The peer reviewed paper published last year in Archaeological Prospection that claimed Gunung Padang in Indonesia is a 25k year old pyramid has now been retracted by the journal. As I noted at the time, the paper does not support its main claim. It doesn’t provide evidence that Gunung Padang is anything but a volcanic…
Curse of Oak Island Archaeology Update: Roman coins on Lot 5
The two hour opener of Season 11 heavily features the discovery of coins, both Roman and Medieval, on Lot 5, near and around the circular depression. As always, we can ask ourselves how surprising and how significant these finds are, and what they might mean. Do the coins indicate treasure? The coins found on Lot…
Curse of Oak Island Archaeology Update: Is there a 900 year old well on the island, and are there relics in the Blob?
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…
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