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, Rick Heli, Mark Horton, Patrick Swan,

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

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

We’re still sort of in catchup mode (especially ‘items of interest’), so some

links might be a little ‘stale’.

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EARLY HOMINIDS

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Suggestion that climate change drove Neanderthals to cannibalism:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/warm-weather-pushed-neanderthals-into-cannibalism

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7507-190328-france-neanderthal-cannibalism

A DNA sort of study suggests there was diversity among Denisovan groups:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/our-mysterious-cousins-denisovans-may-have-mated-modern-humans-recently-15000-years-ago

An interview with Richard Wrangham on evolutionary matters:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-anthropologist-richard-wrangham-a-1259252.html

I think we mentioned this DNA study identifying the migration of humans from South Africa:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-modern-humans.html

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AFRICA

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Feature on the finds from Sibudu Cave (in anticipation of a talk on same):

https://northcoastcourier.co.za/128553/exploring-life-70-000-years-ago-sibudu-cave-tongaat/

More on North Africans being the ones who first settled the Canary Islands:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/science/canary-islands-indigenous-dna.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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Archaeologists have unearthed the ‘lobby’ of Ramses II’s palace at Abydos:

https://ww.egyptindependent.com/archaeologists-unearth-lobby-of-temple-of-ramses-ii/

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/329050/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-temple-palace-discovered-at-Ramses-IIs-temple-.aspx

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/67622/In-Pics-Min-of-antiquities-announces-discovery-of-Ramses-II

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/29/c_137931540.htm

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-palace-ramesses-ii-archaeology-1378627

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7509-190329-egypt-ramesses-ii-temple

Remains of a 3000 years bp port near Gebel el-Silsila:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-egypt-ancient-port-temple-builders.html

http://www.startribune.com/egypt-discovers-ancient-port-used-by-temple-builders/507668632/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/26/c_137925401.htm

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2019/03/26/3000-year-old-port-used-by-temple-builders-found-in-egypt

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/260953

Plenty of inscriptions found at an amethyst mining site at Wadi el-Hudi:

https://www.livescience.com/65068-ancient-egyptian-inscriptions-amethyst-mine.html

https://www.livescience.com/64794-photos-ancient-egypt-amethyst-mine.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7500-190326-egypt-amethyst-mine

This seems to be late coverage of the finds at Tuna el Gebel a while back:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-egyptian-tomb-discovered-in-minya-holds-dozens-of-mummies-artifacts_2845898.html

Feature on the Pan-Grave nomadic culture:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2019/03/26/italian-archeaologist-sheds-light-on-nomads-in-upper-egypt_7737d1e9-f026-4677-9168-948c095349aa.html

Reviewish/hypish thing for Ada Nifosi’s *Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt*:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-woman-ancient-egypt-hidden-history.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uok-baw032819.php

Feature on the ‘Fifty-eight Holes’ game:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-we-learn-from-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-board-games

Features on Tut’s tomb:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tutankhamuns-treasure-gold-and-mystery-142142

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/why-howard-carter-s-discovery-of-king-tut-s-tomb-will-never-be-forgotten-1.842543

Feature on Egyptian statuary with broken noses:

https://www.livescience.com/65071-why-egyptian-statues-have-broken-noses.html

Discovery TV is going to be doing a ‘live opening’ of an Egyptian sarcophagus apparently:

http://www.canindia.com/egyptian-coffin-to-be-opened-live-on-discovery-tv/

Feature on assorted obelisks outside of Egypt:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cleopatra-napoleon-queen-victoria-and-a-vanderbilt-how-three-ancient-egyptian-obelisks-ended-up-halfway-across-the-world-in-new-york-city-paris-and-london?source=articles&via=rss

Remains of a 4000 years bp ‘lost city’ at Kunara (Kurdistan):

https://www.newsweek.com/lost-city-iraq-kurdistan-mesopotamia-archaeology-1375710

A 4000 years bp burial of a pet macaque from the Burnt City:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00889-1

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7503-190327-iran-monkey-burial

A lump of processed iron found in Anatolia dating to 2500 years bp or so may have ‘been brought from a distant land’:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903250064.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7495-190325-anatolia-iron-smelting

