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 ...

A pair of 13th-century Icelandic texts known as the “Vinland Saga” describes the journey of famous Norse explorer Leif ...

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 ...

Researchers have determined the age and origin of a massive tree that was found at the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia in what ...

ANTH copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature Part 1. The archaeology of North America -- Archaeology of ...

Recent discoveries have unveiled a fascinating chapter in human history, as stone tools provide compelling evidence of ...

Dr. Meyer joined the anthropology faculty as an assistant professor in 2025. He specializes in the archaeology of the earliest hunter-gatherers in North America as well as Formative era societies ...

Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...

A laser eye-in-the-sky has uncovered vast, ancient farm fields in an unlikely place — the frosty forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Ancestors of present-day Menominee people, a federally ...

The foundation that oversees preservation efforts at Historic Jamestowne recently received a state grant that will help it ...