Little new information is available about Peru’s move in U.S. District Court in Tampa to make a claim to finds from the shipwreck known as the Black Swan. Spain and Peru have yet to comment.

“My adrenaline was through the roof,” says UDOT archaeologist Pam Higgins about discovery of a “pristine” 1,200-year-old Anasazi dwelling in southern Utah.

Archaeologists working in a crawl space beneath the floor of St. Peter’s church in Bermuda found the skeleton of Governor George James Bruere. The governor’s whereabouts had been forgotten for the past 228 years.

Some Long Island residents are not happy with the pace at which a dredging project at Mattituck Inlet is moving ahead. Army Corps archaeologist replies, “it’s never as simple as people think it is.”

Some background here on an earlier comparison of blood group data for Tut and the two mummified fetuses found in his tomb. The fetuses are slated for CT scans and an attempt at DNA extraction and replication.

After 36 years in archaeology, Robert J. Mallouf is retiring, stepping down as director of the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross State University in Texas. Here’s a summary of his career and achievements.

Protests are being organized to block the construction of a cement factory adjacent to the site of the ancient Roman city of Castabala.

A Munich University team is continuing excavations at the ancient city of Pompeipolis, located in the western Black Sea city of Kastamonu, Turkey. Finds this year include a mosaic and an iron furnace from the Roman period.

The University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist is planning to develop an interactive Web site to “present the state’s agricultural heritage as the landscape evolved from the last Ice Age to the arrival of the pioneers.”

English Heritage is funding documentation of sites–from the early prehistoric ones to World War II practice trenches–exposed by the Fylingdales Moor fire Yorkshire in September 2003.

British archaeologists from the University of Winchester describe their work at the historic fortified site of Nokalakevi, near the city of Senaki, Georgia, which ended just days before the conflict started. They remain concerned for their Georgian colleagues.

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