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,

Frank MacKay, Trevor Watkins, Rick Heli, Shelley Wachsmann,

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

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

================================================================

EARLY HOMINIDS

================================================================

Neanderthals may have started their own fires:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-neanderthals.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/health-science/watch-an-archaeologist-spark-a-fire-with-neanderthal-technology/2018/07/19/fe287028-8b52-11e8-9d59-dccc2c0cabcf_video.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/neanderthals-fire-mystery/565514/

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-neanderthals-could-make-fire-new-study-suggests-1.6292123

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/19/ciencia/1531997681_016482.html

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/neanderthals-used-flint-and-pyrite-to-spark-fires

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6803-180719-neanderthal-fire-starter

More on those homo erectus-associated tools from China:

https://www.news.com.au/world/what-we-know-about-human-evolution-may-soon-be-turned-on-its-head/news-story/d938d0d4e8922c263a1d4130d541cdab

https://sciencetrends.com/discovery-of-oldest-stone-tools-outside-of-africa-hints-at-unidentified-human-ancestors/

More on walking and climbing australopithecines:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-human-evolution-trees.html

More on Otzi’s last meal:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180712114602.htm

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Neanderthals-could-start-fires-with-their-stone-13087974.php

================================================================

ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

================================================================

That sarcophagus in Alexandria gave us the full-court press this week … first came the hype:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/307180/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/The-mystery-of-Alexandria-sarcophagus-may-be-revea.aspx

http://www.egyptindependent.com/mysterious-sarcophagus-opened-two-days-egypts-moa-says/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-alexandria-egypt-coffin-sarcophagus-archaeology/

Then came the silly warnings:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/17/alexandria-tomb-coffin-mummy-curses/

Then came the ‘reveal’ that it contained three ‘mummies’:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/308226.aspx

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/54440/Important-facts-about-Alexandria%E2%80%99s-ancient-sarcophagus

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/54322/LIVE-UPDATE-Opening-of-ancient-sarcophagus-in-Alexandria

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-sarcophagus/mystery-egypt-sarcophagus-found-not-to-house-alexander-the-greats-remains-idUSKBN1K92LL

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/middleeast/egypt-black-sarcophagus-opened.html

https://www.livescience.com/63110-mysterious-black-sarcophagus-opened.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44893804

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/19/egyptian-archaeologists-reveal-contents-mysterious-giant-sarcophagus/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/three-mummies-egyptian-black-granite-sarcophagus-alexandria

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/black-sarcophagus-egypt-what-is-inside-curse-alexandria-a8455156.html

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/20/c_137336288.htm

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/reuters/mystery-egypt-sarcophagus-found-not-to-house-alexander-the-great-s-remains/44269104

https://www.yahoo.com/news/eww-experts-open-black-sarcophagus-203410716.html

https://www.dw.com/en/egypt-sarcophagus-remains-not-those-of-alexander-the-great/a-44756467

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/19/egypt-sarcophagus-what-they-found-massive-ancient-tomb/802720002/

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/105628832/ancient-sarcophagus-found-at-egyptian-building-site-opened

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630778612/in-egypt-ancient-coffins-contents-finally-revealed

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/20/archaeologists-find-unexpected-contents-inside-alexandria-coffin/

https://www.zmescience.com/science/big-black-sarcophagus-egypt-2007-2018/

http://www.ibtimes.sg/pharaohs-curse-turned-false-after-archaeologists-opened-2000-year-old-sarcophagus-egypt-26767

https://www.newsweek.com/three-foul-smelling-mummies-unearthed-tomb-1033885

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6801-180719-egypt-three-warriors

