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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12652237/The-Africa-shipwreck-Lake-Huron-search-mussels.html

More on the 19th century shipwreck found during roadwork in St Augustine:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/18/florida-shipwreck-discovered-construction-st-augustine
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/14/us/florida-19th-century-boat-st-augustine-trnd/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12655643/Florida-road-crew-mystery-shipwreck-artifacts-intact.html
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/features/artifacts-found-aboard-1800s-boat-located-under-road-in-st-augustine-shows-life-centuries-ago/77-98f3ddda-1d08-4a3f-a67a-211e58b12c27
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/news/local/1800s-boat-unearthed-from-st-augustine-now-in-storage-waiting-for-next-home/77-a4740dde-ce0f-4053-9be2-e84cac889919
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2023/10/16/post-civil-war-boat-discovered-in-st-augustine-a-mystery-to-unravel/71168285007/
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/an-incredible-find-1800s-shipwreck-unearthed-in-florida-during-road-project/
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2023/10/16/post-civil-war-boat-discovered-in-st-augustine-a-mystery-to-unravel/71168285007/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68518 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/florida-road-workers-uncover-19th-century-shipwreck-180983113/

More on the wreck of the Huronton in Lake Superior:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/100-year-old-shipwreck-discovered-in-lake-superior-180983083/

Feature on Vikings in Newfoundland:

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/vikings-in-newfoundland/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
An earthquake in Mexico City revealed a 500 years bp snake sculpture:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/earthquake-reveals-giant-aztec-snakehead-beneath-mexico-city-university
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article280785495.html

Study suggests there may be 10 000-24 000 undiscovered earthworks in the Amazon rainforest:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/the-amazon-is-not-pristine-it-probably-holds-over-10000-undiscovered-earthworks/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/10/amazon-rainforest-hides-over-10000-pre-columbian-earthworks/148941

... while drought in some areas in the Amazon have revealed assorted other sites and artifacts:

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-drought-brazil-amazon-reveals-ancient.html

Petroglyphs in some Puerto RIco caves have been dated to 700-400 BCE:

https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2023/23-40.aspx https://phys.org/news/2023-10-dating-cave-art-reveals-history.html https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1004947 https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/10/17/puerto-rico-karstic-caves-art/5661697553280/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11849-231020-puerto-rico-occupation

Latest study of mummified feces is shedding light on pre-Columbian diet in the Caribbean:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231011182102.htm
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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 ============================================================
An Acheulean handaxe depicted in the 15th century Melun Diptych:

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-15th-century-french-depicts-ancient.html

New lead oxide pigments have been detected in the Mona Lisa and Last Supper:

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemists-discover-new-leadii-oxide-pigments-in-the-mona-lisa-and-the-last-supper/4018261.article

On the history of the bathroom:

https://daily.jstor.org/dawn-of-the-bathroom/

Analyzing the champagne from an 1840 shipwreck:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0glbv33/the-world-s-oldest-drinkable-champagne

Rethinking some sexual aspects of the Renaissance:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/19/booze-lechery-fellatio-snake-renaissance-bosch-michelangelo-earthly-delights

Napoleon's post mortem is going on display:

https://www.thetottenhamindependent.co.uk/news/national/23866321.napoleons-post-mortem-examination-report-go-display-first-time/

Feature on 10 of the oldest jokes in the world:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12649959/The-worlds-10-oldest-jokes-laugh-ancient-gags.html

Feature on Gustaf Kossinna's theories on heirarchies of human societies:

https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/book-review-the-origin-of-the-germanics?publication_id=436322&post_id=137718896&isFreemail=true&r=ny95q&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

More on revising the male-female/hunter-gatherer idea:

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-prehistoric-gender-roles-women-hunters.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/10/new-study-suggests-that-prehistoric-women-were-hunters-too/148951

Review of Brian Mechant, *Blood in the Machine*:

https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-is-a-luddite-now/ ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
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A 12th century Greek Orthodox church in Gaza was destroyed:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/10/20/12th-century-greek-orthodox-church-hit-in-air-strike-killing-several-people-as-they-sheltered-inside/

Concerns for sites in Gaza:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12649597/The-archaeological-sites-risk-wiped-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict-oldest-Christian-Church-Gaza-unprecedented-Roman-necropolis-containing-130-tombs.html

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on Skepticism:

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-skepticism/

... and Dialectic:

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-dialectic-heraclitus-marx/

Feature on the Milesian school of philosophy:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/21/ancient-greece-milesian-school/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Legion:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/british-museum-announces-new-exhibition-legion-life-roman-army-b1114052.html

Dutch Throne:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/20/dutch-throne-on-display-exhibition-as-monarchy-tries-to-win-back-public-netherlands

Good and Evil of Money:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/design/money-morgan-library-exhibition.html

Renaissance Women Artists:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/arts/design/women-artists-renaissance-italy.html

Yorkshire People and Parishes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-67174494

The British Museum is planning to digitize its entire collection:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67144607 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/18/british-museum-theft-digitise-collection-george-osborne/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/arts/design/british-museum-collection.html https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-museum-digitise-its-entire-collection-after-theft-incident-2023-10-18/
https://hyperallergic.com/851503/after-thefts-british-museum-will-bring-its-collection-online/
https://neoskosmos.com/en/2023/10/19/news/british-museum-to-digitise-full-collection-after-thefts/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-digitize-collection-thefts-comments-parliament-1234683315/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/10/19/british-museum-to-digitise-collection-as-over-two-million-objects-are-found-to-be-undocumented

