The team behind a large geophysical survey in Sitka, south-east Alaska, believe they have identified the location of a 19th-century Tlingit fort,…
Inscribed slate tablet discovered in Jamestown…
Study of Native American DNA adds to debate over colonization of the Americas by humans…
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…
Remembering Awatovi describes life in a field camp in Hopi country between 1935 and 1939, during a Harvard University expedition to northern…
Paul Bahn reflects on the potency of Nevadan rock art…
Introducing Penn Museum, then and now…
Richard Hodges The Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology, considers the Museum's future…
The University Museum’s North American collections are justly famous and owe much of their existence to Louis Shotridge, a Tlingit elder from…
Crystal skulls previously thought to have been made by the Aztecs are revealed to be only 150 years old…
The dates of people living in Oregon's Paisley caves have been worked out from analysing DNA found in fossilised faeces…
Students at Harvard University are conducting excavations in their own back yard, in the grounds of Old College…