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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Early humans ventured further west than previously known:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-early-humans-westward-ho-dental.htmlcf
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0084652
General sort of feature on Neanderthals:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/04/everything-you-know-about-the-neanderthal-is-wrong/
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AFRICA
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Another case of vandals damaging petroglyphs … this time in Libya:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-rt-us-libya-antiquities-20140603,0,74901.story
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/03/us-libya-antiquities-idUKKBN0EE12P20140603Concerns for the site of El Adjiba (Algeria):
http://www.elwatan.com/regions/kabylie/bouira/commune-d-el-adjiba-le-site-archeologique-tachachit-a-l-abandon-02-06-2014-259544_145.php (French)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Nine Late Period mummies from Aswan:
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/06/04/9-pharaonic-mummies-discovered-southern-egypt/
http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2565550_spanish-archaeologists-find-9-mummies-in-egypt.html
http://www.hngn.com/articles/32905/20140603/spanish-archaeologists-find-nine-mummies-egypts-tomb-photos.htm
http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.co.at/2014/06/intact-burial-chamber-discovered-in.html (photos)
http://tuotrodiario.hola.com/noticia/20140601106405/expertos-espanoles-hallan-9-momias-en-la-tumba-de-un-gobernador-del-imperio-medio-egipcio/ (Spanish)
http://www.abc.es/cultura/20140601/abci-momias-egipto-espanoles-201406011851.html (Spanish)
A trio of Third Intermediate Period burials from Saqqara:
http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/News/6073.aspx (French)
http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/News/6074.aspx (French)
Plans to restore objects from Tut’s war chariots:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/objects-from-tutankhamuns-war-chariots-to-be-restored
Some restored tombs are reopening:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/6262/47/Restored-tombs-reopen.aspx A pile of illegal excavations were discovered in Akhmim:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/103108/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Illegal-excavations-foiled-in-Sohags-Akhmim.aspx
Feature on Egyptian textiles:
http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/06/02/a-new-look-at-ancient-egyptian-textiles/
Overviewish on Egypt’s efforts to protect its cultural heritage:
http://www.dw.de/egypt-ups-efforts-to-protect-cultural-heritage/a-17691553
… and a feature on currently-debated US legislation restricting imports of Egyptian antiquities:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140603-egypt-looting-hearing-law-state-coins/
More on that Ptolemy II temple find:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/6316/47/Ptolemy-in-Beni-Sweif.aspxA 5000 years b.p. water system from Western Iran:
http://www.payvand.com/news/14/jun/1024.html (photos)
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1043580
Evidence of an ancient tsunami hitting Gokceada some 4000+ years ago:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-tsunami-discovered-in-gokceada-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=67286&NewsCatID=375
Remains of a Second Temple village in Hebron:
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/new-discoveries-in-ancient-jewish-settlement-uncovered-in-hebron/2014/06/06/
A group is suggesting it may have found the location of “New Testament Bethsaidaâ€:
http://pressreleases.religionnews.com/2014/06/05/site-survey-israel-may-indicate-location-new-testament-bethsaida/
A 600 years b.p. “hall†beneath the Western Wall:
http://www.jta.org/2014/06/02/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/600-year-old-grand-hall-excavated-under-western-wall
http://www.jpost.com/Article.aspx?id=355027Overviewish on the Temple Mount saga over the past while:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/temple-mount-project-yields-treasure-but-unearths-conflict/
… and the latest salvo:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181388#.U5RRtnYVeSo They’ve spent a large amount of money on excavations in Turkey this year:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/forty-million-liras-spent-for-archaeological-excavations-by-turkish-culture-ministry-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=67345&NewsCatID=375
Latest in the Hagia-Sophia-as-mosque thing:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0EA1QE20140530?irpc=932Feature on the Lod Mosaics:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/30/lod-mosaic-carnival-animals-william-lightfoot
They’re still arguing about what language(s) Jesus spoke:
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.596687================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Bronze Age structures and tombs from Alambra:
http://famagusta-gazette.com/archaeological-dig-reveals-remains-of-buildings-and-tombs-in-alambra-p23840-69.htm
Studying some ‘love’ petroglyphs in Astypalea:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/06/04/ancient-love-inscriptions-in-astypalea/
Somewhat vague item(s) on Roman structures being found at Pozzuoli:
http://www.ilgazzettinovesuviano.com/2014/06/02/riemergono-strutture-romane-pozzuoli-boccata-cultura-per-citta/ (Italian)
http://www.ilmattino.it/NAPOLI/CRONACA/pozzuoli-mura-romane/notizie/721186.shtml (Italian)
This probably should be in the techy section, but they’re using some interesting gear to poke around the Antikythera shipwreck:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-exosuit-explore-ancient-antikythera.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229724.300-wearable-submarine-to-hunt-for-2000yearold-computer.html?full=true#.U5RU3HYVeSo
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/06/06/archaeology-to-enlist-robot-suit-to-scour-seabed-near-roman-era-antikythera-shipwreck/
