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  GPR technology aids in uncovering early Jamestown features and burial – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  GSSI, the world leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, is continuing their partnership with the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. GSSI archaeologists Dan Welch and Peter Leach brought new GPR equipment to remotely sense what lies beneath Jamestown. Jamestown –known for being the first permanent English settlement in the New World – will be commemorating the 400th-anniversary of the first representative government and arrival of the first Africans in 2019. To honor these two events, the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation is excavating two sites where these events took place in 1619.
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  'Pompeii of the north' revealed by archaeologists – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  Evidence for early Christianity in Roman Britain and bath house with 7-foot-high walls uncovered.
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  Where Hominins Became Human – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  Coastal cave systems in South Africa could hold keys to unraveling the mystery about when and where modern humans were born.
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  The Archaeology of Montpelier's Enslaved Community – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  New discoveries have been made about the slave community that resided on an American founding father's 19th century plantation.
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  Greek volcano mystery: Archaeologist narrows on date of Thera eruption – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N.Y. – A Cornell University researcher is using cutting-edge statistical analysis to narrow down the time range for one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the Holocene epoch — and settle one of modern archaeology’s longstanding disputes.