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NORTH AMERICA
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13 000 years b.p. (maybe) footprints from BC:


http://ring.uvic.ca/news/footprints-human-settlement-bc-coast-could-be-13000-years-old


http://westerndigs.org/ancient-human-footprints-found-on-canadian-island-may-be-oldest-
in-north-america/ http://metronews.ca/voices/metro-views/1406121/what-ancient-footprints-on-a-b-c-island-
can-teach-us/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3136427/Oldest-human-footprints-North-A
merica-13-200-year-old-impressions-reveal-migration-patterns.html?ITO=1490&ns_mcha
nnel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-these-be-the-oldest-human-footprints-in-n
orth-america/ http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/human-footprints-found-on-b-c-shoreline-may-be-1
3-000-years-old-1.2435011


Feature on the Great Cedar Swamp dig:


http://today.uconn.edu/2015/06/piecing-together-a-12000-year-old-way-of-life/




Latest theory/development on the ‘Lost Colony’:


http://phys.org/news/2015-08-clues-fate-america-lost-colony.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0811/Archeologists-may-have-solved-mystery-of
-the-Lost-Colony


http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/carolinas-lost-colony-the-fate-of-the-first-british-settl
ers-in-america-was-a-mystery-until-now-10457335.html


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/secret-clue-400-old-map-070000245.html#Iv1AEgk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3192862/What-happened-lost-colonists-Ro
anoke-Archaeologists-uncover-new-clues-400-year-old-mystery.html


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150807-lost-colony-roanoke-hatteras-outer-b
anks-archaeology/




Identifying the remains of Jamestown’s early leadership, with a bit of religious division
thrown in for good measure:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-early-colonial-leaders-jamestown.html http://www.livescience.com/51673-four-jamestown-settlers-identified.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/us/remains-of-early-colonial-jamestown-leaders-are-i
dentified.html


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/archaeologists-discover-graves-of-fo
ur-founders-of-jamestown--and-a-mystery-in-a-small-box-10424578.html


http://www.nature.com/news/historic-human-remains-identified-1.18079 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/catholic-spies-in-the-new-world-relics-pose-new
-puzzle-about-early-american-colony/


http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jamestown-burials-20150729-story.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33680128 http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_28552274/unearthing-jamestown?source=rss


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/28/us-usa-smithsonian-jamestown-idUSKCN0Q22
DF20150728?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/28/425700788/bones-in-church-ruins-likely-the-remains-of-ear
ly-jamestowns-elite


Other news from Jamestown:


http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/archaeology-technology-invisible/
399818/


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/28/highly-significant-discovery-for-american-his
tory-in-town-where-pocahontas-was-married/#038;%23038;%23038




… and archaeologists have recovered a lost colonial settlement in Virginia:


http://www.wset.com/story/29762075/archaeologist-dig-up-lost-colonial-town-in-nelson-co
unty




They’re raising the CSS Georgia:


http://hamptonroads.com/2015/08/navy-divers-recover-remains-sunken-confederate-ship-
scuttled-its-own-crew


http://www.wsfa.com/story/29797542/divers-raise-wreckage-of-confederate-warship-in-5-t
on-chunks


http://wsav.com/2015/07/14/video-excavation-of-the-css-georgia/


Plans to dig Colonial Huntington’s arsenal::


http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/colonial-arsenal-to-be-site-for-archaeological
-dig-1.10744216




Digging a 15th century Iroquois site in Quebec:


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/archeology-students-dig-for-15th-century-iroquo
is-artifacts-1.3184836




Remains of an 18th century village in Montreal:


http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/18th-century-village-discovered-underneath-montreal-inter
change-1.2483025




Interesting finds from a site on PEI:


http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2015-07-12/article-4210828/Archaeological-dig-
at-P.E.I.s-Roma-site-unearths-rare-item/1


On the use of slash and burn methods by hunter/gatherers in the early
Americas:


http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2015/08/16/01-ancient-groups-likely-use
d-fire-as-landscape-tool.html




Concerns for looting of Native American sites in California:


http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0816-sd-archaelogy-20150816-story.html




Digging near Manassas battlefield:


http://www.fauquier.com/news/article/digging_through_history_near_manassas_battlefie
ld/




A home built on a sacred burial site on Grace Islet will be torn down:


http://globalnews.ca/news/2160424/grace-islet-home-built-on-sacred-first-nations-burial-g
round-to-be-torn-down/





What artifact finds do to property values in Nova Scotia:


