The burials of two children were unearthed in Peru at the Sacsayhuaman archaeological park. The article mentions that they had been buried in the fetal position, so the accompanying photograph is probably irrelevant.

The remains of two more young people were uncovered in southern Ontario. “They’re in a disturbed context. Nothing is intact. They’re all fragmentary in mixed soil from earth moving,” said contract archaeologist Michael Henry.  

An American Indian encampment dating to 500 A.D. was found during flood control work in Houston, Texas.  

Two professors from the University of Pennsylvania, Patrick E. McGovern and Clark Erickson, showed up to help Sam Calagione, the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, chew up enough corn to brew a couple of barrels of chicha, a traditional Latin American corn beer. “It doth thoak aw the moisthture out of your mawff,” explained Calagione.  

A computer simulation model that integrated genetic and archaeological data estimates that people living in Europe began drinking milk 7,500 years ago.  

Investigation of Fort Edward, located in New York on the bank of the Hudson River, begins today. The fort was built by the British during the French and Indian War.  

A Civil War battlefield has been found at the building site for a future “Sorority Village” at the University of Tennessee. “This was the front line of the Confederate siege on Knoxville,” said researcher Elizabeth DeCorse.  

Contract archaeologists are often called in when construction workers happen upon artifacts. “We have to find better ways to promote awareness with clients of the need to get us involved early in the process, converting our relationship with the client from a last-minute distress purchase,” said archaeologist Tim Holden, who works for Headland, a company that excavates in the United Kingdom and Ireland.  

A cache of coins has been discovered in a cave outside Jerusalem. They are thought to have belonged to Jewish fighters loyal to Shimon Bar-Kokhba, during his revolt against Rome between 132 and 135 A.D.  

Here’s an update on the forgery trial in Israel.  

You’ll have to scroll down a bit to read this paragraph about the arrest of an archaeologist in Greece for the illegal possession of antiquities.

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