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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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Pondering Neanderthal injuries:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/neanderthal-medicine/ 573028/

More on remains of a Neanderthal child who was eaten by a bird:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/neanderthal-child-bird-14102018/

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Evidence of extensive trade in fish between Egypt and Canaan some 3500
years bp:

http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/6256_ENG_HTML.php https://phys.org/news/2018-10-extensive-fish-egypt-canaan-years.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181015100451.htm https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-fish-teeth-reveal-intensive-3500-y ear-old-aquaculture-in-sinai/ https://www.france24.com/en/20181016-egyptians-farmed-fish-3500-years-ag o-study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32468-1 https://www.academia.edu/37481481/

Tattoos have been found on another 3000 years bp Egyptian mummy from
Luxor:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/59149/3-000-year-old-tattooed-mummy- uncovered-in-Luxor-belongs http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/17/c_137539840.htm https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774e3567544f7a457a6333566d54/share.html

Egypt is restoring the al-Zahir Baybars mosque:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-antiquities-religion/egypt-resu mes-restoration-of-historic-al-zahir-baybars-mosque-idUSKCN1MR2BE

What Zahi Hawass is up to:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/59229/Italy-to-grant-Zahi-Hawass-Soc ial-Commitment-award

Feature on powerful women of Egypt:

http://time.com/5425216/ancient-egypt-women-in-power-today/

Evidence that the site of Gaugamela has been inhabited for 9000 years:

http://www.rudaw.net/english/people-places/17102018

A Bronze Age wall from northeastern Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/428763/Bronze-Age-wall-discovered-in-nor theast-Iran

Recent Bronze/Iron Age finds from Sirkeli Hoyuk:

http://www.unibe.ch/aktuell/medien/media_relations/medienmitteilungen/ 2018/medienmitteilungen_2018/komplexe_antike_stadtanlage_in_der_tuerkei_ entdeckt/index_ger.html

More on the oldest (so far) inscriptional mention of Jerusalem by that
name:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/found-ancient-stone-inscriptio n-unusual-spelling-jerusalem-180970513/

More on that mass beheading site being associated with Alexander
Jannaeus:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-decapitated-2-000-year-old- skeletons-unearthed-at-jerusalem-dig-1.6553289 https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-beheadings-and-holy-kings-brutal-slaugh ter-revealed-jerusalem-mass-1176260

1500 years bp carpentry and agricultural tools from Alexandria Troas:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/10/15/1500-year-old-antiquities- found-in-turkeys-alexandria-troas http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1500-year-old-heritages-found-in-canakk ale-137863

On settlements in Jordan during the Mongol invasions:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/%E2%80%98human-settlement-jordan-e ndured-woes-history%E2%80%99-%C2%AD%E2%80%94-expert

On the archaeological evidence for Goliath (probably paywalled):

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-huge-if-true-the-archaeolog ical-case-for-goliath-1.6568421

Feature on restoring Petra papyri:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/petra-papyri-brought-back-full-glo ry-after-quarter-century

Feature on the Ilisu Dam and the archaeology being inundated:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/10/Upper-Tigris-Il%C4%B1su-Dam

Feature on the Queen of Sheba:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near- eastern-world/who-is-the-queen-of-sheba-in-the-bible/

Feature on dragons in the Bible (and elsewhere):

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/10/Dragons-in-the-Bible

Brian Rose is talking about Midas:

https://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2018/10/17/from-tale-to-truth-golden-to uch-of-king-midas-is-uncovered/

Review of Karen Stern, *Writing on the Wall*:

http://www1.cuny.edu/sites/matters/2018/10/10/graffiti-illuminates-the-l ives-of-jews-of-antiquity/ ================================================================
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On Italy's oldest musical instrument (maybe):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/arts/music/italy-prehistoric-musical- instrument.html

A 4th century BCE gymnasium from Eretria:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/10/17/ancient-palaestra-discovered -in-greeces-eretria/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/7078-181017-greece-eretria-palaestra

A 3rd century BCE burial from Sozopol:

https://www.novinite.com/articles/192622/Bulgarian+and+French+Archaeolog ists+Discovered+an+Impressive+Tomb+in+Sozopol

I think we had this shipwrecks (5?) off Fourni story already (might be
five more):