Then came the incredible post-opening silliness:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/black-sarcophagus-egypt-blood-red-liquid-drink-petition-curse-alexandria-a8458036.html

https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/20/people-want-to-drink-the-red-liquid-from-newly-opened-4000-year-old-sarcophagus-7740238/

http://time.com/5345125/egypt-black-sarcophagus-juice-for-mummies/

An Old Kingdom pottery workshop from Aswan:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-ancient-pottery-workshop-egypt.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/archaeologists-find-ancient-pottery-workshop-in-egypt/2018/07/19/db698692-8b5e-11e8-9d59-dccc2c0cabcf_story.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/archaeologists-find-ancient-pottery-workshop-egypt-56688355

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/20/c_137336309.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6805-180720-old-kingdom-pottery

I think we mentioned this 2500 years bp mummification workshop from Saqqara:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2018/07/15/archaeologists-discover-hidden-mummy-workshop/

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-egypt-mummification-workshop.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-in-egypt-discover-mummification-workshop/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/14/a-goldmine-mummies-secrets-uncovered-in-egypt

http://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologists-discover-2000-year-old-ancient-burial-site-along-mummification-workshop-egypt-26719

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/new-egypt-ancient-burial-site-could-help-reveal-mummification-secrets-1159354

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/07/16/archaeologists-discover-mummification-workshop-near-egypts-pyramids

https://www.latercera.com/tendencias/noticia/egipto-arqueologos-hallan-milenario-centro-momificacion-ayudara-estudiar-preservaban-los-cuerpos/243918/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummification-workshop-and-trove-burial-relics-found-egypt-180969640/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6791-180716-saqqara-burial-shaft

Feature on the Gurob ship model:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/egyptian-ship-model-sheds-light-on-bronze-age-warfare-and-religion/

cf: http://www.vizin.org/Gurob/Gurob-as-exc.html

14 400 years bp (pre-agriculture!) flatbread from a site in Jordan:

https://humanities.ku.dk/news/2018/archaeologists-discover-bread-that-predates-agriculture-by-4000-years/

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc–adb071118.php

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-bread-predates-agriculture-years.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716151513.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44846874

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/16/archaeologists-find-earliest-evidence-of-bread

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/bread-history-cooking-stone-age-middle-east-archaeology-discovery-a8450276.html

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-earliest-pita-14-400-years-old-found-in-jordan-s-black-desert-1.6273569

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Worlds-oldest-bread-found-at-prehistoric-site-in-Jordan-562680

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bread-was-being-baked-in-jordan-4000-years-before-the-start-of-agriculture/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/16/bread-farming-neolithic/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/07/16/these-crumbs-come-from-the-worlds-oldest-bread-it-might-have-resembled-a-pita/

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/health/bread-jordan-desert-intl/index.html

https://www.dw.com/en/revolutionary-evidence-proves-bread-existed-before-agriculture/a-44702764

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/worlds-oldest-bread-crumbs-jordan-pita-discovery-13079411.php

https://www.thelocal.dk/20180717/danish-archaeologists-find-14000-year-old-bread-in-jordan

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-bread/worlds-oldest-bread-found-at-prehistoric-site-in-jordan-idUSKBN1K62JB?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

https://www.newsweek.com/bread-early-humans-archaeology-1027726

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-evidence-bread-baked-advent-agriculture-180969667/

http://sciencenordic.com/following-new-trail-crumbs-agricultures-origins

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/18/630008575/archaeologists-find-14-500-year-old-bread

https://gizmodo.com/discovery-of-14-000-year-old-toast-suggests-bread-can-b-1827631358

https://www.latercera.com/tendencias/noticia/cientificos-descubren-los-humanos-hacian-pan-4-mil-anos-desarrollar-la-agricultura/246119/

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/14/ciencia/1531557609_401411.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6795-180717-hunter-gatherer-bread

Remains of a 9000 years bp settlement in the Jerusalem Valley:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-9-000-year-old-neolithic-city-discovered-in-jerusalem-valley-1.6271740

https://www.inquisitr.com/4986949/archaeologists-have-uncovered-a-magnificent-neolithic-village-in-jerusalem-valley-that-arose-9000-years-ago/

