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explorator 20.47 March 18, 2018

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,

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Adrienne Mayor, Jennifer Cosham, Rick Heli, Bob Heuman,

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

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

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EARLY HOMINIDS

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Apparently humans fared better in the wake of the Toba eruption 74 000 years bp than previously thought:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/asu-hti030818.php

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/uoct-mhf031218.php

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/science/toba-supervolcano-supereruption.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43377960

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-volcano/stone-age-people-in-south-africa-unharmed-by-supervolcano-eruption-idUSKCN1GO2IK

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/how-ancient-humans-survived-global-volcanic-winter-massive-eruption

http://www.newsweek.com/early-humans-survived-supervolcano-eruption-840556

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-03-13/toba-super-volcano-eruption-saw-some-humans-thrive-on-coast/9532938

http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/nature/these-ancient-humans-survived-a-supervolcano.aspx

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-humans-weathered-toba-supervolcano-just-fine-180968479/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6433-180313-volcanic-winter-survival

Evidence of long-distance trade and sophisticated tools in East Africa 320 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-scientists-evidence-early-human-evolutionary.html

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-african-tools-human-technological.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/s-sde030918.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43401157

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/15/ciencia/1521139094_739880.html

https://www.theage.com.au/world/scientists-find-evidence-of-paint-complex-tools-and-climate-chaos-at-the-dawn-of-humanity-20180316-h0xjzu.html

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-humans-turning-point-20180315-story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/03/15/scientists-find-evidence-of-paint-complex-tools-and-climate-chaos-at-the-dawn-of-humanity/

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/03/15/593591796/scientists-are-amazed-by-stone-age-tools-they-dug-up-in-kenya

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/03/15/human-behavior-evolution/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/colored-pigments-and-complex-tools-suggest-human-trade-100000-years-earlier-previously-believed-180968499/

https://www.archaeology.org/6442-180316-middle-stone-age

On compassion in Neanderthals:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/uoy-chn031318.php

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-compassion-neanderthals-survive-reveals.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180313130443.htm

On human-denisovan interbreeding:

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-modern-humans-interbred-denisovans-history.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180315140733.htm

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-denisovans-humans-mated-20180315-story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/03/15/humans-bred-with-this-mysterious-species-more-than-once-new-study-shows/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/modern-humans-interbred-with-denisovans-more-than-once/

https://www.archaeology.org/6439-180315-asia-denisovan-dna

On the role of cheese, wheat, and alcohol in human evolution:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-cheese-wheat-and-alcohol-shaped-human-evolution-180968455/

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AFRICA

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Evidence of cultivation of grain in Saharan Africa 10 000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/uoh-tao031618.php

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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Meneptahs red granite column is the latest item to head to the GEM:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/292502/Heritage/Museums/King-Meneptah-Column-arrives-at-Grand-Egyptian-Mus.aspx

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6434-180313-egypt-column-moved

On solar alignments in Ancient Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/151/292945/Egypt/Features/Solar-alignments-in-Ancient-Egypt.aspx

An undisturbed elite Canaanite burial from Megiddo:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/megiddo-armageddon-dna-royal-burial-canaan-archaeology/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3600-year-old-tomb-found-next-canaanite-palace-might-contain-remains-royal-family-180968487/

A followup of sorts to that story of the Gazan family who found a Roman site in their backyard:

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/03/gaza-archaeological-site-roman-era-excavation-preservation.html

Feature on Timna:

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/03/16/uncovering-israels-past-at-timna/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjdjY2U2ODQ5NTMxZWE4Mjc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHZpajxHVXiJEaYujJT751UxEAgZQ

Feature on the Huqoq mosaics:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/scholars-study/more-on-the-mosaics/

A slow week, so we’ll put this item on Mellaart’s legacy here (not sure about the source!):

https://www.livescience.com/61989-famed-archaeologist-created-fakes.html

http://www.newsweek.com/famous-archaeologist-faked-ancient-discoveries-9000-year-old-site-europe-and-841428

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/science/famed-british-archaeologist-james-mellaart-forged-researchers-claim/news-story/50d4d14acf9dbf7185403465039ba1a8

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/famed-british-archaeologist-james-mellaart-forged-researchers-claim/news-story/50d4d14acf9dbf7185403465039ba1a8

Feature on the portraiture of the Persian royal family:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/persias-dynastic-portraiture-bejeweled-thrones-and-lavish-decor-message-authority-180968475/

In case you never checked out the online version of the DSS:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/digital-dead-sea-scrolls-finally-available-online/

… and Digital South Arabia:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/03/Digital-South-Arabia

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)

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Evidence of the port of Palepolis (near Naples):

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/03/15/ancient-naples-port-found-2_64b282bc-7ebd-46e5-90a1-9736998be415.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6438-180315-naples-ancient-port

