• Crusader shipwreck, possibly fleeing from the 1291 Siege of Acre, discovered in Israel's Bay of Haifa with ceramics, ship artifacts, 30 gold coins

• Bones in cave linked to Scotland's 1577 Eigg massacre of Macdonald clan

• Egyptian ritual rock art images from the Neolithic period discovered: archer hunting for large flightless bird, man with raised arms as a hunt dancer with bird mask

• Is museum security robust enough to counter crime and terrorism?

• First century AD Gallo-Roman wall fresco discovered at the Avignon City Hall in France will probably be reburied

• Two large earthen Roman storage jars recovered by a fishing trawler at depth of 230-240 meters off Italy

• Syrian archaeologists are using traceable liquid to save artifacts from ISIS

• Taiwan: Earliest Catholic grave in Asia-Pacific unearthed

• The fight over 800 year old Crusader fortress once controlled by Knights Templar

• Archaeologists discover 900 year old cave believed to have been occupied by a Viking Age outlaw, containing a hearth, horse bones and possible bed

• Face of 'ordinary poor' man from medieval Cambridge graveyard revealed. New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college sheds light on how ordinary poor people lived in medieval England.

• Archaeology Students Seek Answers to Lost Civilization - it is a Native American group from the colonial period, not anything kooky like Atlantis

• There was an outbreak of cannibalism 10,000 years ago in Spain

• New research indicates that Alfred the Great probably wasn’t that great

• Chad's ancient Ennedi cave paintings defaced - : (

• China Focus: Legendary sunken treasure discovered in SW China

• A new perspective on the European colonization of Asia

• Chinese scientists use remote sensing technology to detect underground Great Wall remains

• 5th-6th century old Marble-paved market square enclosed by circular S-shaped stoa uncovered at Thessaloniki, Greece metro station

• Dig under way for Matthew Flinders in old London cemetery

• Analysis of skull trauma in 1,200 skeletons leads to conclusions about Mesopotamia

• Second Monumental Arch of Titus Celebrating Victory over Jews Found in Rome

• Ancient coins from Byzantine period unearthed in Israel

• Neolithic lake dwelling found in Zurich reconstructed

• The Hidden World of Stolen Art and Artifacts

• The surprising discovery at Angkor Wat

• Buyer Beware: US Market for Ancient Asian Art Still the Wild, Wild East

• Rites of the Scythians - Spectacular new discoveries from the Caucasus set the stage for a dramatic hilltop ritual

• Replica of 2,500-year-old Greek cargo vessel found off Israel christened ahead of maiden voyage: The archaeologists involved in the project seek to learn how ancient mariners sailed against the winds and currents with the technology existing at the time

• Structural and compositional analysis of 3,000 year old China casting mold shard

• Earliest Depiction of 'Fiery Serpent' Found in Medieval Painting - fascinating and horrifying at the same time

• Alaska’s Thaw Reveals—and Threatens—a Culture’s Artifacts: Precious items of the Yupik people, long frozen in time, are emerging as temperatures rise. Now the rush is on to save them.

• Rock Art Discovered in 'Dark Ages' Tomb in Israel: Archaeologists have found a 4,000 year old "gigantic" tomb, called a dolomen, with abstract carvings on the ceiling. It is "the first art ever documented in a dolmen in the Middle East"

• Egyptian statue recently unearthed is not Ramses II: A massive statue recently unearthed in Cairo and thought to depict one of the country's most famous pharaohs may be of another ancient Egyptian ruler, the country's antiquities minister said Thursday.

• Leopards Might Have Walked Alongside Neanderthals: It had been previously thought that leopards only lived in Italy’s mountainous regions during the Ice Age, but new fossil finds suggest the big cats were more widely dispersed

• Stone Age tools and animal bones in Tunisia are ‘clues to an early human corridor’, which would have cut across the Sahara for the dispersal of Homo sapiens and other animals from Sub-Saharan Africa between 200,000 to 10,000 years ago

• 5,000-year-old Neolithic hearth unearthed in Monmouth, UK: It would have been on the shore of the prehistoric lake and contained animal bones and charcoal

• A mysterious pyramid-shaped tomb has been uncovered by archaeologists under a construction site in China. The structure was discovered in a chamber alongside a similar cylinder-shaped coffin in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.

• 1,300 year old giant skull discovered in Alaska might be evidence of elusive "King" polar bear described in native accounts

• 2,000 year old warrior armor plates made of reindeer antlers found on the Arctic Circle: by ancient bear cult people - I'm waiting for the Skyrim mod

A recent dendrochronology study on the slave quarters at Greenfield Plantation in Virginia found the homes, which were believed to have been built around the 1830s, were actually built later - with one being the 1840s and the other in the 1860s.

What makes it interesting is that the larger quarters is 2-stories and odd construction for the period. According to the state architectural historian, these new dates, and that the larger quarters appears to have been built during the Civil War, creates the possibility that the plantation owner may have used better living quarters as an incentive to keep slaves from running away.

I find living arrangements for enslaved labor interesting, in that it differs so much from North to South. Here in New England separate dwellings are much more rare, with the only surviving example being the Royall House and Quarters in Medford, MA. Beyond that, very few of the instances of slavery which I'm familiar with in this area have any records on personal spaces.