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Friday, September 20, 2019
Sydney expertise helps reveal Earth's early transformation
https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/08/30/sydney-expertise-helps-reveal-earths-early-transformation.html
No NZ based researchers - see http://globe.umbc.edu/archaeoglobe/archaeoglobe-authors/
But Mark D. McCoy, at one time University of Otago based, contributed.
Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene
https://theconversation.com/surveying-archaeologists-across-the-globe-reveals-deeper-and-more-widespread-roots-of-the-human-age-the-anthropocene-122008
Introducing the Marsden Fund 25 Series
This year, the Marsden Fund celebrates 25 years of excellent research through regional lectures, online profiles and video interviews. Of the different disciplines being showcased, are speakers on paleopathology, bioarchaeology and ancient DNA.
Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden was established by the New Zealand government in 1994. Since then, it has driven world-class research in New Zealand by supporting and incentivising excellent researchers to work on their best and boldest ideas, to connect internationally, leading to new knowledge and skills with the potential for significant downstream impact for Aotearoa.
To celebrate, the Marsden Fund 25 Series shines a light on 25 researchers to reflect on the depth and breadth of research excellence making a difference across the disciplines supported by this funding. Over coming months, there will be 15 regional public lectures and 10 online profiles to explore.
The lectures are free to the public with preregistration.
https://royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/marsden/celebrating-marsden-research/marsden25/marsden-fund-25/
Associate Professor Siân Halcrow, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
Auckland, Wednesday 2 October 2019
Sensitive little souls: Using children to assess the agricultural transition and its effect on human society.
Palaeopathology that explores how human life changed with the beginnings of agriculture.
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/archaeology-of-agriculture-using-children-to-assess-the-past-auckland-tickets-70450161329?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith FRSNZ, Head of Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
Blenheim, Thursday 10 October 2019
Using DNA to map human migration and the origins of the first New Zealanders. Lisa has led a genomic study of the people of Wairau Bar, the genetic ancestry of New Zealanders and researched evidence of Polynesian contact in South America.
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/25-years-of-using-dna-to-trace-pacific-origins-and-migrations-blenheim-tickets-72337355979
Old rubbish pit found beneath Blenheim bridge
Stuff.co.nz
Blenheim on the road to another new bridge thanks to council's $3m contribution ... The Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 classed ...
Structural remains halt earthworks
Otago Daily Times
Yesterday, Heritage New Zealand Otago-Southland area manager Denise Anderson confirmed "a pre-1900 European/Pakeha domestic occupation ...
Airborne LiDAR Reveals a Vast Archaeological Landscape at the Nan Madol World Heritage Site
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/18/2152?fbclid=IwAR13FYElpSI5blH81cqrJc3Gi8Gg4dbO9W316J-rw0uNk5WyEV5w88x-siE
New site reveals 50,000 years of Aboriginal occupation in Kimberley
http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/2019082111558/regional/new-site-reveals-50000-years-aboriginal-occupation-kimberley
Human remains unearthed in Kāwhia sand dunes
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115819773/human-remains-unearthed-in-kwhia-sand-dunes
Battery clean-up first stage
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/battery-clean-first-stage
New Zealand history can be contentious, and some ideas are just plain wrong
Stuff.co.nz
Then there's archaeology. According to the New Zealand Archaeological Association, the country has a rich heritage of archaeological sites which ...
Found: A Windfall of Neanderthal Footprints in France
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/neanderthal-footprint-trove-normandy
Bolivia is losing invaluable ancient rock art to wildfires
https://matadornetwork.com/read/bolivia-ancient-rock-art/
Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins
https://www.quantamagazine.org/fossil-dna-reveals-new-twists-in-modern-human-origins-20190829/
Ancient stone tools hint at settlers' epic trek to North America
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02589-2?sf218350727=1
Archaeologies of Island Melanesia »
Current approaches to landscapes, exchange and practice
Edited by: Mathieu Leclerc, James Flexner
Publication date: August 2019
Free download.
https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/terra-australis
From Explorator:
A Denisovan phalanx is getting plenty of news attention:
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-fossil-denisovan-fingers-modern-human.html
A follow-up to that anamensis skull find:
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-skull-humanity-oldest-ancestor-evolution.html
The spread of millet agriculture outside of China is being linked to
herding livestock:
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-earliest-millet-agriculture-china-linked.html
Evidence of recycling of flint blades by Acheulian culture folks in the Levant:
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-early-humans-tiny-flint-surgical.html https://phys.org/news/2019-09-early-humans-tiny-flint-surgical.html
Parthenon Marbles news, this week there was much outrage over the 'damp' and mold in the British Museum's gallery housing them:
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/09/11/greek-culture-minister-mendoni-slams-british-museum-over-parthenon-gallerys-condition/
Evidence that humans in Britain were consuming milk products some 6000 years bp:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49650806
Drought has revealed the 'Spanish Stonehenge':
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drought-reveals-dolmen-guadalperal-popularly-dubbed-spanish-stonehenge-180973070/
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