A possible early Roman settlement in North Petherton:

http://digital.vpr.net/post/ancient-instruments-and-modern-media-tell-tale-women-warriors?#stream/0

Plenty of sites discovered along the route of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/03/14/pipeline-construction-reveals-ancient-greek-treasures/

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/30529-more-than-400-archaeological-excavations-completed-along-trans-adriatic-pipeline-s-path.html

http://www.balkaneu.com/400-archaeological-excavations-investigations-completed-in-northern-greece/

Interesting miniature Roman mirror frames from a villa site in northern Bulgaria:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/03/10/archaeologist-discovers-ancient-mirrors-roman-villa-estate-ceramics-factory-bulgarias-pavlikeni/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6430-180312-bulgaria-roman-mirrors

Pondering the existence of Amazons:

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/were-there-ever-any-real-amazon-warrior-women

Semi-related:

http://digital.vpr.net/post/ancient-instruments-and-modern-media-tell-tale-women-warriors?#stream/0

Mosaics from the ‘Mansion of Alexander at Amyntaio’ are going on display:

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/03/gaza-archaeological-site-roman-era-excavation-preservation.html

Last week our link to a ‘fear of archaeologists’ in Greece piece somehow acquired an extra period, so:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-greece-the-authority-investors-fear-most-its-archaeologists-1520505001

Matt Gibbs has recreated an ancient Egyptian beer:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ancient-beer-brought-to-life-by-classicist-and-winnipeg-brewery-1.3843821

http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/03/15/ale-analysis-ancient-beer-brought-to-life-by-classicist-and-winnipeg-brewery/

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/canada-profs-4th-century-beer-a-classic-128843

What Melissa Mueller is up to:

https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-classics-professor-melissa

Features on the Ides of March:

http://www.newsweek.com/idea-march-meaning-what-are-julius-caesar-william-shakespeare-846368

https://www.echoak.com/2018/03/ides-of-march/

… and an opeddish sort of thing on Julius Caesar’s assassination:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jury-is-still-out-on-julius-caesar-s-killing-1.3427110

Feature on the Library of Alexandria:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-places/the-ancient-library-of-alexandria/

… and Alexander in the East:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/alexander-in-the-east/

On veterans using Homer to readjust after returning from a combat zone:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/homer-can-help-you-war-veterans-use-ancient-epics-to-cope/2018/03/14/b6cb0e66-273e-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_story.html

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Homer-can-help-you-War-veterans-use-ancient-12751476.php

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Homer-can-help-you-War-veterans-use-ancient-12751476.php

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2018/03/16/ancient-greek-epics-help-veterans-cope-with-stress/

The ‘gate to hell’ explanation still has legs:

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/12/why-animals-near-the-ancient-r.html

Pairing the Odyssey with the Watts Rebellion:

http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/graffiti-palace/

A Latin competition I haven’t heard of before:

http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2018/03/classics-students-test-translate/

Reviewish sort of thing of Mary Beard’s *Women and Power*:

http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2018/03/women-power-redefine-modern-era/

More coverage of Emily Wilson’s *Odyssey* translation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/magazine/new-sentences-from-emily-wilsons-translation-of-the-odyssey.html

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

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http://rogueclassicism.com/

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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Neolithic(?) tools from Hastings Country Park:

https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/stone-age-tools-found-as-work-on-country-park-centre-commences-1-8414507

Evidence that Utrecht was inhabited (sort of) at least back to Mesolithic times:

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2018/03/utrechts-history-goes-back-11000-years-archaeologists-say/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6437-180314-netherlands-utrecht-habitation

A 2000 years bp gold coin hoard from a Chiddingstone farmer’s field:

https://www.kentlive.news/news/rare-hoard-2000-year-old-1334844

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6435-180314-england-gold-coins

Remains of a 1700 years bp feast from Orkney:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/site-of-huge-iron-age-feast-celebration-found-on-orkney-1-4706453

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6440-180315-iron-age-feast

A 13th century Franciscan church find in Nice:

http://www.nicematin.com/culture/a-nice-une-eglise-des-franciscains-construite-en-1250-vient-detre-exhumee-215201

A 15th century ‘pot of gold’ from the Netherlands:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/15th-century-pot-gold-and-silver-found-netherlands-180968515/

Pondering some drawings on a tile found at Lincoln Cathedral:

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/idle-doodle-one-oldest-surviving-1327808

Feature on mudlarkers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43437569

The Irish Potato Famine Project’s site looks interesting:

https://irishfamineproject.com/about.html

Reburial of those plague victims found under a school playground in Edinburgh:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-43436358

On St Albans Abbey’s Norman roots:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-43314886

More on the ‘mass Viking grave’ at Repton:

https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/news/burton-news/repton-historian-excited-mass-grave-1265188

