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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/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Explaining what the 'common era' is:

https://earthsky.org/human-world/definition-common-era-bce-ce-bc-ad

Feature on the collapse of civilizations:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/magazine/societal-collapse.html

On Van Gogh likely suffering from alcohol withdrawal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54780434 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/van-gogh-delirium-intl-scli/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/03/study-links-van-goghs-bouts-of-delirium-to-alcohol-withdrawal
https://www.umcg.nl/EN/corporate/News/Paginas/research-vincent-van-goghs-psychiatric-illnesses.aspx
https://elpais.com/cultura/2020-11-04/el-sindrome-de-abstinencia-del-alcohol-provoco-psicosis-a-van-gogh.html

Feature on the veracity of the King Arthur tales:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/mount-badon-how-much-king-arthur-story-true/

Feature on the Turin Shroud:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-shroud-of-turin-created-by-miracle-or-medieval-forgers

Feature on Mortimer Wheeler in India:

https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/the-class-of-taxila-how-mortimer-wheeler-mn-deshpande-set-up-first-archaeology-school/536896/

Arguing over who had the largest empire:

https://www.livescience.com/worlds-biggest-empire.html

Mexico is seeking an apology from the Vatican for the Church's role in the Spanish conquest:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mexico-asks-vatican-return-indigenous-objects-180976178/

On one of the Salvation Army's battles ... against skeletons:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54251256

Feature on the woman who made Beethoven's pianos:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/arts/music/beethoven-piano.html

Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederich Engels:

https://www.theguardian.com/focus/2020/nov/08/engels-comes-of-age-the-socialist-who-wanted-a-joyous-life-for-everyone

Feature on political parties and elephants and donkeys:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/why-democrats-are-donkeys-republicans-are-elephants-artsy/index.html

Feature on 'bad words' in the Middle Ages:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/by-gods-bones-bad-words-in-the-middle-ages-were-nothing-like-todays

Feature on Robert Musil:

https://www.dw.com/en/a-giant-of-modernist-literature-robert-musil-born-140-years-ago/a-55507768

If you haven't seen the video of that 19th century snowball fight in Paris:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/magazine/snowball-video-fight.html

On the birth of the animal rights movement:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/books/review/podcast-traitor-to-his-species-animal-rights-ernest-freeberg-christian-robinson.html

Feature on Milton's Lycidas:

https://medium.com/ostraka-a-durham-university-classics-society-blog/pastoral-perfection-why-miltons-lycidas-is-a-classicist-s-masterpiece-3bc6db3550f4

Feature on Pope Alexander VI's scandalous party in 1501:

https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-banquet-of-the-chestnuts-the-popes-halloween-party-turned-orgy-c22e88fe25f9

I think we mentioned that Darwin's theories needed some tweaking:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/10/answer-to-darwins-question.html

Feature on the Mahabharata:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-indian-epic-mahabharata-imparts-a-dark-nuanced-moral-vision

Pondering archaeology:

https://psyche.co/ideas/archaeology-excavates-the-layers-of-meaning-we-leave-behind

Review of Wilson, *The Mystery of Charles Dickens*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/books/review/mystery-of-charles-dickens-a-n-wilson.html

Review of Allport, *Britain at Bay*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/books/review/alan-allport-britain-at-bay.html

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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
On the role of the horse in human prehistory:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6517/646

More on dog varieties in the Ice Age:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/five-dog-lineages-paleolithic-09012.html https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/11/02/study-of-ancient-dog-dna-traces-canine-diversity-to-the-ice-age/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii:

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/os-et-orlando-science-center-pompeii-exhibit-tips-20201104-frdk4yeaynhqlewilcjx3jc5ai-story.html

Role of the Woman in Ancient Rome:

https://www.sardegnareporter.it/2020/11/il-ruolo-della-donna-nellantica-roma-in-esposizione-agli-uffizi-di-firenze/356381/

Turner:

https://www.easterneye.biz/turners-india-paintings-part-of-latest-tate-display/

Cezanne:

https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2020/11/04/7578-take-a-peak-at-highlights-of-mfa-bostons-captivating-c%C3%A9zanne-show

Conservation concerns for mummies in museums during the pandemic:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/egyptian-mummies-museum--closings/2020/11/06/37218dd0-1939-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html

Feature on the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/93846/National-Museum-of-Egyptian-Civilization-a-multi-purpose-entity

Some recent museum openings in Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1207/389938/AlAhram-Weekly/Heritage/Egypt-Three-museums-open.aspx

Plans to make a 19th century British rail building into a museum:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54731548

