Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

These images are of a tube-shaped bead made of bone that is about 12,940 years old. The bead was discovered at Wyoming’s La Prele Mammoth site by UW archaeology Professor Todd Surovell and his ...

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 ...

One of the most intriguing questions in American archaeology is, Who were the earliest people in the Americas? For much of the past 80 years, scholars have thought that they were members of the Clovis ...

Male academics, who comprise less than 10% of North American archaeologists, write the vast majority of the field's high impact, peer-reviewed literature. Male academics, who comprise less than 10 ...

In 1908, a cowboy stumbled upon ancient bones after a rainstorm—uncovering a lost civilization far older than anyone believed ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - An Asotin man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one misdemeanor count of disturbing an archaeological resource for digging and collecting artifacts within the Umatilla National Forest in ...

POPE COUNTY, ILL (WSIL) -- November is National Native American Heritage Month. It's a time to celebrate the diverse cultures, traditions, history and contributions of native people. You don't have to ...

An after-hours event at the Museum of the American Revolution next month will explore the thousands of 18th century ceramics, pottery, glassware and animal bone fragments found under the museum site. ...

Suburban architecture, and the commercial highway strips that endlessly feature it, are rarely the subjects of praise. “Ticky-tacky,” “junkitecture,” and, of course, “geography of nowhere,” come to ...