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

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Plenty of Han dynasty artifacts from a tomb complex in Zhouhou:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/14/c_137038119.htm

An interesting Warring States bead from a tomb near Changsha:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/16/c_137043940.htm

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6443-180316-china-horned-eye

An 8th century kiln from the Toshadaiji temple complex:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201803120001.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6431-180312-toshadaiji-temple-kiln

Remains of a terracotta ‘pipeline’ from Hampi (date?):

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ancient-water-pipeline-found-in-hampi/article23275825.ece

1000+ years bp sites from Bangladesh:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/findings-rewrite-bangladesh-history-180312102358133.html

Feature on the ongoing dig at Purana Qila:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/digging-deep-ongoing-excavation-at-purana-qila-reveals-new-chapter-in-history-of-delhi-but-no-proof-of-mahabharata/story-VxWZZpN9G1SVp4hyJVZbUJ.html

Concerns for sites in Mongolia (various reasons):

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-climate-looters-threaten-archaeology-mongolia.html

http://theconversation.com/climate-change-and-looters-threaten-the-archaeology-of-mongolia-91853

Concerns that a new rail line in Lahore threatens sites:

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/11/591840781/a-new-rail-line-in-lahore-may-damage-heritage-sites-activists-in-pakistan-warn

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/17/594537767/subway-line-could-threaten-sufi-shrine-in-pakistan?sc=17&f=7

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

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

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NORTH AMERICA

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Remains of a possible slave cemetery at Belvoir Plantation (MD):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/cedar-trees-and-unetched-fieldstones-a-likely-slave-cemetery-is-unearthed-near-annapolis-md/2018/03/09/ba9560c2-23e8-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/slave-cemetery-may-have-been-discovered-plantation-near-annapolis-180968496/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6421-180312-maryland-belvoir-cemetery

Checking out a shipwreck revealed by a storm on a Maine beach:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20180310/uncovering-secrets-of-york-beach-shipwreck

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6432-180313-shipwreck-maine-beach

A conservation group has acquired at Chacoan era site in New Mexico:

http://www.metronews.ca/news/world/2018/03/11/preservation-group-acquires-chacoan-era-site-in-new-mexico.html

The FBI is getting involved in the hunt for some Civil War gold:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/fbi-agents-trek-to-site-where-us-civil-war-gold-is-said-to-be-buried

On America’s first known St Patrick’s Day celebration:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/03/17/the-incredible-story-of-americas-first-st-patricks-day-celebration/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

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Climate-change-related concerns for Easter Island moai statues:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/14/climate/easter-island-erosion.html

http://www.elmostrador.cl/agenda-pais/2018/03/17/en-peligro-el-legado-cultural-de-isla-de-pascua/

Feature on that Aztec temple found in Mexico City a while back:

http://discovermagazine.com/2018/apr/the-great-aztec-temple

On the spread of fruit across Latin America:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/pre-columbian-people-spread-fruit-species-across-latin-america/

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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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Assorted St Patrick’s Day items:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/uosf-ttb031518.php

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-truth-st-patrick-day-celebrations.html

https://www.northjersey.com/story/life/columnists/bill-ervolino/2018/03/12/st-patricks-day-who-st-patrick-he-italian/415902002/

Pondering Norwegian porridge:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/03/09/591957289/the-great-norwegian-porridge-debate-or-tradition-vs-science?sc=17&f=1007

A possible ‘self-caricature’ of Michelangelo:

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-michelangelo-hidden-caricature-famous.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/w-dmi031418.php

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/03/15/michelangelo-self-portrait-found-4_7c8db2c9-6791-4924-9fb6-bc08d503ea6b.html

The purported Amelia Earhart bones thing again:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/08/591950171/new-research-claims-bones-found-80-years-ago-on-pacific-atoll-likely-amelia-earh?sc=17&f=1007

On genetics and modern language origins:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-evidence-fuels-debate-over-the-origin-of-modern-languages/

On the origins of pi:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/origins-pi/

Feature on Mary Magdalene (film hype):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43369511

On ‘president for life’ analogies:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/opinion/presidents-for-life-jinping.html

National Geographic is pondering/confronting its racist history:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/12/592982327/national-geographic-reckons-with-its-past-for-decades-our-coverage-was-racist

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43384747

The Morgan Library has acquired a pile of James Joyce material:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/books/james-joyce-donation-morgan-library.html

Review of Hughes, *Victorians Undone*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/books/review/victorians-undone-kathryn-hughes.html

Review of a trio of books on linguistic history:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/books/review/shortlist-language-linguistics.html

Review of Kelly, *The Fifth Beginning*:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180318/archaeology-were-headed-for-new-age-of-globalism-author-says

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Deir el-Bersha:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/292769/Heritage/Museums/Exhibition-of-artefacts-from-Deir-alBersha-to-open.aspx