Lawrence Schiffman reflects on the DSS:

http://lawrenceschiffman.com/a-reflection-on-the-significance-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/

A Byzantine church find in Mugla:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/byzantine-church-found-in-muglas-city-of-gladiators-134629

Feature on the British School in Iraq:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/17/british-school-archaeology-iraq-nimrud-agatha-christie

http://www.aina.org/ata/20180717181404.htm

A Saudi citizen who returned an artifact was applauded:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1339401/saudi-arabia

Pondering the Phoenicians

More on the Huqoq mosaics:

https://hyperallergic.com/451212/discovery-of-jewish-mosaics-in-israel-bring-color-to-biblical-accounts/

================================================================

ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)

================================================================

A 1700 years bp marble bust from Mersin:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1-700-year-old-roman-bust-unearthed-in-ancient-city-in-turkeys-south-134707

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6797-180718-turkey-roman-bust

A Roman bath from Chichester:

https://www.chichester.co.uk/news/large-roman-bath-discovered-in-second-priory-park-dig-in-chichester-1-8575275

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-44910675

Roman coins from Georgia (not the one in the US):

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C30287%2Ctreasure-silver-and-bronze-coins-discovered-georgia.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6802-180719-fort-apsaros-coins

Concerns for the Aurelian Walls:

https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/07/15/21/22/ancient-rome-walls-at-risk-of-being-lost

Feature on Emily Wilson and her Odyssey translation:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/i-didn-t-realise-how-much-of-a-big-deal-the-first-woman-thing-was-1.3562988

Mosaics from Leicester are going on display at last:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/roman-mosaic-bbc-opening-see-1791052

Another tourist caught vandalizing the Colosseum:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/another-tourist-caught-vandalising-colosseum.html

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/07/16/tourist-carves-initials-into-colosseum_05c9f997-ccb6-4347-9f03-9b0abbc9ef13.html

How to occupy your time between Classics degrees:

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-student-takes-long-way-back-school-unicycling-across-canada

More on that Villa/Church by the Milvian Bridge:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/mystery-surrounds-ancient-discovery-in-north-rome.html

https://www.thelocal.it/20180717/archaeological-enigma-rome-tiber-remains-church-villa

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-christian-church-may-have-been-found-rome-180969707/

More on that Galen papyrus:

https://www.livescience.com/63070-ancient-papyrus-galen-hysteria.html

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2018/07/19/swiss-experts-crack-code-of-2000-year-old-ancient-greek-papyrus/

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-sensational-discovery-_2-000-year-old-papyrus-medical-mystery-solved/44260212

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/after-500-years-a-uv-lamp-solves-the-mystery-of-the-basel-papyrus/

http://advocator.ca/news/2000-year-old-ancient-papyrus-to-define-hysterical-apnea/3799

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6793-180716-papyrus-conserved-translated

More on Romans and whaling:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/science/ancient-romans-whales.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/11/romans-may-have-been-first-whalers/#.W1J6DX4nZHY

More on that Odyssey bit from Olympia:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/oldest-known-fragment-homers-odyssey-06202.html

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/homer-odyssey-tablet-olympia/

—–

Latest reviews from BMCR:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

================================================================

EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

================================================================

Last dig season for an Ice Age site in St Saviour:

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2018/07/21/last-dig-season-for-ice-age-site/

Coins and other finds from various periods at a housing site in Old Felixstowe:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/secret-of-early-felixstowe-people-revealed-at-dig-on-generator-group-site-in-ferry-road-1-5611882

A 5000 years (or so) bp passage tomb from Ireland:

http://www.thejournal.ie/megalithic-passage-tomb-meath-4130419-Jul2018/

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/uk/archaeologists-uncover-find-of-a-lifetime-tomb/

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/archaeologists-uncover-find-of-a-lifetime-tomb-37124394.html

