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http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
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Feature on 'anthropology intelligence':

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/gillian-tett-anthro-vision-interview/?ct=t()

On what happens when we run out of Grek letters in various contexts:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/variants-coronavirus-delta-alpha-gamma-who.html

Using medieval techniques to reconstruct a Notre Dame roof support:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/craftsmen-in-us-use-medieval-techniques-to-reconstruct-notre-dame-roof-support

Feature on assorted archaeological finds in 2021:

https://www.dw.com/en/exciting-archaeological-discoveries-of-2021/g-58291898

Feature on Burgos Cathedral:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-07-17/las-mil-y-una-vidas-de-la-catedral-de-burgos.html

Feature on Van Gogh's 'Harvest':

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/the-harvest-is-this-van-gogh-s-finest-landscape

A gambling den has been identified in one of Durer's drawings:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/gambling-den-identified-in-work-by-albrecht-duerer

The Getty has reunited pieces of a Veneziano altarpiece:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-show-getty-includes-14th-century-triptych-180978257/

Folks might be interested in 15 000 years bp viruses found in samples from a Tibetan glacier:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/asia/climate-ancient-viruses-glacier-scli-intl-scn/index.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/15000-year-old-viruses-discovered-in.html

cf: https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-021-01106-w

On reconstructing a 12th century pipe organ:

https://aleteia.org/2021/07/24/reconstructing-a-12th-century-pipe-organ-discovered-in-the-holy-land/

More on the need to replace 'ancestry' in forensics:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/study-highlights-need-to-replace.html

In case you're in the market for an 11th century church:

https://www.riposte-catholique.fr/archives/160861

On the diet of the Knights Templar:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-the-templar-knights-ate

Feature on Nikolai Astrup:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/have-you-heard-of-nikolai-astrup

Feature on Dante's *Divine Comedy*:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-fractal-consciousness-of-dantes-divine-comedy

On how various ancient cultures viewed the Milky Way:

https://www.delgazette.com/opinion/columns/91239/ancient-cultures-viewed-milky-way-differently

Pondering when humans began using alcohol and drugs:

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-humans-alcohol-drugs.html

A documentary excerpt sows how some cave paintings were made:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09p5nl2/the-origin-of-a-30-000-year-old-haunting-image

Fallout from Spain's pledge to give citizenship to Sephardic Jews a few years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/world/europe/spain-jews-citizenship-reparations.html

More on the suggestion cave stencils of 'mutilated fingers' might depict a type of sign language:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/cave-paintings-may-depict-ice-age-sign-language

Review of Byers, *The Private Library*:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-private-library-reid-byers-book-review-an-wilson/

Review of Flavell, *The Howe Dynasty*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/books/review/the-howe-dynasty-julie-flavell.html

Review of Kavanaugh, *The Irish Assassins*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/books/review/the-irish-assassins-julie-kavanagh.html

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CURRENT EVENTS: ================================================================
Pondering the fate of a statue of Sir Robert Geffrye in London:

https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/will-statue-of-17th-century-british-merchant-come-down-over-his-trafficking-in-slaves-3577068

Feature on Sarah Beaulieu's work with GPR in the Kamloops residential schools investigation:

https://www.abbynews.com/news/ufv-researchers-ground-penetrating-work-helped-confirm-unmarked-graves-in-kamloops/

Plans for GPR investigation of a former Indian Hospital site in Edmonton:

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/07/20/further-gpr-work-possible-to-find-unmarked-graves-on-former-indian-hospital-grounds.html

A few 'ancient Olympics' items ... first, a feature on Kyniska (first female Olympian):

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/22/women-history-kyniska-sparta-first-female-olympian/
https://scroll.in/field/1000479/tokyo-olympics-how-kyniska-a-spartan-princess-became-the-first-female-olympian

... on the origins of the games in Greece:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/21/the-fascinating-past-and-origins-of-the-olympic-games/

... on nudity in the ancient games:

https://thebridge.in/tokyo-2020/naked-games-remembering-olympics-star-nude-athletes-23117
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/when-men-were-men-nude-and-greek

... on the diet of ancient athletes:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/21/what-did-ancient-greek-athletes-eat-the-diet-of-the-olympians/

... on the prizes at the ancient Olympics (and modern):

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/who-won-first-olympic-medal-what-prize-before/
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/07/no-time-for-losers/

... on what the ancients would have thought of an Olympics with no fans:

https://theconversation.com/what-would-the-ancient-greeks-think-of-an-olympics-with-no-fans-164038

... on corruption at the ancient Olympics:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/19/corruption-sport-olympics-ancient-greece/

A rather old post, but really good on the ancient Olympics:

https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-getty-villa-guide-to-the-ancient-olympics/

Feature on the 'Medieval Olympics' (!):

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-medieval-olympics-looked-180978232/

Feature on the 1896 games:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/first-modern-olympics-olympic-games-when-where-what-happened/

On the history of the Olympic flame:

https://metro.co.uk/2021/07/23/tokyo-olympic-flame-history-origin-what-happens-if-goes-out-14976165/

