From fossilised footprints to barnacle-encrusted wrecks, click or scroll through this gallery to learn about the most important archaeological finds in North America since 2020 ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

But this is where Ahvaytum may rewrite the origin story because it originates from the North American landmass, which once formed part of Laurasia. At roughly 230 million years old, it is comparable ...

Fine sewing needles made from the bones of small animals such as foxes and mountain lions, which hunters used to make ...

In 1901, a broken tombstone from the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown was rediscovered in ...

One of the most intriguing questions in American archaeology is ... whose ancestors came to North America from Siberia some 13,000 years ago. In recent decades, however, archaeologists have ...

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the ...

The image was created in a collaboration between the artist, Eric Carlson (Desert Archaeology, Inc.) and archaeologists ... evidence suggesting that some of the earliest inhabitants of North America ...

Early postglacial North American archaeology; human ecology; archaeology of wetland landscapes; hunter-gatherer land use; archaeology and Indigenous Peoples; cultural resource management; intellectual ...