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, David Perlmutter, 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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A new study suggests ardipithecus was capable of bipedalism:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-upright-human-ancestors.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190228113554.htm

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/cwru-nfs022819.php

… and Neanderthals apparently had an upright ‘balanced’ stance as well:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-neanderthals-upright-humans-today.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uoz-nwu022519.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190225170236.htm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/neanderthals-humans-posture-straight-spine-ancient-skeleton-anatomy-a8796391.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7433-190226-neanderthal-pelvis-spine

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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A ‘sandstone workshop’ find in Aswan:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/65291/Sandstone-workshop-uncovered-at-Gebel-El-Silsila-Aswan

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/26/c_137852140.htm

http://luxortimes.com/2019/02/new-kingdom-workshop-uncovered-in-gebel-el-silsila/

… with some articles focusing on the statue of a criosphinx found inside:

https://www.livescience.com/64870-ram-headed-sphinx-egypt.html

https://www.livescience.com/64869-photos-ram-headed-sphinx.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7439-190227-egypt-aswan-criosphinx

Feature on the rope that was used to seal Tut’s tomb:

https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/remarkable-3245-year-old-rope-sealed-king-tuts-tomb

Feature on the pharaoh’s curse:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-egypt/howard-carter-discovery-tutankhamun-tomb-lord-carnarvon-pharaoh-curse/

Hyping a project to study royal mummies:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/66445/National-project-to-study-royal-mummies-to-kick-off-next

A 1600 years bp estate of a wealthy Samaritan from Zur Natan:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/5th-century-greek-inscription-found-at-site-of-ancient-samaritan-rebellion/

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archaeologists-uncover-1600-year-old-estate-in-Tzur-Natan-581993

https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/28/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-1600-year-old-estate-of-affluent-samaritan/

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2019/03/archaeologists-discover-a-wealthy-samaritans-winepress/

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/israeli-archaeologists-uncover–year-old-estate-of-affluent-samaritan/article_9cf3cdb0-9eff-5dc3-bbf3-25e0bf752d1f.html

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2019/february/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-1-600-year-old-estate-of-samaritan-man-with-rare-inscription

https://www.jns.org/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-1600-year-old-estate-of-affluent-samaritan/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7436-1790227-israel-samaritan-winepress

Feature on DSS that have been found since 2002:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/02/Post-2002-Fragments-Dead-Sea-Scrolls

Arguing over a forgotten Byzantine church in Jerusalem:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/NGO-fights-to-open-forgotten-Byzantine-church-in-Jerusalems-Jewish-Quarter-582155

Building stones with ‘mason signatures’ from a site near Tehran dating to the time of Cyrus:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/433586/Engraved-signatures-of-prehistoric-masons-found-in-Iran

Eckart Frahm is studying Babylonian astronomy texts:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/02/22/yale-assyriologist-decodes-writing-heavens-ancient-stargazers

http://www.aina.org/ata/20190226174026.htm

In case you were wondering about the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/23503

More on protecting Yemen antiquities:

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1614681/yemeni-us-partnership-agreement-protect-antiquities

More on recreating ancient Israel iron smelting:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-was-iron-smelted-in-ancient-israel-researchers-build-kilns-to-find-out-1.6942156

More on that trilingual inscription from near Darius’ tomb:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/trilingual-inscription-iran/

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Archaeology suggests the Minoans were rather more warlike than they have been portrayed in the past:

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/34666-archaeological-evidence-shows-minoans-used-violence-and-prepared-for-war.html

A looted Roman-era mausoleum from Kayseri (Turkey):

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2019/03/01/roman-era-grave-found-inside-hill-raided-by-treasure-hunters-in-turkeys-kayseri

Plans to 3d record the 3rd century CE Roman graffiti at the Written Rock of Gelt near Hadrian’s Wall:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/27/hadrians-wall-archaeologists-discover-rude-graffiti-pictures/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/27/written-rock-gelt-roman-graffiti-cumbria-quarry-wall-to-be-photogrammed

