It has been confirmed that beams pulled from the banks of the Hudson River by dredging equipment belonged to Fort Edward’s water bastion. The colonial-era fort blocked the French from moving south toward Albany during the French and Indian War. Archaeologists will continue to dig underwater and deeper into the river bank.

Timbers from a Stone Age structure have been unearthed in the Solent River in southern England. “It’s an elaborate framework and the timber appears to be linked. It could be a collapsed structure, or perhaps a platform built close to the waterway,” said Garry Momber, director of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology.  

Work will soon end along the Erie Canal, at a site where a lock tender worked and lived. Pottery, nails, a horseshoe, and an iron wheel were among the artifacts unearthed by the Montezuma Historical Society. 

A network of canals in the Tucson basin suggests that people were farming and living a sedentary village life in Arizona 3,000 years ago. “We’ve uncovered dozens of these fields. We can see the actual holes where they planted the corn in many instances,” said geologist Fred Nials.  

“For thousands of years, Britons have been failing to take proper care of their possessions, littering the country with everything from abandoned Bronze Age forts to Elizabethan dinner sets, and creating what has become a treasure hunter’s paradise,” William Langley writes in The Telegraph. What are the laws and guidelines for British metal detectives, and what do archaeologists think about them?   And, here’s more information about what the Staffordshire Hoard can tell us about the Anglo-Saxon world that produced it.  

After a three-year-long archaeological survey, experts say that England’s Battle of Bosworth, which marked the end of the War of the Roses and the beginning of the Tudor era, has been commemorated in the wrong place.  

Archaeologist Michelle Lelievre is studying the settlement patterns and social life of the Mi’kmaq people of Nova Scotia, in the period following European contact.   

In Turkey, artifact smuggling statistics, including looting and thefts from museums, continue to rise every year.

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