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 ...

Introduction: The stuff of histories and cultures / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- PART 1. CULTURES IN CONTACT: MELTING POTS OR NOT? / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- Spaniards and Native Americans at the missions of La ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the barren lands of the Eastern Oregon desert, a team of University of Oregon archaeologists, field archaeologists and volunteers sift through dirt, rocks, rain water and 18,000-year-old camel ...

The Blackland Prairie of northeast Mississippi is the ancestral home of today’s Chickasaw Nation. They encountered the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto there in 1540, and later sent him and his ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role in the disappearance of ...

Viking sagas of transatlantic journeys have thrilled people for centuries. Historians are sorting fact from fiction—from accounts of clashes with the First Nations to where the Norse really settled.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Four images shared in social media posts were authentic photographs of a well-preserved mammoth skeleton discovered at a North American archaeological site. Since 2024, a set of images has circulated ...