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explorator 19.40 January 29, 2017 ===============================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley, Rick Heli,
Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for
headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).


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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Feature on Neanderthal intelligence:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/01/24/neanderthals-underrated-genius/


Interview with John Anthony Capra on Neanderthals:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/science/john-anthony-capra-neanderthals-dna-humans.html


More on Otzi’s last meal:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=93212

More on Neanderthal rock collecting:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-neanderthals-pretty-rocks-180961865/



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AFRICA
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Interesting study of Ghanaian figurines:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-ancient-figures-reveal-routes-prehistoric.html


Evidence of use of pottery to cook veggies:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-people-cooking-pots-years.html

Libyan archaeologists have made a deal with Durham University:

http://www.libyanexpress.com/libyan-archaeologists-strike-cooperation-with-durham-university/


Feature/slideshow on colonial North Africa:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/travel/north-africa-photochroms/index.html


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Studying the health of ancient Egyptian children:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,412783,polish-researcher-investigates-the-health-of-children-in-ancient-egypt.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5221-170123-egypt-saqqara-children

Lamps stolen from Cairo’s El Refai Mosque have been recovered:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/256784/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Lamps-stolen-from-Cairos-ElRefai-Mosque-recovered.aspx

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/256853/Heritage/Islamic/Recovered-Islamicera-lamps-to-go-on-show-at-Egypti.aspx

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5227-170125-cairo-lamps-mosque

Urartian remains from Armenia:

http://www.panorama.am/en/news/2017/01/24/Archaeological-finds-Urartian-era-Armenia-Gegharkunik-region/1714182


A 3500 years bp jewellery workshop from Kuwait:

http://cphpost.dk/news/danish-archaeologists-find-3500-year-old-gemstones.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5224-170124-kuwait-jewelry-workshop

Byzantine burials from Mardin are now open to the public:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/graves-of-mardins-ancient-city-to-open-visitors.aspx?pageID=238&nid=108952&NewsCatID=375


A possible medieval synagogue near Huqoq:

http://www.livescience.com/57592-medieval-synagogue-uncovered-sea-of-galilee.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-synagogue-discovered-near-sea-of-galilee-israel/


What Jodi Magness is up to:

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2017/01/full-time-archaeologist-jodi-magness-digs-into-teaching-religion-at-unc


Plans/hopes to protect Yemen’s activities from war damage:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118745-a-no-strike-list-may-shield-yemens-ancient-treasures-from-war/#038;%23038;%23038;%23038;campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-news


More on that 2700 years bp ‘goddess sculpture’ found in the waters off
Turkey:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/af135a4c-1ac9-389c-966e-6c6b1f751584/giant-underwater-goddess.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/giant-underwater-goddess-found-off-turkish-coast-ancient-shipwreck-1602653?yptr=yahoo

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5219-170123-turkey-goddess-legs

More on the Timna Valley mines:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/king-solomon-era-fortification-israels-timna-valley-04567.html



More on ISIL’s activities in Palmyra:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38689131

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Plenty of attention for a burial in Northamptonshire featuring a tongue replaced by a stone:

http://www.livescience.com/57640-roman-era-man-with-possible-tongue-amputation.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grisly-find-roman-era-man-may-have-had-tongue-cut-out/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/23/archaeologists-discover-man-tongue-replaced-stone-roman-britain

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5223-170124-england-stone-tongue

… and also for some possible Roman foundations in a park in Chichester:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/26/foundations-of-three-roman-houses-found-under-chichester-park

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-find-remains-of-three-roman-houses-right-under-city-centre-park-155425679.html

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/remains-of-nearcomplete-roman-buildings-found-under-chichester-park-35399269.html

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/our-region/west-sussex/remains-of-roman-buildings-found-under-chichester-car-park-1-7790895

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-38746952 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5228-170126-england-roman-chichester

A Roman shipwreck off the Balearic Islands:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/26/ciencia/1485456786_417876.html

I think I missed mentioning this Roman bust which appeared after a storm
on
Crete a couple weeks ago:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/22062-priceless-archaeological-treasure-surfaces-after-storm-in-crete-greece-video.html


An Alexander-era tomb has opened to the public in Thessaloniki:

http://www.argophilia.com/news/tomb-echoing-alexanders-wealth-opened-thessaloniki/217280/


Expropriation activities for a Roman theatre in Izmir are almost done:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/expropriation-works-almost-finished-for-historic-theater-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=108853&NewsCatID=375

Funding for Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-38710724

Latest hype that we’re finally going to be able to read the Herculaneum
Papyri:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/27/europe/charred-roman-scrolls-trnd/