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/28/roman-britain-phalluses-hadrians-wall

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/phallus-graffiti-found-near-hadrians-wall-offers-new-insight-into-roman-britain/

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/27/uk/uk-hadrians-wall-graffiti-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

https://pickle.nine.com.au/2019/02/28/13/01/news-uk-roman-graffiti-explicit-hadrians-wall

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/28/c_137857035.htm

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rude-graffiti-roman-soldiers-near-hadrians-wall-shows-nothing-ever-changes-112115625.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/graffiti-left-roman-soldiers-repairing-hadrians-wall-will-be-immortalized-3-d-180971596/

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/roman-graffiti-distant-past-being-15889009

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7437-190227-roman-quarry-graffiti

Athens plans to ‘open up’ the River Ilisos:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47385140

Concerns for Roman remains prior to canal work on Malta:

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/93316/roman_remains_face_destruction_if_manoel_island_project_goes_through_archeologist_warns#.XHvULs9KhfI

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/environment/townscapes/93351/gzira_resident_comes_forward_with_roman_remains_from_manoel_island_canal

The relief of Eurysaces the baker has been restored:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-restores-funerary-relief-of-eurysaces-the-baker.html

Top finds in Greece in 2018:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/232970/greeces-top-2018-archaeological-finds-lost-city-tombs-homers-tablet/

Feature on things found during Rome’s metro construction (paywall):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/rome-s-new-metro-not-built-in-a-day-as-line-weaves-under-ancient-ruins-k3lvxq76v

Feature on Calliope Limneos-Papakosta’s work in Alexandria:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/02/lost-tomb-alexander-great/

https://neoskosmos.com/en/130764/a-greek-archaeologist-close-to-finding-the-tomb-of-alexander-the-great/

What Eric Poehler is up to (Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project):

https://dailycollegian.com/2019/02/umass-professor-receives-245000-to-bring-ancient-art-of-pompeii-to-the-internet-of-today/

Mary Beard visited Nero’s Golden House:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/neros-golden-house/

What Adrienne Mayor is up to:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ancient-myths-reveal-early-fantasies.html

Feature on ancient Pergamon:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/pergamon-2/

There’s a graphic novel version of the Iliad out:

https://www.stltoday.com/gareth-hinds-the-iliad/article_9e483474-f061-52c1-a4fd-486e3ef045e2.html

Boston College has created a minor in Ancient Greek:

https://usa.greekreporter.com/2019/02/27/boston-college-creates-minor-in-ancient-greek/

Nice feature on the Lycurgus Cup:

https://cen.acs.org/materials/nanomaterials/Chemistry-Pictures-Lycurgus-cup/97/web/2019/02

Nice ‘living history’ thing at Loyola:

https://thegreyhound.org/site/2019/02/28/the-classics-department-hosts-the-roman-soldier-as-living-history-lecture/

Another study of Roman concrete:

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/02/26/students-explore-interplay-volcanoes-ancient-materials-technology-italy/

Tracing the ‘big show’ to the Romans:

https://theconversation.com/the-cursed-child-is-the-latest-in-a-line-of-big-shows-that-date-back-to-the-romans-112394

A ‘hyperrealistic bust’ of Nero (and others) is getting some press atttention:

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-spanish-artist-made-a-life-like-sculpture-of-nero-and-it-s-just-how-you-d-imagine

https://mashable.com/video/realistic-bust-roman-emperor-nero-nerd/

On some weirdness in Herodotus:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/571789/herodotus-histories

On the ancient Romans approach to the ‘Middle East’:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/middle-east-diplomacy-how-solve-roman-empire-us-trump-globalisation-west-a8778061.html

Applying lessons of the Caudine Forks to the UK:

https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-brexit-greece-needs-a-last-minute-greek-lesson/

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/beware-lesson-caudine-forks

Latest in the Parthenon Marbles saga is a denial of the existence of the firman:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/130376/parthenon-marbles-were-looted-experts-say-there-was-no-ottoman-edict-for-lord-elgin-to-remove-them/

