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Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Jona Lendering, Bob Heuman, George Somsel, Hernan Astudillo, Trevor Ogden 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
================================================================ Australopithecus deyiremeda is back in the news, it seems:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/642678/?sc=c52

... and fallout of a different sort from the homo naledi dig:

http://jezebel.com/uk-paper-suggests-all-female-archaeology-team-was-a-pub-174007887
8

New dates for Italy's earliest Neanderthal:

http://www.thelocal.it/20151104/italy-dates-its-first-neanderthal-to-250k-years-ago

Pondering whether climate change 'jump started' hominid evolution:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830464-200-did-climate-change-jump-start-hu
man-evolution-in-east-africa/

An overviewish thing on the rise of humans:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-humans-unique-small.html

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AFRICA
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Remains of a church on Santiago Island (off the west coast of Africa) has slavery
connections:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-earliest-church-tropics-unearthed-heart.html

What ancient snails from Morocco are revealing about agricultural development:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151105121515.htm


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
So they're now poking around Tut's tomb with infrared temperature scans:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1107/Did-King-Tut-have-a-roommate-In-search-of
-a-secret-chamber http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/search-for-secret-chambers-in-king-tuts-to
mb-begins-151104.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/162675/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Infrared-th
ermography-to-be-applied-to-Tutankhamun.aspx

... and there are hints they may have found 'something':

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/tutankhamun-infrared-shows-possible-hi
dden-chamber-in-kings-tomb-a6724781.html http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/nov/08/king-tut-tomb-infrared-scans-queen-nefe
rtiti http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/new-clues-point-to-secret-chamber-in-king
-tut-tomb-151106.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-scanning-nefertitis-tomb-encouraging-minister-162850066.h
tml

Some clarification from Zahi Hawass:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/opinion/nicholas-reeves-did-not-discover-tomb-no-63

Some nice colorized photos of the original discovery of Tut items:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/11977795/King-Tuts-tomb-C
olourised-photos-documenting-Howard-Carters-discovery.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3307795/King-Tut-s-tomb-COLOUR-Stunnin
g-new-images-historic-discovery-boy-king-s-burial-chamber-new-light.html

... and the tomb was reopened to the public:

http://www.thecairopost.com/news/174672/news/tutankhamen-tomb-reopens-on-93rd-disc
overy-anniversary

A foiled smuggling attempt of a number of items heading for Thailand:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/162775/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Smuggling
-bid-foiled--Egyptian-artefacts-recovered.aspx http://www.thecairopost.com/news/175160/news/1124-artifacts-saved-from-smuggling-at-
damietta-port-statement


Not sure what the focus is of this piece on assorted Egyptian goings-on at the Queensland Museum ... something about Amenhotep and the Book of the Dead:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/special-features/amenhoteps-book-of-the-dead-ho
w-a-3400-year-old-mystery-was-solved/story-fnolgd60-1227592648464

Project to study the Kushite presence in Egypt:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,407179,archaeologist-will-investigate-strang
ers-in-ancient-egypt.html

A trio of tombs were opened to the public:

http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/11/05/three-new-tombs-unveiled-in-luxor-egypt http://phys.org/news/2015-11-egypt-tombs-spur-tourist.html

In case you missed Ben Carson's pyramid declaration:

http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/11/ben_carson_pyramid_theory.html
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Ben-Carson-Pyramids-in-Egypt-built-by-Biblica
l-figure-Joseph--340962022.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/11/05/archaeologists-to-ben-carson-an
cient-egyptians-wrote-down-why-the-pyramids-were-built/

... and the history of the viewpoint:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34741010

... and the response:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/bad-news-for-ben-carson-pyramids-wouldn-t-h
ave-made-good-grain-stores-say-experts-a6725456.html http://www.jta.org/2015/11/06/news-opinion/politics/jewish-archaeology-expert-disputes-
ben-carsons-pyramid-theory http://www.timesofisrael.com/experts-dismiss-carsons-claim-pyramids-built-by-joseph/

Another view of pyramid impact:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-egypt-s-great-pyramid-changed-civilization
/


More on that ostrakon with an 'alphabetical' list of words:

http://www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/nieuws-1/oudste-alfabetische-woordenlijst-ontdekt.html

Evidence of a massacre some 3400 years b.p. at the Elamite site of Haft Teppeh:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/jgum-afm110515.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2015/archaeologists-uncover-hum
an-tragedy-at-ancient-elamite-site-of-haft-tappeh

