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10 Jan 2020
Mangahawea Dig Blog
https://www.heritage.org.nz/news-and-events/blog
Wahine toa revealed as articulate
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/wahine-toa-revealed-articulate
170,000-Year-Old Cooked Starch Found in South Africa
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8334-200103-roasted-starchy-plants
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/200-more-terracotta-warriors-excavated-china-180973900/
Discovery of unusual cemetery in Somerton offers clues as to standing of those buried there
The resting places of more than 50 adults and children have been found in an unusual Roman cemetery unearthed during building work for a new school in Somerset.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/07/archaeologists-discover-graves-high-status-romans-somerton-somerset
"Deep inside the Bruniquel Cave, in southwestern France, there are a number of mysterious assemblages. Built out of broken and stacked stalactites, they form two circles, and half a dozen 'raised structures'…"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n01/francis-gooding/hell-pigs
It is actually a review of Europe: The First One Hundred Million Years by Tim Flannery.
And, wonderfully, LRB access is free this week.
DJ Shadow's Sonic Archaeology | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/dj-shadows-sonic-archeology?verso=true Sleuthing through the New York Public Library's music and recorded-sound archives, the sampling whiz found the "Sophisticated Soul Man," Donny Osmond in German, and a band-camp record. ... And if Omar Sharif's work can fade into obscurity what hope remains for everyone else?
Traces of Australia on New Zealand Glaciers
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146100/traces-of-australia-on-new-zealand-glaciers/?src=eoa-iotd
Marree Man (Future archaeology)
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146061/marree-man/?src=eoa-iotd
Walrus shortage may have caused collapse of Norse Greenland
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/walrus-shortage-may-have-caused-collapse-of-norse-greenland?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Archaeological investigations of Pā sites on Waikato wetlands are about to start, using Maori traditional knowledge of the area and the latest Western technology to establish when and how the settlements were built.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-weekend/audio/2018729054/waikato-pa
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/200-more-terracotta-warriors-excavated-china-180973900/
Caring for the Country (Aus) - (Ed: but maybe eastern NZ with another 20 years of global warming)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ozarch/qdKXAILahJA
Auckland's prized Hauraki Gulf islands are under siege from the sea setting archaeologists in a race against time to save important historic sites.
https://static1.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-weekend/audio/2018728611/rebecca-ramsey-coastal-erosion-in-the-hauraki-gulf
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