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https://theconversation.com/has-captain-cooks-ship-endeavour-been-found-debate-rages-but-heres-whats-usually-involved-in-identifying-a-shipwreck-176363
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-captain-cook-ship-endeavour-shipwreck.html

Latest comet-destroyed-a-civilization claim is connected to the downfall of the Hopewell culture:

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/02/did-comets-fiery-destruction-lead-to-downfall-of-ancient-hopewell.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-comet-fiery-destruction-downfall-ancient.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/04/comet-native-american-exploding-burst-hopewell-ohio-air/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/cosmic-cataclysm-may-have-caused-downfall-of-the-hopewell-culture/142668
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/did-comets-fiery-destruction-lead-to.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/02/comets-fiery-destruction-led-to-downfall-ancient-hopewell/
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/hopewell-comet-10515.html

... and a feature on the (Hopewell) Newark earthworkds:

https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2022/01/30/lepper-newark-earthworks-best-remaining-evidence-hopewell/9229803002/

Efforts underway to preserve the Long Barrack at the Alamo:

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Alamo-preserve-Long-Barrack-16826462.php

Feature on the abandonment of Cahokia:

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-mystery-over-why-the-lost-city-of-cahokia-was-abandoned-continues-to-deepen

Feature on William Clark's attempted land grab:

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-american-hero-plotted-massive-broke.html

More on that Caravaca cross find from Maryland:

https://thebaynet.com/archaeology-at-historic-st-marys-city-unearths-a-rare-caravaca-cross/
https://www.unionleader.com/news/back_page/rare-370-year-old-spanish-cross-found-at-maryland-archaeological-site/article_dbbd282f-2833-51f1-9175-1b28134de4dd.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
A 16th century 'mass grave' (it seems) from a hospital site in Puebla:

https://www.newsweek.com/gruesome-remains-unearthed-500-year-old-emergency-room-1676371

Plenty of press attention for a 500 years bp Chinca burial site in Peru which included a number of 'vertebrae on posts' (which are explained):

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-threaded-bone-rituals-ancient-peru.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220201201143.htm https://www.livescience.com/500-year-old-spines-on-posts-peru https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/02/native-peruvians-threaded-corpses-spines-on-to-sticks-study-suggests
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10444343/Nearly-200-human-vertebrae-threaded-posts-reconstruct-dead-500-years-ago.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-spines-on-posts-in-ancient-peru-may-stem-from-conquistador-looting-1.10582383
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/americas/human-spines-peru-intl-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mystery-behind-500-year-old-spines-on-sticks
https://gizmodo.com/human-spines-posts-chincha-burial-site-peru-1848460580 https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/inca-era-human-vertebrae-on-posts-may-have-been-one-last-ditch-effort-to-save-their-ancestors-remains-from-conquistador-looting/
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-peruvians-rebuilt-the-spines-of-the-dead-in-response-to-european-colonialism
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/archaeologists-unearth-human-spines-threaded-onto-reed-posts/142676
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/threaded-bone-rituals-restored-dignity.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/04/threaded-bone-rituals-restored-dignity-after-looting-of-graves-in-peru/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/200-sticks-threaded-with-human-vertebrae-found-in-peru-180979496/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10321-220204-peru-posts-vertebrae

cf: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/assembling-the-dead-human-vertebraeonposts-in-the-chincha-valley-peru/667933D6891591C4E78394A1DB583FEB
cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00234-z

The possible locations of Maya sacred groves of cacao trees in the Yucatan have been identified:

https://phys.org/news/2022-01-ancient-maya-sacred-groves-cacao.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220131095024.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/941754 https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-695268 https://www.sciencealert.com/sacred-grove-sites-of-cacao-trees-grown-by-the-ancient-maya-found-in-mexican-sinkholes
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/01/researchers-discover-locations-of-ancient-maya-sacred-groves-of-cacao-trees/142643
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/01/researchers-discover-locations-of.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/01/locations-of-ancient-maya-sacred-groves-of-cacao-trees-discovered/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10312-220201-mexico-maya-cacao

More on that 'coyote man' sculpture:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/coyote-man-sculpture-tacambro-mexico-recovered-1234617012/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10311-220131-mexico-tacambaro-tzintzuntza

The latest Aztlander Magazine of the Americas is available for download:

https://aztlander.wordpress.com/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ============================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ============================================================
Latest on the search for shackleton's Endurance:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/climate/shackleton-endurance-shipwreck-search.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60239105

Feature/Interview with Lynn Meskell on her work with archaeological heritage and human rights:

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/archaeologist-PIK-professor-Lynn-Meskell-studies-past-through-modern-day-lens

Feature on the 'lost' zodiac sign of Ophiuchus:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/02/05/ophiuchus-constellation-zodiac/

Latest in that Russia-Ukraine dispute over Crimea gold:

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-and-russia-dispute-over-crimea-gold-reaches-next-level/a-60657228