Latest 2000 years bp finds from the ed-Dur site:

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/umm-al-quwain/2000-year-old-tombs-discovered-in-uae-desert-1

https://www.thenational.ae/uae/heritage/tombs-and-artefacts-dating-back-2-000-years-uncovered-in-umm-al-quwain-1.843041

https://gulfnews.com/uae/15-tombs-artefacts-uncovered-in-umm-al-quwain-1.63012208

https://gulftoday.ae/news/2019/03/30/fifteen-tombs-artefacts-uncovered-in-umm-al-quwain

More from Elusa … this time, studying the city’s dumps to postulate climate-related reasons why it ‘collapsed’ some 1500 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ancient-trash-mounds-climate-hastened.html

https://www.livescience.com/65069-byzantine-trash-heaps.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/03/ancient-garbage-dump-elusa-reveals-surprising-city-collapse/

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-trash-mounds-byzantine-empire-reveal-how-disease-and-climate-change-1374932

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/trash-piles-byzantine-collapse/

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-analysis-of-6th-century-garbage-clears-muslims-of-trashing-negev-towns-1.7061181

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5484945,00.html

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2019/0328/Out-of-history-s-trash-heap-clues-to-climate-s-role-in-ancient-collapse

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/27/c_137927194.htm

https://www.insidescience.org/news/past-climate-change-may-have-weakened-byzantine-empire

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/03/26/isns-climate-change-byzantine-empire/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7498-190326-elusa-byzantine-collapse

A fragment of a Persian-era Bes vessel (likely) from the City of David:

https://www.livescience.com/65109-ancient-dwarf-deity-pottery.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/2600-years-ago-in-jerusalem-this-fat-jokester-dwarf-laughed-evil-spirits-away/

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Dwarf-God-Bes-was-laughing-in-first-Temple-Beit-Shemesh-exhibition-shows-584193

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7493-190325-jerusalem-bes-vessel

Also from the City of David, a 2600 years bp seal:

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/2600-year-old-seal-discovered-in-City-of-David-585321

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/261165

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/sunday/bible-josiah-david-seal.html

This seems to be about the political site of the City of David dig (paywall):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/30/opinion/sunday/jerusalem-city-of-david-israel-dig.html

Remains of a large Hasmonean-era agricultural village in Jerusalem’s Sharafat neighbourhood:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/large-hasmonean-era-agricultural-village-found-under-jerusalem-arab-neighborhood/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/260988

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/hasmonean-period-burial-estate-olive-press-ritual-baths-birdhouse-discovered-in-eastern-jerusalem/2019/03/27/

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Impressive-Jewish-artifacts-found-in-Arab-neighborhood-of-Jerusalem-584865

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-this-is-where-jerusalem-s-rich-suburbia-was-buried-2-000-years-ago-1.7065968

http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2019-03/27/content_74618546.htm

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/03/27/Extravagant-burial-estate-ancient-village-discovered-in-Jerusalem/6731553690758/?ts_=19

Feature on Tel Shiloh:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ancient-west-bank-site-christians.html

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5485200,00.html

Feature on Julia Berenike:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/women-of-the-ancient-near-east-julia-berenice/

Feature on the ‘real’ David:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-meet-the-real-king-david-the-one-the-bible-didn-t-want-you-to-know-about-1.7062754

Feature on some looted biblical sites:

https://www.livescience.com/65082-biblical-archaeological-sites-looted.html

Feature on the Golan Heights:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/328962/World/Region/The-story-of-the-Golan-Heights-.aspx

Feature on some cuneiform tablets that survived 9/11:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/03/From-Nippur-to-Ground-Zero

Feature on Yhwh:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/03/Where-Does-Yhwh-Come-From

more on Beit Shemesh:

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2019/03/a-new-discovery-may-solve-a-mystery-about-israel-in-the-7th-century-bce/

More on that shipwreck find which confirms a description in Herodotus:

https://ww.egyptindependent.com/boat-described-by-herodotus-2500-years-ago-found-in-alexandria/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/shipwreck-on-nile-vindicates-greek-historians-account-after-2500-years/

