Category: archaeological findings

In Florida, Man Finds Remains of a Historic Battlefield in His Driveway

By Paul Guzzo From Tampa Bay Times Florida―It initially seemed like a child’s treasure-hunting tale. Aaron Defaria’s kids would bring him what they called diamonds, dug out of the shell-and-rock driveway at their Seffner home. But he thought they were just shiny rocks, chalked it up to childhood imagination and thought little of it. Then,…


Discovery of 7,000-Year-Old Remains Unravels Some Mysteries to Unknown Group of Humans

The ancient remains of a hunter-gatherer girl who died over 7,000 years ago in Indonesia, has revealed clues to a mysterious group of humans from the past. The discovery, made in 2015, in the Leang Panninge cave on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island is the first discovery of ancient human DNA in the region, known as Wallacea….