Blackbeard Artifacts Displayed
Reporters were given a gander at some of the artifacts raised from Blackbeard’s ship: David Moore, nautical archaeologist with the N.C. Maritime Museum, said all of the artifacts date to the early...
View ArticleThis Week in Experimental Archaeology
Twenty German college students are spending the summer living and training as Roman gladiators: The student warriors, who are all studying various disciplines at the university, won’t be eating pizza,...
View ArticleLatest News From Beaufort Inlet
The Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project has posted a summary of their 2010 fall field season: A total of 122 objects were recovered from the wreck site during the field season. Sixty-five...
View ArticleMammoth Art
While cleaning an old bone he found, an avocational fossil hunter made an incredible discovery: Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Florida have announced the discovery...
View ArticlePirate News
Analysis of ceramic remains from Barcadares, an 18th-century pirate camp in Belize, showed that more than 65 percent of it was delftware. Numerous pipes and few cups were found, suggesting popular...
View ArticleFugitive Slave Settlements Discovered
An amazing story of shoe-leather archaeology deep in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina: Buried in the earth are what are believed to be remnants of one or more communities of...
View ArticleShort News, Inebrious Fourth Edition
Bracing Tonics. A CRM excavation at the site of a former Manhattan beer garden unveiled a trove of 19th-century bitters bottles. Bitters — tonics that combined herbs and spices along with a hefty dose...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....