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/1-assessed-value-of-nova-scotia-property-ca
used-by-archeological-find-1.3125131


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mi-kmaq-burial-site-discovery-renders-n-s-w
aterfront-home-worthless-1.3125131?cmp=rss




A dig in Dundas (Ontario) turns up some 19th century artifacts:


http://www.insidehalton.com/news-story/5792865-archaeological-dig-on-dundas-street-un
earths-1800s-artifacts/




Mummified remains of undetermined date from an Indiana quarry:


http://navajotimes.com/wires-wp/index.php?id=1609599962&kid=1h5YQxVYE2nFDspk


http://www.daytondailynews.com/ap/ap/indiana/mummified-remains-found-at-northwester
n-indiana-qu/nmnPN/


http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/ancient-burial-ground-mummy-found-in-lake-cou
nty-could-be/article_b0d49daf-769f-540f-9d8c-1b73a602bbdc.html




Descendants of the Hatfields and McCoys are coming together to excavate the ‘feuding
site’:


http://www.livescience.com/51805-hatfield-mccoy-feud-archaeology.html


Some 1200 years b.p. ‘chewing tobacco’ from Arizona:


http://westerndigs.org/1200-year-old-pouches-found-in-arizona-cave-contain-prehistoric-c
hewing-tobacco-study-finds/


A 4000 b.p. home from Sheffield (OH):


http://www.cleveland.com/avon-lake/index.ssf/2015/07/museum_teams_unearth_4000-y
ear.html


http://cleveland.suntimes.com/cle-entertainment/7/91/249990/ archaeologist-4000-ohio-home/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/14/archaeologists-discover-4000-year-old-hom
esteadin-ohio/#038;%23038;%23038


Feature on archaeology in Kiskiack:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-archaeologists-clues-kiskiack-pre-colonial.html


http://www.wm.edu/research/ideation/student-faculty-research/ understanding-kiskiack123.php


http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2015/archaeologists-extract-clues-from-kiskiacks-pre-co
lonial-past123.php


Latest from the Lake George dig:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-artifact-rich-colonial-american-site-ny.html http://www.wcax.com/story/29679103/dig-returns-to-artifact-rich-colonial-american-site-in-
ny http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/dig-returns-artifact-rich-colonial-american-si
te-ny-32798460


A long-submerged town emerges as Lake Mead shrinks:


http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2015/0731/Lake-Mead-shrinks-to-unveil-long-sub
merged-historic-town




More on the reburial of those pit houses in Utah:


http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/articleGallery/Ancient-pit-house-found-in-southw
est-Utah-6420168.php


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/26/puebloan-archaeological-site-bur
ied-safekeeping/30717203/


Remains of a Native American village at a Virginia navy base:


http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Evidence-of-Indian-tribe-village-uncovered-at-Va-
6405315.php


http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Evidence-of-Indian-tribe-village-uncovere
d-at-Va-6405315.php


A 2000 years b.p. bobcat burial (?):


http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/07/ancient-bobcat-buried-human-being


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3150944/2-000-year-old-bobcat-buried-like-
HUMAN-Collar-suggests-kitten-Native-American-pet.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&n
s_campaign=1490




1000 years b.p. corn cobs and kernels:


http://www.chinapost.com.tw/life/discover/2015/07/11/440387/1000-year-old-corn.htm


http://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/09/1000-year-old-corn-cobs-and-kernels-uncovered-at
-native-american-site http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/1-000-year-old-corn-cobs-kernels-found-at-
6374967.php


Remains of a Civil War camp at Potsdam:


http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news05/potsdam-professors-and-museum-officials-
discover-civil-war-training-camp-20150725




Looking for the earliest inhabitants of Texas:


http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional/teams-digging-into-history-of-the-ea
rliest-people/nm6Cc/




The Tierre Firme fleet is the latest ‘treasure source’ off Florida:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-dig-1-million-sunken-treasure-18095
6112/?no-ist


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150728-gold-coin-treasure-spanish-shipwre
ck-florida-ocean-archaeology/ http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0728/Florida-treasure-hunters-find-gold-coin
s-on-1715-shipwreck


Digging up Cabellsville:


http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/cabellsville-mysteries-archaeologists-dig-up-n
elson-community-from-s/article_61877a3e-396b-11e5-baef-b38db5b82733.html




Searching for unmarked graves in Huntsville:


http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2015/07/are_there_9000_unmarked_graves.html




Digging at Fort Mercer:


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20150622_Discoveries_large_and_small_
emerge_at_Revolutionary_War_site.html




