Maryland Dig May Reach Back 16,000 Years
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Robert D. Wall is too careful a scientist to say he's on the verge of a sensational discovery. But the soybean field where the Towson University anthropologist has been digging for more than a decade is yielding hints that someone camped there, on the banks of the Potomac River, as early as 14,000 B.C.
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A study on a 15 million-year-old underground Antarctic lake could yield clues on the origins of life.
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Archaeologists discover more than 250 examples of prehistoric rock art carvings in Northumberland.
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A federal investigation has museums wondering if they can keep the fruits of a serendipitous discovery four decades ago.
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An archaeological dig in downtown Berlin has uncovered evidence that the German capital is at least 45 years older than had previously been established, authorities said Wednesday.
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For the last five years, archaeologists have been slowly unearthing the remains of Thang Long, uncovering millions of artifacts spanning 1,300 years.
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The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Archaeologists have discovered a cache of artifacts near South Padre Island that they say could be up to 5,000 years old, potentially providing new clues about early peoples of the Texas coast.
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By Bradley Olson, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 4--A200-year-old white oak that sparked a statewide conservation effort in 1989 and led engineers to reroute an Annapolis thoroughfare will soon be turned into firewood.
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Our heavy-browed competitors lasted 2,000 years longer than previously thought, a new cave find suggests&#151;though not everyone agrees on the dates.
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In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
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Nearly 4 billion-year-old rocks from Greenland could hold the earliest evidence of life on Earth, University of Chicago and Field Museum scientists say.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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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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Combing detective work with old-fashion digging, archaeologists in North Carolina may have unearthed evidence that Spanish soldiers roamed the Appalachian Mountains during the 16th century.
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Scientists said the fossils should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.
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Scientists hope to learn more about what the Great Lakes' shorelines looked like about 10,000 years ago. They explored a limestone land bridge that went from Alpena to Goderich, Ontario &#151; a distance of about 125 miles &#151; and an underwater forest of petrified trees in Lake Huron.