This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.
So, what's new this week?
An unlooted shaft tomb has been found in Colima. This will help those of us that work in West Mexico to determine chronology and location for many of the figurines that have been looted in the area and sold on the black market or to art collectors.
Not exactly sure now "new" this really is, but I just found about it this week thanks to the Ohio Archaeological Blog. University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab has put out a web version of the Atlas of Historical Geography of the United States. Lots of pre-WWII maps of the US and pre-US North America going back to the early European exploration, along with various other features.
Does anyone else use the Digital South Asia Library? As an Africanist, I had no reason to go hunting for it, but this term in my world history seminar I have a student looking into agricultural production shifts in colonial India. I'm stunned by the amount of work that went into not only digitizing gazetteers, books, and official reports, but even putting statistics into Excel tables! It's really something amazing, and constantly updated, even though it's apparently far from new (at least 2005 in earlier versions, possibly older, but continuously updated). So it may not be an objective "what's new in history" but it's new to me at least, and maybe to someone else out there too.