A tiny ivory maskette has been unearthed on the Nuvuk Islands in the Canadian Arctic, in addition to two houses made of stone and sod. The houses had been constructed by people of the Dorset culture, sometime between 1,500 and 800 years ago.

The disputed, so-called Indian Head Rock will be returned to Kentucky. An Ohio man removed the eight-ton boulder, which was a registered state archaeological site in Kentucky, from the Ohio River in 2007 and put it in his garage. Volunteers will move the rock to a government building until a permanent display site can be found for it.  

Rock art in the Alpine valley known as Val Camonica probably came alive in the evening’s torchlight, accompanied by storytelling in the natural outdoor theater. Scientists have been testing the acoustics of the valley with an alphorn and other instruments. “I’m not saying these rocks are exactly cinema-like or in that form, because obviously the images don’t move. I’m saying these images in these locations are the closest the people would have had to a visual-acoustic experience,” said Frederick Baker of the University of Cambridge, and part of the Prehistoric Picture Project.  

Similarities in the words for “canoe” and the parts of canoes are said to be examples of the relationship between the language of the Ket people of Russia and the languages of the First Nations in North America.  

The medieval castle of King Erik Menved has been unearthed on the Danish island of Samso.  

The base of an early nineteenth-century lighthouse has been found on the shores of Lake Erie in western New York.  

Discovery News has a photograph of the excavation site of the two tombs recently opened in Saqqara.

A collection of flint tools unearthed in Norfolk, England, is about 80,000 years older than the earliest known date for humans in Britain. “These early humans endured a difficult climate surrounded by harsh coniferous woodlands. We really didn’t think that early humans could cope with those kinds of environments,” said Nicholas Ashton of the British Museum.  National Public Radio has more on the story.

Here’s a photograph of one of the two Old Kingdom tombs of royal scribes unearthed in Saqqara. “The colors of the false door are fresh as if it was painted yesterday,” said archaeologist Abdel-Hakim Karar.  

And photographs of the “tunnel to nowhere” uncovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings have been posted at National Geographic Daily News.  

A treasure hunter in southwestern England alerted archaeologists when he realized he hadn’t found just a few third-century Roman coins, but tens of thousands of them. “Because Mr. Crisp resisted the temptation to dig up the coins it has allowed archaeologists from Somerset County Council to carefully excavate the pot and its contents,” said Anna Booth of Somerset Council.  

Two more people have been sentenced on felony charges arising from the federal artifacts-trafficking sting in Utah.  

Has the Aboriginal rock art of Australia’s Burrup Peninsula been damaged by heavy industry in the area?  

The matter of Edward Low and the carved sandstone block he discovered in West Virginia as a child has still not been resolved. Low says he loaned the American Indian artifact to the Ohio Historical Society in 1971; officials at the historical society claim he donated it to their museum. Low would like the artifact to end up in a West Virginia museum.