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

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 ...

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

Keith Kintigh serves, uncompensated, on the Board of Directors of the Center for Digital Antiquity. Archaeology – the name conjures up images of someone carefully sifting the sands for traces of the ...

While more evidence is needed to link paleo-Americans to Japan, it is possible that they came by boat instead of crossing the ...

Regional archaeologies have exerted variable influence on the course of development of American archaeology as a whole. The role of southeastern archaeology is explored here. While physical ...

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

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Cobb Institute of Archaeology has appointed MSU alumnus and veteran scholar Edmond A. “Tony” Boudreaux III as director of curation, overseeing archaeological ...

Suburban architecture, and the commercial highway strips that endlessly feature it, are rarely the subjects of praise. “Ticky-tacky,” “junkitecture,” and, of course, “geography of nowhere,” come to ...

This gilt-copper nose ornament, discovered at the archaeological site of Loma Negra in northern Peru, depicts the important ...

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