More on where survivors of Vesuvius went:

https://www.livescience.com/64854-where-pompeii-refugees-fled.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-did-pompeii-refugees-go

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7435-190226-pompeii-herculaneum-survivors

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

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http://rogueclassicism.com/

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I think we mentioned these Neolithic burials near Barcelona which included humans and dogs:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-prehistoric-humans-dogs-death.html

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-prehistoric-humans-dogs-death.html

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/world/science-health-world/neolithic-humans-loved-dogs-death-burial-sites-near-barcelona-reveal/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7444-19301-neolithic-dog-burials

Possible mesolithic finds from a Deeside dig:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47386160

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeenshire/1685185/archaeologists-unearth-interesting-finds-on-deeside-dig/

A possible Henry VIII cannon find from Hull:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/archaeologists-find-in-yorkshire-could-be-henry-v111-cannon-1-9623402

Finds from various periods from a pre-development dig in Southampton:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-47368219

Remains of Napoleonic War era sea defenses at Edinburgh’s port:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/napoleonic-war-defences-discovered-beneath-site-of-new-leith-waterfront-development-1-4882200

Arguing over plans to ‘restore’ a crossing at Tintagel Castle which never existed (maybe):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/02/25/english-heritage-defends-plans-restore-crossing-tintagel-castle/

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/plan-restore-king-arthurs-bridge-never-existed-122656544.html

Funding to investigate a ‘deserted’ medieval site in Teesdale:

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/southdurham/17470882.teesdale-medieval-site-awarded-funding-for-archaeological-project/

Plans to study a late antiquity church found during road construction in Bulgaria:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/03/01/bulgaria-road-agency-calls-tender-for-archaeological-study-of-late-antiquity-church-found-on-gabrovo-bypass-route/

Plans to regulate wreck-diving in Malta:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20190225/local/wreck-diving-to-be-regulated-with-new-laws-protecting-underwater.702792

Plans for study and conservation work at the Sedlec Ossuary:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-czech-ossuary/czechs-clean-thousands-of-human-bones-in-ossuary-renovation-idUSKCN1Q92CD

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7430-190225-czech-ossuary-cleaned

HS2 construction raising concerns related to 800 years bp burials:

https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/bucks-archaeological-society-voice-concerns-about-hs2-archaeologists-excavation-of-800-year-old-bodies-1-8825165

Restoring a Quaker graveyard in Westbury (I think):

http://www.whitehorsenews.co.uk/blog/2019/02/26/history-restored-at-quakers-graveyard/

A WWII mass grave in Belarus:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nazi-era-mass-grave-found-former-jewish-ghetto-belarus-180971587/

More on the source of Stonehenge’s bluestones:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/uk/stonehenge-rock-origins-trnd/index.html

https://www.9news.com.au/2019/02/28/12/16/uk-news-where-stonehenge-rocks-came-from-how-moved

http://mentalfloss.com/article/575561/ancient-stonehenge-mystery-solved-where-rocks-came-from

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/secrets-stonehenge-found-quarries-180-miles-away-180971562/

… and a feature on Stonehenge’s future:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/feb/25/the-battle-for-the-future-of-stonehenge-podcast

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

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Something about a paleolithic settlement find from near Zhengzhou (I can’t get it to open this a.m.):

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/27/c_137854975.htm

A bronze pot with ‘elixir of life’ from a Western Han dynasty tomb in Henan:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/01/c_137861094.htm

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414f3551444d33457a6333566d54/index.html

Shang Dynasty ‘ritual objects’ from a site in Henan:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/25/c_137849549.htm

Some sort of 2000 years bp metal object from the Sugu site:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902260051.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7438-190227-japan-sugu-trade

Latest study suggests Angkor’s collapse was more gradual, rather than ‘abrupt’:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-angkor-collapse.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190225192144.htm

