https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/construction-crews-stumble-upon-mastodon-skeleton-in-michigan-180980583/
Feature on Native American mound builders:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/08/the-native-american-mound-builders/144453
Feature on the Watson Brake earthwork site:
https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2022/08/19/ouachita-parish-archaeological-site-dates-back-3500-bce/10300703002/
Feature on the USS Constitution:
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-august-19-old-ironsides-legend-born-victory
Plans to commemorate the Battle of Plattsburgh:
https://www.wamc.org/news/2022-08-19/battle-of-plattsburgh-organizers-outline-plans-for-this-years-commemoration
Review of Lucy Sante, *Nineteen Reservoirs*:
https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/culture/article/Lucy-Sante-Nineteen-Reservoirs-book-review-17380000.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/books/review-nineteen-reservoirs-lucy-sante.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Study links collapse of Mayapan to drought:
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-collapse-ancient-mayan-capital-linked.html
Study suggests the Amazon region was densely populated in the past and shaped by human activity:
https://agencia.fapesp.br/a-amazonia-foi-densamente-povoada-no-passado-e-a-acao-humana-moldou-a-floresta-existente-hoje/39387/
More on those Olmec 'contortionist' reliefs:
https://www.livescience.com/olmec-contortionist-reliefs-mexico https://www.archaeology.org/news/10737-220817-mexico-olmec-reliefs
More on burials as a source for Mayan pelota balls:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-the-balls-in-ancient-mayan-sport-really-made-with-dead-people
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/were-balls-ancient-sport-really-020258652.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534004-800-did-mayan-game-use-ashes-of-dead-rules-to-make-the-balls/
Latest LiDAR-located 'lost city' in the Amazon:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lidar-technology-confirms-the-existence-of-a-lost-city-in-the-brazilian-amazon-301607940.html
Feature on the Aztec Empire:
https://www.livescience.com/aztec-empire-mexico
Feature on Caral:
https://www.gulf-times.com/story/722844/Caral-the-oldest-civilisation-in-America
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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 ============================================================
Feature on items identified as toys in various ancient cultural contexts:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220816-the-worlds-oldest-toys-what-toys-were-used-in-the-past
Feature on how 'big data' could transform archaeology (with a Chinese archaeology focus):
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3189507/how-big-data-could-transform-archaeology-if-only-money-would
Feature on Lady Eliza Burroughs:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/pictures/thedayinpicturesmonday2ndapril/20676564.victorian-lady-uncovered-one-scotlands-neolothic-treasures/
Study suggests a Galileo manuscript is a forgery:
https://politpost.com/2022/08/17/a-watermark-and-spidey-sense-unmask-a-forged-galileo-treasure/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/arts/galileo-forgery-university-of-michigan.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/librarys-prized-galileo-manuscript-turns-out-to-be-a-clever-forgery/
Feature on 'medieval carpenters' working on the restoration of Notre Dame:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-rebuild-medieval-carpenters-guledon
What assorted tests reveal about some Vermeers:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/15/tests-reveal-secrets-of-four-vermeer-paintingsincluding-whether-they-are-authenticin-washington-dc-show
Feature on De La Tour's Magdalen With the Smoking Flame:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2022/georges-de-la-tour-magdalen-smoking-flame/
Feature on Proust:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220812-did-proust-write-the-greatest-novel-of-the-20th-century
Feature/Review on John Donne:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/john-donne-poetry-super-infinite-book/670605/
Feature on the use of mummies to make paint:
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/pigment-mummy-brown-paint/
Betelgeuse apparently appeared a different colour to ancient astronomers:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-stargazers-saw-betelgeuse-shine-a-different-color/
Someone has recorded the Hymn to Nikkal:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/18/its-so-alien-ive-never-heard-anything-like-it-folk-collective-heilung-on-recording-the-worlds-oldest-song
Feature on tattoos:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220817-will-tattoos-finally-be-accepted-as-art
Feature on Delft tiles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/t-magazine/delft-tiles.html https://politpost.com/2022/08/19/delft-tiles-get-a-playful-and-sometimes-raunchy-update/
A study of documents to figure out early printing presses:
https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2022/08/16/the-hidden-secrets-of-the-earliest-printed-pages