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Remains of an Etruscan tomb (it appears) on Corsica:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-archaeology-corsica/etruscan-tomb-in-corsica-may-yield-secrets-on-civilizations-decline-idUSKCN1R81EY

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674e77636a4e33457a6333566d54/index.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7501-190327-corsica-etruscan-tomb

What the monument at Nicopolis reveals about Cleopatra’s warships:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-empire-cleopatra-octavian-ceasar-egypt-battle-sea-nicopolis-history-archaeology-a8843886.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7505-190328-nicopolis-actium-monument

Another big story of the week appears to be the reveal of a Thermopolium (and other things) from Regio V in Pompeii:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/27/city-fast-food-bar-unearthed-in-pompeii-after-2000-years

https://www.euronews.com/2019/03/28/fast-food-s-2-000-year-old-ancestor-unearthed-in-pompeii

https://nypost.com/2019/03/29/italys-pompeii-offers-new-glimpses-of-life-before-calamity/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-pompeii/italys-pompeii-offers-new-glimpses-of-life-before-calamity-idUSKCN1RA1BZ

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/29/c_137934825.htm

https://www.newsweek.com/pompeii-ancient-rome-fast-food-snack-bar-archaeology-volcano-1380327

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-30/buildings-paintings-discovered-at-pompeii/10955240?section=world

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7510-190329-italy-pompeii-thermopolium

… in semi-related news, plans for a ferris wheel at Pompeii were shot down:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/28/italian-minister-pours-cold-water-proposal-build-london-eye/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pompeii-ferris-wheel-plan-unveiled-cw3n95nwl

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2019/03/28/bonisoli-rules-out-pompeii-ferris-wheel_1dc49c2e-fc62-497e-8c80-0cf4a7b6568a.html

An impressive statue of Trajan from Laodicea:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unique-roman-emperor-statue-revealed-in-denizli-142263

Feature on the Mercury Theatre dig in Colchester (seems overviewish):

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/17521334.mercury-theatre-dig-exposes-snippets-of-life-in-roman-colchester/

Not sure if we mentioned this find of Odessa’s city gate:

https://www.novinite.com/articles/196028/Significant+Archaeological+Discovery+Found+in+Varna

A study of the origin of mosaic tiles at Pompeii:

https://eic.rsc.org/science-research/chemical-analysis-reveals-origin-of-pompeian-mosaic-tiles/3010310.article

Feature on a 1900 years bp Roman ‘payslip’:

https://taskandpurpose.com/roman-soldier-payslip-green-weenie

A production of the Suppliants at the Sorbonne featured the use of ‘blackface’ with the predictable reaction:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/sorbonne-at-centre-of-racism-row-after-alleged-blackface-in-theatre-show

https://www.thenationalherald.com/237084/france-faces-blackface-debate-after-greek-play-aeschylus-blockaded/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/stage-makeup-brings-paris-sorbonne-into-blackface-debate/2019/03/28/dbdebb5e-51b2-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html

https://eu.greekreporter.com/2019/03/29/adaptation-of-ancient-greek-tragedy-dubbed-racist-in-france/

https://www.france24.com/en/20190328-france-blackface-racism-sorbonne-theatre

Feature on the Aristonothos Krater:

https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/noble-bastard-globalizing-world/

Feature on Epiacum Roman fort:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/29/country-diary-where-roman-britain-reveals-its-secrets

Feature on ancient Greek music:

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/sydney/programs/myf-warhurst/ancient-greek-music/10941596

https://aeon.co/videos/music-was-ubiquitous-in-ancient-greece-now-we-can-hear-how-it-actually-sounded

Feature on Roman midwives:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/childbirth-ancient-rome-empire-mothers-midwives-how-babies-born/

Feature on Pontius Pilate:

https://www.livescience.com/65064-pontius-pilate.html

… and Judas Iscariot:

https://www.livescience.com/65114-judas-iscariot.html

Feature on some of Herodotus’ more bizarre descriptions:

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

Another high school Latin program in peril:

https://www.pjstar.com/news/20190324/monmouth-roseville-latin-program-on-life-support

