Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario. Now, ...

Archaeologists working at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon recently found evidence that it could be the oldest human ...

Historic Pensacola, sure. But historic Molino? UWF archaeology students are researching site of 18th century native mission.

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

A 2010 paper published in the journal American Antiquity estimated the Indigenous population of eastern North America around 1500 to be somewhere between 500,000 and 2.6 million people.

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from ...

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

OZARKS, ARKANSAS—According to a statement released by the University of York, researchers have retraced the genetic origins of hardy and cold-resistant types of maize, or corn, in eastern North ...

Especially is this evident when, as in a guide to exhibits illustrating the archaeology of North America recently issued by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, ...

Archaeology is slowly revealing their splendid pasts. Teotihuacan, Cahokia, and other metropolises featured striking religious centers, multifamily dwellings, and burial mounds, only to vanish.

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...