In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

Archaeologists working at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon recently found evidence that it could be the oldest human ...

Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

A settlement where humans once hunted extinct buffalo, dated to 10,700 years old, was just discovered in Sturgeon Lake First ...

Especially is this evident when, as in a guide to exhibits illustrating the archaeology of North America recently issued by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, ...

Historic Pensacola, sure. But historic Molino? UWF archaeology students are researching site of 18th century native mission.

Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario. Now, ...

A 2010 paper published in the journal American Antiquity estimated the Indigenous population of eastern North America around 1500 to be somewhere between 500,000 and 2.6 million people.

Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, and at its peak, the metropolis near modern-day St. Louis was bigger than London.

Carbon dating of the charcoal showed that the ridges were rebuilt over a 600-year span, beginning around A.D. 1000 during what is known as the Late Woodland period in North America.

OZARKS, ARKANSAS—According to a statement released by the University of York, researchers have retraced the genetic origins of hardy and cold-resistant types of maize, or corn, in eastern North ...