Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in Italy where large numbers of elephants had died. The team discovered that humans at this site roughly 400,000 years ago appropriated those carcasses to … Continue reading Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones →

Mystery of the “East Bay” rock walls in California? There are Remnants of Ancient stone walls all over the East Bay, and no one knows how old they are, who built them, or why? Though people have been pondering the enigma of the  Berkeley Mystery Walls for well over a hundred years, no conclusions have … Continue reading Mystery of the “East Bay” rock walls in California? →

The insect, which is 49 million years old, appears to have been smashed just a few days ago A beetle that lived about 49 million years ago is so well-preserved that the insect looks like it could spread its strikingly patterned wing coverings and fly away. That is if it weren’t squashed and fossilized.  Wing … Continue reading The insect, which is 49 million years old, appears to have been smashed just a few days ago →

6,000-Year-Old Axe Discovered at George Washington’s Estate About 6,000 years ago, a precious stone axe that had been skillfully carved and shaped by Native Americans was lost on a ridge overlooking the Potomac River in Virginia. The axe, about seven inches long, had been hewed and smoothed and was narrowed at one end where a … Continue reading 6,000-Year-Old Axe Discovered at George Washington’s Estate →

German Museum Returns Native American Leader’s Shirt With German institutions placing a renewed emphasis on the repatriation of various objects in their holdings, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt said this week that it had given the leather shirt of Chief Daniel Hollow Horn Bear (Mato He Oklogeca), of the Teton Lakota, to his great-grandson Chief … Continue reading German Museum Returns Native American Leader’s Shirt →

Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims Three years ago, a team of archaeologists in the United States proposed an extraordinary idea: the first human settlers in the Americas arrived at least 100,000 years earlier than we thought. The evidence came from a collection of mastodon bones and ancient stones dating back … Continue reading Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims →

Archaeologists unearth a unique artifact at Fort Michilimackinac: a pocket knife MLive reports that Lynn Evans of Mackinac State Historic Parks and her colleagues discovered a 3.5-inch-long pocketknife, or clasp knife, in a root cellar of the Southeast Rowhouse at Colonial Michilimackinac. A long-running archaeological dig at a historic Michigan fort turned up a new … Continue reading Archaeologists unearth a unique artefact at Fort Michilimackinac: a pocket knife →

7,000-Year-Old Native American ‘Bog Burial’ Found Off the Coast of Florida The 167 bodies discovered in a pond in Windover, Florida started to stir up excitement in the archaeological world only after the bones were declared very old, and not the product of mass murder. Researchers from Florida State University came to the site, believing … Continue reading 7,000-Year-Old Native American ‘Bog Burial’ Found Off the Coast of Florida →

Archaeologists uncover lost Indigenous NE Florida settlement of Sarabay The University of North Florida archaeology team is now fairly confident they have located the lost Indigenous northeast Florida community of Sarabay, a settlement mentioned in both French and Spanish documents dating to the 1560s but had not been discovered until now. The type and amounts … Continue reading Archaeologists uncover lost Indigenous NE Florida settlement of Sarabay →