On the history of US/Haiti relations:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/opinion/haiti-us-history.html

Two on the importance of the 'bad side' of American history:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-history-of-the-vast-early-america-matters-today https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/opinion/sunday/history-education-patriotic.html

What we can learn from the Roman Empire and European feudalism for COVID-19 and future of the West purposes:

https://aeon.co/essays/empires-pandemics-and-the-economic-future-of-the-west

In case you missed the news about the closure of Sheffield's archaeology department:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/university-sheffield-archaeology-close-1234599254/

... and undergraduate archaeology at the University of Hull is ending too:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/blow-for-future-of-heritage-studies-in-yorkshire-as-university-of-hull-ends-undergraduate-archaeology-teaching-3321089

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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
Postulating why rabbits weren't domesticated in the New World:

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-werent-world-rabbits-domesticated.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/uoc--wwn072121.php https://www.zmescience.com/science/archeology-rabbit-domestication-1252642/ https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/07/22/why-werent-new-world-rabbits-domesticated/

More on cannabis being 'domesticated' in China some 12 000 years bp:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/cannabis-first-domesticated-in-china.html
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ancient Greeks, Athletes, Warriors and Heroes:

https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/07/the-greeks/

Bones:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/culture/ce-que-les-squelettes-ont-a-nous-dire-sur-la-vie-des-anciens-romains/46773302

Daphne:

https://www.artshub.com.au/2021/07/22/exhibition-review-a-biography-of-daphne-acca/

Gladiators:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/ancient-hygiene-tools-of-gladiators-on-display-in-izmir/news

Picasso:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-07-19/picasso-ya-se-codea-con-velazquez-y-el-greco-en-el-museo-del-prado.html

Ancient Greek Technology:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/18/ancient-technological-marvels-get-their-own-museum-in-athens/

Hokusai:

https://japantoday.com/category/national/british-museum-to-show-rediscovered-hokusai-works-for-first-time
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/07/e83e349334db-british-museum-to-show-rediscovered-hokusai-works-for-first-time.html
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210722/p2g/00m/0et/005000c

Iron Age Woman's Clothing:

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/07/colourful-prehistoric-chanel-dress-goes-on-show/

Archaeology of Vetulonia in Taranto:

https://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2021/07/23/taranto-show-on-dialogue-between-etruscans-and-magna-graecia_a2321f9e-1f67-4a2f-be33-5d6c0aef2fa8.html

Feature on Greece's underwater museum at Peristera:

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-greece-underwater-museum-ancient-world.html https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210725-greece-s-first-underwater-museum-opens-ancient-world-to-dive-tourists
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/greek-underwater-museum-offers-curious-dive-into-history/news

Feature on the recently-revamped Trimontium Museum:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm40r7893z4o

The Humboldt Forum has reopened under a cloud, it seems:

https://www.dw.com/en/berlins-controversial-humboldt-forum-opens-its-doors/a-58332615
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/arts/design/humboldt-forum-berlin-ivory.html https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/humboldt-forum-opens-under-colonialist-cloud/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-humboldt-forum-its-empire-art-lovers-but-not-as-we-know-it-568zq8lg5

... a backgrounder:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/germany-controversial-humboldt-forum-180978251/

The Uffizi isn't happy with Pornhub's use of its art:

https://amp.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/totally-illegal-italy-s-uffizi-galleries-take-action-after-pornhub-uses-their-art-20210720-p58b61.html

The Baltimore Museum of Art is getting its security guards to curate an exhibition:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/security-guards-will-curate-first-its-kind-exhibition-baltimore-museum-art-180978242/

Feature on the world's 'most beautiful' museums:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/worlds-most-beautiful-museums

Samsung's late CEO donated a pile of art to two Seoul museums:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/samsung-lee-art-donation/index.html

The Old Acropolis Museum is being refurbished:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/07/23/old-acropolis-museum-athens/ https://neoskosmos.com/en/205757/old-acropolis-museum-set-to-be-refurbished/

The Archaeological Museum of Delphi is now digitally accessible:

https://www.athina984.gr/en/2021/07/23/psifiaka-prosvasimo-to-archaiologiko-moyseio-delfon-gia-atoma-me-adynamia-stin-kinisi-stin-akoi-kai-stin-orasi/
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
Hitler's plans to invade Ireland were recently at auction:

https://www.jpost.com/international/hitlers-plans-to-invade-ireland-sell-at-auction-for-1300-674372

The gun used to kill Billy the Kid is coming to auction:

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019391848/gun-killed-billy-the-kid-auction-2-million

Latest UK export bar is on a painting of the Nativity by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-buyer-sought-for-rare-roman-painting

Assorted items seized at auction in the US will be returned:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/arts/jewish-burial-records-seized.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Using DNA to track the antiquity of the cold virus:

https://www.sciencealert.com/common-cold-virus-existed-long-before-modern-humans-study-suggests