Cambridge is digitizing a pile of medieval medical manuscripts:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/medieval-medical-manuscripts-intl-scli-scn/index.html
cf: https://collectionsresearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/curious-cures
Not sure if we mentioned this study suggesting human brains didn't get smaller 3000 years bp:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-08-17/ty-article/new-paper-debunks-shocking-theory-that-our-brains-shrank-3-000-years-ago/00000182-aacc-d14d-abfb-aaee52f50000
Feature on 21 major epidemics of the past:
https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html
Review of Orlando Figes, *The Story of Russia*:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/21/the-story-of-russia-by-orlando-figes-review-vladimir-putin-and-the-power-of-myth-making
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Latest 'glue protest' involved activists gluing themselves to the Laocoon:
https://hyperallergic.com/754671/climate-protesters-glue-themselves-to-vatican-masterpiece/
Applying lessons from the Crimean war to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/21/russia-ukraine-five-lessons-crimean-war-ted-widmer
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
Feature on cats in various ancient civilizations:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/even-ancient-civilizations-loved-cats
Feature on chile pepper use throughout history:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/t-magazine/hot-chiles-pepper-spice.html ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Open Horizons (Greek):
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1191239/ancient-greece-in-melbourne/
Vincent Meets Rembrandt:
http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0818/c90000-10136709.html
U2 Spy Plane Photos of sites:
https://www.inquirer.com/arts/u2-spy-images-penn-museum-archaeology-exhibition-20220820.html
Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118518/De-Young-Museum-witnesses-the-opening-of-%E2%80%98Ramses-and-the
Discovered - Defamed - Celebrated (Expressionist):
https://www.dw.com/en/expressionisms-rocky-path-from-shunned-to-celebrated-art/a-62854114
cf: https://www.museum-folkwang.de/en/exhibition/expressionists-folkwang
Pondering/questioning the colours of the Chroma exhibition at the Met:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/arts/design/reproductions-museums-sculpture-met-brinkmann-antiquity-polychromy.html
https://politpost.com/2022/08/17/that-painted-greek-maiden-at-the-met-just-whose-vision-is-she/
Afghanistan's national museum has reopened:
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/14/1117421088/under-taliban-guard-afghanistans-national-museum-has-reopened
Feature on three palace museums in China:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3185807/hong-kong-taiwan-beijing-3-palace-museums-and-chinese-cultural
Feature on the history of the Egyptian Museum:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/473299.aspx
Indigenous South Americans have visited Oxford to identify some colonial-era looted (probably) items:
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/20658049.indigenous-south-americans-visit-oxford-museum-study-objects-taken-early-colonists/
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction is of the 5000 years bp 'Penang Woman':
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/national/prehistoric-5000-year-old-penang-woman-finally-has-a-face/ar-AA10AfI3
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10734-220816-malaysia-penang-woman
Feature on a 'haptic robot' being used to explore deep sea shipwrecks:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-deep-sea-haptic-robot-helps-scientists-rescue-ancient-artifacts
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Overviewish piece on all the things being revealed by drought in Europe:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/hunger-stones-wrecks-and-bones-europe-drought-brings-past-to-surface
Study warning against over-interpretation of climate connection to decline of societies in Pre-Columbian Peru:
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-cautions-over-interpreting-climate-cultural-catastrophe.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Record numbers of tourists are visiting Knossos:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/08/18/record-numbers-of-tourists-visit-the-minoan-palace-of-knossos-in-crete/
Latest tourists-behaving-badly were riding motorized surfboards in Venice:
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/19/1118381888/venice-mayor-surfing-tourists ============================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Feature on Joseph Boulogne:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0cry99y/joseph-boulogne-the-musical-genius-you-ve-never-heard-of
On rewriting Black women into film history:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/movies/nasty-women-cinema.html
Review of The Legend of Molly Johnson:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/movies/the-legend-of-molly-johnson-review.html
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CRIME BEAT
