Your image of archaeology might include an Indiana Jones lookalike in a leather coat or lots of painstaking digging for artifacts. And, for much of the history of Historic Jamestowne, you’d be close.

Kent State University archaeologist Michelle Bebber, along with several colleagues, answered a question it never even would have occurred to me to ask. Why did no prehistoric cultures ever make their ...

How did Ohio’s Hopewell culture do what it did? These ancient American Indian people lived in small, widely scattered communities; yet they gathered in large numbers to worship within enormous earthen ...

Specialist in art, architecture and archaeology of ancient Rome wins 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award from Archaeological Institute of America Diane Conlin, associate professor of classics emerita at ...

For US archaeologists, major discoveries will have to wait until next year, at least. Dale Manor had a plan for 2020: Unearth an ancient Canaanite shrine in the lowlands of Judah, about 20 miles west ...

The grass and weeds at the former City Farm Jail in Newport News have grown tall and unruly. But walking around the less dense parts of the site — which contains waterlogged pits that archaeologists ...

In 1987 a small team of people with an interest in the general field of archaeology published the first issue of Archaeology Ireland. It has been published every quarter since then. Archaeology ...

Every year, archaeologists dig up and analyze clues about how our ancient ancestors lived, what threats they faced, and how they adapted to sometimes harsh environments.

While some museums—including the Bowdoin College Museum of Art—are organizing online exhibitions as a way to safely share art during the pandemic, students in Ambra Spinelli's spring archaeology class ...

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—According to a Science Magazine report, primatologist Nathaniel Dominy of Dartmouth College and his colleagues analyzed the chemical composition of teeth from mummified baboon ...

Southwestern’s former president Paige Patterson connected outgoing professors to Lipscomb University. After they were dismissed from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTWS) within a few ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA—According to a Siberian Times report, a small statue depicting a person wearing a mask has been recovered from a grave in western Siberia by a team of researchers led by Vyacheslav ...