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, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses

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

The groggy ‘why do we still do daylight savings time’ edition ….

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EARLY HOMINIDS

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We can add ‘small game’ to the Neanderthal (and other early humans in Europe) diet:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-early-europeans-hard-to-catch-small-game.html

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hominids-hunt-rabbits-stone-age

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-neanderthals-and-early-humans-ate-fast-food-archaeologists-shocked-to-discover-1.6998866

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7458-190307-rabbits-hares-hunting

Suggestion that Paranthropus robustus had a tooth disorder:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/disorder-left-ancient-human-relative-teeth-pocked-golf-balls

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7461-190308-paranthropus-robustus-teeth

Feature on the Denisovans:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00672-2

Feature on Dorothy Garrod:

https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/17268

Not sure about the date of this find … a Neanderthal flint workshop in Poland:

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/its-the-flintstones-archaeologists-find-60000-year-old-neanderthal-workshop-with-17000-flint-objects-5014

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AFRICA

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Pondering the impact of the Black Death on 14th century sub-Saharan Africa:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/black-death-may-have-transformed-medieval-societies-sub-saharan-africa

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7457-190307-africa-black-death

Art from various periods reveals Kongo visual culture:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/03/05/art-historian-cecile-fromont-uncovers-kongos-christian-visual-culture

Another feature on Mansa Musa:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47379458

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Some missing pieces of a model boat buried with Tut have been rediscovered in storage:

https://www.livescience.com/64922-lost-king-tut-boat-found.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7455-190306-egypt-tutankhamun-boat

More on Egypt’s restoration of the Kom el-Shuqafa catacombs:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/326562/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-completes-groundwater-lowering-project-at-Al.aspx

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-antiquities/egypt-completes-restoration-of-ancient-kom-el-shuqafa-catacombs-idUSKCN1QK0LF

https://www.france24.com/en/20190303-egypt-rescues-2000-year-old-catacombs-rising-water

https://wsau.com/news/articles/2019/mar/03/egypt-completes-restoration-of-ancient-kom-el-shuqafa-catacombs/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/04/c_137866426.htm

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

https://greekcitytimes.com/2019/03/04/greek-archaeologist-discovers-new-clues-that-could-lead-to-alexander-the-greats-long-lost-tomb/

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/34747-greek-archaeologist-finds-new-clues-on-alexander-the-great%E2%80%99s-lost-tomb.html

https://world.greekreporter.com/2019/03/06/the-greek-archaeologist-in-search-of-alexander-the-greats-tomb/

Egypt continues to work on archaeological cooperation with China:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/66543/Egypt-optimistic-about-fruitful-cooperation-with-China-in-field-of

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774e3367444d33457a6333566d54/index.html

Feature on a Babylonian inscription and other finds at Sela:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/03/New-Discoveries-at-Sela

Feature on the ark of the Covenant:

https://www.livescience.com/64932-the-ark-of-the-covenant.html

Feature on some ‘lost’ Biblical artifacts that will probably never be found:

https://www.livescience.com/64881-lost-biblical-artifacts.html

Graffiti (not ancient) at an 1800 years bp synagogue site in northern Israel:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/graffiti-spray-painted-on-1800-year-old-synagogue-on-galilees-mount-meron/

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Almost-2000-year-old-synagogue-vandalized-in-northern-Israel-582400

https://hamodia.com/2019/03/04/graffiti-discovered-ancient-mount-meron-synagogue/

Finds from various periods from a necropolis site in Salut (Oman):

https://muscatdaily.com/Archive/Oman/Excavations-in-Salut-find-cemetery-5ddi

A Umayyad era settlement site from Qatar:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2019/03/06/earliest-islamic-site-discovered-in-qatar-desert

https://www.gulf-times.com/story/624071/QM-UCL-Qatar-discover-the-earliest-Islamic-site-in

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7454-190306-qatar-islamic-settlement

Smuggling concerns continue in Yemen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/arts/design/yemen-united-states-looted-artifacts.html

