A seventeenth or eighteenth century ball and chain—still locked—has been found on the Thames River bank.

Human remains found by construction workers in Kivalina, Alaska, last month are believed to be of Ipiutak and date about a thousand years back.

Bones found at a construction site in Avon, Minnesota, are likely of an adult female, more than 50 years old, and date from 500 to 5,000 years ago.

A jaw bone and teeth found in the Columbia River in Benton County, Washington, this past Saturday are being studied to determine if they are modern or archaeological.

Here’s a summary of wine-production evidence from the cave of Areni Birds in Armenia. Note that “millennia” has been translated as “centuries” in the text.

Fine dining ware, silverware, porcelain dolls, and liquor bottles are among the finds at the Colorado Historical Society dig in Denver (a longer report than yesterday’s brief note).

Here’s a discussion of implications of evidence that 165,000 years ago the inhabitants of Pinnacle Point, South Africa, were heat treating flint to make it easier to flake.

A look at hilltop stone mounds in Alabama and efforts to preserve them.

Excavators at Tel Dor, south of Haifa, have found a gemstone carved with the image of Alexander the Great.

A Pierre, South Dakota, man has been fined $20,000 for his role in the trafficking of American Indian artifacts taken from the Missouri River banks.

Michoacan residents looking for a place to grow avocados found a pyramid instead. An archaeologist from Mexico’s INAH says the 20 by 14 m pyramid may be from the Classic period (A.D. 300-850).

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