Ohio University students gain hands-on experience at the Shoop Paleo-Indian site in Pennsylvania. The field school teaches ...

Columbus wasn't the first European to reach the Western Hemisphere; the Vikings had landed in Newfoundland about 500 years ...

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 ...

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

History is dynamic, and every discovery fills a gap in knowledge of how and why things are the way they are. It's not static; rather, it's a dynamic area of study that can change with every new ...

In a cave near Portland, Missouri, archaeologists are digging into the sandstone to look for clothing and tools made 8,000 ...

At the Cerutti Mastodon site in California, researchers found broken mastodon bones and stone cobbles dated to 130,000 years ago—suggesting human activity far earlier than accepted timelines. Critics ...

This spooky skeleton was likely made to remind Roman banqueters that life is short. This small, bronze skeleton is one of ...

Climate change is putting pressure on one of science’s earliest fields of discovery: archaeology. Drought in the Colorado River basin is re-exposing centuries-old artifacts as lakes and rivers become ...

(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 ...

Archaeology, slavery, and marronage : a complex relationship / Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Charles E. Orser -- Maroon and leftist praxis in historical archaeology / Daniel O. Sayers -- Archaeology of ...