The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

New archaeological research challenges long-held assumptions about why ancient hunter-gatherers built the monumental earthworks at Poverty Point in Louisiana some 3,500 years ago. Rather than serving ...

Overall, the study tells us that by 1021 CE, the Vikings were already in North America. They could have been there earlier, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Troy, Ohio, uncovered an estimated 4,500 historic artifacts beneath the fire-damaged Overfield Tavern, ...

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, ...

QUINHAGAK — One of the most productive archaeological digs in North America is behind a town dump. “If it wasn’t for the erosion, we never would have found it,” said Rick Knecht, a professor of ...

Charting a New Course for Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America / J. Ryan Kennedy and Chelsea Rose -- Reframing Overseas Chinese Archaeology as Archaeology of the Chinese Diaspora / Douglas E.

From the rediscovery of the “Lost Golden City” in Egypt to North America’s oldest footprints, 2021 reshaped our understanding ...

The lashing winds and storm surge devoured dozens of feet of shoreline, disrupting a culturally significant archaeological ...

The study of paleoparasitology in South American archaeological sites offers a unique lens through which to reconstruct the interactions between ancient human and animal populations and the parasites ...