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-shipwrecks-discovered-greece-rome-lost- civilization-1171965 http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/32960-more-ancient-wrecks -and-pottery-discovered-in-greek-ships%E2%80%99-graveyard.html https://neoskosmos.com/en/122760/sea-between-ikaria-and-samos-an-ancient -ships-graveyard/ https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/ancient-ship-grav eyard-discovered-in-treacherous-waters/news-story/954dda18b0478586fe5127 345c550108
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7077-181016-greece-fourni-wrecks

The big news this week is some graffiti from Pompeii lending support to
a later date for the eruption:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/10/16/find-suggests- pompeii-eruption-in-oct_9d778882-2364-4a15-b6e6-6e8ca49b9571.html https://www.thelocal.it/20181016/was-pompeii-destroyed-two-months-later- than-we-thought
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45874858 https://www.livescience.com/63866-pompeii-graffiti-rewrites-vesuvius-tim eline.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/16/archeological-find-changes -date-of-pompeiis-destruction https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-pompeii/charcoal-inscription-po ints-to-date-change-for-pompeii-eruption-idUSKCN1MQ2CR https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pompeii-date-mount-vesuv ius-eruption-ad-79-august-october-a8588876.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/newly-found-pompeii-inscription-re writes-history-of-mount-vesuvius-eruption-a3964591.html https://www.independent.ie/world-news/pompeii-discovery-casts-doubt-on-d ate-of-vesuvius-eruption-37427863.html https://phys.org/news/2018-10-pompeii-evidence-rewrites-vesuvius-eruptio
n.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pompeii-graffiti-may-give-clue-to-rea l-date-of-vesuvius-eruption-p00sxhsg9 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/16/newly-found-inscription-pomp eii-rewrites-history-eruption-mt/ https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pompeii-eruption-inscription-date-intl /index.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-17/pompeii-graffiti-may-suggests-a-d ifferent-date/10385468 https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/pompeiis-new-date- with-destiny-corrects-younger-plinys-script/news-story/1d8d3cf327105926e ad7e88c826a962c http://www.theweek.co.uk/97164/graffiti-in-pompeii-set-to-rewrite-histor y-books https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-october-17-2018-1372
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https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/10/17/actualidad/1539759970_244111.html https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/graffiti-reveals-when-pompeii-wa s-destroyed-and-its-not-when-we-thought/ https://www.sciencealert.com/wrong-date-for-pompeii-catastrophe-vesuvius -eruption
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7076-181016-pompeii-date-inscription

... and some useful commentary:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/10/16/new-pompeii-gr affiti-may-rewrite-history-in-a-major-way/ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/when-did-vesuvius-erupt/

Recent finds from Akrotiri:

https://news.gtp.gr/2018/10/16/santorinis-akrotiri-site-produces-new-arc haeological-finds/

What they're learning from a Roman site outside Flint (not Michigan):

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/16992374.how-field-outside-flint-is-rev ealing-more-roman-secrets-than-previously-thought/

Evidence of Roman remains at Torwodlee and Trimontium:

https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/16987944.german-archaeologists-unco ver-the-secrets-of-torwodlee-and-trimontium/

Not sure if we've mentioned this major Roman coin hoard from
MonchengladbacH:

http://www.newsarticleinsiders.com/1200-coins-found-a-roman-hoard-of-coi ns-in-monchengladbach-is-a-researcher-puzzles

Evidence for a temple of Apollo on St Ivan Island:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/10/14/archaeology-ancient-inscription-proves -existence-of-temple-of-apollo-on-bulgarias-st-ivan-island-report/

Roman-era finds from Vinkovci:

https://www.croatiaweek.com/rare-ancient-findings-in-vinkovci-from-betwe en-the-1st-5th-centuries-presented/ http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/gallery/archaeological-excavation-ends-i n-croatia-with-over-2-000-discoveries-10-15-2018

A guided underwater tour off Aegina:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/15/c_137534423.htm https://en.brinkwire.com/top-stories/feature-greek-archaeologists-offer- underwater-guided-tour-at-antiquities-off-aegina-island/

Funding to rebuild the Roman Castrum at Ovidiu:

https://www.romania-insider.com/roman-castrum-ovidiu-rebuilt-eu-money/

Looking into why Hadrianopolis was abandoned:

https://eu.greekreporter.com/2018/10/15/why-was-the-ancient-greek-city-o f-hadrianopolis-abandoned/

Hoping to find a Roman road in Wales:

