechanism revisionism:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0210-9

Overviewish thing on finds from Pompeii this year:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/great-pompeii-project-spectacular-finds/

Figuring out when Turin was founded:

https://www.thelocal.it/20190130/happy-birthday-turin-how-researchers-discovered-the-exact-day-the-city-was-founded

Feature on Roman remains at Arles:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/caesar-rhone-ancient-masterpieces-arles/

How the Romans wrote about love:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/revenge-porn-slut-shaming-and-jealousy-how-the-ancient-romans-wrote-about-love

On Gandhi and Socrates:

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/gandhi-and-the-socratic-art-of-dying/article26122856.ece

On some classical reception in the Austrian Parliament:

https://eu.greekreporter.com/2019/01/28/the-austrian-parliament-and-the-story-behind-its-unique-greek-character/

Feature on Lupercalia:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/572191/lupercalia-ancient-roman-festival-facts

Feature on Philoxenia:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/01/31/philoxenia-the-roots-of-greek-hospitality/

On the return of Latin in Fylde coast schools:

https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/education/how-latin-is-making-a-comeback-in-fylde-coast-schools-1-9564970

The big news this week was the director of the British Museum saying the taking of the Parthenon Marbles was a “creative act”:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/28/british-museum-chief-taking-the-parthenon-marbles-was-creative

https://www.rt.com/uk/450275-parthenon-marbles-british-museum/

… with expected reactions on the return side:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/128306/the-british-museum-and-the-creative-displacement-of-the-parthenon-marbles/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/31/reuniting-the-parthenon-marbles-is-nothing-to-do-with-nationalism

https://neoskosmos.com/en/128440/is-the-displacement-of-the-parthenon-marbles-really-a-creative-ac/

… and the other:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/29/british-museum-director-is-right-the-parthenon-marbles-belong-to-us-all

… and the Acropolis Museum director shot back that the BM doesn’t own them:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/237178/article/ekathimerini/news/acropolis-museum-director-british-museum-is-not-owner-of-parthenon-marbles

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/34337-acropolis-museum-director-greece-owns-parthenon-marbles.html

https://news.gtp.gr/2019/01/31/acropolis-museum-head-says-return-of-parthenon-marbles-only-solution/

… and we’re back where we started:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/128031/british-museum-director-rules-out-negotiation-on-parthenon-marbles/

https://greekcitytimes.com/2019/01/27/director-of-british-museum-says-parthenon-sculptures-do-not-belong-to-greece/

A feature on the ‘Elgin Marbles’:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/01/27/the-history-of-the-so-called-elgin-marbles-parthenon-sculptures/

Feature on the ‘art of memory’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/opinion/athens-memory.html

What Emily Wilson is up to:

http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2019/01/hoffman-lecture-features-emily-wilson

What Barry Strauss is up to:

http://barrystrauss.com/5-things-you-should-know-about-roman-emperors/

What Patrick Hunt is up to:

http://www.independentnews.com/news/talk-set-on-hannibal-military-genius-who-threatened-rome/article_aaaabd5e-24de-11e9-95ae-935130978ecf.html

John Melville-Jones waded in on the Macedonia thing:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/128534/opinion-the-myth-of-modern-macedonia/

Feature on some recent retellings of ancient tales:

https://studybreaks.com/culture/reads/4-story-re-tellings-revive-female-characters/

More on the latest theory about Alexander’s death:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/was-alexander-the-great-buried-alive

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/alexander-the-great-died-an-even-more-horrible-death-than-thought-according-to-new-theory/

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/01/30/the-astounding-immortal-story-of-alexander-the-great/’

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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A Bronze Age bulla from the Shropshire Marches is being touted as one of the most important finds in the UK:

https://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/17399426.shropshire-marches-role-in-internationally-important-bulla-find/

https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2019/01/31/rare-bronze-age-gold-bulla-discovered-in-shropshire-officially-declared-treasure/

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2019/01/31/historic-pendant-find-in-shropshire-is-one-of-uks-most-significant-ever/