http://gizmodo.com/iron-man-exosuit-will-look-for-2000-year-old-computer-u-1586130596cf
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/the-exosuit
The Lyceum site has opened:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_04/06/2014_540324http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2014/06/06/archaeology-greece-aristotles-lyceum-site-opens-in-athens_bac9c809-8204-49ee-9c1c-4eecdb95df21.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/06/03/aristotles-lyceum-scheduled-to-open-late-summer/http://www.leparisien.fr/flash-actualite-culture/le-lycee-d-aristote-nouveau-site-archeologique-au-coeur-d-athenes-04-06-2014-3897153.php (French)
The Tomb of the Painted Lions at Cerveteri is opening to the public too:
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2014/06/04/cerveteris-etruscan-city-of-dead-set-to-wow-visitors_86e02af2-9094-4852-a73c-34753cbe36cd.html
Another zombie-filled City DIonysia:
http://www.thhsclassic.com/2014/05/28/greek-class-competes-at-city-dionysia-with-zombie-themed-performance/
The French School at Athens has been declared a monument:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/06/03/french-school-of-athens-building-declared-a-monument/
Google Street View is rolling out in Greece:
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2014/06/05/greece-google-launches-street-view-map-service-after-spat_a1609b7b-0da6-478d-806a-79e8b5ccfdcf.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GREECE_GOOGLE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-06-05-06-21-20
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_05/06/2014_540340http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/06/05/google-street-view-now-available-in-greece/
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Google+launches+Street+View+Greece+after+privacy+spat+government/9909939/story.html
More on that Gallo-Roman sanctuary in France:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/a-large-roman-sanctuary-found-in-northern-france
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A petition to save a Glasgow stone circle site:
http://www.change.org/petitions/glasgow-city-council-should-scrap-their-plans-to-demolish-sighthill-park-and-its-stone-circle
Road construction has damaged a Mesolithic site near Belfast:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27686165http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/ballymaglaff-stone-age-site-lost-because-of-planning-error-30322927.html
Brief item on a “caveman campsite†find in London:
http://www.livescience.com/45933-stone-age-tools-campfires-london-construction-site.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2646199/Stone-Age-camp-unearthed-London-Evidence-fires-animal-bones-rare-flint-tool-dating-700-000-years-found.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
3000 years b.p. remains of an infant from Meath:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cwqlausnsnid/rss2/ http://www.meathchronicle.ie/news/roundup/articles/2014/06/04/4030710-athboy-discovery-could-be-3000-year-old-baby/
A warrior burial from North Berstead:
http://www.tvas.co.uk/news/bersted-2.html Finds from various periods in Aberdeenshire:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art484096-Archaeologists-find-Bronze-Age-settlement-beneath-Aberdeen-park-and-ride-site
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/4000-years-of-activity-uncovered-in-aberdeenshire
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/CouncilNews/ci_cns/pr_archaeological_030614.asp http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/local/4-000-year-old-pottery-found-at-planned-aberdeen-car-park-1.404612
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/remains-of-an-iron-age-settlement-discovered-1-3432208Finds from various periods in Lincoln:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-27695402 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-27720496
http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Virgin-Mary-Christ-stone-sculpture-discovered/story-21180859-detail/story.html
Very interesting Viking amulet from Revninge (Denmark):
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/viking-age-revninge-woman-an-exceptional-find
Feature on assorted prehistoric monuments and astronomical alignments in Scotland:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/skyscapes-and-landscapes-in-prehistoric-scotland
On Medieval plumbing in Exeter:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140604093537.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/subterranean-world-of-the-medieval-plumber
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http://www.exeterpress.co.uk/en/Book/548/Water_in_the_City.htmlInteresting finds in the tomb of Henry VII in Pisa:
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/unique-silk-cloth-found-in-emperor-henry-viis-coffin-140530.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/artifacts-revealed-in-tomb-of-king-henry-vii-photos-140530.htm (photos)
http://www.sotterraneidiroma.it/notizie-sdr/item/a-medieval-treasure-in-the-tomb-of-enrico-vii?category_id=20
http://www.unipi.it/index.php/english-news/item/4200-a-medieval-treasure-in-the-tomb-of-enrico-viiSites in Finland are being looted:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140603/archaeological-sites-targeted-finlandConcerns for sites in France too:
http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2014/06/03/archeologie-la-france-zone-de-pillage_4430964_1650684.html
Interesting ‘find’ from Victorian theatre ages ago (it seems):
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27730336On the ‘secret codes’ in Anglo Saxon art:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/06/04/anglo_saxon_metalwork_codes_british_museum_curator_explores_the_symbols.html
They’ve recreated some of the builders’ huts at Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-27656212http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jun/02/neolithic-houses-recreated-at-stonehenge
http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Stonehenge+and+a+Neolithic+World+of+Interiors+02062014140500
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/news/stonehenge-neolithic-world-interiors/Feature on Napoleon on Elba:
