Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the grave of an ousted noblewoman whom they are calling "The Lady with the Inverted ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

This in-depth exploration of prehistoric North America examines the earliest human migrations, dating evidence, settlement sites, and cultural developments stretching from Canada to Central America.

Retired senior state archaeologist Breck Parkman used artifacts found in old ruins or the chemistry of rocks to piece ...

Unlike other such galleries across the country, Penn claims the inclusion of Indigenous curators makes this one stand out.

A major new study challenges long-standing ideas about who built Poverty Point, one of the Americas’ oldest monuments, 3,500 ...

New archaeological research uncovers the long-hidden truth behind one of North America's most iconic ancient sites.

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of ...

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 ...

Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering ...

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