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Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?
A new study led by Dr. Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible journey of humankind's best friend across the Americas, showing how dogs ...
The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.
Archaeology Evidence is building that people were in the Americas 23,000 years ago Archaeology Humans reached southern South America by 14,500 years ago, genomes from 139 Indigenous groups reveal ...
The Williamsburg Bray School is one of the oldest schools in the United States to educate Black students. Archeologists ...
15,000-year-old Idaho archaeology site now among America’s oldest. Artifacts from the Cooper’s Ferry site poke more holes in the traditional theory of when people arrived in the Americas.
Some 130,000 years ago, scientists say, a mysterious group of ancient people visited the coastline of what is now Southern California. More than 100,000 years before they were supposed to have ...
But today’s archaeology is not just about retrieving artifacts and drawing maps by hand. It also uses the tools of today: 3D imaging, LiDAR scans, GPS mapping and more.
Suburban Archaeology and America’s Architectural Commons. Tacky or not, America's commercial strips and "placeless places" have developed their own historic, layered aesthetic.
Features September/October 2014. America, in the Beginning Archaeologists continue their search for evidence of how the vast, once-uninhabited regions of the New World came to be populated ...
Students will explore the archaeological remains of these cultures from the early Americas through 3D models of objects, inscriptions, and works of art and through readings aimed at building an ...
For decades, discussion of early settlement of the Americas has focused on the tail end of the Ice Age. Most archaeologists agree that humans crossed a land bridge from Asia into Alaska sometime ...