An archaeology professor from Loyola University was sentenced to one year probation after he pleaded guilty to violating the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. He admitted to removing artifacts from public lands in New Mexico. 

Six cannon recovered near the mouth of the Panama Canal may have belonged to privateer Captain Henry Morgan. “Every school kid learns about Morgan’s activities, but we have never seen any of his materials,” said archaeologist Tomas Mendizibal. An international team of marine archaeologists decided to remove the cannon from the reef after evidence of gouging and digging around them was found.  

Archaeologists recovered a 1,000-year-old dugout canoe from the muck at Florida’s Weedon Island Preserve.  

John O’Shea of the University of Michigan wants to know if rock formations at the bottom of Lake Huron could have been a caribou kill site 10,000 years ago. “Scientifically, it’s important, because the entire ancient landscape has been preserved and has not been modified by farming, or modern development,” he said.

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