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Hunting weapon with copper arrowhead found in melting ice

14 February 2018 | Archaeo Feed
Hunting weapon with copper arrowhead found in melting ice

Archaeologists travelling with a documentary crew have discovered a nearly 1,000-year-old hunting artefact, half exposed in a remote patch of ice near Carcross, Yukon, North-West Canada.

Europe

Archaeologists reveal how lead poisoning affected the Roman Empire

6 February 2018 | Archaeo Feed
Archaeologists reveal how lead poisoning affected the Roman Empire

Archaeologists investigate lead production and use in the Roman Empire to determine how it affected and could have poisoned the Roman society.

North America

Traces of ancient settlement uncovered at Newfoundland

4 September 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Traces of ancient settlement uncovered at Newfoundland

Researchers have uncovered various remains at the small 2000-year-old enclosure at the Groswater site near Bass Pond, Port au Choix, in Canada’s Newfoundland.

North America

Reconstruction of a 3700-year-old family from British Columbia

12 July 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Reconstruction of a 3700-year-old family from British Columbia

Researchers have reconstructed the faces of a family of an ancient chief that were buried together 3700 years ago in a shell midden with thousands of stone beads at the shore of the Salish Sea, British Columbia, Canada.

North America

Palaeolithic stone tools found in East Canada

17 April 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Palaeolithic stone tools found in East Canada

Archaeologists discovered stone tools along Route 8 near Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, which date to 12700 years in the past.

North America

Ancient pithouse’s occupation spanned 1500 years

7 April 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Ancient pithouse's occupation spanned 1500 years

Archaeologists discovered a pithouse at Bridge River in the Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, Canada, which was occupied for 1500 years with three periods of abandonment – latest after the late fur-trading period from 1835 to 1858.

North America

Numerous artefacts from the American Revolutionary War found

28 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Numerous artefacts from the American Revolutionary War found

Archaeologists discovered caches of American Revolutionary War artefacts at Gloucester Point, Virginia, United States of America. Excavations were conducted prior to construction of a new Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

North America

Cut-marks on extinct horse’s jawbone puts human presence in North America 10000 earlier

16 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Cut-marks on extinct horse's jawbone puts human presence in North America 10000 earlier

Archaeologists discovered remains of a hunter camp in a small cave in Bluefish Caves in northwestern Yukon, Canada, that contained a jaw bone of a now extinct Yukon horse. The surface of the artefact was covered with cut marks and it was dated by radiocarbon to 24000 years ago.

North America

Search for artefacts revealed by melting ice

28 December 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Search for artefacts revealed by melting ice

Canadian archaeologists are surveying high alpine pastures in the Selwyn and Mackenzie Mountains of the Northwest Territories (Canada) in search for archaeological sites revealed by melting ice.

North America

Wetland gardens from 3800 years ago discovered in British Columbia

22 December 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Wetland gardens from 3800 years ago discovered in British Columbia

Excavations prior to a road-building project in British Columbia, Canada, discovered a wetland-gardening site in Pitt Meadows. The site dates back to 1800 BC.

North America

Mysterious caribou fences documented in remote Canadian territories

21 December 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Mysterious caribou fences documented in remote Canadian territories

Archaeologists document the 100-kilometre long Sahtu Dene caribou fences in Canada’s  Northwest Territories. The task aims at marking a physical record of indigenous history in the area.

North America

Franklin’s expedition’s crewmember’s toenail analysis complete

10 December 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Franklin's expedition's crewmember's toenail analysis complete

Chemical analysis a nail found in a remote grave of a member of the ill-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin, John Hartnell, found on Beechey Island, revealed zinc deficiency in the body of the deceased.

North America

Canada’s prehistoric sites damaged by flood reveal new finds

8 October 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Canada's prehistoric sites damaged by flood reveal new finds

The flood in 2013 that occurred in southern Alberta, Canada, caused the local government to conduct a program to preserve artefacts in affected areas. As a result, archaeologists studied sites unearthing items such as tools and bison bones at the banks of the Bow River, East of Calgary.

North America

Ship of Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen raised to surface

4 October 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Ship of Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen raised to surface

After six years of work, Norwegian researchers lifted The Maud, the ship of Arctic Explorer Roald Amundsen. The ship trapped in ice in Nunavut, North Canada, since 1930, is now prepared for a trip home to Norway.

North America

HMS Terror – second ship of Franklin’s famous lost expedition discovered!

15 September 2016 | Archaeo Feed
HMS Terror - second ship of Franklin's famous lost expedition discovered!

In 2014 the HMS Erebus was discovered. One of two ships of the ill-fated mission to discover the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, led by Sir John Franklin in 1845. Now, the second ship, HMS Terror, that sailed under the command of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, has been discovered.

North America

Construction site unearths a 19th century cemetery in Montreal

11 September 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Construction site unearths a 19th century cemetery in Montreal

Construction workers unearthed 19th century burials just 40 centimetres beneath the ground in downtown Montreal, Canada. Over 40 burials were discovered at a site that is believed to be an abandoned protestant cemetery.

North America

Remote Nunavut site reveals artefacts of the proto-Inuit Thule culture

10 September 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Remote Nunavut site reveals artefacts of the proto-Inuit Thule culture

Excavations of the remote site of Qaiqsut, north of Baffin Island, in north-eastern Canada’s Nunavut region revealed numerous artefacts that belonged to the proto-Inuit Thule culture. The site consists of a a sod house located in Sirmilik National Park at an area that slowly erodes into the Atlantic Ocean.

North America

200-year-old ship discovered in the Great Lakes area

18 August 2016 | Archaeo Feed
200-year-old ship discovered in the Great Lakes area

A team of three underwater explorers from New York discovered a ship on the bottom of Lake Ontario in North America’s Great Lakes region. The wreckage was identified as a 200-years-old sloop “Washington” that was built in USA and owned by Canadians.

North America

Mysterious carved rocks discovered in Canada

24 July 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Mysterious carved rocks discovered in Canada

Archaeologists investigating an area located in British Columbia in Canada discovered a deposit containing shells, animal bones and other items that indicate the site of human settlement. Among them 80 tablets and pebbles with images were documented.

Asia

Couple buried holding hands 5000 years ago in Siberia

15 July 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Couple buried holding hands 5000 years ago in Siberia

A Bronze Age burial discovered at a cape on Maloe More near Chernorud at Lake Baikal in Russia revealed an ancient couple of an elderly man and his wife or concubine.

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