... and George Osborne was saying the thefts at the BM were an inside job:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/18/british-museum-thefts-were-an-inside-job-says-george-osborne
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67144607 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/british-museum-thefts-george-osborne-b2431646.html
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-news-george-osborne-british-museum-thefts/

... and there are plans for an exhibition of the stolen items:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-george-osborne-mps-stolen-artefacts-lpmbkx730

Meanwhile, some 2000 items are missing from Welsh museums:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/welsh-museums-are-missing-nearly-2000-itemsheres-why-theyre-not-worried-180983096/

New York's American Museum of Natural History is removing all human remains from display:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/15/american-museum-of-natural-history-human-remains

More on the reopening of Egypt's Greco-Roman Museum:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1207/510445/AlAhram-Weekly/Heritage/GraecoRoman-Museum-reopened.aspx
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1223142/the-greco-roman-museum-of-alexandria-has-reopened/

More on the Pergamon Museum closing for 14 years for renovations:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/arts/design/pergamon-museum-restitution.html https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/antiquities-museum-shuts-for-14-year-facelift-187126
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Plenty of interest in items from the Rothschild family collection:

https://www.cnn.com/style/rothschild-family-collection-auction-sold-tan/index.html

Big bucks for an (in)famous Columbus letter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/design/columbus-letter-auction-christies.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of where Neanderthal DNA still lingers:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/world/neanderthal-ancestry-dna-percentage-scn/index.html

cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg9817

Feature on paleomicrobiology:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231013-how-unearthing-diseases-ancient-origins-could-help-produce-modern-cures

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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Pondering why climate change led to the downfall of some civilizations but not others:

https://www.wired.com/story/why-have-climate-catastrophes-toppled-some-civilizations-but-not-others/
https://gizmodo.com/climate-change-toppled-some-civilizations-but-not-other-1850935020
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Sanliurfa:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/travel/in-sanliurfa-the-silk-road-meets-the-stone-age.html

Unsung Irish castles and abbeys:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/oct/17/8-of-the-best-unsung-castles-and-abbeys-of-ireland
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Killers of the Flower Moon background:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231018-killers-of-the-flower-moon-how-the-shocking-osage-murders-were-nearly-erased-from-us-history
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/movies/killers-of-the-flower-moon-osage-murders-explained.html

Feature on Bach's Goldberg Variations:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/arts/music/vikingur-olafsson-goldberg-variations.html

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CRIME BEAT
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A Glasgow museum doesn't known where its copy of a Rodin statue is:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-67120692 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/16/glasgow-museum-says-its-3m-auguste-rodin-sculpture-is-missing
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rodin-sculpture-glasgow-museums-missng-1234682977/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rodin-sculpture-missing-from-glasgow-museums-collection-2380495

A couple in Ioannina were arrested for illegal possession of antiquities:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1222916/pair-arrested-for-illegal-possession-of-antiquities/

Feature on the ongoing investigation into Michael Ward's antiquities dealings:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dealer-michael-ward-charged-by-manhattan-da-2379589
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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 ============================================================
The Cleveland Museum of Art is fighting the New York district attorney's seizure of its statue:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/cleveland-museum-seizure-marcus-aurelius-bronze.html
https://www.cleveland.com/arts/2023/10/cleveland-museum-of-art-sues-new-york-district-attorney-over-seizure-of-statue-valued-at-20-million.html
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/10/prove-it-cleveland-museum-of-art-lawsuit-challenges-new-york-da-to-prove-bronze-sculpture-was-stolen-commentary.html
https://apnews.com/article/roman-statue-cleveland-museum-turkey-manhattan-7c27e14203ef16cb9b4f357638f1540a
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/10/20/roman-statue-cleveland-museum-turkey-manhattan/8884d5aa-6f59-11ee-b01a-f593caa04363_story.html
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cleveland-museum-sues-stop-seizure-statue-believed-depict-104174457
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/cleveland-museum-art-files-lawsuit-against-new-york-district-attorney-statue-20m/95-3a7dde42-47e4-434c-bb78-50e180682069

A 300 years bp painting stolen by an American sodlier during WWII was returned to a German Museum:

https://english.aawsat.com/culture/4616601-300-year-old-painting-stolen-us-soldier-during-wwii-returned-german-museum%C2%A0

OpEd on stolen artifacts:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-stolen-artefacts-good-recovery-cm2xql3gr

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n42.html

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

https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n43.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Victor Nuovo:

https://www.addisonindependent.com/2023/10/12/middlebury-mourns-the-loss-of-victor-nuovo/
https://www.addisonindependent.com/2023/10/11/victor-lawrence-nuovo-91-of-middlebury/

Paul Woodruff:

https://news.utexas.edu/2023/09/26/ut-mourns-classicist-philosopher-and-university-leader-paul-woodruff/

Diana Chapman Kamilli:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/diana-kamilli-obituary?id=53401081

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3320-audio-news-from-archaeologica-october-8th-through-the-14th-2023
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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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