Feature on 536 CE being the worst year to be alive:

https://theconversation.com/volcanoes-plague-famine-and-endless-winter-welcome-to-536-what-historians-and-scientists-believe-was-the-worst-year-to-be-alive-175654

Feature on some big archaeology finds from 2021:

https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/community/dig-it-a-look-back-at-the-past-year-in-archaeology-4925582

Feature on the earliest known reference to ball lightning in England:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/benedictine-monk-wrote-earliest-known-reference-to-ball-lightning-in-england/

On reading Leo Strauss in China:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/leo-strauss-china

Latest column from Victor Nuovo:

https://www.addisonindependent.com/2022/02/03/victor-nuovo-does-god-exist/

Feature on Scotland's Radical Road:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-60111776

Feature on what American Jews thought of Abraham Lincoln:

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-695380

Feature on Hercules Posey (George Washington's enslaved chef):

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220201-hercules-posey-george-washingtons-unsung-enslaved-chef

Suggestion that a 700 years bp fresco depicts Dante 'being sent to burn in hell':

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/01/dante-depicted-sent-burn-700-year-old-fresco-scholars-claim/

Assorted items relating to the 100th anniversary of 'Ulysses' (focus varies):

https://theconversation.com/ulysses-at-100-why-joyce-was-so-obsessed-with-the-perfect-blue-cover-175956
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/encore/20220203-ulysses-at-100-the-key-role-played-by-paris-in-the-birth-of-a-masterpiece
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/01/ulysses-james-joyce-100th-irish-ambassador/
https://daily.jstor.org/censoring-ulysses/ https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/02/03/james-joyce-ulysses-irish/ https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/02/05/the-anniversary-of-ulysses-a-masterpiece-in-modern-writing/

... and why 1922 was literature's 'greatest year':

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220201-why-1922-was-literatures-greatest-year

Another feature on pre-toilet paper wiping methods:

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-did-people-wipe-their-butts-before-toilet-paper/

Someone has apparently solved the n-queens 'chess' problem:

https://www.livescience.com/150-year-chess-problem-solved

Not sure where to put this study suggesting the art market doesn't need more regulation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/arts/design/art-market-regulation.html

Feature on slavery being about profit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/opinion/slavery-history.html

Review of Eric Fisher, *Might Storms of New England*:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/02/05/new-england-weather-history-mighty-storms-snow-hurricanes-floods/

Review of Vidya Krishnan, *Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/books/review/phantom-plague-vidya-krishnan.html

Review of a couple of biographies of Buster Keaton:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/books/review/buster-keaton-a-filmmakers-life.html

Review of Francesca Stavrakopoulou, *God: and Anatomy*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/books/review/god-francesca-stavrakopoulou.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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'Abide with Me' is being removed from celebrations in India:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-60123219

More on those Shema Yisrael pendants found at Sobibor:

https://www.livescience.com/pendants-found-near-holocaust-gas-chamber https://www.archaeology.org/news/10315-220202-poland-jewish-pendants

It's that time of year when we get the complaint OpEds about the Super Bowl and Roman numerals:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0206-super-bowl-roman-numerals-20220204-oo3ttxowjfb5xfocfrijbdpmfu-story.html
https://en.as.com/en/2022/02/03/nfl/1643910518_320031.html

Licoricia of Winchester has been honoured with a statue:

https://religionnews.com/2022/01/28/the-most-important-jewish-woman-of-medieval-england/

Another reappraisal of slavery in the US:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opinion/slavery-voyages-data-sets.html

Suggestion that the Edward Colston statue should be put in a museum:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/02/04/edward-colston-statue-bristol-blm/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Francis Bacon:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/francis-bacon-man-and-beast-review-a-show-so-gripping-and-potent-it-left-me-shaking-xztd29n9n

Safavid Textiles:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/02/01/sackler-gallery-safavid-textiles-art-review/

cf: https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/fashioning-an-empire-safavid-textiles-from-the-museum-of-islamic-art-doha/

Poussin and the Dance:

https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2022/02/03/7576-poussin-and-the-dance-to-combine-17th-century-paintings-antiquiti

Pompeii in Color:

https://hyperallergic.com/708142/pompeiis-long-buried-frescoes-come-back-to-life/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pompeii-in-color-frescoes-2066763

Archaeology in Senegal:

https://tdpelmedia.com/archaeology-in-senegal-exhibit-cheikh-anta-diop-university-wants-to-democratize-archaeology
https://www.socialnews.xyz/2022/02/03/launch-of-the-archaeology-in-senegal-exhibit-the-cultural-engineering-and-anthropology-research-unit-urica-of-cheikh-anta-diop-university-wants-to-democratize-archaeology/

Van Gogh self portraits:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/01/magical-mysterious-electrifyingly-intimate-van-gogh-self-portraits-review-courtauld
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60227547

cf: https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/van-gogh-self-portraits-22/

Stonehenge:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220206-new-show-explores-interconnected-world-behind-stonehenge