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2014/05/napoleon-on-elba.htmlLincoln’s Newport Arch has reopened:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-27669426
Cash for a Hay Castle renovation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-27641257More on that 10th century Viking king burial:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2014/skeleton-may-be-10th-century-viking-king-olaf-guthfrithsson
http://www.culture24.org.uk//history-and-heritage/archaeology/art483590-Have-archaeologists-found-the-remains-of-Viking-King-Olaf-Guthfrithsson-in-Scotland
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/east-lothian-skeleton-may-be-irish-viking-kinghttp://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/skeleton-found-scotland-could-10th-3639409
More on Richard III’s scoliosis:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/30/317363287/richard-iii-not-the-hunchback-we-thought-he-was?sc=17&f=1032&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On development patterns in Paleolithic China:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/chinese-palaeolithic-finds-show-distinctive-development-patterns
2500 years b.p. burials from Auroville:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/puducherry/2500-year-old-burial-sites-found-in-Auroville/articleshow/35971454.cms
Finds dating back to the oddly-specific date of 190 B.C. from Pakistan:
http://tribune.com.pk/story/716197/echoes-of-the-past-relics-dating-back-to-190-bc-unearthed-in-archaeological-dig/
Buddhist artifacts from Kilinochchi (Sri Lanka):
http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/48016-archaeologists-unearth-buddhist-artefacts-in-kilinochchi.html
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_14A/Jun05_1401950699CH.phpRemains of a 1000 years b.p. Arab dhow from Thailand:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/interview/413237/up-from-the-deep
Evidence of a change in iconography in Australian petroglyphs pre- and post- European contact:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-distinct-artwork-contact-period-regions.html
http://www.sciencewa.net.au/topics/environment-a-conservation/item/2848-kimberley-rocks-tell-first-mass-extinction-of-complex-life
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http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/087/ant0870539.htm (abstract)
Feature/review on the culture of the Andaman Islands:
http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/exploring-the-andaman-culture/article6081928.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
More wreck looters were caught in Indonesia:
http://www.scubaverse.com/2014/05/28/indonesian-navy-arrest-10-divers-looting-shipwrecks/
Looking at work colonies in western Australia:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-uncover-reformative-colonies.htmlMuch more coverage of those “oldest pantsâ€:
http://phys.org/news321012322.htmlhttp://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/3200-year-old-trousers-found-in-silk-road-graves
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-pants-worn-horse-riders-3000-years-agohttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25659-3000yearold-trousers-were-cut-like-justin-biebers.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2646359/Are-worlds-oldest-trousers-3-000-year-old-clothing-discovered-ancient-Chinese-tomb.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2014/06/04/3000-year-old-pants-found-in-China/3571401889522/cf
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618214002808 (abstract)
Ditto on those frescoes/graffiti from Angkor Wat:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140604105431.htmhttp://phys.org/news/2014-06-lost-art-angkor-wat.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/anu-ftl060314.php http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-wall-paintings-angkor-wat-01971.html
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http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/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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They’re digging at ‘America’s most sacred acre’ in St Augustine:
http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014140609779
Digging a midden on Big Talbot Island:
http://members.jacksonville.com/community/shorelines/2014-06-06/story/digging-past-unf-archaeology-field-school-excavates-native
Studying the Belle Glade culture:
http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_16418.shtmlhttp://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-boynton-beach-indian-mounds-20140518,0,3379136.story
A strange foundation find from Montpelier:
http://www.c-ville.com/the-full-montpelier-madisons-mansion-gets-its-day-in-the-sun/#.U49OW_ldVbo
Arizona fires have revealed remains of an early settler’s cabin:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fire-ruins-20140530-story.html
A newly-discovered slave portrait is headed to Jamestown:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=70606Ohio grain millers preferred stones from France:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140604141354.htmhttp://phys.org/news/2014-06-scientist-fossils-historic-ohio-millstones.html
Canada has announced plans for excavations in the Gwaii Haanas region:
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/minister-aglukkaq-announces-search-archaeological-143000791.html
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1368755/minister-aglukkaq-announces-search-for-archaeological-sites-and-shipwrecks-at-gwaii-haanas
Library of Congress types are looking for some lost Jefferson books:
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/29/316891473/library-of-congress-searches-for-missing-jefferson-books?sc=17&f=1032&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app
Tracking the demise of bison in North America:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/05/19/map_bison_distribution_in_north_america.html
First African American student at Yale:
https://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3876Feature on how Cleopatra’s Needle got to New York:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/realestate/the-new-york-history-of-an-egyptian-obelisk.html?ref=design
Concerns for the Lick Observatory:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/space/a-star-gazing-palaces-hazy-future.html?ref=science&_r=0
The effects of the Civil War events at Cold Harbor:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/the-political-war/================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A new Inca road to Machu Picchu has been discovered:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-new-inca-road-to-machu-picchu-discovered-103165
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-new-section-of-inca-road-discovered-at-machu-picchu-photos-103166 (photos)
http://www.rpp.com.pe/2014-06-04-cusco-hallan-nuevo-tramo-de-camino-inca-en-machu-picchu-noticia_697464.html (Spanish)
http://diariocorreo.pe/ultimas/noticias/9738529/edicion+cusco/nuevo-camino-inca-a-machupicchu-fue-descubie (Spanish, photos)
Casting doubt on that Santa Maria find:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10883372/Historian-casts-doubt-on-Christopher-Columbus-account-of-Santa-Maria-shipwreck.html
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http://goo.gl/1VdeAAncient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Humans are back to being blamed for megafaunal extinctions:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-ice-age-extinctions-large-mammals-linked.html http://www.livescience.com/46081-humans-megafauna-extinction.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/06/humans-blamed-loss-mammoths-and-other-giants… while feral cats are being blaimed for other extinctions in Australia:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-feral-cats-extinction-unique-aussie.html http://esciencenews.com/articles/2014/06/04/climate.not.blame.disappearance.large.mammals
http://news.yahoo.com/humans-blamed-extinction-mammoths-mastodons-giant-sloths-230217240.htmlHarvard has confirmed that a book in its collection is bound with human skin:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-harvard-antique-bound-human-skin.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27721571
The things that turn up when you clean a painting:
http://news.yahoo.com/hidden-beached-whale-revealed-17th-century-dutch-painting-120128166.html
Some major miscalculations:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27509559Out of our period of purview, but here is some of the interesting D-Day coverage (all different):
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27682001http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/d-day-landings-scenes-in-1944-and-now-interactive
We usually get shipwreck champagne or other alcohol … now we get shipwreck perfume:
http://www.bermudasun.bm/Content/NEWS/Human-Interest/Article/Your-chance-to-smell-150-year-old-perfume/24/896/78031
Similiter, but if you’re wondering what happened to what was found in that Atari dig:
http://www.cnet.com/news/everything-found-in-the-atari-desert-dig-and-where-its-headed/
Latest on the search for Amelia Earhart:
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/amelia-earhart-search-ventures-to-deep-sea-140604.htm
Someone has recreated van Gogh’s lost ear:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-replica-van-gogh-ear-germany.htmlhttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/a-rather-unusual-van-gogh-work-at-a-german-museum/?ref=design
On mumbo jumbo:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/05/31/317442320/unmasking-the-meaning-and-marital-disputes-behind-mumbo-jumbo
Yale has an endowed professor of poetry:
http://news.yale.edu/2014/05/29/alumnus-frederick-iseman-endows-first-professorship-poetry-yale
A proto Helen Keller:
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/31/317642173/laura-bridgeman-a-pioneer-50-years-before-helen-keller?sc=17&f=1032&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app
Tongue-in-cheek (?) complaining about assorted great books:
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/06/03/trigger-warnings-homer-machiavelli-and-bible-essay
… possibly occasioned by Gove’s pronouncements in the UK:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/books/goodbye-steinbeck-all-hail-shelley.html
Pondering the decline/demise of handwriting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html?ref=arts
On the search for the source of the Nile:
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/01/317843735/explorers-search-for-the-source-of-the-worlds-longest-river?sc=17&f=1032&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app
Review of a book about Oscar Wilde’s journalism:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1418369.ece Review of Adam Phillips, *Becoming Freud*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/books/becoming-freud-recounts-the-psychoanalysts-first-50-years.html
More on Tolkien’s Beowulf translation:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/05/j_r_r_tolkien_s_beowulf_translation_reviewed.html
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Nice feature on LiDAR use at Cahokia:
http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10672/198/
Not sure where to put this one, but it’s on the various ways Egypt is using technology to locate looters:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/egypt-museum-theft-satellite-technology
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/satellite-images-used-track-looting-egypt-180951651/?no-ist
Looks like they’re going to be using LiDAR (?) to locate English CiVil war trenches near Newark;
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art483624-Archaeology-laser-project-in-Newark-aims-to-uncover-more-about-the-Stalingrad-of-the-English-Civil-War
A non-destructive method to determine how degraded an art piece is:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-da-vinci-nondestructive-gauge-degradation.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140603114103.htmhttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/aiop-vdv052914.php
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/decay-leonardo-da-vinci-drawing-reflected-light================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT
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They’ve figured out the mitochondrial DNA of Europe’s first farmers:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140606091425.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/uadb-mdo060614.php http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/menu_eines/noticies/2014/06/007.html
Blonde genetics:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140601150637.htmhttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/blondes-fun/story?id=24042089
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-genetic-quirk-makes-hair-naturally-blondhttp://www.newswise.com/articles/single-letter-change-in-dna-leads-to-blond-hair
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2014/june/blond.htmlhttp://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2991.html (abstract)
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Jamestown is threatened by climate change:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-interior-chief-jamestown-seas.html http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-jamestown-interior-climate-20140605,0,2157106.story
On tree rings and climate:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tree-rings-give-scientists-information-about-weather-conditions-hundreds-of-years-ago/2014/06/02/b10eeff0-d13f-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Russian agents have been charged with theft of a Bible:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27738164
Latest Culture Crime News from Anonymous Swiss Collector:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2014/06/culture-crime-news-26-may-1-june-2014.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
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Egypt has found five more items of interest in various European venues:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Egypt-tracks-down-suspected-looted-works-to-Europe/32917http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.nl/2014/05/tracked-ancient-egyptian-antiquities.html
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/102112.aspx http://thecairopost.com/news/111862/news/5-looted-antiquities-located-in-hungarian-museum-and-french-auction-house
https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/five-stolen-egyptian-artefacts-located-europe-044022641.html… this is one of them I think:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201406051173.htmlA German couple is returning an artefact to Egypt:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/102897/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/German-couple-will-return-Egyptian-artefact-after-.aspx
Sweden is returning some Andean textiles to Peru:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/sweden-returns-ancient-andean-textiles-to-peru/?ref=design
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-sweden-to-return-ancient-andean-textiles-to-peru-soon-509044.aspx
The German State Museum in Baden is returning a couple of Cycladic pieces to Greece:
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2014/06/06/german-museum-returns-two-greek-antiquities/
http://en.enikos.gr/society/7546,German_museum_returns_ancient_Greek_anti.html The US has returned some Khmer statuary to Cambodia:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=70552http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/fcbfd19d47d84af1ba8911c937f1727b/AS--Cambodia-Ancient-Statues
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NUMISMATICA
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A confusing gold coin hoard find from India (I think):
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/14-gold-coins-recovered-from-a-digging-site-at-basodi-village-in-baran/477234-3-239.html
A court has ruled a neo-Nazi group will not get an ancient coin collection:
http://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/ancient-coin-collection-not-being-given-to-neo-nazi-group-1.1858195
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v17n23.html… and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v17n24.html
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Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Miracles in Miniature:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/arts/design/religious-miniature-and-nature-drawings-at-the-morgan.html?ref=arts
Matisse:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/arts/international/two-exhibits-celebrate-matisse-in-all-his-forms.html?ref=arts
Massachusetts Women in WWI:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/arts/design/over-there-daughters-of-liberty.html?ref=design
Connecticut Impressionism:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/nyregion/a-review-of-pasture-to-pond-connecticut-impressionism-at-the-bruce-museum-in-greenwich.html
Forbidden City:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=70618The Greeks:
http://chicagoist.com/2014/06/07/get_us_to_the_greek_field_museum_an.php
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2014/06/03/greek-artifacts-exhibited-in-chicago-museums/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/chi-greeks-agamemnon-chicago,0,7743005.column
Study in Stone:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/ancient-times-come-to-life-in-uq-exhibit-study-in-stone-20140607-39pte.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Macbeth:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27729572
Richard III:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-27660856 Dissonance:
http://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/100000002837298/dissonance-in-classical-music.html?ref=music
http://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/100000002837182/dissonance-schoenberg.html?ref=musicThe Raven:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/arts/music/ny-phil-biennial-opens-with-the-raven.html?ref=music
Early Shaker Spirituals:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/theater/early-shaker-spirituals-plain-spoken-tribute.html?ref=theater
Review of *Shakespeare
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