… and plans to keep it from being sold:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2019/02/01/pledge-to-keep-historic-shropshire-gold-pendant-find-in-public-domain/

A Tudor-era ring from Shropshire was also declared treasure:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2019/02/02/decorated-tudor-ring-found-in-shropshire-declared-treasure/

https://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/17399535.treasure-found-at-st-martins-near-oswestry/

Big news this week appears to be evidence of beer brewing 400 BCE in Cambridgeshire:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/earliest-evidence-of-beer-making-found-on-major-uk-road-scheme

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-47042127

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/31/early-pint-evidence-of-first-british-beer-found-in-cambridgeshire

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/christmas/food-drink/first-beer-brewed-uk-found-cambridgeshire-roadworks-a8755881.html

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/britains-first-beer-brewery-found-2488709

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/evidence-of-first-beer-brewed-more-over-2-000-years-ago-found-by-archaeologists-working-on-a14-road-widening-in-cambridgeshire-1-8791239

http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2019-02/01/content_74430642.htm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-evidence-british-beer-found-highway-dig-180971403/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7338-190131-england-beer-brewing

Interesting medieval ‘cold case’ from Piazza Armerina:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/01/31/why-was-this-medieval-sicilian-stabbed-in-the-back-and-buried-face-down/#2b2ac70758f6

Suggestion that the Folkton drums were measuring devices with a possible Stonehenge connection:

https://www.livescience.com/64603-ancient-carved-drums-measure-stonehenge.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7329-190128-neolithic-measuring-device

Hopes of finding Gloucester’s Whitefriar’s monastery:

http://www.gloucesterreview.co.uk/article.cfm?id=102760&headline=Will%20monastery%20be%20rediscovered?§ionIs=news&searchyear=2019

Feature on the first medieval skyscraper:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/29/inenglish/1548751265_273108.html

That Pembrokeshire chariot burial has been ruled treasure:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47072503

Lottery funding to preserve Iron Age hillforts in Dorset and Wiltshire:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jan/31/iron-age-hillforts-west-country-england-rejuvenated-dorset-wiltshire

Concerns for a medieval cathedral in Coimbra because of spreading fungus:

https://www.livescience.com/64624-new-fungus-threatens-unesco-cathedral.html

Evidence of an earlier Christian presence in Denmark:

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201809201068191917-denmark-vikings-christianity/

Interesting feature on the ‘Treasure of Guarrazar’:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/17/inenglish/1547728988_158224.html

Feature on the Broighter Hoard:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/how-ireland-won-the-broighter-hoard-back-from-britain-1.3766635

More on finding Matthew Flinders’ grave:

https://www.livescience.com/64634-lost-grave-of-english-explorer.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/25/grave-of-matthew-flinders-discovered-after-200-years-under-london-station

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7328-190128-flinders-remains-london

More on confirmation of Gallic preservation of enemies’ severed heads:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/how-to-display-the-severed-heads-of-your-enemies-the-iron-age-way/

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/30/celtic-justice.html

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More finds from that Copper/Bronze Age chariot burial site in Sinauli:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/human-skeleton-potteries-found-during-excavation-at-baghpats-sinauli/articleshow/67714955.cms

‘Prehistoric items’ and items from the late 1800s get in the way of military construction on Guam:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-artifacts-discovery-halts-marine-base.html

https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article225171380.html

Arguing over a structure in Emperor Akbar’s living quarters:

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1900629/1-officials-archaeologists-butt-heads-royal-bath/

4000 years bp artifacts from near Khanpur:

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1901323/1-uncovering-history-4000-year-old-artefacts-found-near-khanpur/

Evidence of 3rd century BCE fortifications from Bactria:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/arsc-afr010619.php

Feature on a 17th century slave woman in Manila:

https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-maria-a-slave-in-manila-who-resisted-sexual-exploitation-110182

Feature on war elephants:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/tracing-the-invisible-war-elephants/articleshow/67769304.cms