Interesting Mississippi Valley site:


http://theadvocate.com/news/12677031-123/mississippi-valley-archaeological-site-revea
ls





Feature on obsidian in Alaska:


http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/obsidian-a-bread-crumb-trail-to-the-past-for-
alaska/article_ee09b44a-34ed-11e5-ba52-bf1b4bc0d8d0.html




Remains of a Spanish fort in San Francisco:


http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Presidio-Archaeologists-Uncover-Foundations-of-
Original-Spanish-Fort-318357281.html




Latest from the Shaker Heights dig:


http://www.cleveland.com/shaker-heights/index.ssf/2015/07/shaker_heights_3.html




They’re still looking for the Griffon:


http://www.petoskeynews.com/charlevoix/news/community/search-for-le-griffon-continue
s-west-of-charlevoix/article_6e3f82ac-ab74-5ded-abe0-e752c66f46d0.html




A shipwreck in a Nova Scotia harbour:


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pictou-harbour-shipwreck-accidentally-discov
ered-by-surveyors-1.3164077


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pictou-harbour-underwater-expedition-uncov
ers-mystery-wreck-1.3167794


http://montrealgazette.com/news/national/newly-discovered-pictou-shipwreck-at-least-12
0-years-old-local-diver


http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/we-were-all-in-awe-century-old-shipwreck-found-in-n-s-harb
our-1.2487359


http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/underwater-mapping-project-reveals-mysterious-shipwreck-1.24
82443


Slave quarters from Belvoir:


http://www.fredericksburg.com/features/history/rare-stone-slave-quarters-unearthed-at-be
lvoir/article_4612a5b2-00db-5308-8aef-e913465aca04.html


http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ph-ac-cn-belvoir-dig-0627-20150628-story.html


Possible Revolution-era shipwreck off North Carolina:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-centuries-old-shipwreck-north-carolina-coast.html http://www.livescience.com/51604-centuries-old-shipwreck-found-accidentally.html


http://www.livescience.com/51601-nc-shipwreck-photos.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0721/N.C.-shipwreck-may-date-to-American-Revo
lution-say-scientists


http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/robotic-sub-stumbles-across-revolutionary-war-e
ra-shipwreck-150721.htm


http://today.duke.edu/2015/07/shipwreck http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150717131021.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/du-csd071715.php http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/18/the-mysterious-pre-civ
il-war-shipwreck-just-discovered-off-the-north-carolina-coast/


Latest from the USS Monitor:


http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-nws-monitor-turret-20150727-story.html


Excavating a freed slave community in Henrico:


http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Students-excavate-site-of-freed-slave-co
mmunity-6392344.php




… and slave quarters at Belvoir:


http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765676773/Rare-stone-slave-quarters-unearthed-at-
Belvoir.html




Feature on cannibalism and the Franklin Expedition:


http://www.livescience.com/51614-doomed-franklin-expedition-cannibalism.html


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/franklins-doomed-arctic-expedition-ended-g
ruesome-cannibalism-180956054/


http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/cracked-bones-reveal-cannibalism-by-do
omed-arctic-explorers-150722.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1


http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/01/pot-polish-on-bones-from-frankli
ns-1845-arctic-expedition-evidence-of-cannibalism/


… and folks might be interested in the politics of the Franklin Expedition dig:


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/11/hms-erebus-shipwreck-canada-paul-watso
n-resigns


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hms-erebus-pulitzer-winner-paul-wat
son-quits-toronto-post-over-canadian-prime-minister-coverup-of-british-shipwreck-103787
87.html http://www.adn.com/article/20150709/canadian-reporter-says-toronto-star-stopped-work-a
rctic-shipwreck-story http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1420470/star-accused-of-suppressing-franklin-story/


Remains of a Caldo village in Texas:


http://www.chron.com/news/transportation/article/TxDOT-stumbles-upon-prehistoric-Cadd
o-village-6388938.php




The Kennewick saga continues:


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150715-kennewick-man-dna-genome-lawsuit
-archaeology




cf:


http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2015/07/12/01-kennewick-man-remains-
a-valuable-teacher.html




Feature on a Mississippi bond default in 1841:


http://www.npr.org/2015/07/01/419240752/how-mississippi-defaulted-on-7-million-worth-o
f-bonds-in-1841?sc=17&f=2




Damage to Serpent Mound:


http://highlandcountypress.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=73&ArticleID=283
68




