Navy archaeologist Steve Schwartz thinks he may have found the San Nicolas Island cave where a woman of the Nicoleño tribe lived for 18 years during the mid-nineteenth century. Her story was the inspiration for the children’s novel, Island of the Blue Dolphins. Other researchers have found two boxes fashioned from redwood and tar that […]

Superstorm Sandy  shut down Archaeology News for two days, and uprooted a tree in New Haven, Connecticut, that revealed a human skeleton. Authorities think the burial dates from the colonial era, when the site was used as a cemetery. The tree was planted in 1909 to commemorate the 100thanniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. In the […]