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1619556/yemeni-government-raises-alarm-houthi-smuggling-national-relics

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)

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Excavations show the Paphos agora was much larger than previously thought:

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/34777-pafos-excavations-show-agora-was-much-larger-than-previously-assumed.html

Mapping the Odyssey:

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/geography-odyssey

Studying the impact of Hadrian’s Wall:

https://www.newsguardian.co.uk/news/new-report-looks-at-impact-of-hadrian-s-wall-1-9638512

Suggestion that Alexandria (in Egypt) wasn’t founded by Alexander:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8573489/alexander-the-great-didnt-found-alexandria/

A service at the oldest known site of Christian worship in the UK (Lullingstone Roman Villa):

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/8-march/news/uk/worship-resumes-on-ancient-roman-site

Archaeological remains are being used to try and prevent canal development in Malta:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20190305/local/last-ditch-call-to-save-manoel-island.703634

Feature on determining baby gender in ancient Greece:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/can-food-determine-baby-gender

Feature on Roman fish tanks:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fish-tanks-added-to-list-of-things-the-romans-did-for-us-tf896sqkf

Feature on Hannibal:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/people/reference/hannibal/

Feature on ancient robots and the like:

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

Feature on three of Rome’s ‘wildest’ women:

https://www.thelocal.it/20190306/women-rome-history

Feature on the Villa of the Mysteries:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/villa-dei-misteri

Feature on Roman dogs:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/03/how-dogs-celebrated-ancient-world/

On looking for women in the archaeological record:

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/uncovering-the-invisible-women-of-history

Reviews of Armand D’Angour’s *Socrates in Love*:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/socratess-mistress-erased-history/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/socrates-in-love-the-making-of-a-philosopher-by-armand-dangour-review-today-hed-be-a-twitter-bore-hbswt25rt

… and a feature by Dr D’Angour on same:

https://theconversation.com/socrates-in-love-how-the-ideas-of-this-woman-are-at-the-root-of-western-philosophy-109593

Not sure why a review of Finley’s *World of Odysseus* was making the rounds of various sites:

http://www.kwbu.org/post/likely-stories-world-odysseus-mi-finley

Latest piece comparing Trump to assorted emperors:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/ask-a-classicist-donald-trump-more-of-a-caligula-or-a-nero

… and assorted demagogues like Cleon:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/yes-trump-is-undignified-demagogues-have-to-be/2019/03/08/bd8d8d9c-4109-11e9-a0d3-1210e58a94cf_story.html?wpisrc=nl_everything&wpmm=1

What Victor Davis Hanson has been up to:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-classicist-makes-the-case-for-trump-victor-davis-hanson/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/books/review/victor-davis-hanson-case-for-trump.html

Latest Parthenon Marbles features/opeds:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/greece-seeks-to-bring-back-ancient-sculptures-from-the-uk

https://greekcitytimes.com/2019/03/04/experts-say-lord-elgin-stole-parthenon-sculptures-without-sultans-permission/

… and one on Melina Mercouri:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswsmc

In case you missed the hype about the Rotten Romans movie:

https://www.hmv.com/video/teaser-trailer-for-the-horrible-histories-movie-rotten-romans-unveiled

More on the folks who survived Vesuvius:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/last-days-of-pompeii-survivors-likely-fled-north-to-escape-a-fiery-fate/

More on Largo Argentina opening to the public:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/site-where-julius-caesar-was-stabbed-will-finally-open-public-180971613/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/rome/articles/site-of-julius-caesar-assassination-to-be-restored-rome/

More on that scary facial reconstruction of Nero:

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/is-this-the-real-face-of-nero-romes-most-villainous-emperor/

More on the Mount Vettore fault system and the Colosseum:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-seemingly-dormant-geologic-fault-famous.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/06/scientists-discover-fault-line-thought-behind-earthquake-damaged/

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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Searching for Mesolithic remains in Deeside:

https://www.donsidepiper.co.uk/news/environment/in-search-of-deeside-s-earliest-settlers-1-4886498

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/archaeologists-examining-historic-deeside-site/

A 6500 years bp burial (dubbed ‘Fred’) from Bavaria:

https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/german-archaeologists-found-6500-year-old-hu-566515.html

3400 years bp burial sites at a school construction site in Colchester:

https://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/news/north_essex_news/17484527.3400-year-old-human-remains-at-schools-site/

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/17484527.3400-year-old-human-remains-at-schools-site/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7459-190308-england-bronze-age

Hyping the impending dig at a site (various periods) at Holwick:

https://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/news/work-to-uncover-secrets-of-lost-teesdale-village

I think we mentioned this find of remains from Edinburgh’s port of Leith:

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

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7448-190304-scotland-edinburgh-docks

Concerns for the cave Church of Panagia Chrysospilotissa (near Nicosia):

https://in-cyprus.com/chrysospiliotissa-cave-in-danger-of-collapse-priest-warns/

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/03/08/work-on-petrol-station-puts-cave-church-at-risk/

Damage to the organ in the St Denis basilica:

http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-saint-denis-93/saint-denis-l-orgue-de-la-basilique-degrade-apres-une-intrusion-05-03-2019-8025483.php

Feature on Viking warrior women:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/viking/birka-warrior-woman-vikings-female-argument-judith-jesch/

The 10 000 years BCE version of Brexit:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132200-200-brexit-10000-bc-the-untold-story-of-how-britain-first-left-europe/

More on megalith origins in Europe:

https://www.france24.com/en/20190307-perspective-bettina-schulz-paulsson-stone-megaliths-france-origins-prehistory-archaeology

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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I think we mentioned this copper workshop find from Henan:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d774d544d33457a6333566d54/index.html

Another ‘found in storage’ find: 2700 years bp Polynesian tattoo kit with ‘needles’ made of human bone:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-world-oldest-tattooist-toolkit-tonga.html

https://www.livescience.com/64947-tonga-tattoo-combs-discovered.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/700486740/making-a-mark-ancient-tonga-tattoo-tools-may-illustrate-birth-of-polynesian-body

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-05/worlds-oldest-tattoo-kit-human-bones-tonga-archaeology/10872926

http://theconversation.com/worlds-oldest-tattooists-toolkit-found-in-tonga-contains-implements-made-of-human-bone-109427

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-tattooing-kit-human-bones-oldest-discovered-1351853

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7452-190305-polynesia-tattoo-bone

2000 years bp (give or take) ‘ritual burial’ from Solapur:

https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-maharashtra-solapur-excavation-of-human-skeleton-sheds-light-on-ritual-burial-practices-2726114

Foundations of an 11th century pagoda from Viet Nam:

https://vietnamnews.vn/life-style/506304/remnants-of-10th-century-pagoda-unearthed.html#x8RSUuTZdwKV0sUS.97

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7450-190305-vietnam-pagoda-foundations

Assorted medieval items found during construction in Phnom Penh:

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/several-ancient-artefacts-discovered-near-wat-phnom

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7447-190304-cambodia-medieval-artifacts

More on that 2000 years bp ‘elixir of immortality’ from a Chinese tomb:

https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-discover-elixir-of-immortality-in-ancient-chinese-tomb?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1

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

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/763210/elixir-of-immortality-chinese-tomb-everlasting-life-han-dynasty-henan-province

https://nypost.com/2019/03/04/elixir-of-immortality-unearthed-in-ancient-chinese-tomb/

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2019/03/05/chinese-archaeologists-find-immortality-potion-in-bronze-jug-in-ancient-tomb

https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/05/archaeologists-discover-elixir-immortality-ancient-chinese-tomb-8821049/

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-discover-elixir-of-immortality-in-ancient-chinese-tomb/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7446-190301-china-elixir-of-life

A mass grave in Sri Lanka, dating back to the 1400s:

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bodies-found-in-Mannar-mass-grave-date-back-to-the-1400s-46455.html

Looting concerns at a Harappan site at Rakhigarhi:

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/harappan-site-marauded-by-treasure-hunters/738186.html

Concerns about sales of fake ancient coins:

https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/state-archaeologists-warn-about-fake-coins/articleshow/68261262.cms

Feature on the dig (largely directed by women) at Vadnagar:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/explorers-of-vadnagar/articleshow/68310833.cms

OpEd on Pakistan’s ‘crumbling cultural heritage’:

https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/pakistans-crumbling-cultural-heritage/

Review of Sudipta Sen, *Ganges*:

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2019/0220/Glittering-currents-of-the-Ganges-River

More on rethinking the decline of Angkor:

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

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

More on whalers’ petroglyphs in Australia:

https://www.livescience.com/64906-american-whalers-inscriptions-australia.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7449-190304-australia-whaling-inscription

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

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

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Explaining Archaeological Impact Assessments in a British Columbia context:

https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/community/dig-it-the-archeological-impact-assessment-explained-1.23652852

Feature on slavery in Saratoga County:

https://www.saratogian.com/news/local-news/slavery-was-once-common-in-early-saratoga-county/article_8e046c98-3b97-11e9-b80d-bb4980ebdc4e.html

Review of Jeffrey Girard, *The Caddos and Their Ancestors*:

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/2019/03/07/caddos-and-their-ancestors-traces-native-american-habitation-northwest-louisiana/39154385/

The University of Kentucky is making cuts to the Kentucky Archaeological Survey:

http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/local/uk-to-cut-kentucky-archaeological-survey/article_960ad96f-f9cc-5bb4-bb3f-7f287c8c3b38.html

More on what fecal remains reveal about the demise of Cahokia:

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/human-fecal-particles-show-extreme-weather-may-have-led-ancient-cahokias-demise

More on that tattoo ‘needle’ (also found in storage) from the Turkey Pen site:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-tattoo-tool-western-north-america

https://www.ksl.com/article/46506537/washington-archaeologists-find-evidence-of-earliest-known-tribal-tattooing-in-utah

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/03/06/artifact-bears-ears/

http://dnews.com/local/wsu-student-discovers–year-old-tattoo-tool/article_979383f4-8764-56d5-83b6-14288d70b085.html

https://dailyevergreen.com/51175/news/wsu-graduate-student-discovers-2000-year-old-artifact/

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/04/from-bears-ears-region-a-200.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-2000-year-old-tattoo-needles-are-oldest-found-western-north-america-180971602/

More on the ‘clam gardens’ of British Columbia:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/clam-gardens-have-been-cultivated-by-indigenous-people-for-millennia-1.5047148

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Humans are again being blamed for the demise of megafauna in late Pleistocene Argentina:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/aaft-efh030419.php

Plenty of coverage for the revelation that the child sacrifice site at Huanchaquito-Las Llamas was connected to a climate change event:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/p-hoc022719.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-hundreds-children-llamas-sacrificed-ritual.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190306142902.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/science/peru-child-sacrifice.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/03/06/historys-largest-child-sacrifice-was-response-devastating-weather-archaeologists-say/

https://www.livescience.com/64924-children-llamas-sacrificed-ancient-peru.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/children-sacrifice-peru-ritual-llamas-ancient-south-america-a8810976.html

https://www.theweek.co.uk/100057/more-than-100-children-s-bodies-found-at-peru-human-sacrifice-site

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/go-for-launch/la-sci-sn-child-sacrifice-hearts-peru-20190306-story.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/03/06/mass-sacrifice-of-children-and-llamas-in-ancient-peru-reflects-trauma-over-climate-change/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/what-prompted-mass-sacrifice-hundreds-children-and-llamas-ancient-peru/

https://www.newsweek.com/biggist-child-sacrifice-peru-ritual-1353532

https://gizmodo.com/ritual-sacrifice-of-137-children-found-at-15th-century-1833094386