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uos-nrc022519.php

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-angkor-mysterious-decline-slow-not-sudden

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7443-190301cambodia-angkor-elites

2500 years bp ‘crop seeds’ from a site in Bangladesh:

https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/2500-year-old-crop-seeds-discovered-1709425

https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/2500-year-old-crop-seeds-discovered-asianewsnetwork

Remains of a temple with some 9th century idols from U’Khand:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/ruins-of-ancient-temple-9th-century-idols-found-in-ukhand/articleshow/68159092.cms

Connecting a sixth century flood with the decline of the Gupta Empire:

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/deluge-drowned-mighty-guptas-study/cid/1685500

China wants more underwater archaeology:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/25/c_137849362.htm

Something about job vacancies and carbon testing in Tamil Nadu (I don’t understand the connection):

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/adichanallur-samples-sent-for-carbon-dating-asi-tells-hc/article26369217.ece

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/adichanallur-samples-sent-for-carbon-dating-asi/articleshow/68160102.cms

Studying the archaeological evidence for foot binding:

https://www.livescience.com/64849-foot-bound-skeletons-china.html

Studying Siberian mammoth ivory for tool-making suitability:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-mechanical-properties-mammoth-ivory-siberian.html

Feature on India’s kos minars:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/these-were-the-google-maps-of-16th-century-now-theyre-lost-in-time/articleshow/68227157.cms

More on trade in the Neolithic/Mesolithic high Arctic in Siberia:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-ancient-people-high-latitude-arctic-well-developed.html

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-prehistoric-siberians-may-have-traveled-1-500-kilometers-by-dogsled-1.6964489

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7429-190225-arctic-mesolithic-obsidian

More on whalers graffiti/petroglyphs in Australia:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/03/american-whalers-record-voyages-Australian-rock-art/

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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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A mysterious underground vault found near Nova Scotia’s legislature:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/province-house-grounds-artifacts-archaeologists-dig-archaeology-1.5026834

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7431-190225-nova-scotia-chamber

I think we mentioned these unmarked African-American burials in Delaware:

https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2019/02/25/experts-officials-credit-oral-history-unmarked-grave-discovery/2937681002/

https://news.delaware.gov/2019/02/26/site-of-purported-african-american-cemetery-discovered/

https://www.delaware1059.com/news/archaeologists-discover-african-american-burial-site-on-housing-development-land/article_479e0fca-3a20-11e9-8220-734d28873282.html

http://www.thecourierexpress.com/news/state/archaeologists-discover-african-american-burial-site-on-housing-development-land/article_da480782-0e96-5a75-a867-bc8134e49078.html

Suggestion that ‘Indian Ridge’ is connected to the Lost Colony:

https://www.dailypress.com/features/history/dp-nws-lost-colony-indian-ridge-0226-story.html

More on that Revolutionary War era burial site at Lake George:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Revolutionary-War-remains-found-at-work-site-13645808.php

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/nyregion/lake-george-bones-found.html

A study suggests that ‘clam gardens’ have been around off the coast of British Columbia for at least 3500 years:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-years-shellfish-farming-indigenous-peoples.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/p-3yo022019.php

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7440-190228-canada-shellfish-garden

Researchers have identified an object in storage at WSU as a 2000 years bp tattoo needle used by the ancestral Pueblo people:

https://news.wsu.edu/2019/02/28/oldest-tattoo-tool-western-north-america-discovered/

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-oldest-tattoo-tool-western-north.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/wsu-wrd022719.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190228093612.htm

https://www.livescience.com/64883-oldest-tattoo-tool-western-north-america.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidanderson/2019/03/01/2000-year-old-tattooing-instrument-identified-from-bears-ears-region/

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-amazing-archaeological-find-shows-how-ancient-americans-decorated-their-bodies

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/a-2000-year-old-tattoo-needle-still-has-ink-on-the-tip/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-the-oldest-tattoo-needles-in-western-north-america

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/02/ancient-tattoo-needle-southwest-archaeology/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7441-190228-utah-tattoo-pen