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/archaeological-dig-cou ld-unearth-roman-15285372

Pondering the tale of Pandora and AI:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/10/16/commentary/world-comment ary/ai-wake-call-ancient-greece/ https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/artificial-intelligence-pan doras-box-by-adrienne-mayor-2018-10

Pondering the purpose of the Aeneid:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/is-the-aeneid-a-celebratio n-of-empire-or-a-critique

This seems related to calls for the return of the Venus de Milo:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/10/16/200-were-killed-trying-to-ke ep-venus-de-milo-in-greece-historian-claims/

More on the cause of death at Pompeii:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-pompeii-deaths-v esuvius-vaporized-skulls-exploded-chemistry/

More on frescoes etc. found in Regio V:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/beautifully-painted-shrine-eme rges-ashes-pompeii-180970573/ http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2018-10-17/detail-ifyyzeyv7658421.shtml https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/new-treasures-emerge-from-the-as hes-of-the-ancient-city-of-pompeii-b8pxmvm37 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pompeii-yields-new-secrets-and-treasu res-in-biggest-dig-since-the-1950s-5tbqgwlb6

Classics is threatened at Miami University:

http://miamistudent.net/department-of-classics-is-underfunded-and-on-the -brink-of-collapse/

Feature on Dimitri Nakassis' work on Linear B documents from the Palace
of Nestor:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/10/17/beyond-boulder-bronze-age-book keeping-tablets-reveal-complex-society

What Andrew Ford is up to:

https://retriever.umbc.edu/the-twenty-first-century-illiad/

What Barbara Gold is up to:

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/professor-classics-barbara-gold-part icipates-in-caas-meeting

What Farrell Monaco is up to:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06p625w

On the 'Roman Brexit':

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-roman-brexit-life-britain-ad.html https://theconversation.com/the-roman-brexit-how-life-in-britain-changed -after-409ad-93886

On Himmler's view of antiquity, and related matters:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/himmlers-antiquity/

Review of Zuckerberg, *Not All Dead White Men*:

https://sarahemilybond.com/2018/10/15/book-review-not-all-dead-white-men
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https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/pickup-artists-ovid/
572563/

That child 'vampire burial' is still getting press attention:

https://www.livescience.com/63824-child-vampire-burial-italy.html https://phys.org/news/2018-10-vampire-burial-reveals-efforts-child.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=28058 https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/107867731/archaeologists-find-vampi re-burial-site-of-a-child-feared-capable-of-rising-from-the-dead https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/archaeologists-find-va mpire-burial-site-child-feared-capable-rising-dead/ https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/child-vampire-bur ial-found-in-italian-roman-villa/news-story/4961dcda6a3f2c7c34b52e7ad09d
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https://sputniknews.com/science/201810141068874591-vampire-child-italy/ https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/washington-post/us-national/ archaeologists-find-vampire-burial-site-of-child-feared-capable-of-risin g-from-the-dead-1.23463916 https://www.sciencealert.com/vampire-of-lugnano-burial-5th-century-italy -malaria-cemetery-of-the-babies https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-10-year-old-received-v ampire-burial-prevent-return-dead-180970550/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2018/10/13/uncovered-vampire-child -reveals-bizarre-ancient-burial-practice/

This week's Assassins Creed Odyssey coverage:

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/assassin-s-creed-odyssey-review-an-adv enture-of-homeric-proportions-20181016-p509y5.html https://gamefragger.com/multiplatform/action/assassins_creed/ubisoft-hir ed-a-specialist-with-a-phd-in-ancient-greek-history-for-assassins-creed- odyssey-a11568

More on the study of miltos:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/ancient-history-deciphering-the-r oman-red-dust
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7083-181019-roman-red-powder
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Not sure if we mentioned this 4000 years bp gold diadem found by a
metal detectorist in Essex a couple years ago:

https://www.essexlive.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/how-4000-year-old-gold en-2128345

3500 years bp olive pits from Croatia:

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/31821-3-500-year-old-olive- pits-discovered-in-pasman-channel

