For decades, archaeologists have debated a basic question about the first people who spread across the Americas. Were they ...

There’s a cave in northeastern Alabama that has been keeping a very long secret, and that secret is that people never stopped ...

Ecologists have described the mammoth steppe as one of the most productive large-herbivore ecosystems in Earth's history.

Early humans in North and South America relied heavily on hunting of large mammals, including mammoths and giant ground sloths, for food and ...

Today, the vast plains of the Americas often evoke images of agriculture or modern development. We picture massive fields of wheat blowing gently in the wind, long highways stretching into the horizon ...

A human skeleton roughly 8,000 years old has been recovered from deep inside a flooded cave on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where underwater archaeologist Octavio del Rio and Luis Alberto Martos, ...

Dr. Stanley Wyan “Stan” Lantz, of Butler, PA, and formerly of Warren, PA, passed away peacefully on June 20, 2026, at the remarkable age of 101, surrounded by his loved ones. Born on March 21, 1925, ...

Federal scientists investigating submerged terrain off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana have documented seafloor features consistent with ancient shorelines and river channels that existed when sea ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STOCKTON, Mo. — Long before Stockton Lake, long before the Sac River was controlled by a dam, people kept returning to the same ...

The following summary is drawn from a number of sources, including Broyles 1971, Gardner 1987, Ison et al. 1985, McBride 2006, McMichael 1968, and Solecki 1949. Today, the best estimate from ...

In a study published in American Antiquity, Dr. David Madsen and his colleagues address the proposition that the lower Lahontan drainage basin (LLDB), located in the Intermountain West, is "unique" ...