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-find-of-a-lifetime-megalithic-passage-tomb-cemetery-discovered-at-meath-world-heritage-site-37123288.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/5-500-year-old-passage-tomb-at-dowth-is-find-of-a-lifetime-1.3567118

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6792-180716-ireland-passage-tomb

A 2 000 years b.p. wooden ‘drinking bowl’ from a chamber in Orkney:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/2000-year-old-bowl-underground-chamber-orkney-scotland-archaeology-a8447421.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-find-2000-year-old-wooden-bowl-strands-hair-northern-scotland-180969713/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6790-180716-orkney-wooden-bowl

… and some hair too:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/astonishing-find-of-2-000-year-old-hair-on-orkney-1-4770083

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6804-180719-orkney-broch-hair

First evidence of a strain of Salmonella in northern Europe comes from a medieval Norwegian burial:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-evidence-salmonella-paratyphi-medieval-northern.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uow-eos071918.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180719112214.htm

Studying British teeth in various periods for evidence of diet:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-british-teeth-potential-insights-ancient.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoy-rob071718.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180717194505.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44862778

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6798-180718-britain-dental-plaque

800 years bp burials on Sicily:

http://www.ibtimes.sg/800-year-old-graves-found-sicily-archaeologists-believe-these-are-descendants-vikings-26745

Studying burials to see if Christianity made it to Scotland before Columba came to Iona:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/human-bones-to-reveal-true-cradle-of-christianity-1-4769162

Feature on the medieval port at Chalcis:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/c-otp071818.php

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-theban-port-chalcisa-medieval-maritime.html

Haven’t had a medieval-ring-found-in-a-garden story for a while:

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/gold-ring-12th-century-found-1806000

Remains of a 17th century English fort in Co Kilkenny:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/english-fort-discovered-during-castlecomer-hotel-development-1.3565838

A Tudor shipwreck from a beach in Kent:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/16/tudor-shipwreck-discovered-by-local-group-on-kent-beach

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-44838683

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tudor-shipwreck-kent-beach-tankerton-archaelogy-whitstable-timbers-a8449071.html

Researchers have returned to the shipwreck site of the Mars:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-reveal-legendary-swedish-warship.html

http://sciencenordic.com/archaeologists-reveal-new-finds-legendary-swedish-warship

http://www.newser.com/story/262223/450-year-old-wreck-holds-something-unique.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6806-180720-sweden-mars-warship

There’s an archaeologist strike going on in Ireland:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/archaeologists-to-stage-second-day-of-strike-action-856287.html

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/archaeologists-strike-for-second-day-in-pay-dispute-37135438.html

Feature on Constance Markievicz:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43176232

Feature on when the US attacked the UK (not recently):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-time-america-invaded-britain/

More on that henge find in Ireland:

https://www.livescience.com/63097-ireland-newgrange-henge-uncovered.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628905864/in-ireland-drought-and-a-drone-revealed-the-outline-of-an-ancient-henge

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/07/17/drone-reveals-hidden-location-of-ancient-ireland-henge/

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/13/ciencia/1531489495_489032.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drought-reveals-giant-4500-year-old-irish-henge-180969650/

More on sites revealed in the heatwave in the UK:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/location-every-underground-historic-site-14935872

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/4000-year-old-ancient-monument-14917457

https://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/archaeologists-put-in-picture-by-heatwave-1-4770362

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/14/629058512/crop-marks-reveal-ancient-structures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44767497

—–

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

================================================================

ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

================================================================

Connecting fishing and the use of pottery in ancient Japan:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-pottery-linked-fishing-post-glacial-period.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoy-too071218.php

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/japan-s-love-affair-with-fish-began-very-early

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6794-180717-japan-pottery-fishing

A 7700 years bp sandstone ‘carving’ from Inner Mongolia:

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2018-07/16/content_57292636.htm

A 12th century hoard from a Chhattisgarh village:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/road-crew-digs-up-12th-century-pot-of-gold-in-chhattisgarh-village/articleshow/64994194.cms