Life Ev'ry Voice and Sing:

https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/lift-every-voice/page/home

Feature on 18 Black museums in the US:

https://www.essence.com/culture/18-black-museums-to-visit-across-the-u-s/

The Met has been given a Poussin:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/02/the-met-announces-gift-of-a-rare-painting-by-poussin/

Feature on a couple exhibitions of religious art:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/arts/design/religion-art-politics-met-devotion-columbia.html

Feature on the Uffizi:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/arts/design/uffizi-contemporary-art.html

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
That estate-sale Durer is now valued at $10 million:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/durer-drawing-yard-sale-scli-intl/index.html https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/rediscovered-durer-drawing-agnews-auction-1234617450/

Big bucks for a Botticelli:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/02/45-million-for-rare-botticelli-painting/

cf: https://theartnewspaper.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2b93c36d5d680004a859c739e&id=e21231a193&e=45a385133d

A high price is expected for an Edward III gold coin found by a metal detectorist:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-60250174 https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/north-norfolk-gold-leopard-florin-auction-8665500

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Descendents of Robert the Bruce apparently have a special genetic marker:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/865/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/865/pub/865/page/30/article/266903

More on DNA evidence for a Bronze Age migration to Britain:

https://the-past.com/news/new-adna-evidence-for-bronze-age-migration-into-britain/

Review of Jennifer Raff, *Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas*:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/origin-book-first-americans-genetics-controversy

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest C14 recalibration is helping to sequence Viking trade activities:

https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-solar-flare-establishes-new-dates-for-viking-trade/

A new method to determine the post-mortem interval of human remains:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220128100735.htm

Feature on tech being used to preserve manuscripts at Saint Catherine's Monastery:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/high-tech-digitization-methods-are-saving-ancient-knowledge-at-the-worlds
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Vindolanda is trying to protect Hadrian's Wall from climate change-related damage:

https://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/19882834.vindolanda-trying-protect-key-hadrians-wall-site-climate-change/

More on 'climate stress' seen in an 8200 years bp burial ground on Russia's Lake Onega:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/8000-year-old-community-climate-change/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10310-220131-russia-climate-change

More on climate change and sites in the UK, especially those associated with peat bogs:

https://theconversation.com/how-climate-change-is-washing-away-precious-evidence-of-our-distant-past-175758
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-climate-precious-evidence-distantpast.html https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/how-climate-change-threatening-north-22974203
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Andalucia:

https://www.thebharatexpressnews.com/five-historic-spanish-towns-to-visit-in-andalucia/

Ten German cities:

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-10-most-beautiful-cities-in-winter/g-60348155 ============================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Feature on Coen's Macbeth:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/movies/joel-coen-tragedy-of-macbeth.html

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CRIME BEAT
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A trio of folks (from Athens?) in court under suspicion of trafficking antiquities:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1176669/three-appear-before-prosecutor-after-antiquities-hoard-found/

An Egyptian judge is accused of illegal possession of a pile of artifacts:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1233/459409/Egypt/Courts--Law/Egyptian-judge-faces-trial-for-illegal-possession-.aspx

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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 ============================================================
A 1st century statuette of Bacchus as a child that was stolen 50 years ago was returned to France:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60226454 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220202-art-sleuth-returns-statue-to-france-almost-50-years-after-heist
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/02/indiana-jones-art-sleuth-returns-statue-france-50-years-heist/
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/02/02/europe-s-art-detective-returns-stolen-roman-statue-to-france-50-years-later
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/art-crime-detective-arthur-brand-returns-rare-roman-sculpture-to-france-museum-50-years-after-heist-2743960
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/dutch-indiana-jones-returns-stolen-statue-to-france-50-years-later/news

More on recent US returns to Iraq:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-returns-4000-year-old-cuneiform-artifacts-to-iraq-180979469/

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on a gold coin of Elizabeth I:

https://the-past.com/shorts/objects/gold-coin-of-elizabeth-i/

Feature on the Athenian dekadrachm:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-dekadrachm-athens-greatest-coin/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n05.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n06.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Carol Condie:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/abqjournal/name/carol-condie-obituary?id=32556244

Marie-Francoise Baslez:

https://sophau.univ-fcomte.fr/images/Necrologies/Marie-Francoise_BASLEZ_1946-2022.pdf

Jeannine Boeldieu-Trevet:

https://sophau.univ-fcomte.fr/images/Necrologies/Jeannine_Boeldieu-Trevet_1942-2022.pdf

Heidemarie Koch:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/469600/Top-German-Iranologist-Heidemarie-Koch-dies-at-79

Birju Maharaj:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/arts/dance/birju-maharaj-dead.html

Monica Vitti:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/arts/dance/birju-maharaj-dead.html

R. Nagaswamy:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/eminent-archaeologist-and-epigraphist-r-nagaswamy-is-no-more/article38314725.ece

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3134-audio-news-from-archaeologica-january-23rd-through-january-29th-2022

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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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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

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