In China and Japan, copies are okay in museums:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-in-china-and-japan-a-copy-is-just-as-good-as-an-original

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THE TECHY SIDE

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Using isotope analysis to determine the diet of some medieval Finlanders:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/uoh-ftp031618.php

Using X Rays on an 11th century religious text:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-use-high-powered-x-rays-reveal-scan-text-beneath-11th-century-religious-text-180968492/

Mummies in Brisbane are getting the CT treatment:

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/egyptian-mummies-digitally-unwrapped-in-brisbane-20180315-p4z4jm.html

More on the Girl with a Pearl Earring:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180314-the-secrets-of-girl-with-a-pearl-earring

More on the Mary Rose’s cannonballs:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-use-x-rays-preserve-cannonballs-found-famous-tudor-ship-180968440/

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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DNA testing of some ‘Bavarian’ women with elongated skulls is leading to the suggestion they were ‘treaty brides’:

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-skulls-women-medieval-europe-men.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180313093051.htm

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/jgum-nii031318.php

https://www.livescience.com/62007-pointy-skulls-are-medieval-brides.html

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/barbarian-huns-dna-germany-migration-antiquity-skull/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/pointy-skulls-belonged-to-foreign-brides-ancient-dna-suggests.aspx

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-did-early-medieval-bavarians-import-brides-with-elongated-skulls-1.5895859

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pointy-headed-skulls-germany-180968464/

The genetic prehistory of Iberia is different from central and northern Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-genetic-prehistory-iberia-differs-central.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/uu-gpo030818.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180312150528.htm

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180315141221.htm

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/genetic-prehistory-of-iberia-differs-from-central-and-northern-europe

Latest genomic study is of Neolithic north Africans from Morocco:

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-scientists-genomic-ancestry-stone-age.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/mpif-sdg031318.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180315141221.htm

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/oldest-dna-africa-offers-clues-mysterious-ancient-culture

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6441-180316-north-african-genome

Tracing the origin of sickle-cell anemia:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43373247

Feature on all sorts of things we’re learning from DNA:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/ancient-dna-history/554798/

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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CLIMATE MATTERS

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Some historians want to talk to climate researchers:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/03/16/historians-climate-researchers-lets-talk

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TOURISTY THINGS

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Siccar Point:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180312-how-siccar-point-changed-our-understanding-of-earth-history

The Browning’s Florence:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/travel/elizabeth-robert-barrett-browning-florence-italy.html

Taj Mahal:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/the-real-magic-of-the-taj-mahal/2018/03/15/23e972ba-eb41-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html

Ephesus:

https://www.dailysabah.com/travel/2018/03/17/ephesus-has-opened-a-door-to-the-ancient-greeks-for-over-100-years

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CRIME BEAT

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Followup to that Canterbury break-in … plenty recovered:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/archaeologists-celebrate-return-of-treasured-161625/

A woodworker admits doing some fakery:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/arts/i-cheated-says-woodworker-who-fooled-the-antiques-experts.html

Vandalism to some petroglyphs in Kansas:

https://www.wibwnewsnow.com/ancient-native-american-carvings-vandalized-in-kansas/

Smuggling a ‘pharoah era’ item in a sofa in Kuwait (repatriation eventually) :

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1264961/middle-east

http://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/experts-in-kuwait-investigating-pharaoh-era-smuggled-antique/

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/45272/Kuwait-to-send-smuggled-antique-to-Egypt-after-proved-Egyptian

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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Libyan artifacts being returned from Spain:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/stolen-libyan-artifacts-due-be-returned-spain

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/14/c_137037066.htm

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NUMISMATICA

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Feature on the ancient coins of Yemen:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-ancient-coinage-of-yemen/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n10.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n11.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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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED

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Akhnaten:

http://www.dw.com/en/new-staging-of-philip-glass-akhnaten-equates-monotheism-with-violence/a-42935731

Beirut’s Margravial Opera House is reopening:

http://www.dw.com/en/margravial-opera-house-bayreuth-to-reopen/a-42973625

On Elgar’s Enigma:

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2018/03/15/593771944/elgars-enigma-still-keeps-music-detectives-busy?sc=17&f=2

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2725-audio-news-from-archaeologica-4-march-10-march-2018

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OBITUARIES

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David Wyman:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/david-wyman-scholar-of-americas-holocaust-response-dies-at-89.html

Anthony Acevedo:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/anthony-acevedo-who-documented-his-holocaust-ordeal-dies-at-93.html

Jacqueline Karageorghis:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2018/03/10/renowned-author-archaeologist-jacqueline-karageorghis-dies-aged-85/

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CONFERENCES

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Hidden Cultural Heritage (April 2018):

http://www.cicop.net/hch/

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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

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

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