A tiny ivory maskette has been unearthed on the Nuvuk Islands in the Canadian Arctic, in addition to two houses made of stone and sod. The houses had been constructed by people of the Dorset culture, sometime between 1,500 and 800 years ago.

The disputed, so-called Indian Head Rock will be returned to Kentucky. An Ohio man removed the eight-ton boulder, which was a registered state archaeological site in Kentucky, from the Ohio River in 2007 and put it in his garage. Volunteers will move the rock to a government building until a permanent display site can be found for it.  

Rock art in the Alpine valley known as Val Camonica probably came alive in the evening’s torchlight, accompanied by storytelling in the natural outdoor theater. Scientists have been testing the acoustics of the valley with an alphorn and other instruments. “I’m not saying these rocks are exactly cinema-like or in that form, because obviously the images don’t move. I’m saying these images in these locations are the closest the people would have had to a visual-acoustic experience,” said Frederick Baker of the University of Cambridge, and part of the Prehistoric Picture Project.  

Similarities in the words for “canoe” and the parts of canoes are said to be examples of the relationship between the language of the Ket people of Russia and the languages of the First Nations in North America.  

The medieval castle of King Erik Menved has been unearthed on the Danish island of Samso.  

The base of an early nineteenth-century lighthouse has been found on the shores of Lake Erie in western New York.  

Discovery News has a photograph of the excavation site of the two tombs recently opened in Saqqara.

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