Flooding in a Mississippi cotton field earlier this year washed away five feet of topsoil that had been deposited during a 1927 flood. “You can actually see where the mule tracks were when they were rowing it up. It was like they were petrified,” said cotton farmer Bowen Flowers. Evidence of occupation from the Neolithic to […]

Some 5,000 nineteenth-century artifacts have been unearthed on historic Fulton Street in lower Manhattan. Archaeologist Alyssa Loorya thinks a wealthy family once lived at #40. Excavation for a new parking garage in Santa Fe, New Mexico, revealed an early twentieth century cess pit lined with bricks. “What this cess pit represents is flushable toilets – water […]