Big news this week is the possible discovery of Antiochus Ephipanes' Acra in Jerusalem:

http://www.livescience.com/52671-greek-citadel-unearthed-jerusalem.html http://www.livescience.com/52672-ancient-acra-citadel-photos.html http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.683905 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4720320,00.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/202863#.Vj9TXa6rRn4 http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-greek-citadel-discovered-under-jerusalem-car-park-16343
8850.html http://www.dw.com/en/ancient-greek-citadel-discovered-in-jerusalem-under-a-car-park/
a-18825235 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Archaeological-find-in-Jerusalems-City-of-David
-may-answer-100-year-old-mystery-431895 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/us-archaeology-jerusalem-idUSKCN0SS1GD20
151103?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/11/03/ancient-fortress-discovery-may-solve-one-je
rusalems-great-archaeological-mysteries.html http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/1104/Spectacular-archaeological-find
-adds-to-Temple-Mount-s-contested-history

... although there is skepticism:

http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2015/11/is-this-really-akra.html

Vandalism to Joseph's tomb was repaired:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/josephs-tomb-torched-by-palestinians-restored-overnight/

On the oldest Hebrew Bible:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/hebrew-bible/ what-is-the-oldest-hebrew-bible/

More on that Solomonic seal find from Temple Mount rubble a few weeks ago:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.683539

Syria's head of antiquities is seeking help from the global community:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/11/07/455092931/syrian-antiquities-chief-call
s-for-help-from-international-community

An OpEd on the Museum of the Bible investigation:

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/04/3718938/hobby-lobby-antiquities/


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Nice mosaic floor in a Temple of Jupiter at Doliche:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-invaluable-ancient-syrian-mosaic.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/coe-ias110215.php http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3303654/Beautiful-ancient-Syrian-mosaic-
discovered-Roman-era-flooring-shed-light-life-area-2-000-years-ago-sites-permanently-lo
st-thanks-ISIS.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/11/02/exquisite-late-antique-floor-mos
aic-roman-doliche/

Latest from the Paphos theatre dig:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2015/11/07/nea-paphos-theatre-dig-reveals-road-and-columns/

Studying some painted wooden shields from Dura Europos:

http://news.yale.edu/2015/11/02/ancient-roman-shield-gets-makeover-thanks-yale-team
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2015/dura-europos-painted-woode
n-shield-undergoes-new-analysis

Evidence of ancient problems with Hadrian's Wall near the Segedunum fort:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/wallsend-archaeological-digs-reveal
-romans-10389386 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3305261/The-Roman-Army-no-match-River-
Tyne-Hadrian-s-Wall-collapsed-times-instability-land.html

Some ancient columns from Laodicia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-columns-unearthed--in-laodicia.aspx?pageID=
238&nID=90791&NewsCatID=375

Feature on the Necormanteion:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1724831-how-ancient-greeks-took-trippy-journeys-to-th
e-land-of-the-dead/

The Ashmolean recreated a Roman funeral:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-34683132

They're talking about rebuilding the Colossus of Rhodes again:

http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/A-new-Colossus-could-rise-over-Rhodes-6601601.php

What Elizabeth Kosmetatou is up to:

http://uisjournal.com/news/2015/11/04/history-professor-receives-a-three-year-15000-an
nual-award/

What Mary-Kay Gamel is up to:

http://ndsmcobserver.com/2015/11/speaker-explores-music-ancient-greek-dramas/

What Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow is up to:

http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2015/november/aoko-honor.html

Comparing Trump to Nero:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/07/is-donald-trump-the-modern-nero.html

More on the shipwrecks off Fourni:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/07/fourni-achipelago-ships-wrecks-archae
ologists http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151103-greek-shipwreck-find-trading-route/
http://abcnews.go.com/International/archaeologists-discover-22-greek-shipwrecks-uncov
er-ancient-mediterranean/story?id=34997913 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/30/amazing-discovery-o
f-22-shipwrecks-off-greece-offers-wondrous-of-ancient-life/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/22-ancient-shipwrecks-discover
ed-around-one-greek-island-chain-a6716711.html

More on the warrior burial at Pylos:

http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-warriors-tomb-huge-treasure-hoard-found-greece-1934207
00.html

