A Roman field hospital is being excavated in the Czech Republic, at what was once the northernmost outpost of the Empire in central Europe.

An anonymous package sent from the Czech Republic arrived at the Museum of Macedonia, where curators opened it and discovered a child’s bronze ring. “Judging from its model, the ring is from the central Balkan region, which included Macedonia, and is most likely from the end of the twelfth century,” said museum archaeologist Kiril Trajkovski.

One thousand years ago, the priests living at Chimney Rock, Colorado, were tended to by common people from Chaco Canyon, according to Steve Lekson of the University of Colorado, Boulder. “While our analysis has only begun, there might have been two different groups at Chimney Rock – those that built it and the elites that inhabited it,” he said.   

Archaeologists Dana Lepofsky and John Welch of Simon Fraser University share what they have learned about the marine economy practiced by the Tla’Amin people of the past with the modern population. “When you look, there are herring bones everywhere and they supported people for thousands of years and created an elaborate fishing technology and now there’s none of it left,” said Lepofsky.  

An old bookmobile has been transformed by the Society for Georgia Archaeology into an “ArchaeoBus,” which travels around Athens,Georgia, carrying artifacts from local sites. “You can’t pull into a gas station without getting a whole lot of inquiries, which is good, because this is what we want. Everywhere we go, people are asking questions about it,” said archaeologist Rita Elliot.  

A lawyer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky has filed at motion that the charges be dismissed against an Ohio man for removing what was thought to be an historic rock, known as Indian Head Rock, from the Ohio River.  

This month marks the 70^th anniversary of the discovery of a 1,400-year-old burial chamber at the center of an Anglo-Saxon ship in Sutton Hoo, England. 

A mitochondrial DNA link between Aboriginal Australians and people from traditional tribes in India supports the idea that humans traveled out of Africa, along India’s southern coast, and then into Australia. Raghavendra Rao of the Anthropological Survey of India says that a common ancestor for the two populations existed up to 50,000 years ago.

A lawyer for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has denied that there are any archaeological sites at the embattled politician’s Sardinian villa. “The whole area was subject to an exhaustive search by judicial authorities a short time ago, including the villa and the park. Another search can be conducted at any time,” said Niccolo Ghedini.  

Oncologist Stephen Brincat claims that the marble blocks that once made up the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, were used to construct a dock in Malta.  

Fishermen pulled a 40,000-year-old skull fragment out of the waters off the Dutch coast. A hand ax and flints were also recovered.  

A 3,000-year-old hut near Switzerland’s border with Austria is being called the oldest in the Alps. “We’ve known that people have used these summer pastures for thousands of years but the oldest proof of an actual shelter up until now is medieval,” said Thomas Reitmaier of Zurich University.  

A list of Scotland’s historic battlefields should be completed by 2011. Battlefields on the list will be offered some protection from development. “This is not to say that there won’t be change, there’s always change in every landscape, but the change has to be sensitive and the change has to take account of the fact that these are very important places,” said Culture Minister Michael Russell.  

Federal lands in Arkansas have been plundered, and looters have been convicted of felonies. “There’s a huge concern that the public doesn’t know what’s allowed. We want them to know so we can focus on the industrial-strength bad guys who don’t give a hoot whose property they are looting on,” said National Park Service archaeologist Caven Clark.  

The 4,000-year-old skeleton of a man suffering from a rare disorder has been unearthed in northern Vietnam. Bioarchaeologist Marc Oxenham of Australian National University says the bones could represent the oldest-known paraplegic in the world.  

Vietnam’s archaeologists lack the funding and staff necessary to protect the country’s underwater heritage, and historic shipwrecks end up salvaged for profit.  

Here’s more information on the altar discovered within Hadrian’s Wall at the Roman fort of Vindolanda. “What should have been part of the rampart mound near to the north gate of the fort has turned out to be an amazing religious shrine,” said archaeologist Andrew Birley.