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Archaeo-Chat: Rebecca Wragg Sykes - Kindred: Neanderthals Life, Love Death and Art

Welcome to Archaeo-Chat. In this series we record unscripted conversations about archaeology, what it is like to be an archaeologist and related topics.

Today, I chat with Rebecca Wragg Sykes about her new book and our oft' misunderstood cousins, Neanderthals...

Links:

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kindred...

Rebecca on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/LeMoustier

Website:

https://www.rebeccawraggsykes.com/

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

#archaeologynews #thepipeline #archaeosoup

Link of the Month:

01:09:04 - Impressive Water Purification System Found at Ancient Maya City:

https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2020/10/23/impressive_water_purification_system_found_at_ancient_maya_city.html

Giant Cat Drawing Discovered on Hillside in Peru:

https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/17/giant-cat-drawing-discovered-on-a-hillside-in-peru

Origins and Genetic Legacy of Prehistoric Dogs:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/557

Do all Dogs go to Heaven? Tracking Human-Animal relationships Through Archaeological Survey of Pet Cemeteries:

https://tinyurl.com/y2tvunf6

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01:27:28 – Muppet of the Month:

Reactions as Magna Carta Used to Try and Get Around Covid Restrictions:

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/video-reactions-as-magna-carta-used-to-try-and-get-around-covid-restrictions/02/11/

Horrible Histories Song – Magna Carta 800 Years:

https://youtu.be/XTWQzF1027I

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01:38:26 – Media Picks

Barbarians - Netflix:

https://youtu.be/-cA7kwBSUaU

Reclaiming, on Netflix, an Ancient Battle Beloved of Germany’s Far Right:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/television/barbarians-netflix.html

War Walks BBC2:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snyg6/broadcasts/upcoming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Walks

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

#archaeologynews #thepipeline #archaeosoup

Link of the Month:

The Paper Chase: The Printer, The Spymaster & The Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers:

https://tinyurl.com/y6xqh7am

Links:

05:30 – UK Archaeology outside the European Union:

Wessex Archaeology Announced as Highways England’s Archaeological Specialists for A303 Upgrade Near Stonehenge:

https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/wessex-archaeology-announced-highways-englands-archaeological-specialists-a303-upgrade-near

A303 Stonehenge Contractors Named:

https://highwaysengland.co.uk/our-work/a303-stonehenge/latest-news/a303-stonehenge-contractors-named/

MPs Reject Attempts to Strengthen Post-Brexit Fishing Protections:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/13/brexit-mps-reject-adopting-sustainable-quotas-in-fisheries-bill

Government Overturns Measures Aiming to Guarantee UK Food Standards in New Law:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/government-overturns-measures-aiming-to-guarantee-uk-food-standards-in-new-law-39616777.html

Planning reforms are ‘big opportunity’ to tear down brutalist buildings, says Jenrick:

https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/planning-reforms-are-big-opportunity-to-tear-down-brutalist-buildings-says-jenrick/5108337.article

Institute for Government - Preparing Brexit: How Ready is the UK?

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/preparing-brexit-how-ready-uk

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

#archaeologynews #thepipeline #archaeosoup

01:08:13 - Pink Wellies get the Boot as Police Intervene to Stop Metal Detecting Rally Breaching COVID Rules:

http://thepipeline.info/blog/2020/10/03/pink-wellies-get-the-boot-as-police-intervene-to-stop-metal-detecting-rally-breaching-covid-rules/

Metal detectorist unearths 1,150 year old Viking board game:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/metal-detectorist-viking-board-game-lincolnshire-hnefatafl-torksey-auction-b421635.html

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01:31:53 - Royal Academy’s cruel dilemma: sell a Michelangelo or lose 150 jobs:

https://tinyurl.com/yy9rjcqa

Royal Opera House to sell off David Hockney painting in bid to stay afloat:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/oct/04/royal-opera-house-to-sell-off-david-hockney-painting-in-bid-to-stay-afloat

This is how bad things are for museums: They now have a green light to sell off their art:

https://tinyurl.com/ycwtwq4p

American Alliance of Museums: Questions and Answers about Selling Objects from the Collection:

https://www.aam-us.org/programs/ethics-standards-and-professional-practices/questions-and-answers-about-selling-objects-from-the-collection/

Centre for art law: Museums and COVID-19: from Deaccessioning to Reopening:

https://tinyurl.com/y3uod24s

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01:54:01 – Muppets of the Month:

Lost Shrewsbury chapel remains hidden as team ‘digs in the wrong castle’:

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

#archaeologynews #thepipeline #archaeosoup

Link of the Month:

