A Maori village  and an 800-year-old stone tool have been unearthed at the site of a nineteenth-century building that was demolished last month. The tool may have been used to construct canoes.

A joint American-Egyptian project to lower the level of ground water at archaeological sites in Luxor has resumed. The water could damage the structural integrity of five different temples.

While cataloging all of the ancient Egyptian coffins in English and Welsh museums, Aidan Dodson of the University of Bristol found one that is 1,000 years older than the mummy within it. “Cut from a single log of cedar wood, it is exquisitely carved, inlaid, and painted,” he said.

Bad weather is interfering with excavation at the Queen Anne’s Revenge wreck site off the coast of North Carolina. “We’ll do what we can; we still expect to raise a cannon,” said Mark Wilde-Ramsing of the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology.

A piece of a ship that may have been run aground by the British Navy 200 years ago has been recovered from the Connecticut River. Jerry Roberts, director of the Connecticut River Museum, wants to return to the site where it was found with side-scan sonar equipment.

The University of Maine’s Hudson Museum will return a small orange and black  Hohokam pot  holding cremated remains to several American Indian tribes in Arizona. “We’re very respectful of objects like these, and [this vessel] isn’t even normally handled by staff,” said museum director Gretchen Faulkner.

Writer Peter Curran studies the archaeologists themselves in this BBC News Radio story.

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