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/111093111/weather-event-behind-perus-600yearold-mass-child-sacrifice

https://www.zmescience.com/science/ritual-sacrifice-children-llama06032019/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=32474

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7456-190307-peru-children-llamas

A cave full of Maya ritual offerings found at Chichen Itza:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-mexican-experts-cave-chichen-itza.html

https://www.livescience.com/64917-lost-mayan-treasure-cave-rediscovered.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/science/chichen-itza-mexico-mayan.html

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/treasure-trove-of-hundreds-of-mayan-artifacts-discovered/

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/03/archaeologists-discover-cave-under-chichen-itza-with-hundreds-of-mayan-objects/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mayan-cave-archeologists-vessels-1.5042658

https://montrealgazette.com/news/world/archaeologists-find-cave-offerings-at-chichen-itza/wcm/9c7cd4e0-c17a-4568-90f0-5e7dc97350c2

https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/06/mysterious-mayan-ritual-cave-chichen-itza-finally-unsealed-8840028/

https://www.france24.com/en/20190305-cave-relics-found-under-mayan-ruins-chichen-itza

https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/03/05/la_serpiente_emplumada/1551815912_460191.html

https://www.euronews.com/2019/03/05/incredible-archaeological-treasure-trove-discovered-in-cave-under-chichen-itza

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-mayan-cave-ceramics-chichen-itza-archaeology-a8808536.html

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-maya-city-ritual-cave-discovered-1351866

http://www.therepublic.com/2019/03/04/lt-mexico-archaeology/

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article227098474.html

https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/06/12/03/news-world-ancient-mayan-ritual-cave-discovered-in-secret-tunnel-system

https://www.latercera.com/tendencias/noticia/tesoro-vasijas-chichen-itza/554411/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/03/maya-ritual-balamku-cave-stuns-archaeologists/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2019/03/06/maya-sanctuary-untouched-for-a-1000-years-discovered-in-cave-beneath-chichen-itza/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00799-2

https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-jaguar-god-cave-reveals-hundreds-of-ancient-undisturbed-maya-artefacts

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cave-full-untouched-maya-artifacts-found-chichen-itza-180971622/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7451-190305-mexico-balamku-vessels

Feature on the La Silla petroglyphs:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/chile-petroglyphs-point-to-1700-year-old-star-gazing-site

Latest on the wreck of the San Jose (off Colombia):

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/03/04/actualidad/1551699267_365243.html

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/07/album/1551979176_069278.html

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/03/08/actualidad/1552046266_028162.html

Recreating a Rapa Nui voyage:

https://www.latercera.com/nacional/noticia/la-travesia-maritima-mas-3-600-kilometros-del-kuini-analola-llegar-rapa-nui/557930/

Review of Juan Guillermo Prado, *The Senate of the New Fatherland* (trans):

https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/quienes-fueron-los-primeros-parlamentarios-chilenos-libro-relata-los-200-anos-del-senado-el-quinto-mas-antiguo-del-mundo/557386/

More on the recent Maya finds from Peten:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/03/07/actualidad/1551921121_901326.html

More on Spain creating a database of New World shipwrecks:

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

http://www.maritimeherald.com/2019/681-sunken-ships-are-located-in-the-caribbean/

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

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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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Feature on the Late Antique Little Ice Age and tree evidence:

https://www.cam.ac.uk/silentwitnesses

… related review of a book by Philipp Blom:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/books/review/philipp-blom-natures-mutiny.html

Feature on experimental archaeology involving stone tools:

https://www.nbcdfw.com/contact-us/community/Stone-Tools-Rediscovering-Prehistoric-Technology-506722321.html

I think we had this ‘naked bushmen debunking’ a while ago:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-debunking-colonial-myth-naked-bushman.html

On problems with Biblical translation:

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-translation-obscured-the-music-and-wordplay-of-the-bible

Feature on Mary, Queen of Scots from a #metoo perspective:

https://theconversation.com/mary-queen-of-scots-is-newly-relevant-in-the-age-of-metoo-111604

