Across North America, archaeologists are pulling remarkable stories out of the ground, from Ice Age footprints to buried ...

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

Galvaneus studied for his doctorate in Genoa, the closest major port to Milan and a massive hub for maritime trade. A 2024 ...

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Ancient DNA has revealed a mysterious Indigenous group that lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study reports. Although the people of this newfound "deep lineage" lived at ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...

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Consuming whole animals was not unusual for ancient cultures, but researchers say that a whole snake inside fossilized fecal ...