Studying the art of medieval India:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/01/22/art-historian-studies-makers-medieval-india

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http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

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

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NORTH AMERICA

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The ‘missing’ wall of the church at Jamestown has been located:

https://www.dailypress.com/features/history/jamestown/dp-nws-jamestown-church-tower-20190124-story.html

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/peninsulanow/jamestown-archaeologists-find-missing-piece-of-400-year-old-church/291-a79b83f2-83a9-46d4-813a-d163c1ab85b5

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7341-190131-jamestown-church-foundations

Remains of Jefferson’s ‘Carriage Turnaround’ have been exposed at Poplar Forest:

https://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/excavation-reveals-original-cobblestones-at-poplar-forest-carriage-circle/article_8e38b3f0-4519-552a-9aab-f04f86087c03.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7332-190129-virginia-poplar-forest

LiDAR reveals what is possibly the old European graveyard in Canada (NS):

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-radar-images-show-evidence-of-what-could-be-one-of-canadas-oldest/

Suggestion that so many indigenous people died as a result of European Colonization of the Americas that global cooling resulted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47063973

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-change

https://www.juancole.com/2019/02/european-colonisation-population.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7340-190131-european-colonization-climate-change

Feature on assorted weird tales associated with mounds in Ohio:

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190127/archaeology-were-ancient-writings-giants-pulled-from-ohio-burial-mounds-ummm-no

Feature on Providence’s Chinatown:

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2019/01/yearofthecity

Feature on digitally restored some petroglyphs in Wyoming:

https://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/wyoming/article_56a1b7aa-23a8-527a-8b1a-f5b547c628b7.html

The Golden Spike is visiting ‘relatives’ in Utah:

https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/01/31/golden-spike-is-back/

On the Northwest Angle dispute:

https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/01/28/mundo_global/1548715439_423256.html

Feature on what a skull from Tennessee reveals about syphilis in the New World:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/01/29/what-does-this-ancient-skull-from-tennessee-tell-archaeologists-about-the-evolution-of-syphilis/

Feature on Plessy v Ferguson:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/04/the-supreme-court-case-that-enshrined-white-supremacy-in-law

More on the Lake Babine First Nation village find in northern BC:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lake-babine-archeology-1.4991792

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7333-190129-first-nation-village

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

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Somewhat vague item on recent finds from Chiclayo (Peru):

https://www.rt.com/news/450425-ancient-peru-tombs-artifacts/

Plenty of Maya artifacts fished out of Lake Peten Itza:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C32650%2Cguatemala-polish-archaeologists-discovered-several-hundred-artefacts-holy-lake-maya

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7344-190201-guatemala-maya-nojpeten

Feature on Los Guachimontones:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexicolife/western-mexicos-circular-pyramids/

Using Google Earth to find Maya sites:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-mayan-laptop.html

The Inca Trail is closed for a while:

https://www.elmostrador.cl/generacion-m/2019/01/31/el-camino-inca-hacia-machu-picchu-se-mantendra-cerrado-durante-todo-febrero/

Overviewish exhibition accompaniment piece on three decades of excavations at Caracol:

https://www.unlv.edu/news/release/archaeological-research-ancient-maya-site-spans-three-decades

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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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Marking the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death:

https://www.dw.com/en/rembrandts-social-network-centuries-before-facebook/a-47322497

https://www.dw.com/en/friends-and-family-rembrandts-social-network/g-47327535

The ongoing struggle for pretenders to the French throne:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/death-of-count-of-paris-sparks-pretend-game-of-thrones-in-france-jean-dorleans

Some Black History month biographical things:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/black-history-month-overlooked.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Someone has figured out Andrew Fuller’s shorthand:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-47028244

Trying to avoid another ‘ecce homo’ restoration:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/01/11/actualidad/1547206544_333868.html

On Sir Stamford Raffles and his statue:

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2183714/raffles-who-200-years-british-colonialist-singapore-would-rather

