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ROYAUME UNI – 
Brighton - A 200-year-old burial site has been discovered during redevelopment work at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange. One skeleton was found earlier this week, but now nine graves have been uncovered. They are thought to be from a Quaker burial ground that existed before the Royal Pavilion Estate was built. The best clue as to when worship and burial ceased is when the Quaker meeting house moved to the current location on Meeting House Lane in 1805. A spokesperson for Brighton Quakers said they were "excited" with the news. "We have known for a long time about the burial ground being used from 1700 to 1805 but did not know that any Quakers were left buried there."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-40516306
CANADA – 
Montréal - When Jacques Cartier first visited what we now call Montreal in 1535 — 482 years ago — he found a thriving, fortified Iroquoian farming village on a flank of the mountain he christened Mount Royal. But almost five centuries later the exact location of the village — Hochelaga — remains a mystery. By the time Cartier returned in 1541, it had disappeared. Since then, theories about where the village may have stood have abounded, based on archeological finds on and around the mountain. This summer, as Montreal celebrates the 375th anniversary of its founding as a French colony in 1642, archaeologists are embarking on a three-year effort to finally pin down Hochelaga’s whereabouts.They’re starting with a dig along St-Viateur Ave. in Outremont Park. Tuesday was Day One. Wearing hard hats and fluorescent vests, seven Université de Montréal archaeology students and consulting archaeologist Michel Plourde were huddled around three “test pits” — exploratory holes that measure 50 centimetres square and 1.2 metres deep.“Hochelaga was a big village and if it was here we will find it with this technique,” said Plourde, a lecturer at Université Laval in Quebec City. The diggers are hoping to find Iroquoian traces — perhaps ceramic bowls with telltale motif, or tools made with bones.The team will dig holes around the park’s periphery and a couple in the middle before moving on to Pratt Park, also in Outremont, where in the 1920s skeletons believed to be those of Indigenous people were discovered. Some historians have suggested Cartier may have arrived from the north, via the Rivière des Prairies, raising the possibility that the village he described was in the area now occupied by the borough of Outremont. However, the strongest hypothesis is that he arrived via the St-Lawrence River and found Hochelaga on the side of Mount Royal in present-day downtown Montreal, Plourde said.
CHINE – 
Qixian - At least 224 tombs believed to be over 3,000 years old have been unearthed in central China's Henan province. The tombs, which archaeologists date from the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC), are located across a river in Qixian county, Xinhua news agency reported. Archaeologists have also excavated five pits containing the remains of horses and the ruins of a house, unearthing nearly 400 items including pottery, bronze weapons and carts, shells, jade and lacquerware. Most of the tombs were small in size and carefully planned, which showed that they belonged to ordinary people, according to Han Zhaohui, head of the team and associate research fellow with the Henan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute.He said it appeared to have been a military area as about a quarter of the tombs contained broken shields and daggers. Most pottery pieces were boilers and jars, which were typical burial objects for people of Zhou Dynasty in late Shang (1600-1046 BC) and early West Zhou periods, Han said.
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/3-000-year-old-tombs-excavated-in-china-1721382
GIBRALTAR – 
Vanguard Cave - Archaeologists working in Gibraltar’s world heritage site have discovered the milk tooth of a Neanderthal child who may have been devoured by hyenas over 50,000 years ago. This is only the third time that Neanderthal remains have been discovered in Gibraltar and is the first such find in nearly a century. The upper right canine milk tooth was found in Vanguard Cave and researchers believe it belonged to a four or five-year old Neanderthal. Although the Gorham’s complex has produced archaeological and paleontological evidence of Neanderthal occupation spanning more than 100,000 years, it has never before yielded Neanderthal remains. “At the moment it is just the tooth, but it is direct evidence of a Neanderthal,” said Professor Clive Finlayson, the director of the Gibraltar Museum and the cave complex. “The level where we found it has very little evidence of Neanderthal occupation, but it has evidence of hyena activity.” “This is only a working hypothesis at the moment, no more than speculation, but one possibility is that the child was predated upon by the hyenas and dragged into the den where the material was found.”Part of the reasoning behind this theory is that the tooth still has its root, which is normally lost when milk teeth are shed naturally. Earlier Neanderthal remains found in Gibraltar include a female skull discovered in Forbe’s Quarry in 1848 and a child’s skull discovered in Devil’s Tower rock shelter in 1926.
COLOMBIE – Cartagena - Colombia is making progress towards salvaging a Spanish galleon carrying jewels and coins that sank more than 300 years ago. The ship named San Jose, thought by historians to be carrying one of the largest unsalvaged maritime treasures, sank in 1708 near the historical Caribbean port of Cartagena, and its wreckage was located in 2015. Sonar images have so far revealed bronze cannons made specifically for the ship, arms, ceramics and other artefacts. Archaeological excavation and scientific tests on the wreck will continue to ensure it can be properly preserved, Santos said. The San Jose was part of the fleet of King Philip V, who fought the English during the War of Spanish Succession. Some 600 people died in the shipwreck when an English fleet engaged the galleon in a gun fight.