Stone "Tools" Found; May Be Among America's Oldest
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About 50 objects found at a Minnesota construction site could be at least 13,000 years old, archaeologists said, potentially pushing back human presence in the region by millennia.
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In a discovery sure to set off a firestorm of debate over human migration to the western hemisphere, archaeologists in South Carolina say they have uncovered evidence that people lived in eastern North America at least 50,000 years ago - far earlier than
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STONEHENGE, England  - Determined digging by  badgers living near Britain's Stonehenge, a 5,000-year old  circle of megaliths, is damaging ancient archaeological  artifacts and human remains.
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A stone tablet from Mexico has revealed a 3,000-year-old writing system never before seen, according to a new study. But some archaeologists are crying fraud.
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Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old will be returned to southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes 11 years after they were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest.
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Two shows of Incan and American Indian art in Chicago reveal the prehistoric past in their objects regardless of who speaks for them.
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An ancient native American cancer treatment is shown to have a beneficial effect, despite scepticism.
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Researchers said Thursday they have unearthed what may be one of the earliest calendar entries in Meso-America, massive stone sculpture that suggests women held important status roles in pre-Hispanic culture.
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Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle Stonehenge in England
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--It's not often that a pipeline project spawns an archaeological dig.
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Modern imaging techniques have revealed some new information about the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
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A now-extinct tribe could have been the first settlers of the Americas, a university researcher told a science conference in Britain.
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LOS ANGELES -- One of NASA&#39;s Mars rovers has found a rock that could provide new evidence that water once existed on the red planet.
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A team of scientists working in Georgia unearths the remains of four primitive human ancestors dating to 1.8 million years ago.
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Archeologists say a prehistoric skeleton and campsite discovered on the muddy shore of Lake Travis could be between 700 and 2,000 years old.
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Researchers use X-ray scanners to create 3-D models of prehistoric creatures preserved inside rocks.
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There are intriguing new clues in the mystery of how the woolly mammoth met its demise in North America more than 10,000 years ago.