Residents who have discovered what they believe may be Native American artifacts will have an opportunity to learn more about their finds March 21 during Artifact I.D. Day. The free event will take ...

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 ...

The 1996 discovery of the 9,000-year-old remains of a hunter—known as Kennewick Man—near the Washington-Oregon border presented an intriguing puzzle to archaeologists studying the peopling of the ...

This summer, Route 2 drivers might have noticed a large mound of dirt in the parking lot at Milton’s Sand Bar State Park and a group of people digging beside it. This excavation team, made up of ...

"Colonialism may have significantly changed the history of North America, but its impact on Native Americans has been greatly misunderstood. In this book, Neal Ferris offers alternative explanations ...

The University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropological Archaeology has begun the process of returning the remains of 10 Native American individuals removed from burial sites in Florida more than half ...

Centuries-old documents told of Native American settlements in the Fones Cliffs area of the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Northern Neck. In the 1600s, English explorer John Smith wrote of how he ...

A dense accumulation of faunal remains on the River Bend site's living surface during excavations in the 1980s Elk ivory pendants recovered during excavations at the River Bend site RIVER BEND, ...

Friday is National POW/MIA Recognition Day, but bringing missing Americans home is a year-round focus for Hoffman Estates native and professional archaeologist David Brown. He now employs the same ...

Kelly first became involved in archaeology in 1973, when, as a high school student, he participated in the excavation of Gatecliff Rockshelter in central Nevada, with David Hurst Thomas of the ...