5 Hints & Tips for Self-Shooting Video Content: https://tinyurl.com/y4d6qbft

Links:

02:10 – Historic England Satisfied with ‘adequate’ Stonehenge tunnel investigations:

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/historic-england-satisfied-with-adequate-stonehenge-tunnel-investigations-06-10-2020/

Two rare ladies loos in Northumberland and Sunderland have been given Grade II listed status:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/two-rare-ladies-loos-northumberland-18866159

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21:09 - Covid-hit university students: ‘Why have they sent us here?’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-54292728

COVID-19: Coventry University student flats partygoers flout rules:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-54349548

COVID outbreak: Manchester Metropolitan University students in lockdown:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-manchester-54289648

COVID: About 40 Universities report coronavirus cases:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-54322935

Newcastle students who break COVID rules face expulsion:

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2020-09-22/newcastle-students-who-break-covid-rules-face-expulsion

Coronavirus: Students ‘scared and confused’ as halls lock down:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54308329

A new front in America’s Pandemic: College Towns:

https://www.nytimes.com/202

57:26 - British Museum removes statue of slave-owning founder:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/aug/25/british-museum-removes-founder-hans-sloane-statue-over-slavery-links?

New Statue Context: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3362294473818000&id=169284376452375

Museum felt ‘Extremely Compromised’ by Minister’s Plea to Keep Slave Trader Statue:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/museum-of-the-home-robert-geffrye-statue_uk_5f480bb2c5b6cf66b2b4ed4c?

Bonnie Greer Interview:

https://youtu.be/u0CcdkFFv7M

In defence of Hans Sloane:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-hans-sloane?

The Little-Known Role of Slavery in Viking Society:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/little-known-role-slavery-viking-society-180975597/

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01:22:12 - National Trust restructuring plans are ‘one of the most damaging assaults on art historical expertise ever seen in the UK’:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/national-trust-restructuring-plan-job-cuts?

The trendies have destroyed the National Trust:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-trendies-have-destroyed-the-national-trust?

Is the National Trust turning into a National Joke?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8652387/Is-National-Trust-turning-national-joke-GUY-ADAMS-investigates.html?

Oxburgh Hall: Thousands of ‘rare items’ found in attic:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-53804700?

Amazing secrets found under National Trust manor house’s floorboards:

https://www.edp24.co.uk/features/heritage/oxburgh-hall-norfolk-discovery-under-floorboards-1-6796085?

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

#archaeologynews #thepipeline #archaeosoup

Link of the Month:

Brontë Parsonage Museum Appeal (COVID-19):

www.justgiving.com/bronteparsonageappeal

Links:

03:55 – Bronte Parsonage raising money to stay open & Blackstone buy Ancetry.com:

 Coronavirus: Bronte Parsonage raising money to stay open:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-53950183

Bronte Parsonage Museum confirm they are in consultation over staff redundancies:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/bronte-parsonage-museum-confirm-they-are-consultation-over-staff-redundancies-2959956

Brontë Parsonage Museum Appeal (COVID-19):

www.justgiving.com/bronteparsonageappeal

Blackstone to acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ancestry-m-a-blackstone-group/blackstone-to-acquire-ancestry-com-for-4-7-billion-idUSKCN2512ES?

Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry, Leading Online Family History Business, for $4.7 Billion:

https://www.blackstone.com/press-releases/article/blackstone-to-acquire-ancestry-leading-online-family-history-business-for-4-7-billion/?

Private equity wants to own your DNA:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blackstone-private-equity-ancestry-com-dna/?fbclid=IwAR1dGc4wQ07acBVkxb3-YKpFhTSSa3IawTiNJR83OgeliJF0HvvGxu94XrQ

Watching Brief: Ancestry.com Denies Exploiting Users' DNA - May 2017:

https://youtu.be/vWGHkEuG4Lw

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23:27 – Beirut blast: dozens of historic buildings in Lebanon capital at risk of collapse:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/14/beirut-blast-dozens-of-historic-buildings-in-lebanon-capital-at-risk-of-collapse?

Beirut explosion: The battle to

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

#archaeologynews #thepipeline #archaeosoup

Link of the Month:

Day in the Life: Ancient Egyptian Doctor:

https://tinyurl.com/yy2m99cp

Links:

0:44 – New Homes to get ‘Automatic’ Permission in England planning shake-up:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53625960?fbclid=IwAR1IL1VY_fSw_ihQ35_8NetzUM6R2fBIlxOazVz8uAF02WG18978JcZ26CM

Race to the Bottom: Reform to planning system in England could be catastrophic:

https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/06/race-to-the-bottom-reform-to-planning-system-in-england-could-be-catastrophic?

Plans Revised for York Roman Quarter scheme set to create 450 jobs:

https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2020/07/31/plans-revised-for-york-roman-quarter-scheme-set-to-create-450-jobs

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19:23 – Stonehenge: Sarsen Stones Origin Mystery Solved:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-53580339

Origins of Sarsen Megaliths at Stonehenge:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/31/eabc0133?fbclid=IwAR25sMPawJ9kKdNNpkTIWmg7sTv17e2P6ir28UEML8AojM2WdIYKK--3TI8

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42:16 – People Told to Avoid ‘Dangerous’ Magnet Fishing after Leeds Bomb Scares:

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/people-told-avoid-dangerous-magnet-18694429?fbclid=IwAR0ayoJ7_ULcvF8FWzbtMjV43F8yzkB9DoMkEeypwxB52nhVlu-aunes7rc

Magnet Fishing Laws – Is it Legal?

https://tinyurl.com/y59wt38q

Water Safety and Magnet Fishing:

https://tinyurl.com/yxg8vjt9

Hadrian’s Wall illegal Metal Detector Vigilance Plea:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-tyne-53456290?

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01:01:33 – Moscow expecting ‘balanced’ decision on Hagia Sophia:

https://tinyurl.com/y5s8xebe

Turkish Court 1934 conversion of Hagia Sophia into Museum Illegal:

https://tinyurl.com/y2hjubje

Hagia Sophia: Former Istanbul museum welcome Muslim Worshippers:

https://tinyurl.com/y2qwcngy

Turkey Meets UNESCO obligations in change of Hagia Sophia’s status:

https://

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

#archaeologynews #thepipeline #archaeosoup

Link of the Month:

Black Trowel Collective Microgrants:

www.blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com

Links:

01:27 – Honorable Mentions and News to Keep and Eye On:

An Archaeologist Who ‘Discovered’ One of the Earliest Crucifixion Scenes is Going to Jail for Faking His Unbelievable Finds:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/spanish-archaeologists-fake-discoveries-1885953?fbclid=IwAR2mnf4RBJb56DoxHfK5AEVeumd2HT-JrnwaXRvEqo3x6Qy3P7YjfQuKLlQ

The Oldest And Largest Mayan Ceremonial Structure Ever Discovered Has Been Revealed:

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-oldest-and-largest-mayan-ceremonial-structure-ever-discovered-has-been-revealed/?fbclid=IwAR3wUtxplqlqRcLHoKmTmYGg5huYfgEd601yw4fNUZMsfeVZVhiR8bhTBYo

Major discovery of oldest and largest Mayan Structure in MExico sheds light on the rise of the Ancient Civilization:

https://tinyurl.com/ydfoa2ma

Archaeology in Development Management PDF:

https://www.algao.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Archaeology_in_Development_Management.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Tz0gEH15EhBpRR0ray7tlcvsoeJ3khsFqkFF0o4-XOXQxdKLsP8wELhw

14:47 – COVID-19 Heritage Sector Response:

Vindolanda Fort: Roman site becomes family’s lockdown home:

https://tinyurl.com/yb3bkb35

COVID-19 and Brexit hit bid to sav

57:26 - A Massive, Late Neolithic Pit Structure associated with Durrington Walls Henge:

https://tinyurl.com/y6v28m6l

Scrap Stonehenge road tunnel plans say archaeologists after neolithic discovery:

https://tinyurl.com/y9fj9y83

Planning the future of a prehistoric find:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/25/planning-the-future-of-a-prehistoric-find?fbclid=IwAR1rWSTCeRQj_RkkHO_At_rsHmEq75s3qppusFRidRZOjtfrIRJ_QlY-Frk

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01:22:48 - Latvian Group Legenda Told to Cease and Desist in search for Lost RN Personnel:

http://thepipeline.info/blog/2020/06/29/latvian-group-legenda-told-to-cease-and-desist-in-search-for-lost-rn-personnel/?fbclid=IwAR1ICDlRY51smb8ceOa7JLlMCIdJN2SDouIjIRwl0syn99rgYKhc37CRsJo

Trio who dumped mustard gas in Woodhall Spa lake sentenced:

https://tinyurl.com/y7cf2bju

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01:44:15 – Muppets of the Month:

The Far Right demonstrators gather in London to ‘protect’ symbols of UK history:

https://tinyurl.com/ya7unjep

Offerings to Churchill?:

https://www.facebook.com/Archaeosoup/photos/a.509991202413865/3042393475840279/?type=3&theater

In London skirmishes, suspect far-right protester is rescued:

https://tinyurl.com/ybv55wgs