Feature on the use of nitrous oxide as a pain killer:

http://www.wshu.org/post/there-shall-be-no-pain

Feature on WH Auden:

http://www.mainlinetoday.com/Main-Line-Today/February-2019/The-Legacy-of-Poet-WH-Auden-Lives-on-at-the-Blue-Ball-Inn/

Feature on the Travellers Club:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/travellers-club-modernity-an-wilson/#Echobox=1548673322

Latest on the search for Amelia Earhart:

https://www.livescience.com/64637-possible-amelia-earhart-plane-wreck-found.html

Feature on forgotten female artists of Vienna:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/belvedere-recognizes-unheralded-female-artists-early-20th-century-vienna-180971361/

Some recently found manuscript fragments seem to refer to Merlin leading some sort of battle charge:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-47062919

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/hidden-fragments-ancient-manuscript-telling-15755305

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jan/30/undiscovered-merlin-tale-fragments-found-in-bristol-archives

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fragments-early-arthurian-legend-found-16th-century-book-180971392/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7336-190130-merlin-manuscript-pages

Suggestion that a 15th century portrait is actually from the 1960s:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/02/st-ivo-portrait-rogier-van-der-weyden-master-forger-eric-hebborn-national-gallery

Studying the last meals of ancient sacrificial victims:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/01/30/inside-the-last-meals-of-ancient-victims-of-sacrifice-and-murder/

On the attempt to kill Spinoza (maybe):

https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/4991/who-tried-to-kill-spinoza/

Excitement over what might be Leonardo’s thumbprint:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/28/leonardos-thumbprint-stars-in-anniversary-display-of-drawings

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-january-29-2019-1451110

Bees apparently can distinguish between styles of art:

https://theconversation.com/bees-can-learn-the-difference-between-european-and-australian-indigenous-art-styles-in-a-single-afternoon-110494

The UK is working on redefining ‘treasure’ officially:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/01/definition-treasure-redefined-include-artifacts-worth-10000/

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/feb/01/golden-rule-plan-to-redefine-treasure-to-help-uk-museums-buy-finds

An unknown van Hemessen painting of Jesus found:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1080150/jesus-painting-hidden-renaissance-christian-news-Jan-Sanders-van-Hemessen-sothebys-art

More on the search for Shackleton’s lost ship:

https://www.livescience.com/64608-shackleton-lost-ship-expedition.html

https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/brit-explorer-is-searching-for-wreckage-of-ernest-shackleton-s-ship-the-endurance-in-antarctica-1-8792571

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Wolf in Myth and Fairy Tales:

https://www.dw.com/en/the-wolf-in-myths-and-fairy-tales/g-47315769

https://www.dw.com/en/wolves-and-humans-a-difficult-relationship/a-47322822

19th century photography:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/arts/design/photography-girault-de-prangey-met-museum.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/monumental-journey-girault-de-prangey-daguerreotypes

Pompeii Photos:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2019/01/time-lost-in-william-wylies-pompeii-archive

German colonialism:

https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-museum-stirs-debate-with-plans-for-colonial-era-remembrance-room/a-47282724

Ashurbanipal:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/i-am-ashurbanipal-at-the-british-museum/

Cahokia:

http://www.chronicletimes.com/story/2583818.html

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/arts/design/french-painter-puvis-de-chavannes-michael-werner-gallery.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

The Prado is celebrating a bicentennial:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/arts/design/prado-museum-madrid-200-anniversary.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/museo-del-prado-1819-2019-a-place-of-memory/6df80b37-1c62-a301-8718-8348f7a81de6

The Mosul Museum has partly reopened:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47050606

Relabelling colonial artifacts at British museums:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/british-museums-to-be-transparent-about-colonial-artefacts/articleshow/67714722.cms

Yale Museums have a mobile app:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/01/28/new-mobile-apps-guide-visitors-through-yales-art-museums

The Louvre and BM are helping to fund the renovation of the Egyptian Museum:

http://cairoscene.com/Buzz/louvre-british-museum-to-assist-in-egyptian-museum-renovation

