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 ...

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

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 ...

New discoveries in a valley on the eastern edge of the Texas Hill Country will prompt rewriting the history of early North American man, predict Texas A&M University archaeologists who are ...

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 ...

Researchers are studying past Arctic cultures and working with today’s northern communities to address present-day socioeconomic and environmental challenges. Abigail Eisenstadt These walrus ivory ...

Anna Semon fills her present with the past.From lab work to field work and other duties in between, the archaeologist and Clarks Summit native helps preserve history for the world through her job at ...