The Taj Mahal saga takes a strange turn:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/indian-supreme-court-restore-taj-mahal-or-demolish-it-180969668/

—–

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

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

================================================================

NORTH AMERICA

================================================================

I think we mentioned these pre Clovis finds from the Gault site:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-gault-site-date-earliest-north.html

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Ancient-tools-found-by-Texas-State-archaeologists-13085078.php

https://www.kvue.com/article/archaeologists-unearth-20000-year-old-history-in-central-texas/269-576139178

A 3000 years bp tobacco pipe from Alabama:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/americans-have-been-lighting-more-3000-years-ancient-pipe-reveals

http://westerndigs.org/ice-age-hunting-camp-replete-with-bird-bones-and-tobacco-found-in-utah-desert/

Latest on the search for the site of Hochelaga:

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/archaeologists-intrigued-by-iroquois-village-found-downtown

https://www.mtlblog.com/news/archaeologists-just-unearthed-an-indigenous-city-under-downtown-montreal

Suggestion that consumption of a corn fungus may have benefitted the Puebloan people over a long period of time:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6800-180718-corn-smut-staple

On the search for the Clotilda:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/clotilda-slave-ships-mobile-alabama-africatown-archaeology/

Latest on the Hunley:

https://www.livescience.com/63127-hl-hunley-submarine-escape-never-used.html

https://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Confederate-sub-never-released-emergency-blocks-13085173.php

https://www.timesunion.com/news/us/article/Confederate-sub-never-released-emergency-blocks-13085173.php

https://wnyt.com/news/confederate-sub-never-released-emergency-blocks-to-surface/4993403/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6807-180720-confederate-sub-hunley

Latest from Colonial Williamsburg:

http://www.dailypress.com/visuals/video/99815874-132.html

Initially it was thought some burials in Texas were former slaves:

http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/38663084/bodies-found-at-texas-school-construction-site-believed-to-be-slaves

… then it was modified to forced labour prisoner remains:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/us/grave-convict-lease-texas.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/18/bodies-of-95-black-forced-labor-prisoners-from-jim-crow-era-unearthed-in-sugar-land-after-one-mans-quest/

https://www.wral.com/remains-of-black-people-forced-into-labor-after-slavery-are-discovered-in-texas/17706547/

https://wtkr.com/2018/07/18/dozens-of-bodies-found-at-a-texas-construction-site-were-probably-black-people-forced-into-labor-after-slavery-ended/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-95-african-american-forced-laborers-found-texas-180969703/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6799-180718-texas-convict-lease

Not a good thing for sites in Utah, perhaps:

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2018/07/21/did-blm-give-looters/

Feature on Mount Philo:

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/07/16/history-space-mount-philo-vermonts-first-state-park/36875193/

================================================================

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

================================================================

Latest on Chile’s ‘stonehenge’:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/16/chile-atacama-desert-saywas-inca-solar-discovery

Evidence of a pre-hispanic ‘government palace’ in Mexico City:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/pre-hispanic-government-palace-found/

Feature on Ecuador’s Quijo civilization:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lake-tells-story-ecuadors-decimated-indigenous-quijo-groups-180969705/

What Sarah Kurnick is up to:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/07/16/beyond-boulder-cu-professor-and-students-study-ancient-maya-ruins

I think we had this with a different spin … evidence of pre-Columbian farmland in Ecuador:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/ecuadors-cloud-forests-hide-a-tragic-history/

Uraniam mine v petroglyphs in Peru:

https://elpais.com/economia/2018/07/17/actualidad/1531864592_792825.html

More on an earthquake revealing a temple in a Mexican pyramid:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44806790

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-earthquake-pyramid-ancient-temple-archaeologist-teopanzolco-a8448821.html

