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- As one of the worlds leading authorities on ancient seafaring, Jon Erlandson has devoted much of his career to hunting down evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.
The little tree in my hand is a dart head fashioned from creamy-brown chert and bristling with tiny barbs designed to lodge in the flesh of marine prey. Erlandson recently collected dozens of these points from San Miguel Island, a scrap of land 27 miles off the coast of California. Radiocarbon dating of marine shells and burned twigs at the site shows that humans landed on San Miguel at least 12,000 years ago, and the dart head in my hand holds clues to the ancestry of those seafarers. - Vitrified Fort in Ross County, Ohio.Spruce Hill earthwork encloses 150 acres and is possibly the largest Hopewell era enclosure ever built. The unique walls of this massive site are made of more stone than earth. There is evidence of high-temperature fires on sections of the wall - with slag and glazed bedrock that have led to controversial debates about metal-smelting furnaces (either historic or prehistoric). - Cairn Cemetery in Providence County, Rhode Island. At least 100 rock piles within an area of 230 acres. The cairns are approximately 3 feet high and 4 feet wide. Argument exists over the origin of this stone mound cairn field. The Wampanoag Nation's Seaconke Indian tribe claims it is a burial ground, with cairns marking both burial sites and memorials. Some authorities differ in their assessments, believing it to be the remains of field clearing in colonial America. - A few kilometres to the east of Ménerbes, along the D.103, and to the west of Lacost, the home of the chateau of the Marquis de Sade, can be found this dolmen which has its own signpost. - Gateholm's name, like several other islands off the Pembrokeshire coast, is derived from the names used by the Vikings who frequently raided this area in the 9th & 10th centuries, eg Skomer, Skokolm, Grassholm.
- This magnificent hill fort in the Parish of St. Columb Major (Borough of Restormel) is a scheduled monument of national importance. It stands 700 ft (214m) above sea level and commands extensive views: south and east over Goss Moor to the Hensbarrow Downs, north towards St. Breaock Downs and west to Newquay and the estuary of the Gannel, an important focus of prehistoric settlement and trading activity. - Ancient Village or Settlement in Georgia. Remains of buildings in forest made of megalithic cyclopean stones. - An Illinois site known to have contained the remains of a thousand year old village was bulldozed by a developer in late June and early July. Archaeologists and local residents are urging the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA) to take Tom Bow to court for exceeding allowed activities at the Pfeffer Site in Lebanon, Illinois. The ancient village of over 100 houses has been part of the Lebanon Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places since the 1970's. - The sixth salt man was discovered in Chehr-Ābād Mine in Zanjan City. It is likely that a large number of salt men were buried in Chehr-Ābād Salt Mine, said Farhang Farokhi head of Zanjan Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ZCHTO).
Five previous discovered salt men are being kept in Washhouse Museum, he added. - Prehistoric Village site which has been occupied in four main periods from the end of the neolithic. Some houses have been reconstructed. There is also an iron age tumulus and two dolmens.
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