Researchers have determined the age and origin of a massive tree that was found at the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia in what ...

Dean R. Snow is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His archaeological research interests are in Iroquoian and Algonquian ...

A pair of 13th-century Icelandic texts known as the “Vinland Saga” describes the journey of famous Norse explorer Leif ...

Archaeologists excavating a Spanish stone-and-adobe structure in Arizona uncovered a 480-year-old gun. Experts believe the ...

The first people to enter the Americas may have sailed from Japan around 20,000 years ago, according to a new analysis of ...

Introduction : "alphabet soup" and American archaeology / Brnard K. Means -- The first stimulus package : the WPA and the New Jersey Indian Site Survey / Gregory D. Lattanzi -- Historical ...

The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information. The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford. Archaeologists are used ...

The remains of more than 10,000 Native Americans unearthed at archaeological sites across the U.S. are in the possession of museums such as the Smithsonian. Is the analysis of the bones valid ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Few places in the world are more closely linked with horses in the popular imagination than the Great Plains of North America. Romanticized stories of cowboys and the Wild West ...

Imagine a young girl fascinated by ancient cultures and mythologies, growing up to become a guardian of history in a state where the past is often threatened by the future. That's the story of Natalie ...

The study of paleoparasitology in South American archaeological sites offers a unique lens through which to reconstruct the interactions between ancient human and animal populations and the parasites ...