—–

Mike Ruggeri’s Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

================================================================

OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

================================================================

Feature on assorted ancient food finds:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/22/the-five-ancient-food-bread-wine-chocolate-beer-popcorn

An interesting set of parchment pages at Stanford:

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/07/19/solving-mystery-unusual-medieval-text/

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-mystery-unusual-medieval-text.html

Using barley varieties to track migrations and agriculture development:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-barley-eastliving-varieties-reveal-ancient.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc-bhe071718.php

Since we’ve heard claims about this Russian shipwreck before, we’ll put the latest claim in this section for now:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44876968

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/19/salvage-old-russian-warship-could-unearth-billions/799509002/

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/asia/south-korea-sunken-ship-intl/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/20/claim-sunken-warship-has-130bn-of-gold-onboard-triggers-frenzy-in-south-korea

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/20/claim-that-200-tons-of-gold-may-have-been-found-on-sunken-ship-triggers-question-who-would-own-it/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/doubts-swirl-claims-gold-shipwreck-180969715/

https://www.livescience.com/63114-donskoi-russian-warship-shipwreck-gold.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-san-jose-shipwreck-colombia-salvage/

Latest beer recreation is an Egyptian one for the British Museum:

https://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/life/325203/beer-column-kildare-brewer-makes-ancient-egyptian-beer-for-british-museum.html

On the history of the sandwich:

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/hungry-a-brief-history-of-the-humble-sandwich/p06dnb99

On conserving an obelisk at the Getty:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/conserving-an-ancient-obelisk/

A rather irresponsible piece on metal detecting:

http://www.theweek.co.uk/95150/metal-detecting-how-much-can-you-make

Top ten elegies:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/18/from-catullus-to-dylan-thomas-the-top-10-elegies

On the popularity of leopard skin:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/the-history-of-leopard-print/index.html

Feature on some of those recent human sacrifice finds:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/big-human-sacrifice-discoveries-and-the-plight-of-the-vulnerable

Feature on the Library of Alexandria:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-library-of-alexandria-is-long-gone-and-all-around-us

Review of *The Secret History of Magic*:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/how-do-they-do-that-the-secret-history-of-magic-is-a-study-of-deception-as-art/2018/07/17/dce3f610-89f1-11e8-85ae-511bc1146b0b_story.html

================================================================

MUSEUM MATTERS

================================================================

Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/arts/design/klimt-schiele-picasso-nudes-met-breuer.html

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/obsession

Royal Horticultural Society:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44797298

Freud’s Rings:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/exhibit-reveals-rings-freuds-secret-committee-180969639/

C.W. Nicol collection:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/arts/design/an-adventurers-relics-and-his-living-collection.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

On Bodrum’s open air museum project:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bodrums-open-air-museum-project-launched-134627

================================================================

THE TECHY SIDE

================================================================

When your GPS goes bad:

http://wamc.org/post/truck-driver-using-gps-damages-historic-covered-bridge

================================================================

CLIMATE MATTERS

================================================================

Climate change is affecting the cedars of Lebanon:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/climate/lebanon-climate-change-environment-cedars.html

================================================================

ON THE DNA FRONT

================================================================

DNA has authenticated the remains of the Romanovs:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-fresh-dna-authenticate-bones-russia.html

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-remains-of-the-murdered-romanovs-authentic/a-44700092

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-analysis-confirms-authenticity-remains-attributed-romanovs-180969674/

Questioning the ethics and DNA analysis of that Atacama mummy:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-cites-faulty-science-ethics-dna.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoo-orc071818.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180718104811.htm

Could DNA ‘prove’ Egyptians visited Ireland?:

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/dna-ancient-egyptians-ireland

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

================================================================

TOURISTY THINGS

================================================================

New Bedford:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180719-the-city-that-lit-the-world