On the popularity of Stoicism in Silicon Valley:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/style/silicon-valley-stoics.html

Haven’t had a Thucydides trap thing for a while:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47613416

… and now someone thinks Polybius might be a better paradigm:

https://warontherocks.com/2019/03/polybius-applied-history-and-grand-strategy-in-an-interstitial-age/

… and someone else Rome’s battles with Persia:

https://qz.com/1582066/the-us-china-trade-war-could-use-some-pointers-from-ancient-rome/

Greek literati will be gracing some Greek stamps:

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/35048-new-stamp-series-by-elta-post-service-mark-ancient-greek-literature.html

https://www.thenationalherald.com/237096/new-stamp-series-by-elta-celebrate-ancient-greek-literature/

Latest in the Parthenon Marbles saga:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/236864/maloney-bilirakis-and-payne-jr-reintroduce-resolution-calling-for-return-of-parthenon-marbles-to-greece/

UI had a Homerathon:

https://dailyiowan.com/2019/03/27/uis-homerathon-brings-ancient-greek-traditions-to-iowa-city/

Pondering Beto O’Rourke’s love of the Odyssey:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/28/18284158/beto-orourke-odyssey-emily-wilson-2020-buttigieg

John Malkovich will be playing Seneca:

https://www.screendaily.com/news/john-malkovich-to-star-as-roman-philosopher-seneca-exclusive-/5138069.article

Review of Simon Critchley’s work on tragedy (paywall):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/culture/tragedy-the-greeks-and-us-by-simon-critchley-review-modern-lessons-from-the-ancients-sh9rx8bfr

Review of Armand D’Angour, *Socrates in Love*:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/socrates-the-romantic-hero/

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

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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Digging a mesolithic site in Deeside:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1706436/hold-sun4mon-archaeologists-dig-deep-into-deeside-prehistory/

Interesting skull reuse from Neolithic site in Spain:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/03/27/skinned-carved-and-boiled-skull-cup-reveals-cannibalism-in-neolithic-spain/#60cfaf344567

A burial of uncertain date found during electrical work in Split:

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/34925-split-pjaca

A possible Viking ship burial from Vestfold county in Norway:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-archeologists-norway-rare-viking-ship.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/03/25/historic-day-viking-ship-found-in-norways-oslofjord-region/#72a00e9d4664

https://www.newsweek.com/viking-ship-burial-ancient-archaeology-norway-1374266

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/world/europe/viking-warship-discovered-in-hidden-burial-site-in-norway/news-story/cf1b24a3ddec6fdc384934b3ca2a956e

https://news.yahoo.com/archeologists-believe-norway-rare-viking-ship-burial-171417739.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7504-190327-viking-ship-burial

Studying the implications of fur in Finnish burials:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uoh-fdi032819.php

A teenager helped to find some lost medieval gravestones on a dig in Glasgow:

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/national/17536509.teenager-helps-uncover-gravestones-from-middle-ages-in-archaeology-dig-at-church/

https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/17537278.teenagers-graveyard-discovery-described-as-most-exciting-in-20-years-by-archaeologists/

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/lost-medieval-carvings-from-ancient-kingdom-discovered-by-glasgow-schoolboy-1-4898049

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-schoolboy-finds-lost-piece-16049848

A 14th century baby bootie from Jura:

https://www.thelocal.ch/20190328/extremely-rare-650-year-old-baby-boot-found-in-switzerland-archaeology

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7511-190328-switzerland-toddler-boot

Some Bronze Age finds from Cumbria have been declared treasure:

http://www.cwherald.com/a/stories/bronze-age-finds-in-upper-eden-declared-treasure.498753.html

Metal detectorists don’t like the new Treasure Act, apparently:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/31/metal-detectorists-claim-new-treasure-act-will-see-shortchanged/

I think we mentioned this ‘coffin birth’ story a while ago:

https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-a-ghastly-coffin-birth-in-a-medieval-grave

A Royal Charter issued by King John found in a Bristol University archive:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-47698594

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/819-year-old-royal-charter-issued-king-john-found-university-archives-180971826/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7497-190326-medieval-royal-charter

