WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Colonial Williamsburg is highlighting both its historic roots and future expansion. What we know Williamsburg, Virginia — ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is an international membership organization founded in 1934 to advance research and training in ...

Archaeology Now, (the Archaeological Institute of America, Houston Society), along with the Bolivian Consul General of Houston and the Institute of Hispanic Culture, will present “Pachamama: The ...

These images are of a tube-shaped bead made of bone that is about 12,940 years old. The bead was discovered at Wyoming’s La Prele Mammoth site by UW archaeology Professor Todd Surovell and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMDEN, S.C., Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Historic Camden Foundation and American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR) today announced the launch of the 2026 AVAR Conflict Archaeology Field ...

An after-hours event at the Museum of the American Revolution next month will explore the thousands of 18th century ceramics, pottery, glassware and animal bone fragments found under the museum site. ...

Before the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were perhaps 50 native Chinese people in the United States. Just a few decades later, there were more than 100,000, and seemingly every city, ...

When the city of Boston’s staff archaeologists open volunteer sign-ups for one of their historic site digs, demand rivals a ...

NASA astronaut Kayla Barron floated into an International Space Station module in January with a roll of yellow tape and an unusual assignment: setting up the first of six “trenches” for an ...