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Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 4/18/14
If you missed anything from the ASOR facebook or twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section!
- In New Orleans this January, there will be a joint NEAIG/ASOR session: “Politics and Archaeology in the Middle East: New Paradigms of Cooperation.”
- New research supports theory of interbreeding between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans.
- Analysis shows Chilean mummies had ingested high concentrations of arsenic.
- Researchers have deciphered a Greek document that shows an ancient wrestling match was fixed.
- Size matters: ‘Crucial’ ancient Roman city Ostia was 40% bigger than previously thought, after British team uncovers new ruins
- Archaeologists’ findings may prove Rome a century older than thought
- Pre-Columbian Archeological Boom Underway in Costa Rica
- New tests confirm Lake Minnetonka canoe is 1,000 years old
- NEAIG/ASOR session: “Politics and Archaeology in the Middle East: New Paradigms of Cooperation.”
- 5,000 flint artifacts said to be earliest evidence of humans in Scotland.
- Ancient Roman theatre that served as many as 15,000 ancient theatre-goers discovered in Florence.
- $2,500 Travel Prizes for Papers to Be Presented at ASOR/SBL this November.
- Italian Police seize antiquities hoard from Private Museum- but to what end?
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