Review of Beard, *SPQR*:

http://www.studentnewspaper.org/beard-re-inserts-women-into-roman-history/

This one looks at both Beard's *SPQR* and Holland's *Dynasty*:

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2015/11/gangsters-rome-brutal-side-ancient
-city

Review of Robin Lane Fox, *Augustine*:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c5f4f936-823d-11e5-a01c-8650859a4767.html http://www.nbc-2.com/story/30437835/review-augustine-a-story-of-conversion

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Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Some 14 000 b.p. 'engravings' from a Jersey site:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-archaeologists-unveil-year-old-ice-age.html http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34679202 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/642454/?sc=c52 http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art540602-ice-age-archaeol
ogy-st-saviour-clifftop-jersey

A 'mysterious' Neolithic structure from Brignall:

http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/Articles/mystery-over-structure-found-during-archaeolo
gical-dig-at-brignall#sthash.RMlcXPvw.dpbs

A Viking longhouse from East Iceland:

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2015/11/05/viking_longhouse_discovered_in_ea
st_iceland/

A possible Armada site near the coast of Clare:

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/article1630211.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-s
tandard-2015_11_07

Latest medieval finds from Flint:

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/flint-archaeological-dig-uncovers-furth
er-10394255

Interesting family crypt 'accidentally' found in Gloucester Cathedral:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-32914568 http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/community/latest-news/burial-vault-found-at-glouc
ester-cathedral.php http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Tomb-remains-entire-17th-century-family/ story-28098996-detail/story.html http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/17th-Century-tomb-coffins-accidentally-discovered/
story-28104440-detail/story.html

Interesting 14th century birch bark letter found in Moscow:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/birchbark-message-reveals-story-of-medi
eval-traveler-151106

A latter day Druid is calling for reburial of human remains from Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-34688929

Documentary hype on who killed Richard III:

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/film-tv/richard-iii-killed-welshman-10392292

Funding for a River Skerne conservation project:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34687793

Rome's Trevi Fountain has reopened:

http://www.dw.com/en/romes-trevi-fountain-reopens-after-a-makeover/a-18826220 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=82642

More on those 'witchmarks' in the Tower of London:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/art540839-guy-fawkes-witchmarks-quee
n-house-tower-london

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A 5000 years b.p. fish processing site from Novosibersk:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0479-fancy-some-neolithic-smoked-fi
sh/

A very well-preserved Han Dynasty tomb from Jiangxi:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1875969/locked-tomb-eastern-china-may
-hold-key-fate-little-known-emperor http://www.ptinews.com/news/6712254_Unearthed-chariots-show-nbsp-nobles--ancient-tr
avel-ritual-.html

... this seems to be the same story:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/ancient-cemetery-discovered-in-china/ 154910.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/04/c_134783978.htm http://www.freepressjournal.in/the-haihunhou-chinas-ancient-cemetery-discovered/w/
http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2015/11-05/79857.shtml

Interesting tomb of a family executed by China's first female emperor:

http://www.livescience.com/52659-tomb-tells-tale-of-family-executed-by-china-s-1st-femal
e-emperor.html

Study suggests early 'proto porcelain' from China was likely made from local materials:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-early-proto-porcelain-china-local-materials.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/p-epf102915.php

A 700 years b.p. hero stone from Koduvai:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/unique-herostone-discovered/ article7844028.ece

Better coverage of those 'geoglyphs' in Kazakhstan:

http://www.livescience.com/52700-mysterious-geoglyphs-in-kazakhstan-revealed.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151102-kazakhstan-earthworks-geoglyphs-s
pace-satellite/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-puzzled-by-huge-8000-year-old-myster
y-structures-in-kazakhstan-that-resemble-ancient-crop-a6717766.html

A followup to the earthquake in Nepal:

http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/nepal_earthquake_unesco_herita/ 53423534

... while an earthquake in Pak appears to have damaged some heritage sites:

http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/world-heritage-sites-in-pak-develops-crack-after-quake-rep
ort/

A survey report of a site in Bukhara, Uzbekistan:

http://isaw.nyu.edu/news/report-from-summer-2015-archaeological-survey-in-bukhara-uz
bekistan

Early photos of Peking:

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-34697724

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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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Finds from various periods in the Mojave desert:

http://westerndigs.org/nearly-9000-artifacts-uncovered-in-california-desert-spanning-1150
0-years-of-history/