Pondering a name change for the Cook Islands:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47468181

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/05/cook-islands-considers-name-change-to-reflect-true-polynesian-nature

… and the Philippines too, it seems:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2019/03/04/articulo/1551710803_859505.html

Hebrew University of Jerusalem has acquired a number of Einstein documents:

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/110-of-Albert-Einsteins-documents-newly-unveiled-for-140th-birthday-582602

https://www.livescience.com/64931-lost-einstein-everything-note.html

On the legend of ‘flying Africans’:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/revisiting-the-legend-of-flying-africans

Dispute arising over ‘nursery rhyme tiles’ at Bedford Hospital:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47470263

Xrays reveal a Gentileschi ‘self portrait’:

https://www.voanews.com/a/uffizi-x-ray-reveals-hidden-artemisia-gentileschi-painting/4814584.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/x-ray-analysis-reveals-self-portrait-hidden-under-artemisia-gentileschi-painting-180971653/

Feature on Cyrano de Bergerac:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/cyrano-de-bergerac-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1551961304

Feature on Eric Hobsbawm:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/historical-cosmonaut-eric-hobsbawm/

Feature on the Paris Grand Guignol:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190304-why-the-grand-guignol-was-so-shocking

In case you were wondering about the origins of modern beer yeast:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190305153648.htm

… or the handshake:

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-ancient-story-of-the-modern-handshake/p072n8wn

On the fate of the remains of ‘El Negro’:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/10/final-indignity-for-man-stuffed-as-a-museum-exhibit-el-negro-botswana

Leonardo’s ‘only surviving sculpture’ revealed:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/09/italian-scholars-unveil-leonardo-da-vincis-only-surviving-sculpture

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/09/701890033/mystery-sculpture-thought-to-be-the-work-of-leonardo-da-vinci-is-unveiled-in-ita

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/09/the-virgin-with-the-laughing-child-playfulness-leonardo-da-vinci

What a Victorian worker’s house was like:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/mar/10/life-and-art-in-a-victorian-workers-house-in-pictures

The Bancroft Prize for History wen to two scholars:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/arts/bancroft-prize-history-awarded.html

Feature on Julia Morgan:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/obituaries/julia-morgan-overlooked.html

Feature on the ‘trailblazing women of Kew’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47463053

The Pope is opening up the WWII Vatican archives:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pope-francis-to-open-world-war-ii-era-vatican-archives-to-scrutiny/2019/03/04/2908ff80-3e75-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html

Review of Toby Green, *A Fistful of Shells*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/08/fistful-of-shells-west-africa-rise-of-slave-trade-toby-green-review

Review of Carrie Gibson, *El Norte*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/books/review/carrie-gibson-el-norte.html

Review of a book on Jack the Ripper’s victims:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-book-chronicles-lives-jack-rippers-victims-180971646/

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Early Rubens:

http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/4915-a-survey-of-early-rubens-traces-his-career-rise-to-fame-through-a

Miniature Books:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/books/tiny-books-grolier-club.html

https://www.grolierclub.org/

Agincourt:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47427608

100 years Trebenishte:

https://www.novinite.com/articles/195618/Sofia+and+Skopje+with+a+Joint+Exhibition+of+Archaeological+Discoveries

Queens of Egypt:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/cleopatra-and-nefertiti-you-know-but-the-queens-of-egypt-exhibition-will-blow-you-away-with-someone-youve-never-heard-of/2019/03/07/59679fca-3cf8-11e9-aaae-69364b2ed137_story.html

William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/03/06/collection-reveals-how-art-informed-science-science-informed-art

Work on the Greco-Roman museum in Alexandria proceeds:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/326564/Heritage/Museums/Egypts-antiquities-minister-inspects-renovation-wo.aspx

A new Roman museum at Nimes:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/musee-de-la-romanite-nimes/

Feature on how the British Museum safeguarded things in WWII:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/05/the-british-museum-in-wartime-archive-1921

