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Americas 'Settled In Three Waves' -- BBC The biggest survey of Native American DNA has concluded that the New World was settled in t...

The Young Man of Chan Hol II skeleton was laid to rest 10,000 years ago when sea levels were much lower (Image: Eugenio Acevez/Instituto Nac...

Forensic Reconstructions Reveal The Faces Of Civil War Sailors -- Popular Mechanics Forensic anthropologists have reconstructed the faces of...

Source: Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley. The Washington Post. An established theory says the first Americans walked across the Bering Sea ...

Mystery Of 200-Year-Old Shipwreck Found Off US Coast -- The Telegraph For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treachero...

Distributing surplus commodities in St Johns, Arizona, October 1940 In The Bleak Light Of The Depression: Rare Colour Photographs Of The Era...

These are Clovis Points. (Credit: David Meltzer) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2010) — New research challenges the controversial...

The skull of Luzia, possibly the oldest skeleton in the Americas, who has facial features distinctive of Australian Aborigines. Credit: Marc...

The unearthed bones and artifacts indicate that when the violence took place, men, women and children were tortured, disemboweled, killed an...

Sixteenth century glass beads are among the rare artifacts discovered at Fernbank Museum of Natural History's archaeology site, which sc...

An ancient geoglyph of a hummingbird (colibri in Spanish) on the edge to the Nazca plains was probably inscribed here as an offering for wat...

Archaeologists Molly Fierer-Donaldson and Nereyda Alonso perch on a wooden platform as they lift artifacts from the tomb of the early Maya k...

From The Smithsonian: The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades...

From Discovery: Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running...

The Pointe-à-Callière Museum From Archaeology Magazine: This past August I traveled to Montreal for Archaeo (Archaeology) Month, which is ce...

Showstopper: A turquoise mask which probably represents the sun god Tonatiuh From The Daily Mail: Ten minutes into the British Museum's ...

From Geek Dad: New York City is one of the world’s top tourist destinations. Yet the rise of the greatest city in the world has obliterated ...

This is one of the exceptionally well preserved buildings discovered at Kiuic. This building dates to the Late/Terminal Classic (A.D. 800-10...

The Inca City of Machu Picchu was built during the 400-year warm spell, scientists say. (Paolo Aguilar/EPA) From Times Online: Supreme milit...

From The State: HILTON HEAD — An archaeologist who’s been digging at the Topper Site in Allendale County for 11 years is uncovering new evid...