Burned Layer at Jamestown Linked to Bacon’s Rebellion While placing lights at the front of Historic Jamestowne’s memorial church ahead of its 2019 reopening, Jamestown Rediscovery’s Senior Staff Archaeologist Sean Romo made an interesting discovery: burn deposits buried just below the surface. With several recorded accounts of open fires at the settlement, Romo said there …

“Truly Heartbreaking”: Osage Nation Decries Sale of Cave Containing Native American Art An anonymous bidder has purchased Picture Cave, a Missouri cave system filled with 1,000-year-old Native American artwork, for $2.2 million. Held by St. Louis–based Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, the sale went forward despite the Osage Nation’s efforts to block it, reports Jim Salter …

Ancient Artifacts Discovered in Stomach of Huge Mississippi Alligator What does a 750-pound alligator eat? Well, just about anything it wants, but items found in this particular Mississippi alligator’s stomach defy odds and date back thousands of years. Shane Smith, the owner of Red Antler Processing in Yazoo City, said he was examining the contents of a …

Possible Prehistoric Campsite Uncovered in Northern Wyoming Artefacts found this summer at Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site are slated for radiocarbon dating, which could tell researchers more about when the Crow, or Apsáalooke, people came to the area, according to the Wyoming State Archaeologist. “This summer, we found Crow ceramics, as well a range of things, …

New evidence supports idea that America’s first civilization was made up of ‘sophisticated’ engineers The Native Americans who occupied the area known as Poverty Point in northern Louisiana more than 3,000 years ago long have been believed to be simple hunters and gatherers. But new Washington University in St. Louis archaeological findings paint a drastically …

Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in Italy where large numbers of elephants had died. The team discovered that humans at this site roughly 400,000 years ago appropriated those carcᴀsses to …

Mystery of the “East Bay” rock walls in California? There are Remnants of Ancient stone walls all over the East Bay, and no one knows how old they are, who built them, or why? Though people have been pondering the enigma of the  Berkeley Mystery Walls for well over a hundred years, no conclusions have …

The insect, which is 49 million years old, appears to have been smashed just a few days ago A beetle that lived about 49 million years ago is so well-preserved that the insect looks like it could spread its strikingly patterned wing coverings and fly away. That is if it weren’t squashed and fossilized.  Wing …

6,000-Year-Old Axe Discovered at George Washington’s Estate About 6,000 years ago, a precious stone axe that had been skillfully carved and shaped by Native Americans was lost on a ridge overlooking the Potomac River in Virginia. The axe, about seven inches long, had been hewed and smoothed and was narrowed at one end where a …