A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent. By Franz Lidz A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper ...

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people — but not ...

Darrin Lowery found a collection of tools in Maryland that may date to 22,000 years ago. That would mean humans first arrived in North America thousands of years before we thought. Most experts ...

From giant apes to towering legends, North America’s past may be stranger than we think. Could ancient giants have inspired ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have now confirmed that humans roamed North America 23,000 years ago. The ...

The Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., is one of two U.S. institutions to host the Torlonia Foundation’s exhibition “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.” The ...

Smoking pipes discovered in archaeological contexts demonstrate that Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America have practiced smoking for over 4,500 years. Archaeometry and ancient ...

A new study combining Indigenous knowledge systems with Western genomics has uncovered how megafauna – namely ancient horses – were impacted during a period of substantial habitat change. During the ...

These skeletons of two hunter-gatherer individuals excavated at the Checua archaeological site north of Bogotá, Colombia, helped uncover the genetic details of a mysterious population. Ana María Groot ...

It's a mystery that has left experts scratching their heads for decades, but just how did humans make their way from Europe to North America? After years of uncertainty ... you need to know about this ...