>remote sensing is difficult and any archaeologist knows to triple check before saying something is "new"

>Francisco was very kind and shared his publication image with me

...can she post the pdf?

Seems likely the google SWE that wrote the blog wouldn't have claimed this was new if there was a public way to access this information. I understand archaeologists have valid reasons to keep location details private, but complaining the OP didn't "check" thoroughly (when she can't link to the data he should checked in order to validate it was new) reads more like a shortcoming in how this knowledge is shared than a failure of OP to check.