A 7,000-year-old wooden oar has been found intact in muddy soil in South Korea. “This is a very rare find, not only in South Korea but also in the world,” said researcher Yoon On-Shik. Fragments of two boats were also uncovered.

Conservators at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory continue to clean the planks of the eighteenth-century ship unearthed at the World Trade Center site in New York City. They have also discovered a coin that had been placed between the keel and the stern post for good luck.  

Archaeologist Jill Eyers says she has found cut marks on bones recovered from a mass burial of infants in Hambleden, England. “If dismembered this could be signs of a ritual activity at this site. This is turning more sinister by the minute,” she added.  

The 4,000-year-old remains of a woman dubbed the “Queen of the Inch” will be re-interred on the Scottish island of Inchmarnock. Her cist, which also contained a necklace and a dagger, was discovered in the 1950s by a farmer plowing a field.  

There’s more information on the giant horned turtle bones found in Vanuatu. “It is the first time this family of turtles has been shown to have met with humans and there are many turtle bones in the middens,” said palaeontologist Arthur White of the University of New South Wales.  

There’s also more on the discovery of Camp Lawton, where more than 10,000 Union troops were imprisoned for six weeks. “What makes Camp Lawton so unique is it’s one of those little frozen moments in time, and you don’t get those very often,” said Dave Crass, Georgia’s state archaeologist.

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