The team behind a large geophysical survey in Sitka, south-east Alaska, believe they have identified the location of a 19th-century Tlingit fort,…
The long-standing debate about the relationship between humans (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) has just taken an unexpected twist with the…
Freezing on Kodiak My travels sometimes take me to relatively exotic places, like a recent brief stay on Kodiak Island, Alaska, which…
The difficulty of defining ethnicity on the basis of genetic evidence has once again been demonstrated by the recent analysis of DNA…
The first ever excavation of a cementation steel furnace in America – in Trenton, New Jersey – is throwing new light America’s…
In Brian Fagan's latest instalment of all things archaeological that are both exotic and entertaining he worships Maya macaws, reveals the oldest…
Digging pre-European lives on the balmy 'desert island' of Carriacou…
Richard Hodges writes from Philadelphia, USA…
Inscribed slate tablet discovered in Jamestown…
Study of Native American DNA adds to debate over colonization of the Americas by humans…
Discoveries from South American graveyard thought to contain the dead from Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the Americas…
The 16th president of the USA is much written about; now, excavations in Salem, Illinois, are revealing new secrets about his early…
Richard Hodges writes from Gettysburg, USA…