Not sure there’s anything new in this piece on Matthew Flinders’ burial site:

https://milbankmonitor.com/body-of-british-explorer-who-named-australia-uncovered-in-archaeological-dig/29/03/2019/

Followup to concerns for the Chrysospiliotissa cave church on Cyprus:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/03/30/state-pledges-to-protect-cave-church/

Another feature on that Viking warrior woman burial:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/the-surprisingly-contentious-viking-warrior-woman-of-birko

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

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A Neolithic jade workshop from Zhejiang:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/25/c_137922673.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7494-190325-china-jade-workshop

2500 years bp eggs from a burial in Jiangsu:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/26/c_137924976.htm

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1143465.shtml

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7502-190327-china-ancient-eggs

Another ‘top ten’ list of finds from China in 2018:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/30/c_137934902.htm

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d31417a4e33457a6333566d54/index.html

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2019-03-30/detail-ifzfwnmy4089840.shtml

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1144015.shtml

Suggestion that the ‘maritime silk road’ had reached western Europe about 500 years earlier than previously thought:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/28/c_137931434.htm

A ‘foreign face’ on a 6th century Vishnu temple is raising questions:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/mysterious-foreign-face-discovered-in-6th-cent-vishnu-temple-in-mp/articleshow/68570741.cms

On ancient robots in Hindu epics:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-that-matters/hindu-epics-are-full-of-ai-robots-legend-has-it-that-they-guarded-buddhas-relics/articleshow/68648962.cms

Fragments of Latte period ceramics from a site in Guam:

https://www.guampdn.com/story/news/local/2019/03/27/latte-period-ceramic-fragments-found-future-marine-live-fire-range/3285476002/

Feature on Polynesian navigation:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-history-mystery-polynesian.html

Semi related would be a feature on Weitchymumble’s journey (contemporaneous with Cook):

https://theconversation.com/when-we-celebrate-captain-cooks-voyage-lets-mark-the-epic-journey-of-a-wati-wati-man-also-112692

Arguing over recent claims about the peopling of Australia:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/claim-that-australia-was-settled-60-000-years-earlier-than-thought-disputed

Feature on Hong Kong’s ‘protected women’:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2189144/hong-kongs-protected-women-forgotten-females

… and one ond Forbidden City concubines:

https://www.scmp.com/video/arts-culture/2189217/forbidden-city-concubines-imperial-china-beauty-was-more-curse-blessing

More on that ancient Polynesian ‘tattoo kit’:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/polynesian-tools-some-made-from-human-bone-discovered

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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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NORTH AMERICA

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A colonial-era cemetery rediscovered in Philadelphia:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/science/colonial-cemetery-philadelphia-archaeology.html

http://archstbones.org/

A possible African American cemetery at a school construction site in Columbus:

https://radio.wosu.org/post/african-american-cemetery-may-still-sit-below-upper-arlington-high-school#stream/0

An update on that grad student’s search for the original Fort Vancouver:

https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/mar/26/archaeology-student-searches-for-first-fort-vancouver/

https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/mar/27/was-first-fort-vancouver-built-in-edgewood-park-neighborhood/

Latest on the Franklin Expedition ‘dig’:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/franklin-erebus-terror-parks-canada-arctic-dive-artifacts-ice-gjoa-haven-1.5072435

Feature on Frederick Douglass:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/self-made-man-frederick-douglass/#Echobox=1553514342

Historic manuscripts were saved from a St Louis fire:

https://www.npr.org/707290611

A ‘bureaucratic nightmare’ when indigenous remains are found on a home development site in British Columbia:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/national-burial-mounds-property-dispute-chilliwack-bc-1.4979118

More on things beneath Alcatraz prison:

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/scientists-find-civil-war-era-fortifications-buried-under-alcatraz-prison-ncna988031

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

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Hopes that a deposit of Aztec war sacrifices in Mexico City might point to a royal burial:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47692525

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/reuters/aztec-war-sacrifices-found-in-mexico-may-point-to-elusive-royal-tomb/44847686

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6846405/Aztec-war-sacrifices-Mexico-point-elusive-royal-tomb.htm

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/could-an-emperors-tomb-be-next/

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/03/25/actualidad/1553542494_434708.html