Saranac Lake:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/things-to-do-saranac-lake-new-york/index.html

cf:

http://wamc.org/post/preservation-group-buys-adirondack-home-pioneer-tb-doctor

Army Trades Weekend:

https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/07/15/army-trades-weekend-showcases-revolutionary-war-era-work

http://www.saratogian.com/general-news/20180715/army-trades-weekend-the-working-side-of-the-revolutionary-war

Colombia:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/travel/colombia-southwest-san-agustin-purace.html

Hejaz Railway:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20180716-the-railway-that-united-islam

St Andrews:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/travel/what-to-do-in-st-andrews-scotland.html

================================================================

PERFORMANCES

================================================================

Demon:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/arts/music/demon-rubinstein-opera-bard.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

================================================================

CRIME BEAT

================================================================

On the plundering of antiquities in Nepal:

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2018/07/nepal-great-plunder-180718082431778.html

A historically-important cross stolen in Germany:

http://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2018/07/germany-cultural-historically-important.html

This week’s bust in Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/230750/article/ekathimerini/news/suspect-34-arrested-for-illegal-possession-of-antiquities-in-northwestern-greece

A long-running stolen book scam:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-newton-principia-items-alleged-8m.html

https://www.timesunion.com/news/science/article/Archivist-bookseller-charged-in-8M-rare-book-13091517.php

A podcast series on the Gardner Museum heist:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/arts/the-gardner-museum-heist-still-a-mystery-now-a-podcast.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

Latest Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2018/07/culture-crime-news-9-15-july-2018.html

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

================================================================

REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY

================================================================

I guess expropriating a German castle from its Russian owner is repatriation (?):

https://www.dw.com/en/german-castle-expropriated-from-russian-owner/a-44701607

Germany returned a Maori head to New Zealand:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/german-museum-returns-preserved-maori-head-new-zealand-180969634/

Egypt recovered 116 items from smuggling failures:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/54110/Antiquities-ministry-receives-116-archaeological-pieces

http://www.egyptindependent.com/photos-ministry-of-antiquities-receives-116-antiques-after-failure-to-smuggle-them-abroad/

(this one’s confuising) Libya recovered some items from the US:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/culture/libya-recovers-antiquities-united-states

================================================================

NUMISMATICA

================================================================

Feature on the Tyrants Collection:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/best-in-show-ancients-of-the-tyrant-collection/

On Icenian coinage:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/the-die-is-cast-investigating-icenian-coinage.htm

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n28.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n29.html

————————

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

================================================================

OBITUARIES

================================================================

James R. McCredie:

http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/in-memoriam-james-r.-mccredie

Anne Olivier Bell:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/19/anne-olivier-bell-obituary

Wesley D. Smith:

http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/dr-wesley-d-smith-88-former-classics-professor-at-the-university-of-pennsylvania-20180720.html

================================================================

AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

================================================================

Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2759-audio-news-from-archaeologica-8-july-14-july-2018

================================================================

CONFERENCES

================================================================

CBA Wessex 60th Anniversary Conference (November 2018):

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

Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

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

================================================================

GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS

================================================================

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/

================================================================

PODCASTS/VODCASTS

================================================================

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

================================================================

EXPLORATOR is a free weekly newsletter bringing you the latest

news of archaeological finds, historical research and the like.

Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of

the ‘ancient world’ (broadly construed: practically anything relating

to archaeology or history up to a century or so ago is fair

game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of

charge!

================================================================

Useful Addresses

================================================================

Past issues of Explorator are available on the web via our

Yahoo site:

http://www.yahoogroups.com/neo/groups/Explorator/conversations/topics

To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to:

Explorator-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

To send a ‘heads up’ to the editor or contact him for other

reasons:

rogueclassicist@gmail.com

================================================================

Explorator is Copyright (c) 2018 David Meadows. Feel free to

distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,

teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These

links are not to be posted to any website by any means (whether

by direct posting or snagging from a usenet group or some other

email source) without my express written permission. I think it

is only right that I be made aware of public fora which are

making use of content gathered in Explorator. Thanks!

================================================================