More than 350 sets of human remains have been exhumed from a nineteenth-century Roman Catholic cemetery in La Salle, Illinois, by volunteers. It had been thought that most of the cemetery had been moved in the early twentieth century.

A Russian-piloted submersible scanner that combines ultrasound and video imagery uncovered a shipwreck in Lake Geneva. Researchers believe the 100-foot barge dates to the turn of the twentieth century and might have been used to transport materials from a quarry across the lake.

Human remains and tool-making debris have been unearthed at a construction site in Santa Cruz, California. The development is being monitored by an archaeologist and a representative of the Ohlone descendants.

Three cloister walls of a 700-year-old abbey have been found at the Abbey Hotel in Conwy, Wales. The original abbey was destroyed in the sixteenth century during the reign of Henry VIII.

Eleanor Casella of the University of Manchester has found textile manufacturing paraphernalia at a prison nursery site in Tasmania. She says the artifacts prove that women prisoners had contact with their babies, despite strict rules against it. “That was a very direct and never documented subversion of the formal British penal regulations that governed this penal colony,” she added.

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