In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake. These lines in the mud are now pushing scientists to rethink the origin ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is the Gault site, where archaeologist Michael Collins has unearthed ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent. By Franz Lidz A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have now confirmed that humans roamed North America 23,000 years ago. The ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that the world's oldest known dice were crafted and used by Native American ...

Paleontologists have been on the trail of Deinosuchus since a pair of fossilized teeth were found in North Carolina in 1858. Since that time the reptile’s fossilized teeth, bony armor, skull pieces, ...