Archaeologists are uncovering the roots of the industrial revolution in Los Angeles, California, at the site of Chapman’s Mill and the San Gabriel Mission. The artifacts include a brass religious medallion, a nineteenth-century Spanish coin, local and imported pottery, beads, and plenty of food remains.

More than 60,000 artifacts have been excavated from a backyard in Columbia, South Carolina. “It’s a remarkable site for several reasons. Probably the most significant reason is that it tells the story of Columbia through the lives and experiences of one African American family,” said archaeologist Jakob Crockett.

Volunteers and experts from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales are waiting for the results of tree-ring dating of the roof beams in a cow shed. The building may date to the fourteenth century.

Skeletal remains were discovered in some rubble in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. The person may have been killed in a 1931 earthquake.

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