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 ...

Today, the Denali Fault rips apart some of the North American plate, but it was once a place where tectonic plates came together.

Today, Swan Point is northern North Americas oldest site of human occupation and also points to pre-Clovis cultures being present in America. Archaeological investigations still occur ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Two anthropologists will share what they have found of a mid-1800s farmstead on the outskirts of Albany. Theirs will be the first talk of the 2025 Science Lecture Series of the Pine Bush Discovery ...

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.

To read more about early farming practices in North America, go to “Letter from the Four Corners: In Search of Prehistoric Potatoes.” ...

A minor in archaeology gives you valuable skills in history ... Ongoing paleontological work focuses on the Neogene record of fish faunas, particularly in western North America, correlated with ...