As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Colonial Williamsburg is highlighting both its historic roots and future expansion. Williamsburg, Virginia — just a couple of hours south of ...

2018 has passed and we are already settling in 2019, but even as we move forward it’s never a bad time to remind people about the incredible things that happened this past year that have gone ...

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 ...

These images are of a tube-shaped bead made of bone that is about 12,940 years old. The bead was discovered at Wyoming’s La Prele Mammoth site by UW archaeology Professor Todd Surovell and his ...

Prologue: historicizing the origins of American archaeology -- American antiquities: a grand theme for speculation -- Rediscovering the mounds: scientific enquiry and the westward movement -- ...

An after-hours event at the Museum of the American Revolution next month will explore the thousands of 18th century ceramics, pottery, glassware and animal bone fragments found under the museum site. ...

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost colony" of Roanoke. Tiny flakes of rusted metal, called hammerscales, have ...

UC Santa Cruz alumna and Ph.D. recipient Danielle Dadiego (M.A. Anthropology, ’17; Ph.D. Anthropology, ’20) is the winner of the 2022 Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award, the most ...

Human remains have been discovered in an archaeological dig at the sit of a historic African American church in Colonial Williamsburg, experts announced Monday. A worn upper front tooth and what is ...

Some vacations take you to destinations that feel futuristic, while archeological tourism transports you to a completely different era in the past. Whether you’re excavating the prehistoric species of ...

NASA astronaut Kayla Barron floated into an International Space Station module in January with a roll of yellow tape and an unusual assignment: setting up the first of six “trenches” for an ...