A team of researchers from the Florida Aquarium and the University of Miami recovered pieces of a spear thought to be 10,000 years old from Little Salt Spring. “We’ve already recovered a remarkable range of artifacts that are not to be found anywhere else, because of this unique water environment,” said underwater archaeologist John Gifford.

A late Roman cemetery has been found in Kent, England, in addition to Anglo-Saxon buildings and pits. “There are lots of modern foundations here but lots of the old buildings have also survived. It is a very complex site, with foundations cutting pits which are cutting graves,” said Paul Bennett of Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 

Polish and Sudanese archaeologists digging in Sudan’s Nile Valley have uncovered a medieval settlement consisting of more than 70 houses. 

Battlefield archaeologist Tim Sutherland of England’s University of York says geophysical imagery has been used to locate several grave pits, where he expects to find the remains of hundreds of soldiers killed during the Battle of Towton. Some estimates suggest that as many as 28,000 men were killed in this battle during the Wars of the Roses, 550 years ago. 

Murals depicting three figures wearing feathered headdresses have been discovered at the Ucupe Palace in Peru’s Lambayeque region. 

Two hundred volunteers signaled each other with torches in North Wales in order to see how people communicated 2,500 years ago. “Most of the hill forts across the surrounding landscape can be seen from each other,” said Erin Robinson of the Heather and Hillforts project.

Analysis of vessels from Pueblo vessels unearthed in the U.S. Southwest shows that people drank a cacao-based beverage imported from southern Mexico or Central America. Dorothy Washburn of the University of Pennsylvania says that southwestern societies traded turquoise for this Mesoamerican cacao. “Turquoise workers may have been paid in cacao, as was the case in Mesoamerica. That would have given a nonelite population access to cacao that we found in their bowls and pitchers,” she said. 

Environmental damage due to the excessive exploitation of natural resources caused the collapse of Pre-classic Maya civilization at the cities of Nakbe, Wakna, and Tintal, according to Richard D. Hansen of Idaho State University. 

Canada will return some 20,000 smuggled items, including coins, pottery, seals, jewelry, and instruments, to Bulgaria. 

Road work in Georgetown, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., has revealed layers of buried road surfaces dating to the first half of the nineteenth century. “The original road surface was actually level with that house at the time it was built. Now you have to walk down the steps to the front door,” said archaeologist Aaron Levinthal. 

The bones of more than 20 people have been unearthed near a chapel on the smallest Channel Island of Herm. The burials are orderly and probably several hundred years old.