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 the twentieth century was found on a northern Scottish island, beneath wind-blown sand dunes, by the archaeologist Ian Crawford. The area could be developed as an archaeological resource center.

An eighteenth-century tin smith’s shop has been unearthed at Colonial Williamsburg, adjacent to the James Anderson Armory. “The work will complete the most important Revolutionary-era military site in Williamsburg, offering guests an entirely different perspective on the role of the capital during a critical moment in the history of the Commonwealth and the nation,” said James Horn of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library.

Archaeologists have uncovered strange, V-shaped grooves cut into the limestone floor of one of the rooms in a structure in Jerusalem’s City of David. “I’ve never seen anything like them,” said Eli Shukron, a director of the excavation.

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