Marine archaeologist Billy Ray Morris says he has found the Kate Dale, a Confederate blockade runner that was carrying a load of cotton when it was burned by Union troops in 1863. The wreckage sits at the bottom of Florida’s Hillsborough River.

Jon Erlandson of the University of Oregon in Eugene thinks that modern humans may have traveled by boat from northeast Asia to California along the coasts during the last Ice Age. “We haven’t published the evidence for this hypothesis yet, and I’m kind of nervous about it. But we are getting very close,” he said.  

A film crew joined archaeologists and the First Colony Foundation at Fort Raleigh to look for evidence of Native Americans and English immigrants. “The English were doing something here in the sixteenth century, we just don’t know what,” said FCF co-director Nick Luccketti.  

Die-hard fans have been camping out for a week in front of Edwards Big Newport Theater in California, waiting for the premier of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I hope they remembered to take along ARCHAEOLOGY’s essential new Indiana Jones Page!

This entry was posted by Jessica E. Saraceni on Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Discussion of this blog entry is now closed.

Comments posted here do not represent the views or policies of the Archaeological Institute of America.