Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that ...

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

Introduction: The stuff of histories and cultures / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- PART 1. CULTURES IN CONTACT: MELTING POTS OR NOT? / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- Spaniards and Native Americans at the missions of La ...

According to a Penn Museum press release, the exhibition explores Indigenous perspectives by incorporating first-person ...

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New evidence suggests Poverty Point’s monumental mounds were created not by a ruling elite, but by egalitarian groups drawn together by shared ritual purpose. Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer ...

In the barren lands of the Eastern Oregon desert, a team of University of Oregon archaeologists, field archaeologists and volunteers sift through dirt, rocks, rain water and 18,000-year-old camel ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role in the disappearance of ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. But we’ve known for a long time that Columbus wasn’t the first European to set foot ...