Experts: More American Indian Burial Mounds Found
St. Paul Archaeological experts say more Minnesota landowners are finding American Indian burial mounds on their property.
The burial sites are being discovered as more land is developed -- especially around the state's lakes.
State archaeologist Scott Anfinson says he gets at least two calls a day from landowners or developers dealing with the issue.
Neither the state nor Indian tribes take control of land when ancient human remains are found. But both try to work with landowners to make sure their development plans don't disturb a burial site.
Occasionally, remains are removed from a site and buried elsewhere. It's a felony in Minnesota to knowingly disturb a burial mound.
That's the whole thing. What's the difference between those last two paragraphs? You find stuff on your land, the State or tribes can't "take control of [your] land", but it's a felony to futz with them?
Iron Age remains uncovered by archaeologists
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Malmesbury have uncovered evidence of a former ancient settlement.
Last November, North Wiltshire District Council commissioned Nimbus Conservation to undertake a programme of repair and reconstruction of the historic town wall adjoining the site of the former West Gate.
The archaeologists have now excavated a further trench outside the line of the town wall and uncovered a previously unknown, substantial stone-fronted defensive rampart and a deep ditch outside the line of the known town defences.
Bones discovered at suburban construction site
The state archeologist's office is investigating the discovery of human bones at the site of a new retirement community.
Construction workers discovered the remains on Thursday while digging near Jordan Creek Mall.
Once the bones were found, crews stopped digging and called police, authorities said.
"There's no coffins. There's some materials around the bones that could be wood. That's yet to be determined," said West Des Moines police Lt. Jeff Miller.
Police called the state archaeologist office and the state medical examiner's office.
"They'll be looking into whether this could be a Native American burial site or early pioneer settlements as well," said John Kraemer of the medical examiner's office.
Whole thing again.
Archaeology Project
A former Kendal Museum employee is poised to start unlocking the Lake District ’s vast heritage where over 6,500 sites make it one of the north’s top areas for archaeology.
Thanks to a £171,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant, Lisa Keys is spearheading work to roll out the relics of history to new and expanding audiences in a project she says ‘couldn’t be more exciting’.
A summary of the Lake District Historical Environmental Record will be listed on a website revealing a wealth of information, including prehistoric landscapes, medieval monastic sites and extensive industrial remains.
To find out more go to www.lake-district.gov.uk/archaeology.
That's the whole thing, but there's more on the actual story at the web site linked in the article, under 'Archaeology News' in the left sidebar.
Farm trash is archaeologist's treasure
Farm 'graveyards', those piles of abandoned vehicles and rusty machinery that dot rural landscapes, are like cherished living photo albums and family heirlooms.
That's the conclusion of Di Smith, a PhD candidate at Flinders University of South Australia, after studying the archaeology of farm graveyards.
Her study, believed to be the first of its type in Australia and possibly the world, found these graveyards, are part of our cultural heritage and of great archaeological value.
"I was looking for the answer to my questions of why do farmers keep all these abandoned vehicles and machinery on their property, why do they keep them for so long, and what do they do with them?" Smith says.
Not really an 'archaeology' study, but kind of interesting.
Battlefield archaeology Archaeologists hunt for battle site
Signs of struggle lie buried under a grassy opening in a mist-shrouded forest of hemlock and spruce.
Archaeologists at the Sitka National Historical Park recently unearthed musket shot and cannonballs in this quiet glade where they believe a clan of Tlingit Indians, called the Kiks.ádi, built a wooden palisade fort and held off Russian attackers for six days in October 1804 until their ammunition was spent.
There was a program on this event a couple of years ago on some Discovery Channel channel. Don't remember too much about it though, and a search of Discovery.com produced nothing.
"Tooooo-ga! Toooo-ga! Bones in togas puzzle Vatican archaeologists
Archaeologists exploring one of Rome's oldest catacombs are baffled by neat piles of more than 1,000 skeletons dressed in elegant togas.
The macabre find emerged as teams of historians slowly picked their way through the complex network of underground burial chambers, which stretch for miles under the city.
They say the tomb, which has been dated to the first century AD, is the first known example of a "mass burial".
That actually sounds quite interesting.
We do that Archaeologists uncover lost era
Archaeologists scouring the historic John Marsh House-Cowell Ranch site in Brentwood say there are American Indian artifacts and bones buried within the soil, some dating back as far as 9,000 years to the "Paleo-Indian" era.
"What we've found out there is extremely rare," said archaeologist Miley Holman, who is working with Shea Homes to study land associated with a residential development project next to the Cowell Ranch state park site.
The village, he said, covers both the Marsh-Cowell property and a Shea-backed project called Vineyards at Marsh Creek. Both projects are in the planning stages.
Relic hunters update Virginia archaeologists protest history buffs' digs
The buzz began in the chow line. "Did you hear?" asked one relic hunter.
"Yeah. A Mississippi plate," said another. "Absolutely perfect."
The proud new owner of the Confederate belt plate embossed with an eagle held out his treasure on his dirt-caked palm.
A man with a long beard and flannel shirt whistled low. "That's $12,000 right there."
It was the prize find of a three-day relic hunt called Diggin' in Virginia, one of a new breed of organized digs in the history-rich state.
Looks to be the same old story posted here a few times.