A Celtic site near Lucerne:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/rare-find_archaeologists-uncover-rare-celti c-remains/44478032 https://www.archaeology.org/news/7080-181017-switzerland-celtic-settleme
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A major Viking ship burial (hopefully) find in Norway:

https://www.livescience.com/63829-viking-ship-cemetery.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/15/viking-ship-burial-disco vered-in-norway-just-50cm-underground https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/736661/Viking-ship-burial-No rway-Oslo-history-discovered https://www.france24.com/en/20181015-norway-makes-rare-discovery-viking- ship-traces https://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-uncover-viking-ship-remains-in-norw ay/a-45901907
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/15/c_137534711.htm https://nationalpost.com/news/archaeologists-use-ground-penetrating-rada r-to-discover-huge-viking-ship-burial-half-a-metre-under-norway-farmland https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/arkeologer-har-funnet-spor-av-et-vikingskip-i -halden-1.14248882 https://www.sciencealert.com/jellestad-ship-viking-burial-iron-age-jelle -mound-ground-penetrating-radar-norway https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture-exploration/2018/10/ viking-ship-discovered-norway-archaeology/ https://www.newsweek.com/sixty-six-foot-long-viking-ship-found-buried-fa rmers-field-just-20-below-1172505 http://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologists-find-viking-ship-burial-site-norway -by-using-new-tech-tool-27829 https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/extremely-rare-viking-ship-buria l-discovered-under-norwegian-cemetery/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/viking-ship-burial-found-norwe gian-farm-field-180970560/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/7075-181016-norway-ship-burial

Evidence a Viking era farm on Iceland was destroyed by the 1104 Hekla
eruption:

https://icelandmag.is/article/archaeological-find-thjorsardalur-viking-a ge-farm-destroyed-1104-hekla-eruption

Latest from the dig at Sudeley Castle:

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/history/huge-discovery-made-g loucestershire-castle-2122430

The oldest plan of the cathedral at Strasbourg has been found:

https://fr.aleteia.org/2018/10/15/strasbourg-le-plus-ancien-plan-de-la-c athedrale-a-ete-retrouve/

Overviewish sort of thing on the finds from Lithuania's Great
Synagogue:

http://www.wamc.org/post/excavation-lithuanias-great-synagogue-highlight s-painful-page-history http://www.wkar.org/post/excavation-lithuanias-great-synagogue-highlight s-painful-page-history

On the 'other side' of Henry VIII:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/21/history-tudor-henry-viii-f ragile-underside-tracy-borman

A Battle of Hasting reenactment:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/16/battle-of-hastings- revisited-reenact-1066

Nice followup to the sword-from-a-Swedish-lake story:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/oct/19/experience-pulled-a -1500-year-old-sword-lake-saga-vanecek

How Bermudo III died:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/10/09/actualidad/1539086668_335320.html

More on studying parasites in medieval latrines:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181015113530.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uoo-pfm101518.php

More on that chariot burial in Yorkshire:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4363618/Iron-Age-chariot -two-horse-Yorkshire.html

Latest in the Stonehenge tunnel saga:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-45918392
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A Song Dynasty 'Grand Lady' burial from Tieguai Village:

https://www.livescience.com/63826-grand-lady-skeleton-china.html https://www.livescience.com/63825-photos-grand-lady-tomb.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/7036-181015-china-grand-lady

Latest from the Keezhadi dig in Tamil Nadu:

https://www.thebetterindia.com/161849/keezhadi-excavation-tamil-nadu-anc ient-history/

A 19th century bakery type site in Russell:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=15034 50&objectid=12141601

Linking Angkor's demise to 'external climate stress':

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-huge-complex-infrastructure-triggered-anci ent.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uos-csw101718.php

Plans for a survey of Daisen Kofun:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/history/first-join t-survey-planned-daisen-kofun-japans-largest-ancient-tomb/ Humans are
off the hook (this week) for the extinction of the Australian marsupial
lion:

https://phys.org/science-news/archaeology-fossils/

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ddab09cab5362c9613318bd92&id=b 917a20ae5
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Hurricane Michael revealed some 19th century shipwrecks in Florida:

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/20/ hurricane-michael-unearthed-ship-wrecks-dog-island-florida/1712168002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/20/hurricane-mich ael-unearthed-ship-wrecks-dog-island-florida/1712168002/

Feature on runaway slaves and the Great Dismal Swamp:

https://www.thechronicle-online.com/news/world/paradise-of-serpents-runa way-slaves-lived-in-the-great-dismal-swamp-before-escape-to-canada/wcm/ 53c34572-1272-418c-891d-8202e64f479c

