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

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 ...

Archaeology magazine offers compelling narratives about the human past from every corner of the globe. Edited for a general audience, our news, features, and photo essays employ in-depth reporting, ...

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 ...

America is a vast land home to many different peoples, places, and cultures. For thousands of years, people and creatures alike have inhabited the many biomes of this great country. Today, ...

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

Dr. Meyer joined the anthropology faculty as an assistant professor in 2025. He specializes in the archaeology of the earliest hunter-gatherers in North America as well as Formative era societies ...

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 ...

Viking sagas of transatlantic journeys have thrilled people for centuries. Historians are sorting fact from fiction—from accounts of clashes with the First Nations to where the Norse really settled.