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2019/01/29/egyptian-museum-taken-as-model-for-cairo_12e67185-d06a-485f-b382-3bd452377d9f.html

https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-european-museums-leading-31-million-effort-revamp-cairos-egyptian-museum

Review of *Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks*:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/01/25/ancient-mesopotamia-speaks-highlights-yale-babylonian-collection

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AT THE AUCTIONS

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Not sure if this actually involved an auction, but the sale of some Assyrian relief panels isn’t going over well:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/tory-peer-involved-in-controversial-sale-of-iraqi-antiquities

A recently-identified Gentileschi painting is comine to auction:

https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-rediscovered-late-artemisia-gentileschi-masterpiece-old-master-sale-1451794

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THE TECHY SIDE

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A technique for determining the sex of cremated remains:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-sexing-ancient-cremated-human-skeletal.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/p-sac012319.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190130161654.htm

https://www.livescience.com/64636-cremated-bones-sex.html

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/archaeologists-find-new-way-determine-sex-cremated-individuals/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7335-190130-cremains-bone-measurements

Facial reconstructions of assorted ‘ancient Europeans’:

https://www.livescience.com/64620-ancient-britons-facial-reconstruction.html

https://www.livescience.com/64614-ancient-briton-faces-photos.html

… and a French soldier who was killed in Russia in 1812:

https://www.livescience.com/64589-french-soldier-napoleon-war-digital-face.html

Not sure where to put this one on using facial recognition technology to identify coins:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-facial-recognition-coins.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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Using DNA to figure out when humans crossed the Straits of Gibraltar:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191607-africans-may-have-crossed-the-strait-of-gibraltar-4000-years-ago/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7331-190129-dna-africa-spain

Henry Louis Gates was talking DNA in relation to his latest TV series:

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/21/686531998/historian-henry-louis-gates-jr-on-dna-testing-and-finding-his-own-roots

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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TOURISTY THINGS

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Qhapaq Nan:

https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/el-turismo-comunitario-20191295055

Opera Houses:

https://www.dw.com/en/opera-houses-of-world-renown/g-47322708

Magellan’s voyage:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/30/paco_nadal/1548853030_533702.html

Up Helly Aa:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47034640

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PERFORMANCES

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Criticizing period dramas in China:

https://beta.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2183885/yanxi-palace-drama-chinese-state-media-declares-war-period-shows

A Jane Eyre film is in the works:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-47055539

More on Verdi manuscripts:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/01/27/actualidad/1548599221_361317.html

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CRIME BEAT

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Bizarre brazen theft from a Moscow Museum:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/arts/design/russia-painting-stolen-tretyakov.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47034859

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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Latest worries about repatriation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/arts/museums-africa-colonialism-tribal-art.html

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NUMISMATICA

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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n04.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n05.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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Leonard Dinnerstein:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/obituaries/leonard-dinnerstein-84-dies.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/leonard-dinnerstein-distinguished-historian-of-anti-semitism-in-america-dies-at-84/2019/02/01/06c29680-25d8-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html

Barbara Tsakirgis:

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/01/30/scholar-who-pioneered-vanderbilts-curriculum-in-classical-antiquity-dies/

Miguel Civil:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/miguel-civil-preeminent-scholar-of-worlds-oldest-written-language-dies-at-92/2019/01/30/f5626e94-24a4-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html

Lamia Al-Gailani:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/01/31/lamia-al-gailani-archaeologist-helped-restore-national-museum/

https://wamu.org/story/19/02/02/remembering-lamia-al-gailani-pioneering-iraqi-archaeologist/

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/02/689933122/remembering-lamia-al-gailani-pioneering-iraqi-archaeologist

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2828-audio-news-from-archaeologica-20-january-26-january-2019

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CONFERENCES

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Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-americas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

Current Archaeology Live (March 8-9, 2019):

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/live/ca-live-2018

Berkshire Archaeology Day (April 6, 2019)

The Fourteenth International Conference on Jewish Names (June 3, 2019)

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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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