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97 coins seized at the Luxor Airport:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118426/97-archaeological-coins-confiscated-at-Luxor-International-Airport
https://see.news/archaeological-inspectors-seized-97-coins-at-luxor-intern/
An antiquities bust in the West Bank:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/forces-recover-rare-findings-from-alleged-antiquities-traffickers-in-west-bank/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-714773
Followup to the 'heist of the century' from the National Gallery in Athens a decade ago:
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1191369/heist-of-the-century-suspect-meant-to-return-paintings/
A magazine article photo was apparently altered to conceal some questionable Cambodian antiquities:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/architectural-digest-alter-photos-lindemann-barnett-looted-artifacts-1234636671/
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/lindemann-cambodia-relics-altered-photo-magazine/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/15/lindemann-cambodian-investigation-architectural-digest/
More on a stolen Picasso turning up in a drug raid in Iraq:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/15/iraq-claims-to-have-found-a-stolen-picasso-worth-millions-during-a-drug-raid
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/picasso-painting-found-drug-raid-iraq-1234636589/
Feature on our 'obsession' with art heists:
https://daily.jstor.org/our-obsession-with-art-heists/
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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 ============================================================
Cambodia has identified items at the Met it says were illegally acquired and wants back:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/arts/design/met-artifacts-cambodia.html
The Met returned a pair of items to Nepal:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-returns-artifacts-nepal-1234636746/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/met-returns-two-stolen-artifacts-to-nepal-180980609/
A somewhat strange view on the Benin Bronzes:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/15/benin-bronzes-must-not-returned-nigeria-profited-slavery/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/benin-bronzes-return-to-nigeria-would-reward-slavery-say-activists-5bcb0tpbs
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story=20220809213911676
More on Horniman Museum returns of Benin Bronzes:
https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/08/16/uk-museum-gives-its-small-fraction-of-stolen-royal-treasures-acquired-through-force-back-to-nigeria/
More on Getty returns to Italy:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/getty-museum-returns-art-to-italy-2160059
More on Sudan seeking items from assorted UK institutions:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2107161/art-culture
More on assorted US returns to Cambodia:
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501135749/u-s-returns-30-stolen-antique-artworks-to-cambodia/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on 'erotic' ancient coins:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/eroticism-ancient-coins-adults/
Feature on coins depicting Octavia Minor:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/octavia-minor-a-wonder-of-a-woman/
Feature on coins of Philip II:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-greek-coins-philip-ii-king-of-macedonia/
Feature on currency in the time of Cleopatra VII:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118393/Currency-in-the-time-of-Cleopatra-VII
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n33.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n34.html ------------------------
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Joseph Aviram:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-08-16/ty-article/.premium/archaeologist-jospeh-aviram-who-led-excavations-in-pre-state-israel-dies-at-106/00000182-a68a-d14a-abfb-f79ebeed0000
John Madison Cooper:
https://centraljersey.com/2022/08/17/john-madison-cooper-82/
Katharine MacDonald:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2022/08/in-memoriam-katharine-macdonald-1976-2022
Kamoya Kimeu:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kamoya-kimeu-obituary-m0f0rhqjr https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/19/kamoya-kimeu-fossils-kenya-leakey-dead/
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/famed-paleontologist-turkana-boy-discoverer-kamoya-kimeu-dies-70396
Deborah Nichols:
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/08/lindsey-almadani-nichols-inspired-generations-remembered-for-kindness
Rudolph Larios:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/rodolfo-rudolph-larios-obituary?id=36273012
Regge Wiseman:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/santafenewmexican/name/regge-wiseman-obituary?id=36276350
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3200-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-7th-to-13th-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 ============================================================
Archaeosoup:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
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