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/03/finding-in-the-great-temple-opens-expectation-to-find-the-tomb-of-an-emperor/

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mexico-archaeology-aztecs-exclusive/exclusive-aztec-war-sacrifices-found-in-mexico-may-point-to-elusive-royal-tomb-idUKKCN1R60FT

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7496-190325-mexico-templo-mayor

Children may have helped with the ‘grocery shopping’ in the Caribbean ca 400 CE:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/fmon-acc032619.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ancient-caribbean-children-grocery-ad.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190326132715.htm

Evidence of Maya fars in Mexican wetlands:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uoc-urf032919.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ancient-maya-farms-mexican-wetlands.html

Hype for a documentary on the Maya:

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/03/secrets-of-the-mayas-the-most-amazing-moments/

More on the purpose of the Moai:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/scientists-think-theyve-solved-one-mystery-of-easter-islands-statues/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/578005/why-easter-island-statues-positioned-along-coast

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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 memorable mothers in history:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-egypt/history-memorable-mums-josephine-baker-caroline-ansbach-victoria-cleopatra-diana-eleanor-aquitaine/

Feature on the search for the world’s oldest wine:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-search-of-the-worlds-oldest-wine-11553865699

On a medieval Irish translation of an arabic medical text:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-arabic-medical-text-was-translated-irish-discovery-shows-180971669/

On how ‘tiny tools’ make us human:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-stone-age-chips-microchips-tiny.html

Feature on Chaucer:

https://aeon.co/ideas/chaucer-was-more-than-english-he-was-a-great-european-poet

A lost portrait of Dickens:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/14/lost-margaret-gillies-portrait-charles-dickens-to-be-displayed-at-writers-former-home

There was a major brouhaha over the ‘treasure hunting’ side of a Cadbury promotion:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-47601886

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/local-news/cadburys-treasure-hunt-accused-inciting-2656357

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/cadburys-slammed-experts-over-illegal-15990299

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/business/cadbury-candy-treasures.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/cadbury-treasure-hunt-freddo-advert-campaign-archaeology-a8828426.html

http://theconversation.com/as-archaeologists-it-was-our-duty-to-take-on-cadbury-over-ads-encouraging-kids-to-dig-up-treasure-and-we-won-113937

… and Cadbury is having a rethink:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47621958

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/18/cadbury-vows-to-change-freddo-campaign-that-advocates-looting-metal-detectors

https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/18/cadbury-pulls-intensely-stupid-ad-that-encouraged-kids-to-break-the-law-8934479/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cadbury-sorry-for-telling-children-to-dig-for-treasure-at-ancient-sites-qn9cjxspf

A study of the development of ‘big gods’ in religions:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cshv-csg032019.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-complex-societies-gave-birth-big.html

https://www.livescience.com/65039-punishing-gods-rise-with-complex-societies.html

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/20/ciencia/1553072411_333560.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/which-came-first-vengeful-gods-or-complex-civilizations-180971781/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7491-190322-civilization-moralizing-gods

A history-related lawsuit against Harvard:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47656230

https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Harvard-Scientist/245939

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/woman-sues-harvard-over-earliest-images-enslaved-americans-180971772/

https://apnews.com/1105a521e969423b8f5a64609b804621

On the history of cryptocurrency (sort of):

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/is-cryptocurrency-really-new-idea

Study suggests a change to softer foods enabled humans to create ‘f’ and ‘v’ sounds:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-softer-foods-ancient-humans-spoke.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uoz-dcf030719.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190314151605.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/14/soft-foods-helped-humans-form-f-and-v-sounds-research

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/ancient-switch-soft-food-gave-us-overbite-and-ability-pronounce-f-s-and-v-s

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=32722

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7476-190315-diet-bite-language

I think we’ve mentioned daVinci’s ‘only surviving sculpture’:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-little-figures-could-be-leonardo-da-vincis-only-known-sculpture-180971678/

https://qz.com/quartzy/1569706/leonardo-da-vincis-only-surviving-sculpture-unveiled-in-italy/

An archaeologist weighs in on various conspiracy theory type things:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-archaeologist-debunks-alien-conspiracy-theories.html

