Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Welcome to Gallup, New Mexico – the town that’s mastered the art of the slow life while everyone else is still rushing around trying to figure out what that even means.

Everyone knows about Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, but did you know the U.S. is home to over 130 national monuments just ...

New research suggests that ‘early human pioneers’ in Australia interbred with archaic species of hobbits at least 60,000 ...

Weaving together ancient pictographs and modern stereotypes, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith offers us a complex, multi-dimensional ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...

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The states affected are Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon, which contain just over a quarter of Native Americans.

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered how Incas used Andean balance scales and ancient string knot ...

Archaeologists in Wisconsin have uncovered 16 ancient canoes at the bottom of Lake Mendota, revealing insights into Native American life from thousands of years ago. This discovery, announced in late ...

Over the past four years, archaeologists have uncovered 16 ancient canoes left along the shore of Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota by Indigenous people who once lived in the area. While experts have floated ...