Big news this week appears to be the discovery of a pile of coffins beneath Washington
Square Park in Greenwich Village:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-centuries-old-coffins-skeletons-beneath-nyc.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11982153/Burial-vaults-fo
und-underneath-New-York-City-park.html http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/07/new-york-city-burial-vaults-washington
-square-park http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/greenwich-village-burial-vault-from-19th-century
-discovered-under-washington-square-park-1.11060161 http://pix11.com/2015/11/04/old-burial-vault-human-bones-found-beneath-greenwich-villa
ge-park/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-york-bones-two-centuries-old-found-manhatt
an-work-crew-180957183/?no-ist http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2015/11/centuries-old_coffins_skeletons_found
_in_vault_under_new_york_city_street.html

Feature on Mesa Verde:

http://www.nature.com/news/the-greatest-vanishing-act-in-prehistoric-america-1.18700?
WT.ec_id=NATURE-20151105&spMailingID=49939656&spUserID=MjA1NzUyNjUyOAS2& spJobID=800557975&spReportId=ODAwNTU3OTc1S0

Looking for sites uncovered by floods in South Carolina:

http://www.wltx.com/story/news/2015/11/06/archaeologist-sites/75325634/

They were looking for an army route on the Nez Perce Trail:

http://county10.com/2015/11/05/archaeologists-searched-for-1877-army-route-on-the-nez-
perce-trail-this-summer/

Philadelphia has become the first city with Heritage City status in the US:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/philadelphia-world-heritage-city-us-35026257

Review of Brown, *Aaron and Alexander*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/books/review/don-browns-aaron-and-alexander-and-
more.html?ref=books

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
What Ceren is revealing about the life of Maya 'commoners' (and archaeologists are
heading back there):

http://www.livescience.com/52717-pompeii-of-new-world-discoveries.html http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ancient-salvadoran-village-ash-daily.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uoca-csa110315.php http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/11/03/cu-boulder-study-shows-ancient-salv
adoran-village-buried-ash-frozen-time http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=136828 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3302791/The-ancient-Salvadoran-village-p
erfectly-preserved-ash-Study-reveals-1-400-year-old-community-lived.html http://source.colostate.edu/csu-archaeologist-returning-to-honduran-jungle/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2015/an-ancient-maya-village-in-el
-salvador-frozen-in-time

Feline and human trophy heads from Toro Muerto (Peru):

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-human-and-feline-trophy-heads-excavated-near-toro-
muerto-arequipa-107961

An algorithm to analyze Maya writing:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-revealing-mysteries-maya-script.html


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http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
On crowdfunding culture in Italy:

http://www.dw.com/en/why-italy-turned-to-crowdfunding-to-preserve-its-culture/ a-18816706

... and Italy is cutting down on strikes at important monuments:

http://www.thelocal.it/20151106/italy-cracks-down-on-strikes-at-prized-monuments

Is this Shakespeare's skull?:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11968936/Shakespeares-skull
-rumours-DNA-testing-barred-by-Church.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/11/04/pothead-willie-the-search-for-sh
akespeares-skull-and-the-truth-about-his-marijuana-use/?utm_channel=Technology&linkI
d=18505988

A Lincoln letter came to auction:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/signed-lincoln-document-sells-22m-nyc-a
uction-34991012

On the other KKK:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/02/kindred-of-the-kibbo-kift-1920s-yo
uth-movement

Feature on Alexander von Humboldt:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/26/humboldts-gift

Pondering whether museums should sell things they don't display:

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/out-of-sight-unseen-public-collections/

On the origins of rice cultivation:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-rice-cultivation.html

On the beefeaters:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151023-the-secret-life-of-beefeaters

On the evolution of language:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/06/454853229/did-the-language-you-sp
eak-evolve-because-of-the-heat

Assorted Guy Fawkes items, to mark the day last week:

http://www.businessinsider.com/guy-fawkes-signature-before-and-after-he-was-tortured-2
015-11 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11976634/Bonfire-Night-2015-Why-do-we-celebr
ate-tonight-and-who-was-Guy-Fawkes.html http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2015/11/guy_fawkes_night_remember_rem ember_the_5th_of_november.html http://www.dw.com/en/million-mask-march-how-guy-fawkes-became-the-global-face-of-mo
dern-protest/a-18826027 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-well-do-you-know-what-happened-during-the-g
unpowder-plot-a6721096.html

On the history of prosthetic limbs:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151030-the-geniuses-who-invented-prosthetic-limbs

