Scholars gathered to discuss possible reasons why the Ancient Puebloans packed up their homes on the Colorado Plateau and migrated south into Arizona and New Mexico. Most think a combination of drought, warfare, an increasingly complex society, and possibly a new religion prompted the move. “Over all conditions were pretty darn bad in the 1200s. But they were not maybe all that worse than they were in the 900s, and yet some people hung on then,” said Timothy A. Kohler of Washington State University.

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, archaeologists are looking for traces of buildings from the Theus Plantation before developers move in.  

Archaeologist Bill Iseminger has worked at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois since 1980. “It’s the largest archaeological site in America, so it’s kept my interest all these years. There is so much we don’t know, a lot of questions we have about what happened here,” he said in this article about plans for this World Heritage site.  

Archaeologists will search a bay in northern Scotland for Viking artifacts.  

An archaeologist has reportedly volunteered to follow the progress of Fergus Drennan, a.k.a. “The Roadkill Chef,” who will spend the next 12 months living on foraged food. “By the end of the year I intend to have a full set of clothes from boots and trousers to a jacket, made from animal skins. I’m researching the whole tanning process at the moment,” he said.  

An eight year old girl discovered a button from a Civil War soldier’s uniform while flying her kite at Delaware Valley College in Pennsylvania.

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