Plans to excavate the site of Our Lady of La Leche in St Augustine:

https://aleteia.org/2018/10/15/archaeologists-revive-a-florida-priests-d iscovery-buried-since-the-1950s/

Pondering a way to figure out if some 'Canadian carvings' depict
Vikings:

https://www.livescience.com/63839-viking-carvings-mystery.html

Digitally preserving petroglyphs in Michigan:

https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Michigan-tribal-partners-digita lly-preserving-13323501.php

On Pocahontas an white supremacists:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/16/how-pocahontas-myth-sl ur-props-up-white-supremacy/

What Rhonda Quinn is up to:

http://www.shu.edu/arts-sciences/news/anthropology-professor-featured-in -pbs-documentary.cfm

The Library of Congress has digitized Theodore Roosevelt's papers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/arts/theodore-roosevelt-papers-online .html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/18/glimpse-into-heartache -hijinks-life-president-theodore-roosevelt/ https://www.loc.gov/collections/theodore-roosevelt-papers/ about-this-collection/

Review of David Blight, *Frederick Douglass*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/books/review-frederick-douglass-proph et-of-freedom-david-blight.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Review of Sean Wilentz, *No Property in Man*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/books/review/sean-wilentz-no-property -in-man.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
More on Mayan finds in Guatemala:

https://tulanehullabaloo.com/44019/news/tulane-researchers-discover-larg e-mayan-cities-in-guatemala/

More on Easter Island's water supply:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/easter-islands-statue-builders-s ort-of-drank-from-the-sea/
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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 ================================================================
Feature on how coffee rust destroyed an 'empire':

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/16/649155664/coffee-rust-th reatens-latin-american-crop-150-years-ago-it-wiped-out-an-empire

On criticism of Western Civilization during the Enlightenment:

https://theconversation.com/criticism-of-western-civilisation-isnt-new-i t-was-part-of-the-enlightenment-104567

On the Titanic and the 'mummy's curse':

https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/mummy-curse-titanic-sinking-washington -post-article.html

What bored students in the 18th century did:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2018/10/14/articulo/
1539519410_620761.html

On Chinese porcelain and the Dutch:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d7863444f7a457a6333566d54/share.html

On Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181017-the-bosnians-who-speak-medieval -spanish

Not liking the phrase 'Dark Ages':

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/17/anglo-saxon-era-not-dark-age s-british-library-curator-says-exhibition/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em

Feature on Magellan's voyages:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/16/ciencia/1539676187_543043.html

Did DaVinci have eye problems?:

https://www.livescience.com/63865-leonardo-da-vinci-eye-condition.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/da-vincis-possible-vision-disord er-may-have-influenced-his-art/ https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/health/da-vinci-rare-eye-condition-study- intl/index.html https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/18/ciencia/1539846969_394583.html

How the mongoose got to Spain:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/10/20/ how-the-mongoose-got-to-spain

The British army is reviving the 'monuments men' unit:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-army-revives-monuments -men-hopes-salvaging-art-war-torn-countries-180970563/

On medieval monsters:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/library-tales-worlds-oldest-mo nsters-180970471/

On the history of Ouija boards:

https://www.bustle.com/p/the-history-of-ouija-boards-where-they-come-fro m-why-theyre-so-freaking-creepy-12279291

On the 'plowing' metaphor:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/17/ancient-metaphor-that- created-modern-sexism/?wpisrc=nl_everything&wpmm=1

Some 'lost' works of Anne Sexton have been found:

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/article219816915.html

Feature on the search for movie sets in the desert:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/harvard-egyptologist-lead s-discussion-on-search-for-california-sphinx/

Pondering the appeal of antiquities:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/10/14/the-british-museum-t he-problematic-yet-enduring-appeal-of-antiquitie/

Restoration of Rembrandt's Night Watch will be a public affair:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/16/the-night-watch-rem brandt-painting-to-be-restored-under-worlds-gaze http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45874854 https://www.dw.com/en/the-night-watch-rembrandt-masterpiece-will-be-rest ored-in-public/a-45911174

... Related:

https://aeon.co/videos/how-rembrandt-used-light-and-motion-to-make-a-mun dane-commission-a-masterpiece

On the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181016-the-flu-that-transformed-the-20 th-century
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Afro-Atlantic Histories:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/arts/design/afro-atlantic-histories-s ao-paulo-museum-of-art-tomie-ohtake-institute.html

