HONOLULU (AP) — Researchers have located the sunken USS Nevada near Hawaii, helping to close the final chapter of a historic battleship that served in both world wars and survived two nuclear...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Office of State Archaeology received a donated piece of driftwood last week that was collected by a beachgoer decades ago and could date back to the Civil...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — This year's summer archaeology field school sites will be in Bear Brook and Pillsbury state parks, the Division of Historical Resources said.

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Human skeletal remains possibly belonging to Revolutionary War soldiers have been discovered under an 18th-century house being renovated in Connecticut, according to a...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordanian officials say several tourists have been stabbed by a lone attacker at a popular archaeological site.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Leaders of Georgia's oldest city are considering new protections for historic relics unearthed by development project.

News outlets report officials in Savannah held a...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ball State University will lead archaeological surveys at three Indiana parks to locate possible prehistoric sites and homesteads from the early 1800s.

WICKLIFFE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Parks is hosting an Archaeology Day next month at Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site.

A statement from the agency says the Sept. 21 event in western...

MACKINAW CITY, Mich. (AP) — Archaeologists unearthed an 18th century serpent sideplate from a British trade gun at a historic Mackinaw City fort.

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island commission has issued a permit for an intensive archaeological investigation of a shipwreck that researchers believe is the vessel 18th-century explorer Capt....

PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — Students are getting elbows deep digging up artifacts at two sites by the Fort Gratiot Light Station.

About a dozen undergraduate and graduate students from Central...

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. (AP) — An excavation is subtly shifting the story of colonial Brunswick Town, on the west bank of the Cape Fear River.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Some state archaeologists are spending three weeks with students at the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, including a mock dig for 26 students.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology is conducting an online survey to gather public input regarding upcoming projects and initiatives.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A national archaeology organization has apologized for the attendance of a banned Alaska professor at its annual meeting.

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — The National Park Service is investigating the looting of an archaeological site at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.

DETROIT (AP) — Preservationists are angry that the Detroit Land Bank Authority demolished a log cabin just outside the city despite plans to relocate the structure, which may have been built...

JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) — Jamestown archaeologists have uncovered the western wall of the church that held the first meeting of representative government in North America nearly 400 years ago.

With the discovery, which lay hidden beneath a 5-inch layer of concrete, brick and dirt, the archaeologists know with certainly the full footprint of the 1617 wooden church, the first of several built on the site.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Lamia al-Gailani, an Iraqi archaeologist who lent her expertise to rebuilding the National Museum's collection after it was looted in 2003, has died at age 80.

Her daughter, Noorah al-Gailani, said Sunday that her mother died Friday in Amman, Jordan. She didn't give a cause of death.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — The public is invited to hear presentations on the latest Tennessee archaeological research this weekend at the 31st annual Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology meeting.

Presentations begin at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday and will be held in the Tennessee Room of Middle Tennessee State University's James Union Building.

Topics include the new Tennessee State Museum, a historical perspective on David Crockett Birthplace State Park and Tennessee cave and rock art research.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — The public is invited to hear presentations on the latest Tennessee archaeological research this weekend at the 31st annual Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology meeting.

Presentations begin at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday and will be held in the Tennessee Room of Middle Tennessee State University's James Union Building.

Topics include the new Tennessee State Museum, a historical perspective on David Crockett Birthplace State Park and Tennessee cave and rock art research.

DURYEA, Pa. (AP) — It wasn't only the stone tool — possibly more than 8,000 years old — that excited Al Pesotine.

It was also where volunteers with a local archaeology group found it — next to a fire pit at the group's dig site in Duryea.

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — A non-profit that identifies, acquires and preserves archaeological sites in the United States has raised concerns that dirt and construction work on county-owned land in Mississippi endangers artifacts connected to what could be the birthplace of slavery in a region.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A $6.9 million gift from a late geologist and his wife will be used to help University of Kansas researchers better understand early human life in the Americas.

Joseph and Maude Ruth Cramer established the Odyssey Archaeological Research Fund at the university in 2002 with a $1 million gift. The additional $6.9 million was recently received after their deaths.

FORSYTH, Mo. (AP) — An archaeological survey at a lake in southern Missouri is revealing a wide range of artifacts.

The survey along Lake Taneycomo covers about 6,000 acres, The Springfield News-Leader reported .

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 2018 graduate of Brown University from Milwaukee is a U.S. Rhodes scholar.

The Rhodes Trust on Sunday announced that Rhea Stark is among 32 men and women chosen from a group of 880 applicants endorsed by 281 U.S. colleges and universities for studies beginning next fall at Oxford University in England.

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — Over there by the telephone pole? That was a bar called the Nut House.

Toward the back of the big building? That's where the Wayne State archaeology team found a bullet, and it was exciting for a minute — but then they remembered oh, yeah, that was the police department.

STILLWATER, N.Y. (AP) — A group of U.S. military veterans will conduct an archaeology project at the site of the Revolutionary War's Battles of Saratoga.

The National Park Service says it's partnering with American Veterans Archaeological Recovery for an archaeological survey next spring at Saratoga National Historical Park in Stillwater.

American and British forces fought two battles in September and October 1777. The second was fought at what is known as the Barber Wheatfield.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Although archaeology has been around for centuries, "ice patch" archaeology really became a new discipline in 1991 when Otzi the Iceman — a 5,000-year-old body nearly perfectly preserved — was found high in the Italian-Austrian Alps by hikers.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Gary Lancaster leaned over the computer set out in Friendship Cemetery among clusters of land surveying equipment the afternoon of Oct. 12.

On the screen in front of him was a rough underground map of the grave sites of about 1,000 soldiers who died in Columbus after the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 — soldiers whose lives and deaths he's been researching for years.

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Archaeology students in Newport spent their weekend excavating beneath a local coffee shop to unearth possible artifacts.

MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (AP) — Archeologists from around the world are gathering in Connecticut to discuss how to study and preserve old battlefields.

The four-day International Fields of Conflict Conference begins Wednesday at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center.

Organizers say it will be the largest military archaeology conference ever held in the U.S., with speakers from 17 countries. The conference takes place every two years in a different nation.

WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — The Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky is hosting a 30th annual Living Archaeology Weekend in September.

A release from the Daniel Boone National Forest says the event brings artisans to the location where ancient Native Americans and early settlers once lived.

For more than 50 years, archaeological studies have been conducted in the gorge area. The event's exhibits and materials are based on research and archaeological discoveries found there.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Two family-friendly archaeology events are scheduled in Kentucky this month.

The Kentucky Heritage Council says Living Archaeology Weekend will be held Sept. 22 at Gladie Visitor Center in the Red River Gorge area of Daniel Boone National Forest. It will feature demonstrations of Native American and pioneer life, including corn grinding, blacksmithing, hide tanning and open-hearth cooking.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A project to build a parking lot alongside South Carolina's Saluda River may have wrecked an archaeological site where Native Americans lived for thousands of years.

The State reports that arrowheads and other artifacts were found in June after bulldozers went to work at the Saluda Riverwalk project, which Richland County is developing in conjunction with the Riverbanks Zoo.