Two of the new arrivals on Season 10 of Curse of Oak Island (COOI) are the stone well down by the shoreline that the team claims is 900 years old, and what the team are calling The Blob, an area near the garden shaft that is supposed to be the source of the gold and…
Oak Island Archaeology Update: Is the decorated copper object a gorget?
The Curse of Oak Island (COOI) E06S10 brought us one of the more interesting finds of the team in a long time. As an archaeologist, I am of course interested in old ox shoes and random fragments of stoves dumped in fill. We can learn a lot from those, from their spatial distribution, from their…
Oak Island Archaeology Update: An actual, accurate translation of the letter from the commander of the Castor and the Aurore
Seasons 9 and 10 of the Curse of Oak Island (COOI) make a big deal of the Duc d’Anville’s fairly disastrous 1746 naval expedition to Nova Scotia. The COOI team speculate that the expedition might have been a cover for sending a great treasure to Oak Island and burying it in what became the Money…
Curse of Oak Island archaeology update: Did they find an ancient rectangular copper trade token?
Episodes 2 and 3 of The Curse of Oak Island (COOI) devote some time to the finding and analysis of a rectangular piece of copper. Having dabbled over the years in the early history and archaeology of metallurgy, this one was immediately intriguing to me. The COOI team initially hoped it was some kind of…
Ancient Apocalypse archaeology update 7: How apocalyptic was the Younger Dryas?
In his closing arguments for Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock takes us to the channeled scabland of Washington State on the Northwest coast of North America. Here, he tells us, is clear evidence of a catastrophe so gigantic that it could have wiped out an entire advanced civilisation, leaving only a few survivors. As we know…
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