On Roman torture:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/01/28/torture-has-never-been-an-effective-means-of-information-gathering-just-ask-the-romans/


Apparently more mosaics have been found in Zeugma (the photo in this one
is
old, though):

https://www.greecehighdefinition.com/blog/2017/1/19/stunning-2200-year-old-mosaics-discovered-in-ancient-greek-city


Feature on gladiator-related remains in Pisidian Antioch (some things lost
in translation, I suspect):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gladiator-games-played-in-turkeys-south--.aspx?pageID=238&nid=109005&NewsCatID=379


Ten ancient works everyone should read:

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/books/10-ancient-classics-every-student-should-read-sophocles-homer-the-odyssey-aristotle-plato-a7541491.html


Interesting partnership with Seamus Heaney:

http://www.irishnews.com/arts/2017/01/26/news/parallel-worlds-artist-jan-hendrix-on-exploring-virgil-s-aneid-with-seamus-heaney-903534/


Feature on the Amazons:

http://blog.oup.com/2017/01/amazons-ride-again/

What Bryan Ward-Perkins is up to:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/tracing-the-rise-and-fall-of-rome-through-its-pots/articleshow/56740618.cms

What Charles E Muntz is up to:

http://news.uark.edu/articles/37606/ua-historian-publishes-new-look-at-an-ancient-greek-historian


A few items this week try to draw parallels between Rome and Trump:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/01/what-lessons-roman-empire-can-teach-us-about-donald-trump

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2017/jan/25/donald-trump-president-tyrants-ancient-rome

http://guardian.ng/opinion/citizen-trump-the-last-caesar/

James Cameron’s Atlantis thing is getting some hype:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/has-james-cameron-found-atlantis/news-story/ad7e5e9dcde35c0a8fc769dffef14670



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A 38 000 years bp petroglyph from a French rock shelter:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-anthropologists-uncover-art-masters38000-year-old.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/nyu-aua012717.php

… while a study proposes a new way of looking at paleolithic art:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-palaeolithic-art-private-galleries.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uotb-pad012517.php

A 2600 years bp elite Celtic burial from Germany:

http://www.livescience.com/57637-treasures-found-in-iron-age-grave.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5230-170126-germany-celtic-tomb

A Saxon workshop in Somerset:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-38781839

A Viking boat burial from Scotland:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-38730046

… and I think we mentioned this Viking manor near Birka:

http://www.thelocal.se/20170120/spectacular-viking-manor-discovered-in-sweden


Arguing over a purported Viking inscription:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/22/scientists-divided-whether-furkual-rock-inscription-genuinely/


Feature on assorted Viking hoards:

http://www.archaeology.org/issues/240-1701/features/5123-sweden-gotland-viking-wealth


Medieval(ish) friars’ burials from a building site in Cambridge:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/25-ancient-skeletons-dug-up-12510105

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-38735157 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5229-170126-cambridge-friary-cemetery

A 17th century shopping list find:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5226-170125-england-knole-letter

Studying leprosy from a medieval pilgrim’s remains in Winchester:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/p-lsg011917.php http://www.livescience.com/57650-leprosy-strain-genotyped-from-medieval-pilgrim.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38748911 http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/health/leprosy-medieval-pilgrim-skeleton-study/index.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/01/26/skeleton-and-artifacts-expose-medieval-christian-pilgrim-with-leprosy/


Plans to map the ‘Outlander effect’:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/archaeologists-to-map-the-real-outlander-effect-on-the-highlands-1-4350119


We had this ‘priest hole’ story a few months ago, I think:

http://www.livescience.com/57660-secret-priest-hole-room-in-tudor-mansion.html

http://www.livescience.com/57389-uk-mansion-secret-priest-hole-photos.html

George III’s planned abdication letter has been made public:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38771875

… along with a pile of other documents:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/27/documents-king-george-iii-go-online/97161792/
http://www.dw.com/en/thousands-of-king-george-iii-documents-go-online/a-37311541

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38771875 http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/28/royal-archive-releases-350000-digitised-documents-king-george-iii-reign/

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/georgian-papers-programme#/

English Heritage is going to court over a planned medieval dig:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/28/english-heritage-faces-high-court-battle-plans-dig-underneath/


Feature on Soughton Hall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-38636903

The BBC is under fire for a documentary on Orkney:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-38738074 http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15049513.BBC_historians_under_fire_for_claim_Orkney_was_UK_capital/


OpEddish on the Stonehenge tunnel:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/the-a303-is-part-of-the-stonehenge-setting-dont-bury-it-a7543226.html


More on that Dark Ages fort find in Scotland:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lost-dark-age-kingdom-kingdom-of-rheged-hidden-1400-years-scotland-discover-ronan-toolis-christopher-a7543541.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lost-dark-ages-fort-found-in-scotland/ https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lost-kingdom-from-the-dark-ages-is-unearthed-in-scotland-103154431.html

http://www.infowars.com/buried-for-1400-years-a-dark-ages-kingdom-has-been-discovered-in-scotland/



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http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
9000 years bp stone houses off the coast of Australia:

http://www.sciencealert.com/stone-houses-have-just-been-found-of-the-coast-of-australia-and-they-re-9-000-years-old#.WIWfAj6JbTc.facebook


A 2000 years bp doll from Osaka:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201701270065.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5233-170127-japan-kori-figurine

Four 19th century shipwrecks in the Coral Sea off Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/four-19thcentury-shipwrecks-found-off-queensland-20170127-gu06w6.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/mysterious-new-shipwrecks-found-in-australian-waters.aspx

http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/four-170yearold-shipwrecks-found-off-qld/news-story/859c55ad0ede8ef46dcd05332a91d617

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/four-19thcentury-shipwrecks-found-off-queensland-20170127-gu06w6.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5234-170127-australia-kenn-reefs

On the diet of Australia’s early colonists:

http://theconversation.com/parrot-pie-and-possum-curry-how-colonial-australians-embraced-native-food-59977


Hot on the heels of blaming humans for megafauna extinction in Australia,
we again (of course) get the suggestion climate change was a factor:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-climate-super-sized-ice-age-animals.html

The Indus Civilization had to adapt to climate change too:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uoc-tai012617.php

Again we hear of concerns for Mohenjodaro:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/12/pakistan-moenjodaro-crumbling-161219084641324.html

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Study claims that the Pueblo people had knowledge of complex geometry:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-scientists-advanced-geometry-secret-prehistoric.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/asu-asf012317.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125091645.htm http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/01/23/Study-Pueblo-architects-understand-advanced-geometry/1251485200573/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/evidence-that-an-ancient-pueblo-site-was-built-out-of-golden-rectangles/

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2017/advanced-geometry-used-by-prehistoric-architects-in-us-southwest


A wildfire in Wyoming has revealed a major Shoshone site:

http://westerndigs.org/wyoming-wildfire-reveals-massive-pre-contact-shoshone-camp-thousands-of-artifacts/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5232-170127-wyoming-shoshone-campsite

Revolutionary War artifacts dug up in the Gloucester Point dig in
Virginia:

http://www.dailypress.com/dp-nws-gloucester-dig-update-20170120-story.html http://www.dailypress.com/features/history/dp-nws-gloucester-dig-update-20170120-story.html

http://www.dailypress.com/features/history/dp-gloucester-point-dig-20160603-photogallery.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5220-170123-virginia-yorktown-surrender

Interesting Underground Railroad-related feature:

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/why-a-slave-whod-escaped-to-canada-kept-in-touch-with-her-mistress/


More on pushing back the date of human arrival in North America:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/humans-arrived-north-america-04539.html


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Latest research into the Maya collapse:

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/archaeologists-uncover-new-clues-maya-collapse

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-archaeologists-uncover-clues-maya-collapse.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uoa-aun012317.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170123162301.htm http://artdaily.com/news/93315/Archaeologists-uncover-new-clues-to-Maya-collapse

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2017/new-clues-to-maya-collapse

A Maya ‘superhighway’ in the Guatemalan jungle:

http://www.seeker.com/ancient-mayan-superhighways-found-in-the-guatemala-jungle-2219303581.html?sf53117998=1


Studying Mayan pyramids in Guatemala:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20441084/slovak-archaeologists-examined-maya-pyramids-in-guatemala.html


Studying geoglyphs in Chile:

http://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2017/01/23/geoglifos-gigantes-en-el-norte-de-chile-corren-peligro-por-mineras-y-rallies/


More on lost cities in Honduras:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/real-life-adventure-tale-details-search-legendary-city




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http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
A pendant find from a Nazi camp is being connected (not sure why) to Anne Frank:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2017/0115/Pendant-unearthed-at-Nazi-death-camp-may-be-connected-to-Anne-Frank-researchers-say?cmpid=TW


Studying violence and inequality in human history:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-historian-uncovers-grim-violence-inequality.html


Studying the effects of volcanic eruptions:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-ready-massive-volcanic-eruption.html

