A 1,000-year-old dug-out canoe that was once paddled on Tampa Bay was uncovered briefly from the muck on Florida’s west coast. “It’s the longest prehistoric canoe ever found in the state of Florida,” said Phyllis Kolianos, manager of the Weedon Island Preserve Center.  This article doesn’t have as much information, but it does have a photograph of the canoe.

A human skull fell out of the basement wall of a 300-year-old home in New York. Initial examination by bio-archaeologist Vanessa Dale indicates that skull belonged to a woman who may have been scalped.  

A Nez Perce lodge mentioned in the journal of a man on the Lewis & Clark expedition has been found in Hell’s Canyon, Idaho. Three men from the party spent two days there in 1806 trading for salmon.  

Archaeologists uncovered remnants of bullets at the site of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly’s last stand on the first day of excavations. Kelly was captured at the Glenrowan Inn in northeastern Victoria in 1880, after he took 60 people hostage.  

Here’s another article on the rise of commercial fishing in 950 A.D.  

Nearly 6,000 artifacts and a chiefton’s grave have been uncovered at a 1,200-year-old Viking settlement in Ireland.

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