Interesting genome data (human and animal) from the Satsurblia Cave (Georgia):

https://agenda.ge/en/news/2021/2070

More on the small percentage of DNA that is unique to modern humans:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/just-7-of-our-dna-is-unique-to-modern.html
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THE TECHY SIDE
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On using AI to spot shipwrecks from both the surface of the ocean and the air:

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-ai-shipwrecks-ocean-surface-air.html

Feature on the technology used to determine what people ate from food remains on artifacts:

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/what-did-ancient-people-eat

Not sure where to put this one on the ethics of remote sensing in archaeology:

https://news.psu.edu/story/664265/2021/07/21/research/ethics-remote-sensing-archaeology
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-ethics-remote-archaeology.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-ethics-of-remote-sensing-in.html

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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Using archaeology to help understand climate change:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/uom-uat071521.php https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/07/using-archaeology-to-better-understand-climate-change/139713
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2021/07/23/how-archaeology-could-help-deal-with-a-new-old-enemy-climate-change/
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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Scotland's artificial islands:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210718-scotlands-mysterious-ancient-artificial-islands

Uist:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/the-seven-archaeological-wonders-of-uist-drawn-back-into-ancient-landscape-3319036

Underground Istanbul:

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1016814868/beneath-istanbul-archaeologists-explore-an-ancient-citys-byzantine-basements

Pamukkale:

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/video/tv/watch-how-this-ancient-greek-city-and-this-natural-creation-coexist-in-perfect-harmony

Ipswich:

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/7-ancient-artefacts-on-display-in-ipswich-museum-8150038

Morocco:

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/07/343514/five-must-see-off-the-beaten-path-places-in-morocco

Time's World's 100 Greatest Places:

https://time.com/collection/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079268/loire-valley-france/
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Feature on Wagner:

https://www.dw.com/en/7-facts-about-richard-wagner-his-music-and-his-misadventures/a-58285174

A Chausson opera:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/arts/music/bard-summerscape-chausson-opera.html

Beethoven's grandmother apparently wasn't Spanish after all:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-07-19/la-abuela-de-beethoven-no-era-espanola.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Feature on antiquities looting and 'blood antiquities':

https://www.art-critique.com/en/2021/07/antiquities-looting-an-ongoing-crisis-as-well-as-a-shameful-piece-of-history/

A British art restorer is the latest person charged in connection with the Kapoor smuggling case:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/restorer-indicted-subhash-kapoor-looted-antiquities-1234599452/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/restorer-neil-perry-smith-covered-up-for-antique-thieves-2hxhzn6dz
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14880-us-charges-british-art-restorer-for-role-in-antiquities-trafficking-ring
https://news.yahoo.com/british-antiques-restorer-nabbed-amid-130000252.html

Looters have damaged a megalithic passage tomb in Sligo:

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/news/significant-damage-caused-to-sligo-passage-tomb-40669232.html

A 78 year old man has pled guilty to stealing a Revolutionary War rifle back in 1971:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/us/oerter-revolutionary-rifle-stolen-arrest.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61850
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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 ================================================================
Italy continues to build its case for the Victorious Youth in the Getty:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/victorious-youth-getty-italian-senate

Feature on Indigenous remains and artifacts held by universities in the US:

https://www.kake.com/story/44359649/universities-have-held-onto-sacred-indigenous-remains-and-items-for-decades-and-have-been-slow-to-give-them-back

... while New Zealand museums are figuring out what to do with Maori remains:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/24/a-turning-point-new-zealand-museums-grapple-with-return-of-stolen-maori-remains

Nigeria awaits returns from US and Scotland:

https://punchng.com/well-soon-receive-stolen-antiquities-from-us-scotland-fg/

More on bronzes (and other art) Nigeria wants returned:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/battle-for-benin-artifacts-escalates-fg-lays-claim-to-artworks/
https://allafrica.com/stories/202107210195.html

... but there's a new twist complicating things (?):

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57914111

Feature on the British Museum's holdings of Benin materia:

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/benin-bronzes-british-museum-culture-wars-george-osborne-chair-nigeria-history-1116173

More on a Cambodian piece going through the US legal process to be returned:

https://hyperallergic.com/664041/looted-cambodian-statue-skanda-on-a-peacock-goes-home/
https://observer.com/2021/07/a-cambodian-sandstone-sculpture-looted-during-communist-rule-is-being-returned/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Septimius Severus:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/continuity-and-legitimacy-the-ancient-coins-of-septimius-severus/

Feature on the Roman Republican Die Project:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/developments-and-preliminary-release-for-the-roman-republican-die-project/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n29.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n30.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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John Patrick Lynch:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/name/john-lynch-obituary?pid=199556054

Bijaya Rath:

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2021/jul/19/noted-archaeologist-bijaya-rath-passes-away-2332256.html

Lisa French:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/22/lisa-french-obituary

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3090-audio-news-from-archaeologica-july-1-through-july-17-2021

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Atlas Obscura:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Heritage Daily:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/

Sapiens Archaeology:

https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ================================================================
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