Feature on the Slave Voyages database:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-intra-american-journeys-slave-voyages-database.html

Another ‘maybe’ identified as a Leonardo original:

https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/el-detalle-que-confirmo-que-leonardo-da-vinci-era-el-autor-de-un-cuadro-misterioso-2019320105812

https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/la-mona-lisa-desnuda-expertos-sostienen-que-seria-obra-de-leonardo/566604/

Meanwhile, the Salvator Mundi is no longer on display (?):

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/arts/design/salvator-mundi-louvre-abu-dhabi.html

Feature on Leonardo’s scientific heritage:

https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/la-herencia-cientifica-leonardo/584704/

On tin and humanity:

https://theconversation.com/from-the-bronze-age-to-food-cans-heres-how-tin-changed-humanity-114195

Feature on the restoration of Raphael’s ‘School of Athens’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/arts/design/raphael-cartoon-milan-school-of-athens.html

A fake Botticelli is now deemed authentic:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47726017

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/28/botticelli-copy-found-to-be-rare-original-from-artists-workshop

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/fake-botticelli-real-gbr-scli-intl/index.html

… and a disputed Van Gogh is no longer in dispute either:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/arts/design/van-gogh-painting-authentic.html

Apparently the ‘Scream’ isn’t really screaming:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/20/edvard-munchs-scream-isnt-screaming-says-british-museum/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/saturday-review/hes-munch-more-than-the-scream-7wx8ktzvm

Feature on the oldest medieval map:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20190324-the-worlds-oldest-medieval-map

Feature on Turgenev:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/world/europe/russia-turgenev.html

Feature on branding in a Manet:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190311-a-bar-at-the-folies-bergere-a-symbol-planted-in-cleavage

Feature on tracing a ‘lost Gutenberg’:

https://www.npr.org/705069743

Feature on Queen Victoria’s Small Coronet:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/fashion/jewelry-victoria-and-albert-museum-london.html?em_pos=medium&nl_art=3&te=1&nl=travel-dispatch&emc=edit_tl_20190323

On the moon in art:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190326-the-moon-one-of-the-earliest-human-symbols

Suggestion Jack the Ripper was Jewish:

https://m.jpost.com/Diaspora/Was-Jack-the-Ripper-Jewish-584260

Interesting feature on how they ship artworks to various museums:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/21/how-to-move-a-masterpiece-secret-business-shipping-priceless-artworks-art-handling

Not sure where to put this ‘renaissance artisanal mortar’ piece:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-renaissance-artisanal-mortar.html

Feature on fingerprints on various ancient artworks:

https://hyperallergic.com/491765/what-can-fingerprints-tell-us-about-ancient-artisans/

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Queens of Egypt:

https://www.fredericksburg.com/entertainment/arts/explore-ancient-egypt-in-new-exhibit-at-national-geographic-museum/article_10aa594b-06d3-5217-9061-453510dfcd38.html

Van Gogh:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/arts/design/van-gogh-tate-britain.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47707895

Munch:

https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/329181/rare-exhibition-of-munchs-prints-to-open-at-british-museum/

Canova:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/antiquity-made-flesh-as-natural-as-life-itself

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2019/03/29/canova-exhibit-opens-in-naples_10e2c6d4-3337-467c-b471-4f596f8373c1.html

Black Models:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47705284

Tut:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2019/03/18/paris-dresses-up-for-ancient-egypts-young-king/

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/67380/Tutankhamen-exhibition-to-be-opened-for-public-on-Mar-23

Immortal Dead:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2019/03/27/ancient-china-meets-roman-empire_ee53492f-b3a0-48fb-8a22-8eef4edc31f3.html

Feature on the Qatar National Museum:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/arts/qatar-national-museum-jean-nouvel.html?rref=collection%252Fsectioncollection%252Farts

Assorted items related to the Sacklers and museums:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/arts/design/tate-modern-sackler-britain-opioid-art.html

https://www.economist.com/international/2019/03/30/how-sackler-cash-made-museums-a-target-for-protests

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47690735

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/20/705057043/sackler-familys-donation-to-british-museum-is-quashed-over-opioid-fallout

