Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that are older, more complex, and more surprising than the history books ever ...

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 ...

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. ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Colonial Williamsburg is highlighting both its historic roots and future expansion. What we know Williamsburg, Virginia — ...

Bertha Parker is known as a history-maker for being the first female Native American archaeologist of Abenaki and Seneca descent. Her path to earning this title was rather unconventional, but the ...

CU Boulder archaeologist Sarah Kurnick addresses some common myths about archaeology at the 50 th anniversary of the discovery of China’s terracotta warriors March 1974 was particularly dry in China’s ...

Before the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were perhaps 50 native Chinese people in the United States. Just a few decades later, there were more than 100,000, and seemingly every city, ...

Rachel Feltman: Archaeology can reveal shocking similarities between modern-day humans and our most distant, ancient ancestors. But it just as often allows us awe-inspiring glimpses into feats our ...

Kelly first became involved in archaeology in 1973, when, as a high school student, he participated in the excavation of Gatecliff Rockshelter in central Nevada, with David Hurst Thomas of the ...

Few places in the world are more closely linked with horses in the popular imagination than the Great Plains of North America. Romanticized stories of cowboys and the Wild West figure prominently in ...

Mike Wolfe, star of the hit History Channel series American Pickers, has reopened his beloved Nashville antique store, Antique Archaeology, following a temporary closure caused by a gas leak. The ...