UK museums are closing again:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/second-covid-lockdown-england ================================================================
AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
More hype for that Caratacus coin coming to auction:

https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/news/32519/iron-age-coin-found-in-field-near-newbury-could-sell-for-30-000.html

... while a 12th century coin found near Pickering by a metal detectorist fetched a very large price:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/12th-century-coin-found-amateur-leeds-metal-detectorist-near-pickering-sells-nearly-ps30000-3024156

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA suggests 'trench fever' is much older than previously thought:

https://www.usf.edu/news/2020/new-research-traces-the-origins-of-trench-fever.aspx
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uosf-nrt110420.php https://phys.org/news/2020-11-trench-fever.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201104194701.htm https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/11/new-research-traces-origins-of-trench.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9191-201106-trench-fever

A study spanning 6000 years of the population dynamics of nomadic empire folks on the eastern Eurasian Steppe:

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-population-dynamics-empires-asia.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/mpif-pda103020.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201105113009.htm https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/11/06/population-dynamics-and-the-rise-of-empires-in-inner-asia/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/11/population-dynamics-and-rise-of-empires.html

A study of medieval genetic data from the Ural region coupled with Hungarian archaeological evidence:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75910-z

Feature on African 'gene migration':

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/biology/a-great-african-gene-migration/

More on that Viking DNA story from a few weeks ago:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/delving-into-viking-dna.htm ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Postulating a climate change connection as a driver of hominin extinctions:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/hominin-extinctions/

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Aegina:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/11/07/swimming-among-the-ruins-of-a-glorious-ancient-greek-military-harbor/

Colombres:

https://elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2020/10/29/actualidad/1603965636_187298.html

San Bartolome hermitage:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20201105-the-templar-hermitage-at-the-heart-of-the-iberian-peninsula

Xanten:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-from-a-to-z-xanten/g-54097237 ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Bacchae:

https://www.arkansastechnews.com/atus-production-of-the-bacchae-feted-by-scholars/

Schubert:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/arts/music/ian-bostridge-schubert-music.html

On how White Russian dancers revolutionized dance in China:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3107622/how-white-russian-ballet-dancers-sparked

Feature on a 100 years bp recording of Yiddisher Black cantors:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/yiddisher-black-cantors-from-100-years-ago-rediscovered-thanks-to-rare-recording/

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CRIME BEAT
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Strange tale of a busted sale of an 'Aladdin's lamp' in India:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/01/two-men-arrested-india-aladdin-lamp-con

Arrests of a Dakahlia resident excavating antiquities at home:

https://alkhaleejtoday.co/egypt/5288340/The-seizure-of-a-person-while-excavating-antiquities-at-his-home.html

Bulgarian police seized the collection of an 'exiled oligarch':

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2020/11/05/vast-artifact-collection-seized-from-exiled-oligarch-to-be-appraised-by-german-italian-experts-bulgarias-prosecution-says/

A (replica) cannon in Schenectady was stolen:

https://dailygazette.com/2020/11/07/who-steals-a-350-400-pound-cannon-thats-what-the-folks-at-historic-fort-klock-would-like-to-know/
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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 US returned 45 stolen items to Pakistan:

https://www.dawn.com/news/1588510/pakistan-receives-45-stolen-relics-from-us https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/04-Nov-2020/stolen-antiquities-recovered-in-us-handed-back-to-pakistan
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2020/11/04/us-returns-45-stolen-relics-worth-250000-to-pakistan/

Italy returned a piece of a sarcophagus to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/390136/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-recovers-part-of-sarcophagus-from-Italy.aspx
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/93942/Egypt%E2%80%99s-Ambassador-to-Italy-receives-part-of-Egyptian-sarcophagus-from

Latest opinion on the Benin Bronzes and their return:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/05/benin-bronzes-must-returned-africa-says-curator-oxfords-pitt/

A Nazi-looted Pissarro dispute is back in court:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/arts/pissarro-oklahoma-nazi-looters.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Roman coins from the Hannibalic War era:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/roman-coins-from-the-war-against-hannibal/

In case you missed the results of that Ides of March coin auction:

https://www.coinnews.net/2020/11/06/ngc-ancients-certified-eid-mar-aureus-of-brutus-sells-for-4-188-million/
https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/eid-mar-brutus-aureus-sells-for-nearly-4-2-million

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n44.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n45.html ------------------------
Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Jim Coulton (pdf):

https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2020/11/BARBER-Jim-Coulton-1940-2020.pdf

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3002-audio-news-from-archaeologica-october-25-through-october-31-2020
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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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