While you may know the best trails of the Grand Canyon's North Rim or perhaps some of the most dangerous hikes in the Grand Canyon National Parks, the park is also home to numerous archaeological ...

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

Especially is this evident when, as in a guide to exhibits illustrating the archaeology of North America recently issued by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, ...

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 ...

Historic Pensacola, sure. But historic Molino? UWF archaeology students are researching site of 18th century native mission.

For those who believe they've made a similar discovery, Slade encourages contacting a local museum or archaeological society.

Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, and at its peak, the metropolis near modern-day St. Louis was bigger than London.

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

Carbon dating of the charcoal showed that the ridges were rebuilt over a 600-year span, beginning around A.D. 1000 during what is known as the Late Woodland period in North America.

OZARKS, ARKANSAS—According to a statement released by the University of York, researchers have retraced the genetic origins of hardy and cold-resistant types of maize, or corn, in eastern North ...