By Edward Carver Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

My research interests lie in zooarchaeology, animal/human relationships, working in collections, and public archaeology. I attended my field school at the Berry Site in North Carolina in 2022 ...

Two anthropologists will share what they have found of a mid-1800s farmstead on the outskirts of Albany. Theirs will be the ...

Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh hosts a free archaeology lecture on January 25, featuring Professor Jon Marcoux.

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 ...