A previously unknown Indigenous population lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study finds.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

IOWA has a good number of ancient animal skeletons to boast about, all in the name of science. Since the entire northern ...

The first people to enter the Americas may have sailed from Japan around 20,000 years ago, according to a new analysis of prehistoric stone tools from 10 sites across the US. Until now, researchers ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Researchers are still charting how human ...

The region is seeing a boom in fossil fuels just as the impacts of the climate crisis really bite. It’s raising thorny questions about who gets to benefit from planet-heating oil.

Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups ...