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.
I mentioned this in last week's thread, but since it didn't come up until Thursday many of you might not have seen it so it bears repeating.
There's new evidence to support pre-Columbian Polynesian contact with South America, specifically through the Rapanui of Easter Island:
Genome-wide Ancestry Patterns in Rapanui Suggest Pre-European Admixture with Native Americans
The Vatican continues to digitize a large number of documents. Recently released documents include a watercolor depicting traditional Japanese dance (and here is the source, in which there are a series of pictures, a beautiful illuminated Mishneh Torah from the 15th century, a Pre-Columbian Aztec manuscript, and a Greek/Latin side-by-side version of the Illiad.
Meryl Streep on for biopic of off-key opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins I AM LEGIT EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
This is for futurehistory, but the Twitpic stuff this week has been pretty big for digital archivists. Earlier twitpic was blocking the Internet Archive from mass-scraping the photos to save them.