Studying feces suggests climate change contributed to the decline of Cahokia:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-ancient-poop-climate-contributed-fall.html

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uow-aph022219.php

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/climate-change-native-american-city-cahokia-archaeology-mississippi-a8796201.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lake-sediment-and-ancient-poop-track-environmental-changes-cahokia-180971577/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7434-190226-cahokia-population-climate

Oil and gas drilling threaten assorted sites:

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-2-march-april/protect/oil-and-gas-drilling-threaten-indigenous-cultural-sites

Marking the Grand Canyon’s centennial:

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/24/697028570/overcoming-a-long-bitter-relationship-grand-canyon-and-tribes-mark-centennial

Reviewish of *Emilie Davis’s Civil War*:

http://www.gridphilly.com/grid-magazine/2019/2/18/rare-firsthand-accounts-give-insight-into-the-daily-lives-of-civil-war-era-black-women

More on that Revolutionary War hand grenade found in storage in Richmond:

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/02/24/this-is-what-happened-after-mislabeled-revolutionary-war-grenades-sat-on-on-museum-shelves-for-decades/

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On the search for Cortes’ ships:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/archaeologists-search-yucatan-coast-for-hernan-cortes-lost-ships/

… related:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/02/08/actualidad/1549647993_688293.html

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/02/24/actualidad/1551001376_954329.html

Not sure if we’ve mentioned these Maya ‘war ruins’ made be LiDAR in Guatemala:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/03/lasers-reveal-maya-war-ruins/

Concerns for ‘leprosy’ on Easter Island statues:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/01/easter-island-statues-leprosy

https://www.reuters.com/article/chile-easterisland-statue/corrected-feature-easter-islanders-seek-outside-help-for-iconic-statues-leprosy-idUSL1N20O0OV

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-03-01/easter-islanders-seek-outside-help-for-iconic-statues-leprosy

https://www.euronews.com/2019/03/01/easter-islanders-seek-outside-help-for-iconic-statues-leprosy

More on those Mayan artifacts from a ‘sacred lake’ in Guatemala:

https://www.livescience.com/64880-sunken-mayan-artifacts-sacred-lake.html

More on that Inca ‘ritual bath’ site at Chachabamba (Peru):

https://www.livescience.com/64845-inca-ceremonial-baths-archaeology.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7432-190225-peru-inca-baths

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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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Dickens apparently tried to put his wife in an asylum:

https://www.livescience.com/64860-letters-dickens-wife-asylum.html

Spain has a project to log a pile of shipwrecks:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/01/spain-logs-shipwrecks-maritime-past-weather-pirates

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/02/21/actualidad/1550773962_736429.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7445-190301-spain-shipwreck-list

Pondering an attribution of a Caravaggio:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/arts/design/caravaggio-judith-holofernes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

… and the identity of Titian’s ‘Lady in White’:

https://www.npr.org/693912245

Feature on ancient mummies:

https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-who-was-the-first-ancient-mummy-110436

How the NYPL chooses books:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/nyregion/new-york-library-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A history of concrete:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/a-brief-history-of-concrete-from-10000bc-to-3d-printed-houses

Recreating ‘plague water’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/dining/drinks/medieval-drinks-alcohol.html

Why Rembrandt matters:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/arts/design/rembrandt-death-anniversary.html

Related:

http://theartnewspaper.com/podcast/rembrandt-special-the-complete-artist

Pondering the authenticity of an item in a Hawaii museum:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/arts/design/hawaii-sculpture-bishop-museum-marc-benioff.html

On the Translation Initiative at Yale:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/02/26/translation-initiative-aims-attract-iron-filings-un-discipline

On honeybees and mathematics over the centuries:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annapowers/2019/02/28/honeybees-and-mathematics-enigma-of-millenia/

Feature on the Armenian genocide:

https://hyperallergic.com/482353/a-regime-conceals-its-erasure-of-indigenous-armenian-culture/

