Tag: jobsite discoveries

Construction workers uncover 300-year-old ship along Potomac River near D.C.

A construction site in Virginia has led to the discovery of not one, but two major pre-Revolutionary War archaeological finds. According to the Washington Post, construction crews excavating the site of the future Hotel Indigo in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, discovered the timbered foundation of a warehouse dating back to 1755. Archaeologists then found the […]

January 21, 2016

Crews uncover mammoths and other Ice Age fossils while grading jobsite near San Diego

While grading the site of a new home development near San Diego, construction crews uncovered fossils paleontologists have dated all the way back to the Ice Age. According to a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune, the workers at the Carlsbad jobsite unearthed the bones of “ancient mammoths, horses, turtles and even a prehistoric bison—the second ever […]

September 23, 2015

A plaster mold is applied to one of the mammoth bones found at the site. Photo Credit: Cornerstone Communities

Worker finds noose on Connecticut hospital construction site

Police in Connecticut are investigating the discovery of a noose on a construction site as a possible hate crime. According to a report from the Associated Press, a worker with Turner Construction found a noose on a jobsite for the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington Wednesday. Work on the site was stopped for […]

April 6, 2015

Construction at UConn Health Center in Farmington was stopped after a noose was found on the jobsite, seen in this still from NBC.

Construction crew wrangles 11-foot python on Florida jobsite

We can all only hope that when confronted by a massive snake we handle the encounter as well as this construction crew near Miami. According to a report from WFLX TV, the workers, which look to be part of a road construction crew working near Florida State Road 826, found an 11-foot Burmese python inside […]

October 30, 2014

Miami construction workers wrangle 11-foot python

California dam construction unearths collection of 20 million-year-old fossils

Since construction began in 2011 on the new dam for the Calaveras Reservoir near Malpitas, California, construction crews and paleontologists have unearthed an impressive collection of fossils dating as far back as 20 million years. Paleontologist Jim Walker tells the San Jose Mercury News that the collection of fossils give scientists an idea of what […]

July 8, 2014

Paleontologist Jim Walker combs the hillside at Calaveras Reservoir for fossils. Credit: Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group

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Hotel construction unearths beer mugs, liquor bottles and a bar dating back to before the Revolutionary War

Archaeologists are excavating the construction site of a 22-story hotel on The Bowery in New York City, which has been occupied since the 1740s, in order to preserve any history that may be hiding in the soil. And recently they made a big discovery. According to a report from DNAInfo New York, Chrysalis Archaeology discovered hundreds […]

May 14, 2014

This beer mug found at a construction site at 50 Bower in New York City was used at a pre-civil war bar.

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Utility construction crew unearths 2,000-year-old skeletal remains in South Florida

While digging the trench for a water line installation a few weeks ago in Davie, Florida, a utility crew discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old Tequesta Indian woman. Archaeologists in the area rarely find fully intact skeletons and are saying that this discovery may be the best preserved find in the last 40 years, according […]

January 15, 2014

An archaeologist shows the area where the 2,000-year-old remains were found. Credit: Archaeological and Historical Conservancy

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