On today’s show we have 3 news stories from the Middle East. The first story is about rock art “blueprints” for desert kites in Jordan. Then we move over to Jerusalem where researchers have tested the microbes left behind in ancient toilets and a stone receipt was found on the pilgrimage road between the gates of the city and the temple. We finish up with a short update about the archaeology project in downtown Miami.

• Stone Engravings of Mysterious Ancient Megastructures May Be World's Oldest 'Blueprints'
• Desert Kites, Miami Pre-History, and Illicit Antiquities - TAS 165
• Ancient toilets unearthed in Jerusalem reveal a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease
• A 2,000-Year-Old Chalkstone Receipt, Carved With Customer Names and Prices, Was Just Uncovered in Jerusalem
• Archaeologists at the ancient Tequesta site in Miami are getting sick, at risk of cancer

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We’ve got three stories about pretty well known places or events. The first contains a video and pictures representing over 700,000 images that were stitched together to form the most complete views of the Titanic, ever! We then go to Pompeii to discover that not everyone died as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius. Finally, we head down to Maya country to see a CRM project find a rare sculpture of a Mayan god.

• Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before
• Skeletons found in Pompeii ruins reveal deaths by earthquake, not just Vesuvius’ ancient eruption
• Archaeologists Digging Along a Train Route in Mexico Have Found an Extremely Rare Statue of a Maya Deity
• K’awiil: Ancient Maya Lightning Lord

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We saved the drama for, well, YOU this time! We start with an archaeologist that’s trying to build somewhat of an archaeology theme park in Guatemala and the local community isn’t having it. Then we go to Netflix’s latest blunder regarding a show about Cleopatra. Finally, if you find something in England with your metal detector you’d better report it or suffer the consequences.

• U.S. Archeologist Seeks to Privatize Maya Historic Sites in the Name of Conservation
• What was behind the protest against an archaeologist at last week’s L.A. Times Book Festival
• Protesters disrupt talk by archaeologist Richard Hansen at L.A. Times Festival of Books
• Cleopatra wasn't a Black woman, Egypt tells Netflix in a feud over new drama-documentary
• Was Cleopatra a Black African Queen?
• Tea Break Episode with the Vintage Egyptologist
• Metal detectorists face years in jail for £766K Anglo Saxon coin plot
• Two men convicted of conspiring to sell 9th century Anglo-Saxon coins
• These Ninth-Century Coins Change Our Understanding of Alfred the Great

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This week we have 3 news stories. First we head over to Puerto Rico where new analysis of human remains from a 4,000 year old site is helping redefine what we know about the early inhabitants of the island. Then we look at a 39,600 year old bone from Spain that may be a leather punch board. And finally, the Dry Tortugas National Park has found a lost underwater cemetery off the coast of Florida.

• Oldest human remains from Puerto Rico contradict idea of simple island nomads
• Reconsidering the lives of the earliest Puerto Ricans: Mortuary Archaeology and bioarchaeology of the Ortiz site
• This 39,600-Year-Old Bone May Have Been Used by Prehistoric Tailors
• A 39,600-year-old leather punch board from Canyars, Gavà, Spain
• A grave under the ocean? Team finds what could be submerged hospital off Florida Keys

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This week we have three interesting archaeology news stories. First up is the recent (re)discovery of a Roman era fortlet in Scotland. Then we head over to the Grand Canyon where the Glen Canyon dam is having an unanticipated effect on downstream cultural resources. And finally we discus how digesta, or the partially digested vegetation in a large mammal’s digestive tract may have been a food source to prehistoric groups.

• Archaeologists Discover Lost Roman Fort in Scotland
• Archaeologists found a lost Roman fortlet in Scotland
• Grand Canyon's Archaeological Sites Degrading Due To Glen Canyon Dam
• DID EARLY FORAGERS EAT PARTIALLY DIGESTED FOOD FROM LARGE ANIMALS?
• Human consumption of large herbivore digesta and its implications for foraging theory - Evolutionary Anthropology
• Book: Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes - Daniel Everett

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This week we are taking a deep dive into the origins, history and archaeology of wine. We’ll cover the surprising “birthplace” of wine with some of the oldest evidence of wine making we have so far. Then we look at ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and how they contribute to our knowledge of wine trade routes in Rome and Greece. And then finally, the oldest known wine type that is still in production today!

• Discover the Secret Birthplace of Wine - National Geographic
• History of Wine
• Five Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine
• Ancient Roman Shipwreck Loaded With Wine Amphorae Found Off Sicilian Coast
• A Shipwreck Graveyard Has Been Found Off This Greek Archipelago
• To taste the oldest wine still in production, head to Cyprus - Atlas Obscura

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This week we cover three recent archaeology news stories. First up is a ball game carving found at Chichen Itza in Mexico. Then we head over to Egypt where mummy tags are used to reconstruct the ancient climate. And finally bridge construction in Ohio has prompted the excavation of a Hopewell Hamlet.

• Intact Ball Game Carving Discovered at Chichen Itza
• Play Ball! - About the game
• Reviving a 3,000-year-old Ancient Ballgame - YouTube
• An Ancient Ballgame Makes A Comeback In Mexico - NPR
• Facebook page for the modern Ulama league in Mexico
• Mummies provide the key to reconstruct the climate of the ancient Mediterranean
• Mummy Labels: A Witness to the Use and Processing of Wood in Roman Egypt
• Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old dwelling site of Hopewell Native Americans in Ohio

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On this news show we start with an update on the excavations and controversy surrounding the development of a new set of luxury high-rises in downtown Miami. We then see what the face of a 35,000 year old man from Egypt looks like. Finally, would it hurt to have gold wires woven in and around your teeth to keep them in place? A 17th-century Frenchwoman likely had some opinions about it.

• Battle Over Miami Development Site Where Ancient Artifacts Were Discovered
• The Tequesta of Biscayne Bay
• Desert Kites, Miami Pre-History, and Illicit Antiquities - Ep 165
• A New Maya Kingdom, What's an Anchoress? And paving over Miami's history - Ep 205
• Scientists Reveal the Real Face of a 35,000-Year-Old Egyptian Man
• Source Article: The Facial Approximation of the Skull of Nazlet Khater 2
• 17th-century Frenchwoman’s gold dental work was likely torturous to her teeth

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This week we have 3 archaeology news stories! First up, 2,000 ram skulls have been discovered in Egypt’s temple of Ramses II. Then we cover the rent Sapiens article about whether prehistoric humans actually carried and used clubs. Then finally, a new technology is used to create a surprising climate profile at Paleolithic sites in Alaska.

• Over 2,000 ram skulls discovered in Egypt's temple of Ramses II, a new mystery for archaeologists - CBS News
• Club-Wielding Ancestors: Myth or Reality? - Sapiens
• The Use of Wooden Clubs and Throwing Sticks among Recent Foragers - Springer
• New investigations at Kalambo Falls, Zambia: Luminescence chronology, site formation, and archaeological significance - Journal of Human Evolution
• Understanding blunt force trauma and violence in Neolithic Europe: the first experiments using a skin-skull-brain model and the Thames Beater - Antiquity
• A reconstruction of prehistoric temperatures for some of the oldest archaeological sites in North America
• BrGDGT temperature reconstruction from interior Alaska: Assessing 14,000 years of deglacial to Holocene temperature variability and potential effects on early human settlement

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MEMBERS: There’s a bonus segment!

This is our final episode in our overview of paleoanthropology and human evolution. It’s been a bumpy ride with a lot of species falling by the wayside, but, we’re down to the final few and we’ll see what happens to them! Don’t forget to check out the other episodes in this series and for members, there’s a special bonus segment for this episode in the Ad Free Downloads area on this episode’s page.

• Human Family Tree
• Human Evolution Interactive Timeline
• Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens in Europe - TAS 160
• Ancient Hazelnuts, Artistic Neanderthals and a Pompeiian Chariot - TAS 116 (where we mention Denisovans)

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• Sima de los Huesos, the Pit of Bones
• The Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene hominin site (Burgos, Spain). Estimation of the number of individuals

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