Oxford now has a 'DaVinci Code department':

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3300050/Oxford-University-sets-new-unit-investig
ate-religious-relics.html http://www.banburycake.co.uk/news/13930454.Da_Vinci_Code_department_set_up_by_O xford_University/?ref=rss

On witchraft:

http://news.yale.edu/2015/10/28/conversation-historian-john-putnam-demos-ubiquitous-n
ature-witchcraft

Marking the birth of George Boole:

http://www.dw.com/en/true-or-false-george-boole-gave-us-computer-science-and-the-inter
net-as-we-know-it/a-18821307

Assorted famous sculptures as action figures:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/11/03/famous_sculpture_action_figures_of_the
_venus_de_milo_rodin_s_thinker_and.html

Plans to exhume Tsar Alexander III:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-russia-readies-exhume-tsar-alexander.html

Another Kon Tiki expedition:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34744965


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Stukeley drawings:

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/community/features/drawings-of-holbeach-father-of-
archaeology-to-be-preserved-and-shared-1-7038972#axzz3qukkvFYh

Carlo Crivelli:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/arts/design/carlo-crivelli-an-overlooked-renaissance-
master-in-boston.html?ref=arts&_r=0

Faith After the Pharaohs:

http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/when-we-were-in-egypt-exhibition-shows-jewish-life-after-th
e-pharaohs/

Middle Kingdom Egypt:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-art-of-ancient-egypt-1446831342

Mummymania:

http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/exhib-date/2015-09-29/exhib/ mummymania

Greeks from Agamemnon to Alexander:

http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2015/11/06/dueling-gold-masks-agamemnon-coming-soon
-field-museum

Some Bronze Age mirrors from Britain are going 'on tour':

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art540686-iron-age-mirrors-
national-civil-war-centre-british-museum-tour

The British Museum is pondering charging tour groups:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/nov/02/why-tourists-s
hould-pay-to-visit-british-museums http://www.apollo-magazine.com/british-museum-considers-charge-for-tour-groups/

... and thinks it needs a bigger door:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/shortcuts/2015/nov/03/british-museum-overcrowding-
entrance-sistine-chapel ... and has acquired some early Battle of Waterloo images:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/battle-of-waterloo/11981333/Earliest-Battle-of-W
aterloo-images-secured-for-the-nation-by-British-Museum.html

Latest on the proposed underwater museum at Alexandria:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/theres-a-200-million-plan-for-an-underwater-
museum-but-it-has-a-problem/story-fnjpj945-1227597568492

There's a new curator at the Barnes Foundation:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/barnes-foundation-names-new-chief-curato
r/

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA is causing a rethink of the wheat trade in prehistoric Britain:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ancient-dna-authenticity-stone-age.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151103064601.htm http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-dna-dispute-raises-questions-about-wheat-trade-in-p
rehistoric-britain-1.18702

Mapping the DNA for the Caribbean:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uop-pnd110515.php

The poked around the Lincoln family DNA:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/03/dna-study-helps-solve-lincol
n-lineage-debate/75078140/


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
A drought atlas chronicles 2000 years of climate in Europe:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/teia-nda110515.php http://phys.org/news/2015-11-drought-atlas-years-climate-europe.html

================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Submerged cities:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151102-when-cities-rise-from-the-depths

Matera:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-matera-italys-city-of-stone-1446650107


================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/11/culture-crime-news-26-october-1-nove
mber-2015.html

Investors are grilling Tommy Thompson now:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3300569/Investors-demand-answers-deep-sea-tr
easure-hunter.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/

================================================================
REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
Mungo Man has been returned:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11979442/
University-returns-40000-year-old-Mungo-Man-to-Australias-Aborigines.html http://theconversation.com/mungo-man-moves-to-national-museum-but-hes-still-not-hom
e-49575

================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A major Anglo Saxon hoard from Southampton:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/13931371.display/

... declared treasure:

http://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/news/more-news/lenborough-hoard-of-silver-coins-de
clared-treasure-1-7051167

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n44.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n45.html

------------------------
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Comedy of Errors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/theater/review-a-comedy-of-errors-that-never-stands-
still.html?ref=theater

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Alan Boegehold:

http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/alan-l.-boegehold-1927-2015

John Anderson:

http://www.dailycal.org/2015/11/03/professor-emeritus-classical-archaeology-john-ander
son-dies-91/


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http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

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http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

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