On the fate of the Loyalists after the Revolution:


http://www.npr.org/2015/07/03/419824333/what-happened-to-british-loyalists-after-the-rev
olutionary-war




Independence Day (US) things:


http://www.livescience.com/51427-july-4-celebrations.html


Seeking protection for Chaco Canyon:


http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/business/national-business/ article25819795.html




John Smith and the Mermaid:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/no-john-smith-did-not-see-mermaid-1614-18
0955692/




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The Kulkulkan pyramid is built over an underground river, apparently:


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/subterranean-river-discovered-beneath-m
exicos-chichen-itza-ruins




Interesting Maya inscription from Guatemala (details and focus vary in these):


http://www.livescience.com/51749-mayan-tablet-reveals-tikal-upheaval.html http://news.discovery.com/history/doomed-mayan-king-honored-in-1600-year-old-tablet-1
50810.htm


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150724-Maya-hieroglyph-shrine-Tikal-Calak
mul-Guatemala-archaeology-stele-discovery-Peten-epigraphy/


http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2015/07/tulane_archaeologists_discover.html


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/24/fascinating-fifth-century-find-could-reveal-ne
ver-before-known-details-about-ancient-people-group-known-for-its-end-of-the-world-predi
ction/#038;%23038;%23038


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/08/12/ancient-mayan-tablet-with-hieroglyphics-hon
ors-lowly-king/


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3173636/Mystery-Mayan-king-1-600-year-o
ld-stone-tablet-reveals-reign-early-ruler-ancient-South-American-civilisation.html?ITO=14
90&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490


http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2015/archaeologists-find-intact-ma
ya-hieroglyphic-panels-and-well-preserved-stela


An Olmec colossal monument from Veracruz:


http://costaveracruz.net/2015/07/13/encuentran-nuevo-monumento-colosal-olmeca-en-la-
zona-sur-de-veracruz/




They’ve deciphered the T514 glyph:


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150722081117.htm http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=154857&CultureCode=en


Reassessing the Tonina Chiapas pyramid:


http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/new-assessment-of-recently-found-mayan-p
yramid-puts-it-up-among-the-biggest/story-fnjwl1aw-1227441201493




Some new Nazca images:


http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/new-animal-images-found-at-perus-nazca
-lines-150714.htm


http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201507080063 http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2391844&CategoryId=13936 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3159943/Giant-Llamas-flames-24-new-ima
ges-Peru-s-Nazca-Lines.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490




Some pre-Inca burials from Lambayeque:


http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-new-pre-inca-tombs-and-mochica-temple-found-10685
5




Interesting metal vessels from Chacapoyas:


http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-discovery-of-metal-vessels-will-change-the-history-of
-chachapoyas-106778


http://elcomercio.pe/peru/lambayeque/hallazgo-aquillas-cambiara-historia-sobre-chacha
poyas-noticia-1820632


On the scarlet macaw trade and implications:


http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-06/amon-sms061915.php http://phys.org/news/2015-06-scarlet-macaw-skeletons-early-emergence.html http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/06/17/1509825112.full.pdf?with-ds=yes




Recent finds off Tobago:


http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150802/news/treasures-off-tobago


Evidence of a human presence in Rio some 4000 years b.p.:


http://www.newkerala.com/news/2015/fullnews-95311.html


Interview with Douglas Preston about a lost city in Honduras:


http://bangordailynews.com/2015/07/30/living/maine-journalist-risks-snake-infested-jungl
e-to-discover-lost-city/




On the (huge) population which may have lived in the Amazon basin:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3173398/Is-Amazon-rainforest-MAN-8-MILL
ION-humans-lived-farmed-basin-peak.html


http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1812/20150813


… and the agriculture which was carried on there:


http://www.livescience.com/51631-ancient-amazon-rainforest-agriculture.html


Climate change is causing ongoing concerns for mummies:


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/melting-mummies-are-on-thin-ice-thanks-to-clim
ate-change/




A Spanish shipwreck off Columbia:


http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2392701&CategoryId=13936


Plans to restore the Stela Raimondi:


http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-swiss-archaeologists-restore-stela-raimondi-107034




Feature on the Maya calendar:


http://www.historytoday.com/amy-fuller/mayas-revelation-endless-time


Feature on the Inca Road:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-its-like-travel-inca-road-today-1809557
40/


http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2015/06/25/the-great-inka-road-details-the-e
mpires-amazing-thoroughfare/?wprss=rss_local




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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:


http://goo.gl/1VdeA


Ancient MesoAmerica News:


http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

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