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Feature on the Penn Museum’s artifact lab:

https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/features/penn-museum-s-artifact-lab-gives-close-up-view-
of-ancient-objects

Paris Museums have reopened after the flood:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3625899/Paris-museum-reopens-French-flood
s-slowly-ease.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/travel/floods-close-several-tourist-attractions-in-pari
s.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel


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THE TECHY SIDE
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On the tech being used to ‘undo’ ISIL’s damage:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/ancient/digital-preservation-syria/

Latest mummy scans:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3629432/Peering-beneath-bandages-3D-sc
ans-four-mummies-reveal-new-insights-lives-deaths.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&
ns_campaign=1490


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA suggests that Aboriginal peoples were the first to inhabit Australia:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-conflicting-theories-mungo-debunked-aboriginal.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606154905.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/gu-rpa060516.php http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/stone-age-aegean-sea-migrants-brought-ag
riculture-europe-39648787


… and it also suggests farming spread across Europe via people from the Aegean:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-farming-europe-people-modern-day-greece.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606154907.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3627746/The-origins-European-farming-rev
ealed-Genetic-data-shows-people-Greece-Turkey-spread-agriculture-continent.html


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
On the role of climate change in human evolution:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-ancient-climate-change-ignite-human-evolut
ion/

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Cornwall Tunnels:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/adventure/the-strange-tunnels-to-nowhere-tha
t-hold-a-3000yearold-secret/news-story/2079b477fe7afa9344eddd03955e5631

Underground London:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/the-other-london-underground-see-the-a
ncient-city-that-lies-beneath-the-modern-metropolis/2016/06/09/96712be2-115a-11e6-896
7-7ac733c56f12_story.html

Sicily:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/travel/sicily-family-holidays.html

Tintagel:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160602-the-wild-island-shaped-by-legend


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CRIME BEAT
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Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/06/culture-crime-news-30-may-5-june-20
16.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 ================================================================
Features on India’s repatriation efforts:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/business/how-indian-sleuths-tracked-2000-year-old-artifa
cts-in-us/story-fqqvVkHk8vcPYDFZxTBP6I.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-Modis-quest-to-bring-back-cultural-artefacts-
started-in-2003/articleshow/52652090.cms

… and the US is returning a pile of stuff to India as a result:

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/07/469424/US-artifacts-India-Loretta-Lynch-Narendra
-Modi
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/arts/2016/06/08/468622/United-States.htm http://abcnews.go.com/US/us-returns-200-stolen-artifacts-india-federal-investigation/
story?id=39648637

… and a UK museum might be returning something too:

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jun0916/state052

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NUMISMATICA
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Digital Iconographic Atlas of Numismatics in Antquity:

http://ww2.unime.it/diana/?q=node/14

Lenborough Anglo Saxon hoard is pretty pricey:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36475046

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n23.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n24.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://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2434-audio-news-fro
m-archaeologica-29-may-2016-4-jun-2016

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OBITUARIES
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Aileen Ward:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/books/aileen-ward-scholar-and-biographer-dies-at-97
.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

Hugh Honour:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/books/hugh-honour-art-historian-and-author-dies-at-8
8.html

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CONFERENCES
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Marbeh Hokhmah:

http://mass.bgu.ac.il/npdf.php?fn=0-0fc2b8974161634872740.pdf

Conference on Cultural Heritage Media (CFP):

http://archaeologychannel.org/events-guide/tac-conference-on-cultural-heritage-media

6th Rye Medieval Academic Conference (October 22):

https://sussexpast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rye-conf-poster.pdf ================================================================
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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