Archaeology News

London, July 9 : A new study is going to determine the archaeological sites along the coast of England which are most at risk from the impacts of climate change.

VOLUNTEERS are being sought to carry out some very old washing up. Exeter Archaeology, the city council's archaeological field unit, recently dug up a hoard of 45,000 shards of medieval pottery in Hemyock.

The West Bengal government will set up a specialised centre for carrying out research and training on archaeology and heritage management, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has said.

LIHU'E, Kaua'i - A Kaua'i landowner's decision to proceed with building a house on top of ancient Native Hawaiian burials calls into question the authority of the state to assure appropriate handling of such burials.

The centuries-old remains of an American Indian male dug up at a construction site Wednesday morning will remain in county custody and the work on the site will cease until the state can determine which tribal descendants have legal claim.

Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research to date has focused on dry land excavations.

U.S. troops and contractors inflicted considerable damage on the historic Iraqi site of Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and digging trenches through one of the world' most important archaeological sites, experts for UNESCO said Thursday.

The Dutch government turned over dozens of antiquities stolen from Iraq to Baghdad's ambassador on Thursday and urged other countries to clamp down on the illicit trade.

Students in a new archaeological field school course at Utah State University hope to find Paleo-Indian artifacts at an excavation near the Bear River.

'I mean, look, the Jerilderie Letter, my God, no wonder it inspired a Booker-winning novel.' Energetic curiosity ... Tony Robinson delves into the Kelly enigma.

Prehistoric communities in one part of Peru's Andes Mountains may have gone from maize to amazingly complex.

BEIJING: Xanadu, the city built by Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and mentioned by Italian traveller Marco Polo, has been unearthed by Chinese archaeologists who have sketched its layout.

Jeanne Redd, age 59, of Blanding pleaded guilty to seven counts of trafficking in stolen artifacts, theft of government property, and theft of tribal property Monday morning in Salt Lake City in connection with a two-year undercover operation targeting a network of individuals allegedly involved in the sale, purchase, and exchange of artifacts ...

The mystery surrounding a long-forgotten cemetery unearthed by construction crews two months ago has only deepened with a genealogist's discovery of records suggesting hundreds of black Miamians may have been buried there more than 75 years ago.

NEW NEW Abstract Historical archaeologists have advocated the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or frames of referencea 'the household and the district being the most common.

VATICAN CITY, JULY 6, 2009 .- A Vatican spokesman is affirming that recent discoveries confirm Rome's centrality to Christianity due to the presence and veneration of the tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities Tuesday 7th July 2009 - 2:04pm Archaeologists uncover remains of 11th century dog in Cambridge city centre The remains of an 11th-century dog have been found by archaeologists eight feet below a city centre.

Jeanne Redd, left, and her daughter, Jerrica Redd, right, are whisked away from the Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City after they pleaded guilty to felony charges of stealing or selling American Indian artifacts Monday.

Authorities have moved to reassure the families of diggers buried in a mass grave in France that a project to recover their remains is on schedule and being handled in a "professional and sensitive" way.

Crews preparing for the construction of an oil pipeline through northeast Nebraska have turned up more than dirt; they found prehistoric artifacts.