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AT THE AUCTIONS

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Drue Heinz’s art collection is coming to auction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/design/drue-heinz-christies-auction.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

OpEd on those Hitler paintings recently at auction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/arts/design/hitler-paintings-fake.html

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THE TECHY SIDE

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More on GPR finding Civil War era buildings and tunnels on Alcatraz:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47475564

https://www.livescience.com/64907-military-structure-under-alcatraz.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alcatraz-tunnels-1.5045926

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/alcatraz-prison-buildings-radar-study-13664148.php

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/05/civil-war-buildings-found-under-alcatraz/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/ground-penetrating-radar-reveals-military-structures-buried-beneath-alcatraz-penitentiary/

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/hightech-lasers-reveal-hidden-military-structures-buried-below-alcatraz-island/

https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-have-found-civil-war-tunnels-under-alcatraz-prison

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/radar-scans-reveal-19th-century-fort-beneath-alcatraz-180971665/

On use of micro air abrasion to clean antiquities:

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/Goa-first-state-to-use-micro-air-abrasion-to-clean-%E2%80%98Archaeological-Antiquities%E2%80%99-/143574.html

On 3d imaging use at archaeological sites:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-d.html

On recreating ancient artifacts:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-recreating-ancient-artifacts-may-be-the-future-of-archaeology

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CLIMATE MATTERS

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Tracking climate fluctuations via laser imaging of mollusk shells:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/mpif-vro030419.php

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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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Luxor:

https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/ancient-egyptian-city-of-luxor-gets-fresh-lease-of-life-1.62490739

St Augustine:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/travel/what-to-do-in-st-augustine-florida.html

Caledonian Canal:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47496621

Herculaneum:

https://www.coastreporter.net/community/features/herculaneum-the-other-pompeii-1.23656627

Alexandria:

https://www.deccanherald.com/archives/sunday-herald-travel/pearl-of-mediterranean-722181.html

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PERFORMANCES

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Clemency of Titus:

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-clemency-of-titus-mozarts-morality-play-about-the-enlightened-leader/

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CRIME BEAT

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5000 Roman coins were seized in a bust in Kutahya (Turkey):

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2019/03/08/5000-roman-coins-seized-in-anti-smuggling-operation

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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Plenty of coverage of the BM’s return of a lock of Tewodros II’s hair to Ethiopia:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47441042

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-ethiopian-emperors-hair-tewodros-ii-a8806906.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/04/uk-museum-agrees-to-return-ethiopian-emperors-hair

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/04/britain-return-two-locks-hair-taken-corpse-19th-century-ethiopian/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/british-museum-agrees-to-return-emperors-hair-to-ethiopia/2019/03/04/ddfd6f68-3e64-11e9-85ad-779ef05fd9d8_story.html

https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1QL1N6

https://allafrica.com/stories/201903050185.html

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/uk-to-return-ethiopian-emperors-stolen-hair-but-not-remains-of-his-son-buried-in-windsor-castle

… an oped arising therefrom:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/history/1097098/museums-britain-marbles-treasures-british-museum

A Dutch Museum is returning 139 Benin bronzes to Nigeria:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2019/03/dutch-museum-to-return-139-benin-bronzes.html

Italy returned 600 (give or take) stolen paintings to Mexico:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/03/07/actualidad/1551946216_660790.html

Interview with Sara Ferracutti regarding repatriation issues for museums:

https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2019/03/04/museo-aleman-se-cuestiona-como-proceder-con-objetos-sustraidos-en-la-epoca-colonial/

Still not sure where to put this repatriated hawaiian sculpture authenticity item:

https://www.art-critique.com/en/2019/03/repatriation-meet-authentication-how-a-hawaiian-sculpture-is-raising-curiosity/

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NUMISMATICA

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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n09.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n10.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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Li Xueqin:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/05/li-xueqin-obituary

Pamela Willetts:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pamela-willetts-obituary-2vg2k6z6j

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2834-audio-news-from-archaeologica-24-february-2-march-2019

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CONFERENCES

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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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