22 OCTOBRE 2018: Baveh Yawan - Dog Island - Tape Naderi - St. Martins - Tregouzel -
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IRAN – 
Baveh Yawan - A tooth, belonging to a Neanderthal child, was discovered in the rocky mountain of Baveh Yawan in Kermanshah Province. The Public Relations Office of the Research Institute of Heritage and Tourism (RICHT) quoted Saman Heidari Gouran, head of the archeology team in the area, as saying on Sunday that this is the first time that remains of a Neanderthal man are discovered in Iran. He noted that the discovered tooth is a milk tooth belonging to a six-year-old child, which was obtained together with stone tools belonging to the middle Paleolithic period which have been found in scientific explorations. Heidari Goran said the tooth, based on age-matched radiocarbon 14 experiments, has a range of 42 to 45 thousand years, and this Neanderthal belongs to the Neanderthal communities close to the contemporary era. The archeologist added the discovered tooth is among the rare Neanderthal milk teeth that have been scientifically registered in the world. He went on to say that a few similar teeth had earlier been discovered in Spain, France and Germany.
http://www.irna.ir/en/News/83073670
USA – 
Dog Island - Ships that washed ashore on Dog Island during the 1899 Carrabelle Hurricane were unearthed completely by Hurricane Michael's vicious storm surge last week in Franklin County, Florida. Of the 15 ships that were grounded on the barrier island during the storm 119 years ago, it's unclear which or how many were unearthed by Michael. Sitting on the Gulf of Mexico side of the island, the wooden ships now rest in plain view near the west end of the island.
IRAN – 
Tape Naderi - Vestiges of a massive wall have recently been unearthed by a team of international archaeologists conducting a stratigraphy survey across the Tape (Hill) Naderi in Shirvan, northeast Iran. “Based on archaeological evidence, the wall, which is over four meters in width, is most probably part of a defensive wall constructed in the Bronze Age,” ILNA quoted Ali-Akbar Vahdati who leads the survey as saying on Saturday. Parts of the wall, that is almost two meters in height, remain intact, the Iranian archaeologist added. “Tape Naderi is seemingly flourished on the brink of urbanization and the defensive wall was created to protect its inhabitants around the hill… considering [the fact] that main portions of aged deposits around it is related to the Bronze Age.”
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/428763/Bronze-Age-wall-discovered-in-northeast-Iran
CANADA – 
St. Martins - An ancient hunting camp site has been found on part of the proposed Fundy Trail Parkway, between St. Martins and Fundy National Park. Brent Suttie, the chief archeologist with the provincial government, said digging began after he found a small core fragment of quartz where a skidder had gone through. Suttie said over the past 16 weeks, a treasure trove of artifacts has been unearthed on ridges overlooking a swale. "The knives, the spear points, the projectile points, like arrow points and dart points. But then we also have the utilized flakes that people would have been using, we think, to process the meat. And then we have some roasting pits where it looks like people might have been smoking and preserving the meat," said Suttie. "We also have some possible features here that might actually be meat caches and some storage pits," he said. The leading theory is that Indigenous hunters went there on a regular basis to ambush herds of migrating caribou. "The river at this point is a natural ford," said Suttie. Suttie said it's the first time a site like this has been found in New Brunswick.
VIDEO = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ancient-fundy-caribou-ambush-1.4868430?cmp=rss
FRANCE – 
Tregouzel - La prospection géophysique qui vient de s’achever autour du temple romain de Tregouzel indique qu’il s’agit d’un site de grande importance. Construit pour être le plus visible, le temple devait faire au moins 20 mètres de haut. « Nous devons encore analyser les relevés mais il semble certain que ce temple avait des proportions particulières : la pièce principale faisait 40 mètres de diamètre, avec des murs de deux mètres d’épaisseur ». Deux confirmations de la part de Kelig-Yann Cotto, conservateur du Port-Musée et archéologue, ce vendredi matin sur le site celto-romain de Tregouzel, près de Menez-Peulven. En premier lieu, au vu de l’état étonnant de conservation de certaines parties, les Romains étaient bien les maîtres du mortier. Le temple romain, construit en plusieurs phases à partir du Ier siècle sur les restes d’une construction gauloise, dévoile des murs impeccables. Surtout, il semble aujourd’hui acquis que le site jouait un rôle majeur : le bâtiment devait mesurer au minimum 20 mètres de haut, pour être visible de très loin, et des routes pour aller vers la pointe de Douarnenez et le Cap-Sizun passaient à proximité. Un monument d’éclat pour une cité sans doute prospère. Ces grands axes, comme plusieurs enclos et murailles, ont été dévoilés par une prospection géophysique qui s’est achevée jeudi. Elle va permettre, entre autres, d’avoir un plan du temple et une idée précise de ses alentours. « Après les premières fouilles réalisées en 1874 par Maurice Halna du Fretay, puis celles de 1977-1978, qui s’étaient attachés à connaître la chronologie du site, il fallait avoir une connaissance du potentiel archéologique de l’ensemble du secteur », indique Kelig-Yann Cotto. Cette fois, il s’agissait d’aller en profondeur. Durant quatre jours, l’anglais John Nicholls, du cabinet belge Target, a utilisé deux techniques. D’abord un magnétomètre, avec ses huit capteurs qui mesurent le champ magnétique terrestre. Or, quand un terrain est bouleversé, pour des constructions par exemple, le champ magnétique l’est aussi, d’où des informations majeures pour un archéologue. Un radar, mesurant la résistivité du sol et donc la présence de murs, a aussi été employé. « Et cela a bien répondu, c’est pour cela que nous devrions avoir un plan du temple », Kelig-Yann Cotto.