Archaeologists are uncovering the roots of the industrial revolution in Los Angeles, California, at the site of Chapman’s Mill and the San Gabriel Mission. The artifacts include a brass religious medallion, a nineteenth-century Spanish coin, local and imported pottery, beads, and plenty of food remains.

More than 60,000 artifacts have been excavated from a backyard in Columbia, South Carolina. “It’s a remarkable site for several reasons. Probably the most significant reason is that it tells the story of Columbia through the lives and experiences of one African American family,” said archaeologist Jakob Crockett.

Volunteers and experts from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales are waiting for the results of tree-ring dating of the roof beams in a cow shed. The building may date to the fourteenth century.

Skeletal remains were discovered in some rubble in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. The person may have been killed in a 1931 earthquake.

A Florida-based deep-sea salvage company has been ordered by the 11^th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to return nearly 600,000 gold and silver coins to Spain. The coins were recovered from the ocean’s floor off the coast of Spain in 2007.

A large piece of a shipwreck washed ashore on a Lake Michigan beach. It is thought to be the bilge keelson from the schooner Jennie and Annie, which sank 140 years ago. Most of its crew was lost.

Three human skulls were uncovered in central Florida during the excavation of a swimming pool. Biological archaeologist Rachel Wentz thinks there may have been a small cemetery connected to a migrant worker camp at the site until the 1980s.

An ax head discovered in Gloucestershire, England, has been identified as a Viking implement  that could have been used during a battle that took place in 894 A.D. It was found in an area where the Vikings may have tied up their ships.

Don’t miss these photographs of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley at National Geographic Daily News.

Five students in Estonia are living an Iron Age life in a hand-built hut for five days. “Things I miss from the modern world would be a chimney, toilet paper and electricity for light,” said Kristiina Paavel.