Russian archaeologists have claimed that baked earthenware was produced 15,000 years ago by the inhabitants of Khabarovsk. “It was the first earthenware on the globe, and though it was primitive, with plain decoration, and poorly baked, yet it was a significant landmark in the history of mankind,” said Andrei Malyavin of the Khabarovsk Archaeology Museum.

Archaeologists found the first lock of the first Welland Canal in Port Dalhousie, near Lake Ontario. If the early nineteenth-century canal is in good shape, it may be restored for modern boaters.  

A historian in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, has been investigating the political slogans painted on the attic wall of a local restaurant. “I find it fascinating, especially in a presidential election year. A hundred seventy years ago they were talking about issues just like today,” said Tim Rockwell.  

One hundred acres of land in Beaufort County, South Carolina, will be preserved as the Altamaha Town Heritage Preserve, once the seventeenth-century home of 2,000 Yemassee Indians.  

The grave of an infant who was born and died on November 29, 1907, was moved to make way for a housing development in South Carolina.  

National Geographic News examines the claim that a carved chalk hedgehog or pig found in the grave of a small child buried at Stonehenge is Britain’s earliest known toy. The artifact “is, as far as we know, without parallel,” said Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology.  

Perhaps it’s time we all clean out our desks. Senior lecturer Niall Sharples of Cardiff University in Wales did just that, and found two tiny, 4,000-year-old gold studs that once decorated a bronze dagger. The studs were discovered at Bush Barrow 200 years ago.

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