Photo Credit – PW Creighton/TSM FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — A six-week archaeological dig on a Colonial-era British military site on the upper Hudson River is wrapping up. A team of volunteers and students has been excavating areas on Rogers Island at Fort Edward, 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Albany. Thousands of British and …

SCHUYLERVILLE — The American Revolution Round Table (ARRT) of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys presents, 18th Century Military Archaeology in the Upper Hudson and Champlain Valleys by David Starbuck. This session will be held Aug. 24 at the Schuylerville Town Hall, 12 Spring St., Schuylerville. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. with social time followed …

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND—Extensive remains of a Maori village were unearthed during road construction in Papamoa, according to a report from the New Zealand Herald. Archaeologists Ken Phillips and Cameron McCaffrey were called in when the first evidence of the settlement was uncovered, and their excavation uncovered more than 300 archaeological features. These included large postholes, …

The excavation site at Rach Nui in Southern Vietnam. Credit: ANU A team of archaeologists from ANU has uncovered a vast trading network which operated in Vietnam from around 4,500 years ago up until around 3,000 years ago. A new study shows a number of settlements along the Mekong Delta region of Southern Vietnam were …

Posted on 14 August 2017 John Schofield re-explores the prospects of archaeology as an academic degree in Current Archaeology Five years ago, I wrote a short piece – under the title ‘The best degree?’ (CA 270) – responding to the suggestion in CA 268 that Archaeology was under threat as a university subject. Certainly there …