A team of researchers from the Florida Aquarium and the University of Miami recovered pieces of a spear thought to be 10,000 years old from Little Salt Spring. “We’ve already recovered a remarkable range of artifacts that are not to be found anywhere else, because of this unique water environment,” said underwater archaeologist John Gifford.

A late Roman cemetery has been found in Kent, England, in addition to Anglo-Saxon buildings and pits. “There are lots of modern foundations here but lots of the old buildings have also survived. It is a very complex site, with foundations cutting pits which are cutting graves,” said Paul Bennett of Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 

Polish and Sudanese archaeologists digging in Sudan’s Nile Valley have uncovered a medieval settlement consisting of more than 70 houses. 

Battlefield archaeologist Tim Sutherland of England’s University of York says geophysical imagery has been used to locate several grave pits, where he expects to find the remains of hundreds of soldiers killed during the Battle of Towton. Some estimates suggest that as many as 28,000 men were killed in this battle during the Wars of the Roses, 550 years ago. 

Murals depicting three figures wearing feathered headdresses have been discovered at the Ucupe Palace in Peru’s Lambayeque region. 

Two hundred volunteers signaled each other with torches in North Wales in order to see how people communicated 2,500 years ago. “Most of the hill forts across the surrounding landscape can be seen from each other,” said Erin Robinson of the Heather and Hillforts project.

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