New genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage." ...

Dean R. Snow is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His archaeological research interests are in Iroquoian and Algonquian ...

When Colorado State University doctoral student Robert Madden left his career as a trial lawyer, he saw an opportunity ahead ...

In total, archaeologist Robert Madden observed 659 sets of Native American dice from 57 archaeological sites across 12 ...

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, ...

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost colony" of Roanoke. Tiny flakes of rusted metal, called hammerscales, have ...

Beneath the surface of infrastructure projects and flood control measures, a quiet but vital mission is underway. Federal archaeologists are uncovering hidden pieces of history as they work to ...

Archaeology, slavery, and marronage : a complex relationship / Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Charles E. Orser -- Maroon and leftist praxis in historical archaeology / Daniel O. Sayers -- Archaeology of ...

The historical town contains a highly concentrated amount of archaeological sites, unveiling the lives of Native Americans in ...

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. ...

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 ...