Consider this ancient ear of maize ... role in introducing maize to societies north of the Rio Grande, a pivotal event as important to North America as the arrival of rice was to China or wheat ...

I'm standing at the center of what was once the greatest civilization between the deserts of Mexico and the North American Arctic—America's first ... to the west, the ancient Indian mounds ...

The study of ancient disasters in America has revealed fascinating insights into how early civilizations dealt ... the greatest pre-Columbian cities north of Mexico, Cahokia.

Archaeology 11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America Archaeology 29,000-year-old remains of child unearthed in Thailand cave with ...

Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life. White Sands National Park has some of the most archaeologically rich sand in North America, and it is within this New ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece ... the study of early civilizations in Western Asia and North ...

the first humans across North America during the last Ice Age preferred mammoths as their main food source. This finding comes from the first direct proof what these ancient people ate.