New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted theory that the people who made and used Clovis ...

Colonial Williamsburg is expanding ahead of America’s 250th celebration with a new archaeology center opening in April 2026.

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 ...

Prologue: historicizing the origins of American archaeology -- American antiquities: a grand theme for speculation -- Rediscovering the mounds: scientific enquiry and the westward movement -- ...

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, ...

Visitors gather at the Forbush Creek archaeological site in Yadkin County, N.C., 1957. Human remains collected from the site remain in the collection at UNC-CH's Research Laboratories of Archeology, ...

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. ...

Victoria Hayes and Kaia Lacey found buried treasure Wednesday morning as they used spoons to gently scrape the side of a small hole at an archaeological dig on Big Talbot Island. Pirate gold was not ...

NASA astronaut Kayla Barron floated into an International Space Station module in January with a roll of yellow tape and an unusual assignment: setting up the first of six “trenches” for an ...