The History of the Headscarf:

https://www.dw.com/en/unveiling-the-history-of-the-headscarf/a-45908647 https://www.dw.com/en/veiled-unveiled-the-headscarf-uncovers-head-coveri ngs/g-45896920 https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/en/press/veiled-unveiled-the-headscarf/

Animal Shaped Vessels:

https://hyperallergic.com/461824/you-gotta-fight-for-your-rhyta-to-party
/

Ancient War Machines:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/233639/article/ekathimerini/whats-on/ ancient-war-machines--athens--to-december-31

Florence and Its Painters:

https://www.dw.com/en/florence-and-its-painters-exhibition-exalts-giotto -botticelli-and-da-vinci/a-45942887

Hans Christian Andersen's Paper Art:

https://www.dw.com/en/hans-christian-andersens-lesser-known-talent-paper -cuttings/a-45924839

Memoires de glace:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/archaeology_swiss-glaciers-surrende r-secrets-of-the-past/44466602

Kuba:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/10/20/658101128/ a-great-african-kingdom-tells-its-history-in-fabulous-royal-clothes

Reclaiming the Arctic:

https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/reclaiming-the-arctic -glenbow-exhibit-explores-the-north-through-the-eyes-of-19th-century-bri tish-empire-and-the-inuit

Horace Walpole:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/found-221-years-spoils-treasure-h unt-worthy-fake-fortune/

The British Museum opened a new Islamic gallery:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/16/british-museum-albu khary-foundation-gallery-of-the-islamic-world-review https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/waldemar-januszczak-islamic-art-galle ries-at-the-british-museum-n66m9wzmn http://iqna.ir/en/news/3467023/new-islamic-gallery-launched-at-british-m useum-%C2%A0 https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/editorial/bringing-the-riches-of-isla mic-history-to-the-world-1.781258

... related:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/a-journey-through-the-islamic-world-in-ei ght-objects/

In the aftermath of the Brazil fire, they've found some of the remains
of Luzia:

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-brazil-recovers-ancient-human-fossil.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-fire-museum/skull-of-ancient-h uman-found-in-burned-brazilian-museum-idUSKCN1MT2QY?feedType=RSS&feedNam e=scienceNews
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45926733 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/19/brazil-national-museum-fir e-luzia-human-fossil-found https://www.france24.com/en/20181019-brazil-recovers-ancient-human-fossi l-fragments-burnt-rio-museum

More on the reopening of the Humboldt Forum:

http://theartnewspaper.com/interview/how-the-humboldt-forum-plans-to-con front-germany-s-colonial-past ================================================================
AT THE AUCTIONS ================================================================
Marie Antoinette jewellery is coming to auction:

https://www.dw.com/en/marie-antoinettes-jewels-go-on-display-ahead-of-lo ndon-auction/g-45962831 ================================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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On 'deep learning' techniques in archaeology:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-deep-learning-helps-archaeologi sts-rediscover-the-past/

Latest batch of digitized medieval manuscripts:

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/10/800-illuminated-medieval-manuscripts -digitized/

Recreating what Elizabeth I actually looked like:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-did-elizabeth-i-actually- look-artist-has-suggestion-180970553/

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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Climate change-related sea level rise threatens a number of World
Heritage sites:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/climate/climate-change-historic-sites
.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/10/16/pompeii-among-37-world-he ritage-sites-risk-flooding-erosion/# https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/study-rising-seas-could-devastate -historical-sites-across-mediterranean/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rising-seas-pose-imminent-thre at-dozens-historical-sites-across-mediterranean-180970567/ http://english.donga.com/List/3/03/26/1504765/1 https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/16/ciencia/1539700680_142377.html ================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Recent research into the Andean genome shows adaptations to farming and altitude:

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-ancient-andean-genomes-distinct-farming.ht
ml
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181017211657.htm

Linking genetics and Ural languages:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/arsc-sfc101518.php

On DNA and dog domestication:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=27924 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45875974 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6285735/DNA-evidence-rev eals-early-farmers-really-connected-dogs.html

Linking DNA and the spread of TB by Europeans:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/10/19/658797864/ the-tb-that-afflicts-much-of-the-world-was-likely-spread-by-europeans

A major study of African DNA:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/asoh-nls101218.php

On the science behind genetic testing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/opinion/sunday/dna-elizabeth-warren.h tml?nytapp=true&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================

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