This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.
Byzantine-era church uncovered in Jerusalem highway expansion
Humans caused a third of floods in the past 500 years in southwest Netherlands
Bones With Names: Long-Dead Bodies Archaeologists Have Identified
The 4,000 year history of Ice Cream, and a recipe for how to make your own WITHOUT using a freezer
Gloucestershire town becomes a museum to display recently excavated castle finds
Bronze Arrowhead Embedded In Spine Shows Elite Iron Age Warrior Survived Battle
11,500-Year-Old Bison Butchering Site Discovered in Oklahoma
Mapela: archaeologists re-visit a forgotten urban site in Zimbabwe
Ancient gold shows prehistoric trading route existed between Cornwall and Ireland
Dazzling jewels from an Ethiopian grave reveal 2,000-year-old link to Rome
Greek Archaeological Body Approves New 5-year Excavation at Antikythera Shipwreck
12,000-year-old site in Connecticut is highlighted by local news
Treasure Hunters Raid Soon-to-Be-Excavated Ancient Thracian Tumuli in Bulgaria’s Tatarevo
Archaeologists Discovered Evidence that Medieval Doctors Used General Anaesthetics
Evidence of oldest human occupation in Mid-West Australia discovered
Study explores how past Native American settlement modified WNY forests
35,000 years ago Aurignacians were first modern humans to occupy Mas d’Azil
Face of Saxon man found buried beneath Lincoln Castle recreated - with Beatles haircut
"Robots of the Caribbean" photograph infamous sunken pirate city
Maybe this should wait until Friday's topic, but convocation is terribly boring. Found a cool new site from a video game archivist, which includes some discussion of how archives might preserve different video games. Very new but pretty interesting for new directions in the future of history.