Feature on medieval midwifery:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/02/medieval-pregnancy-advice-midwifery-manuals-history.html

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6778&context=etd

Feature on the origins of writing:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/the-british-museum-membercast-the-origins-of-writing/

On Verona’s gnocchi:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/02/27/697700334/wherefore-art-there-gnocchi-o-fair-verona-has-another-enduring-love-story

More on in fimo:

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/02/scientific-poop-name-0226

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Fabulous World of Agamemnon:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/exhibits-events/the-fabulous-world-of-agamemnon/

Egypt:

http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/6758-penn-museum-exhibits-200-egyptian-artifacts-in-dazzling-new-displ

Grimani Collection:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/cardinal-grimani-s-collection-comes-home-after-four-centuries

Rembrandt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47261624

Through the Eyes of an Archaeologist:

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-03-01-exhibition-through-the-eyes-of-an-archaeologist/

Alexander Romance:

https://www.jacksonvilleprogress.com/opinion/mysteries-at-your-museum-alexander-s-romance/article_a8233eda-3c7b-11e9-8e28-7778419e55c4.html

Moroni:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/first-moroni-exhibition-in-north-america-features-one-of-the-most-celebrated-portraits-of-the-renaissance/2019/02/27/ec94f3a2-3955-11e9-aaae-69364b2ed137_story.html

Maritime Secrets:

https://borneobulletin.com.bn/underwater-archaeology-leads-way-to-old-civilisations/

Cultural Landscape Syria:

https://advisor.museumsandheritage.com/news/pergamon-museum-launches-exhibition-showcasing-work-preserving-syrian-culture/

https://www.dw.com/en/syrias-cultural-landscape-lives-on-in-berlin/a-47723576

Raffles in Southeast Asia:

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/founder-singapore-brit-his-name-raffles-adventure-imperialist-19th-century-exhibit-1259

Feature on Jerusalem’s Terra Sancta Museum:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190224-a-2000-year-old-biblical-treasure

https://www.terrasanctamuseum.org/en/

Feature on the revamp of the National Museum of Scotland:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-national-museum-of-scotland-completes-a-perfect-revamp-11551218876

Marking the Natural History Museum’s 150th anniversary:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-natural-history-museum-150th-anniversary.html

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AT THE AUCTIONS

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Big bucks for a Monet:

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2019/claude-monet-view-of-the-doge-s-palace-in-venice-sells-for-24m-at-sotheby-s/

An original copy of the ‘Mandate of Palestine’ white paper is coming to auction:

https://m.jpost.com/Diaspora/Original-copy-of-infamous-1939-British-White-Paper-to-be-auctioned-581824

A bronze Buddha is coming to auction (we might hear more about this):

https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/3568295/a-bronze-figure-of-buddha-is-set-to-be-featured-at-christies

Some Bonnie and Clyde poetry is coming to auction:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/notebook-poetry-penned-bonnie-and-clyde-set-go-auction-180971588/

https://www.npr.org/699309005

That ‘lost Caravaggio’ is coming to auction too:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/france-rediscovered-caravaggio-auction-intl-scli/index.html

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THE TECHY SIDE

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Laser scans have revealed some military installations on Alcatraz:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-high-tech-laser-scans-uncover-hidden.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/bu-hls022119.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190227092337.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7442-190228-california-alcatraz-island

A project to digitize a pile of sculptures in the UK:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/art-uk-will-make-150000-sculptures-viewable-online-2020-180971561/

Using drones to trace looting of Jordan tombs:

http://advancedimagingpro.com/an-archaeologist-is-utilizing-drones-to-trace-looting-of-historic-jordan-tombs-mashable/

Using facial recognition software to identify Civil War soldiers:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190227155756.htm

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CLIMATE MATTERS

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Adding climate change to the list of things linked to migrations in the past:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/migration/

On climate change and Arctic sites:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/world/climate-change-threatens-archaeology-intl/index.html

