Excavation continues at the possible site of the Bray School on the Virginia campus of the College of William and Mary. The school was founded in 1760 for the education of African-American children. Archaeologists have uncovered a brick-lined well and evidence of a structure that may have been the school’s kitchen. Slate pencils and marbles have also been recovered. “What fascinates me is how this could have been forgotten. William and Mary is the first college or university in America to concern itself with educating blacks,” said English professor Terry Meyers.

Connecticut’s state archaeologist Nicholas F. Bellantoni unearthed the remains of Albert Afraid of Hawk, a Sioux Indian from South Dakota who died of botulism poisoning at Danbury Hospital while traveling with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1900. Bob Young of the Danbury Historical Society recently found a record of his burial and contacted his descendants in South Dakota. Mr. Afraid of Hawk’s remains will be reburied at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Low water levels in the Missouri River revealed The Montana, a wooden steamboat that was built in 1882. The Montanawas the largest vessel to travel the Missouri River until in sank in 1884 after striking an underwater tree.

A year after wildfires burned 93,000 acres in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildness, Forest Service archaeologists are finding stone tools that could be 9,000 years old on the vegetation-free ground. “It’s interesting because you see that landscape similar to what it was like after the glaciers receded; really open landscape and you can imagine what it looked like as tundra,” said archaeologist Lee Johnson.

Artist Katharine Morling is creating animal sculptures based upon the zoomorphic designs that decorate the Staffordshire Hoard. The seventh-century Anglo-Saxon weapons were discovered by a metal detector enthusiast in a farmer’s field in 2009. “I took the tiny images from the Hoard and transformed them into mythological god figures, brought to life in a kingdom of ceramic animal gods. These deities embody the power of the decorative depictions that were originally worn on the battlefield,” she said.

Hairpins fashioned from animal bone are a common discovery at Assos, an ancient town located on Turkey’s western coast. They are especially plentiful in the town’s agora, where they may have been crafted and sold 2,200 years ago. “Dresses [for free women and slaves] were the same, but we know that servants had short hair and free women had long hair. We also know that hair [styles] were different in every century. When dating sculptures and coins, we sometimes look at their hair [styles]. In this way, have a chance to make a dating,” said Nurettin Arslan of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University.

Google is now offering “Street View” tours of 30 archaeological sites in Mexico, including Teotihuacan, Chichen Itza, and Palenque. The National Institute of Anthropology and History plans to have all of its sites ready for street view tours by the end of the year.