Feature on Maria Sibylla Merian:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/science/maria-sibylla-merian-metamorphosis-insectorum-surinamensium.html


On polygamy in the Mormon Church:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/books/review/house-full-of-females-laurel-thatcher-ulrich.html


A medieval ‘comic book’:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-what-happens-in-comic-book-drawn-by-medieval-monks-180961922/


A really, really, really overdue library book:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-38240845

The Panacea Museum has an interesting story:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170123-this-ordinary-town-hides-an-unopened-box-of-prophecies

http://panaceatrust.org/the-panacea-museum/

Review of a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/books/review/arthur-and-sherlock-michael-sims-conan-doyle-biography.html


A history of wedding announcements:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/weddings/165-years-of-wedding-announcements/carrie-astor-wedding



Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Roman erotica:

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/01/26/actualidad/1485450955_961351.html


Greek Ceramics:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ceramics-shine-light-on-ancient-greece-but-collections-dark-history-lurks/

http://world.greekreporter.com/2017/01/27/the-largest-exhibition-of-ancient-greek-ceramics-to-ever-go-on-public-display-in-israel/

Egyptian Religion:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/256938/Heritage/Museums/Temporary-exhibit-on-religion-in-Egypt-to-be-inaug.aspx


Vikings:

http://miamioh.edu/news/campus-news/2017/01/cincy-museum-center-vikings-lectures.html


Botticelli:

http://www.vagazette.com/life/va-vg-botticelli-set-up-0121-20170125-story.html


Monet:


http://www.dw.com/en/claude-monet-a-master-of-color-light-and-shadow/a-37237774

Pondering how museums should respond to art smuggling scandals:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/how-should-museums-respond-to-art-smuggling-scandals/


Vatican Museums have a new website:

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/01/24/vatican-museums-open-doors-wider-with-revamped-website/


Potsdam has a new museum:

http://www.dw.com/en/new-barberini-museum-near-berlin-is-a-hot-number-for-impressionism-and-more/a-37209987


Plans for a linguistics museum in New York:

http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2017/01/planet-word-museum-of-linguistics-is-coming-to-dc-franklin-school/514406/?utm_source=atlfb



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on mummy visualization technology in action:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-mummy-visualisation-journal.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170123090759.htm

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Studying house shrew DNA to work out trade networks:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170124111429.htm


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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CRIME BEAT
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Plenty of coverage about Operation Pandora:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/world/europe/75-arrested-in-european-crackdown-on-art-trafficking.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/23/511224788/75-people-arrested-accused-of-trafficking-stolen-art-and-archaeological-relics

https://www.artforum.com/news/id=66150 http://famagusta-gazette.com/cyprus-police-seize-artworks-and-antiquities-during-operation-pandor-p38306-69.htm
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/operation-pandora-police-in-spain-and-cyprus-lead-major-bust-of-antiquities-traffickers/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5225-170124-operation-pandora-looting http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=93283

… and some details of what was recovered:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/01/23/greek-antiquities-among-3500-illegally-obtained-objects-confiscated/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/23/ottoman-tombstone-ancient-treasures-recovered-europol

Looted/fake Syrian items are showing up in Denmark apparently:

http://www.thelocal.dk/20170124/looted-syrian-antiquities-for-sale-in-denmark-police

Fake Khmer antiquities are showing up too:

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/angkor-revisited-how-master-craftsmen-are-forging-khmer-antiquities


Latest Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/01/culture-crime-news-16-22-january-2017.html



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 will be returning some Van Goghs to the Netherlands:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=93164

A stolen Buddha statue will be returned to South Korea:

http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=AEN20170126006153315&site=0200000000&mobile


Lebanon returned a 4000 years bp item to Egypt:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypt-retrieves-4000-year-old-figurine-london


More Nazi-looted art returns:

http://www.dw.com/en/food-giant-dr-oetker-returns-nazi-looted-painting-to-rightful-heir/a-37282526


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NUMISMATICA
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After three years they’ve finished separating the Catillon Hoard:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-finish-separating-worlds-largest-celtic-coin-hoard-180961896/


Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v20n04.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v20n05.html


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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2550-audio-news-from-archaeologica-15-january-2017-21-january-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Reynold Burrows:

http://sbc.edu/news/former-longtime-classics-professor-reynold-burrows-dies-at-95/


Eddie Kamae:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/arts/music/eddie-kamae-dead-hawaiian-musician.html



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CONFERENCES
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Canada Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping (Nov. 2017)

https://independent.academia.edu/ConferenceCanadabeforeConfederationEarlyMappingandExploration14981763

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

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
Archaeosoup:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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