A 2,700-year-old burial complex in central China has yielded the sacrificial remains of humans and animals. Such sacrifices were often made to bless houses, according to David Sena of the University of Texas at Austin.

In Canada, the Curve Lake First Nation will rebury some 2,000-year-old human bones that were discovered beneath a parking lot as part of a five-day ceremony.  

Excavations will continue at the site of an eighteenth-century Acadian home in Canada’s Prince Edward Island.  

Do you dream of hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu? Multimedia producer Paul Goguen gives a brief description of his experience traveling up the mountain.  

Survival International, an organization that campaigns on behalf of tribal groups around the world, says that eight travel companies were on India’s tropical Andaman Islands, illegally promoting tours to see the Jarawa people. “The Jarawa people lived successfully on their island without contact with outsiders for probably about 55,000 years, until 1988. They call themselves the Ang, which means human being, yet they are being ogled at like animals in a game reserve,” said Stephen Corry, director of Survival International.  

Italian scientists think they may have found skeletal remains of the Baroque artist known as Caravaggio.  He may have died of sunstroke while weakened by syphilis.  

The wreckage of an Italian merchant ship sunk in 1943 by a British torpedo has been located off the coast of Albania. “This discovery will be of interest for experts of the period to shed light on the fate of this Italian ship that was sunk at a time when Italy was capitulating on the war front,” according to a statement from Albania’s Institute of Archaeology.  

A thirteenth-century copper badge bearing the images of three lions is said to resemble England’s World Cup logo. The badge may have come from a horse’s harness, and was unearthed last week in a stone wall in Coventry. “This has been hidden for hundreds of years and for it to appear now has to be a sign that England will go all the way in the World Cup,” said archaeologist Caroline Rann.

A comparison of 11,000-year-old human skeletons and more recent bones suggests that two distinct groups from Asia settled in the New World. The differences between the skeletal remains “are so large that it is highly improbable that the earliest inhabitants of the New World were the direct ancestors of recent Native American populations,” according to an international team of paleoanthropologists.

A new law in Alabama will provide more protection to American Indian burial and ceremonial sites. The bill was the result of the controversy over a mound destroyed by the construction of a new shopping center in the city of Oxford. “The mound situation was horrible. We looked for quite some time for some legal hook with the Oxford mound. The really frustrating thing there was there was nothing we could leverage legally,” said Robert Thrower of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.  

Vandals have damaged a nineteenth-century site in Jaffa, Israel, and equipment left there by archaeologists.  

A year has passed, and it seems that salvage company Odyssey Marine Exploration is renewing its public-relations campaign and its quest to bring the HMS Victory to the surface. Odyssey’s representative will meet with Britain’s Department of Culture, Media, and Sport and the Ministry of Defense, advocating for the recovery of the eighteenth-century flagship.  

A Chamorro burial pit was discovered on Guam.  

Here’s another article on the ancient artifacts that have been revealed by the melting of ice in the Canadian High Arctic. “The implements are truly amazing. There are wooden arrows and dart shafts so fine you can’t believe someone sat down with a stone and made them,” said Tom Andrews of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center.  

In Finland, the bones of animals have been uncovered at seitas, the sacred stone arrangements of the Sami people. “Based on radiocarbon dating, the oldest findings have been dated back to the twelfth century,” said archaeologist Tiina Aikas.  

Greece’s tourism industry is suffering from striking workers in the wake of the financial crisis. Some 20,000 reservations have been cancelled, and new bookings have dropped by 10 to 12 percent. “It’s like we’re poking out our own eyes,” said Anna Anifanti, director of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies.