Archaeologists excavating on the border of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia continue to uncover remains of Beaubassin, one of the largest Acadian settlements in the New World.

Looters are targeting Native American burial grounds along Tennessee’s Cumberland River that have recently been exposed by flood erosion.

Speaking of looting, here’s a review of the book Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archeological Plunder and Obsession. Author Craig Childs looks at the problem in the American Southwest and globally.

Greek archaeologist Thanasis Papadopulos says he has found “the ruins of a three-level palace with a staircase carved into the rock” on Ithaka. He believes the remains match Homer’s description of the palace of Odysseus.

An ancient wall has been found near the Temple of Apollo in Didim, Turkey. Discovered in an excavation prompted by illegal digging, the wall may belong to the Temple of Artemis.

Russian and Korean archaeologists are digging at Koksharovka-1 in search of evidence for the origins of the ancient Bohai nation-state, the first documented state in the Far East.

The first professionally trained Jamaican archaeologist, Anthony Aarons, has died. Trained at Cambridge and Texas A&M University (in nautical archaeology), Aarons was for many years the government archaeologist before becoming director of the Port Royal Project Centre for Archaeological and Conservation Research.

Boris A. Litvinsky, dean of Central Asian archaeology and excavator of numerous sites, has also passed away.

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