The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum

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Rethinking the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-ancient-mayan-copernicus.html

Belize
A Maya burial temple from Belize:
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/mayan-tomb-discovered-in-belize/

A Maya burial is giving hints about the Snake dynasty (same as above, I think):
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/06/maya-snake-dynasty-tomb-belize-ruins

Canada
What a metal detectorist in PEI has found over the years:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/rick-barton-find-artifact-european-1.3725651?cmp=rss

Costa Rica
A tomb raider in Costa Rica is arrested:
http://news.co.cr/suspected-tomb-raider-gets-raided-costa-rica/50028/

Mexico
Feature on the pyramid at Cholula:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160812-the-giant-pyramid-hidden-inside-a-mountain

Evidence of rabbit breeding at Teotihuacan:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-pre-hispanic-mexican-civilization-bred-rabbits.html

Suggestion that Teotihuacan was a centre for water worship:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/teotihuacan-mexicos-pyramid-city-worshiped-water-scholar-says-1470762228

Peru
Sarah Parcak is going to look for lost Incan sites:
http://altoday.com/archives/11953-uab-space-archaeologist-sarah-parcak-on-a-mission-to-unearth-worlds-hidden-treasures

Feature on Chavin de Huantar:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160808-a-lost-temple-holds-the-secrets-to-the-origins-of-authority

Feature on the end of the Wari:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/waris-grisly-end-fall-south-american-empire

Pondering some Incan trepanation:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/health/holes-in-the-head/index.html

1000 years bp dog burials at at the Lima zoo:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/why-are-these-1000-year-old-dogs-buried-under-lima-zoo?rss=1

6000 years bp human remains from Los Olivos:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-ancient-remains-found-in-olivos-110146

Rapanui
War didn’t destroy Easter Island:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-easter-island-war-analysis.html

United States
Assorted stone tools found by an Oregon teacher:
http://theweek.com/speedreads/643649/oregon-teacher-discovers-14-prehistoric-tools-backyard

Native American artifacts from the Willamette Valley (same story as above, I think):
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/08/archaeologists_find_rare_nativ.html

Studying pre-European monument sites in Michigan:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-uncover-insights-great-lakes-monuments.html

Assorted items of a Pike Place Market construction site:
http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle/2000-artifacts-found-at-pike-place-marketfront-construction-site/291956877

Remains of a 16th century shipwreck off Florida:
http://www.livescience.com/55795-colonial-age-shipwrecks-found-off-florida-coast.html

Evidence of earlier bits of Jefferson’s Mews:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-archaeologists-unearth-early-elements-mews.html

A dig has revealed a structure at Madison’s Montpelier:
http://www.dailyprogress.com/starexponent/news/foundation-of-last-slave-structure-uncovered-at-montpelier/article_eb0a6474-17be-5e80-8e2e-172650720de0.html

Plenty of coverage of a 19th century shipwreck find in Lake Ontario (the Washington):
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0817/Second-oldest-Great-Lakes-shipwreck-offers-a-rare-window-into-the-past

There was excitement over the discovery of a sword tip at the Alamo:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/1800s-sword-tip-found-in-Alamo-Plaza-9136600.php

Sort of a culminating piece on the Alamo dig:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Digging-concluded-in-Alamo-Plaza-9173314.php

They’re digging at the Bush Prairie Farm:
http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article96295802.html

… and Isle Royale:
http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/08/15/scsu-archaeology-student-seeks-clues-isle-royale/88630196/

The dig at Lake George has been extended:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-site-1750s-british-american-encampments.html

… where they found remains of a possible officer’s camp:
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/French-and-Indian-War-dig-reveals-possible-9140188.php

Finds from Alexandria:
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2016/aug/08/alexandria-youths-uncover-historic-artifacts/

The Timbisha Shoshone are concerned about ‘artifact tampering’ (wrong description):
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/localnews/4589981-151/tribe-distressed-over-artifact-tampering

Feature on Cahokia:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/17/lost-cities-8-mystery-ahokia-illinois-mississippians-native-americans-vanish

… and another item on the status of women at Cahokia:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/priu-fla080516.php

Feature on the Cardiff Giant:
http://www.livescience.com/55787-cardiff-giant.html

Feature on the Boston molasses flood:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160817-the-killer-flood-made-of-molasses

Follow-up to the CNY plaque theft:
http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/08/pair_accused_of_stealing_scrapping_plaque_honoring_civil_war_doctor.html