Climate change might be affecting the ‘forest of violins’ in Italy:

https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2019/02/26/esta-el-cambio-climatico-amenazando-el-famoso-bosque-de-los-violines-de-italia/

Opeddish thing on history and climate change:

https://theconversation.com/climate-change-narrate-a-history-beyond-the-triumph-of-humanity-to-find-imaginative-solutions-109819

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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TOURISTY THINGS

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Peru (paywall):

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/03/02/uncovering-perus-neglected-splendours

Davelis Cave (Athens):

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190228-athens-bizarre-underground-phenomenon

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PERFORMANCES

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The Price of Thomas Scott:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/theater/the-price-of-thomas-scott-review.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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CRIME BEAT

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Mummy parts hidden in stereo speakers found at the Cairo airport:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/science/mummies-smuggling-speaker.html

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/65190/Ancient-skeletal-parts-confiscated-in-Cairo-International-Airport

https://www.livescience.com/64851-mummy-parts-recovered-airport.html

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/egyptian-customs-finds-smuggled-mummy-remains-stuffed-in-the-most-bizarre-place/

In the aftermath of a case for 2014, a HUGE number of archaeological and human remains from a collector in Indiana:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-speaks-out-on-seizing-artifacts-from-indiana-home-staggering-discovery-of-human-bones/

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/fbi-finds-000-human-bones-among-antiquities-seized-from-man-home/Rn4q7nBrW83i8cVLdWWxcJ/

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/fbi-art-crime-indiana-donald-miller-artifacts-13646290.php

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/27/fbi-raided-year-old-missionarys-home-found-thousands-stolen-native-american-bones/

https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2019/02/27/after-fbi-seizure-don-miller-artifacts-human-bones-its-looking-owners-indiana/2983562002/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-fbi-indiana-raid-rare-cultural-artifacts-20190228-story.html

https://www.livescience.com/64891-indigenous-artifacts-recovered-fbi.html

A south Tahoe man with a meth problem sentenced for looting sites in California:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/26/nor-cal-man-sentenced-for-looting-native-american-sites/

https://www.rgj.com/story/life/outdoors/2019/02/27/tahoe-man-sentenced-destroying-washoe-archaeological-sites/3006281002/

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/02/28/native-american-artifacts-prison-tahoe/

Thieves stole the head from an 800 years bp mummy in Dublin:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/world/europe/ireland-church-crusader-mummy.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mummy-head-stolen-dublin-st-michan-church-crypt-a8796651.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47364081

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/698097024/vandals-steal-head-of-800-year-old-mummy-in-ireland

https://www.livescience.com/64865-crusader-mummy-loses-head.html

Latest IDF arrest on the West Bank:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/IDF-arrest-West-Bank-six-antiquities-thieves-581944

A couple of unrelated busts in Israel:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/antiquities-thieves-arrested-at-herodian-fortress-and-iron-age-site/

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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This week’s repatriation-related op-eds:

https://aeon.co/ideas/african-art-in-western-museums-its-patrimony-not-heritage

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2019/02/21/mexico/1550724974_272914.html

https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/27516/how-a-global-debate-over-who-owns-african-art-is-playing-out-in-nigeria

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NUMISMATICA

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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n08.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n09.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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Donald Keene:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/obituaries/donald-keene-dead-at-96.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/donald-keene-dean-of-japanese-literature-scholars-dies-at-96/2019/02/24/5117aaa6-3846-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html?utm_term=.443485159c5c

John C Traupman:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-john-c-traupman

Li Xueqin:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/obituaries/li-xueqin-dead.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2833-audio-news-from-archaeologica-17-february-23-february-2019-2

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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

Land and Spirituality in Rabbinic Literature (March 3, 2019):

https://www.yu.edu/cis/news-events

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

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

Berkshire Archaeology Day (April 6, 2019)

European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference (August 2019):

https://www.eabs.net/EABS/Conferences/Warsaw_2019/EABS/Abstract_system/Call_for_papers_Warsaw.aspx

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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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