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/tate-galleries-wont-accept-donations-from-sackler-family/2019/03/22/35f4e75a-4c93-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html

… related:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/29/better-or-worse-our-greatest-museums-are-built-backs-billionaires/

Pondering whether museums should return things:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/debate-should-museums-return-artefacts-treasures/

https://www.economist.com/international/2019/03/30/the-clamour-to-return-artefacts-taken-by-colonialists

https://hyperallergic.com/491725/how-not-to-decolonize-your-museum/

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/repatriation-museum-colonial-art-parthenon-marbles-easter-island

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AT THE AUCTIONS

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Sometimes auctions are needed to pay the taxes:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47702475

Some Einstein letters are coming to auction:

https://www.livescience.com/65077-eight-einstein-letters-auctioned.html

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THE TECHY SIDE

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Using imaging techniques to save the text of a Torah scroll:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-lost-text-torah-scroll.html

A 3d rendering of the 15th century Ali Atar’s Nasrid sword:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-sword-hispano-muslim-warlord-digitized-d.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/f-sf-tso032719.php

https://www.livescience.com/65098-fearsome-15th-century-warlords-sword-3d.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7504-190327-viking-ship-burial

I think we mentioned how agricultural lime messes up Strontium isotope studies:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/au-sim030819.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-strontium-isotope-disturbed-agricultural-lime.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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More on DNA from a Maryland pipe being linked to Sierra Leone:

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/03/25/slave-dna-maryland-belvoir/

https://patch.com/maryland/annapolis/md-slaves-200-year-old-dna-pulled-tobacco-pipe

I think we’ve had this story on the origin of the Yamnaya, but with a different spin:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132230-200-story-of-most-murderous-people-of-all-time-revealed-in-ancient-dna/

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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PERFORMANCES

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Feature on Bach:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/03/21/actualidad/1553148804_091725.html

Mary (not Mark) Queen of Scots:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/2189546/mary-queen-scots-film-review-saoirse-ronan-margot-robbie

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CRIME BEAT

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A judge has dismissed that defamation lawsuit brought by Hicham Aboutaam:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/arts/design/judge-dismisses-libel-suit-over-wall-street-journal-article.html

https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-antiquities-dealers-libel-lawsuit-wall-street-journals-publisher-dismissed

A Picasso stolen thirty years ago was recovered in Amsterdam:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/arts/design/stolen-picasso-dora-maar-amsterdam.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47704194

Arrests after an illegal dig in Serres:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/238900/article/ekathimerini/news/eight-arrested-over-illegal-antiquity-dig-in-serres

Charges over an illegal shipwreck search off Cyprus:

https://in-cyprus.com/two-men-fined-for-illegal-shipwreck-search/

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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Italy returned a number of looted objects to China:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/italy-china-cultural-relics-intl/index.html

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3003044/italy-agrees-return-nearly-800-chinese-cultural-relics

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7499-190326-italy-china-repatriation

Norway is returning items to Chile taken by Thor Heyerdahl:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47745112https://www.thelocal.no/20190330/norways-kon-tiki-museum-agrees-to-return-easter-island-items

https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/hijo-thor-heyerdahl-llega-chile-devolver-piezas-arqueologicas-extraidas-rapa-nui-padre/589052/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/norway-museum-return-thousands-easter-island-artefacts-190329162403598.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/norway-to-hand-back-easter-island-skulls-and-bones-taken-by-thor-heyerdahl-hqqf53mqv

I think we mentioned this Babylonian stone seized at Heathrow being returned:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/10/babylonian-treasure-seized-at-heathrow-to-be-returned-to-iraq

https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/smuggled-babylonian-relic-to-be-handed-back-to-iraq-1.835405

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NUMISMATICA

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Latest e-Sylum:

https://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n12.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

https://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n13.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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Genevieve Oswald:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/obituaries/genevieve-oswald-dead.html

J.H. Kwabena Nketia:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/obituaries/jh-kwabena-nketia-dead.html

Ann Kendall:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ann-kendall-obituary-lvsk60trq

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2839-audio-news-from-archaeologica-17-march-23-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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