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. 

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