The Americas’ oldest known bead discovered near Douglas, Wyoming Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known bead in the Americas at the La Prele Mammoth site in Converse County, United States. The oldest known bead in the Americas was discovered by University of Wyoming archeology professor Todd Surovell and his team and is in the shape of a … Continue reading The Americas’ oldest known bead discovered near Douglas, Wyoming →

Rare Piece Of Metal Armor Found At 17th-Century Fort In Maryland A piece of body armor was unearthed during excavations at a 17th-century colonial fort in Maryland, a Mid-Atlantic state of the United States. While archaeologists continued their excavations in the City of St Mary’s, one of America’s premier historical sites, a project launched in … Continue reading Rare Piece Of Metal Armor Found At 17th-Century Fort In Maryland →

The Mysterious Prehistoric Underwater Structure Beneath Lake Michigan A prehistoric structure reminiscent of England’s iconic Stonehenge has been uncovered in Grand Traverse Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan on the western shore of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. The findings were found by Dr. Mark Holley, a distinguished professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University. The … Continue reading The Mysterious Prehistoric Underwater Structure Beneath Lake Michigan →

A Fresno junk store in California sold a photo of Billy the Kid for less than $2 — it’s worth $5 million A photograph of the American cowboy, Billy the Kid, is being put up for sale and is expected to fetch more than $5 million. The photograph is one of only two believed to … Continue reading A Fresno junk store in California sold a photo of Billy the Kid for less than $2 — it’s worth $5 million →

In a Californian gold mine, 40 million-year-old tools were found At Table Mountain and other locations in the gold mining region around the middle of the nineteenth century, miners discovered hundreds of stone artifacts and human bones buried deep inside their tunnels. Experts claim that these bones and artifacts were found embedded in layers from … Continue reading In a Californian gold mine, 40 million year old tools were found →

North America’s First People May Have Arrived By Sea Ice Highway 24,000 Years Ago One of the hottest debates in archaeology is about how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through an ice-free corridor that briefly opened between ice sheets an estimated 13,000 years ago. But … Continue reading North America’s First People May Have Arrived By Sea Ice Highway 24,000 Years Ago →

Humans Got To America 7,000 Years Earlier Than Thought – New Research Confirms When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American interior no earlier than around 14,000 years ago. But our new research found something different. … Continue reading Humans Got To America 7,000 Years Earlier Than Thought – New Research Confirms →

Century-Old Little Girl Found In Coffin Under San Francisco Home Identified Researchers announced that the 19th-century body of a little girl found last year in a small metal casket under a San Francisco home was identified. The girl was Edith Howard Cook, two-year-old, who died on October 13, 1876, six weeks short of her third … Continue reading Century-Old Little Girl Found In Coffin Under San Francisco Home Identified →

‘The day the dinosaurs died’: Fossilized snapshot of mass death found on North Dakota ranch A fossilised snapshot of the day about 66 million years ago when an asteroid hit Earth, fire rained from the sky and the ground shook far worse than any current earthquake, is captured in new studies. It was the day … Continue reading ‘The day the dinosaurs died’: Fossilized snapshot of mass death found on North Dakota ranch →