Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims Three years ago, a team of archaeologists in the United States proposed an extraordinary idea: the first human settlers in the Americas arrived at least 100,000 years earlier than we thought. The evidence came from a collection of mastodon bones and ancient stones dating back …

Archaeologists unearth a unique artifact at Fort Michilimackinac: a pocket knife MLive reports that Lynn Evans of Mackinac State Historic Parks and her colleagues discovered a 3.5-inch-long pocketknife, or clasp knife, in a root cellar of the Southeast Rowhouse at Colonial Michilimackinac. A long-running archaeological dig at a historic Michigan fort turned up a new …

7,000-Year-Old Native American ‘Bog Burial’ Found Off the Coast of Florida The 167 bodies discovered in a pond in Windover, Florida started to stir up excitement in the archaeological world only after the bones were declared very old, and not the product of mᴀss murder. Researchers from Florida State University came to the site, believing …

Archaeologists uncover lost Indigenous NE Florida settlement of Sarabay The University of North Florida archaeology team is now fairly confident they have located the lost Indigenous northeast Florida community of Sarabay, a settlement mentioned in both French and Spanish documents dating to the 1560s but had not been discovered until now. The type and amounts …

9,000-Year-Old Obsidian Tools Found at Bottom of Lake Huron Obsidian, or volcanic glᴀss, is a prized raw material for knappers, both ancient and modern, with its lustrous appearance, predictable flaking, and resulting razor-sharp edges. As such, it was used and traded widely throughout much of human history. Obsidian from the Rocky Mountains and the West …

Archaeology news: 100 million-year-old ancient turtle fossil discovered in Texas, USA Archaeologists have discovered a new, 100 million-year-old turtle fossil in Texas, USA. The ancient remains are believed to be the earliest remnants of the side-necked turtle in North America and have unravelled some of the mysteries surrounding reptile migration from the relatively unknown Cenomanian …

A Unique Native American Map Everyone Should See Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the age of GPS and smartphones. But centuries of forced relocation, disease and genocide have made it difficult to find where many Native American tribes once lived. Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Okla., …

Tennessee’s Tattooing Tools Dated to More Than 5,500 Years Ago According to a Science News report, a new study of turkey bones unearthed in 1985 in a burial pit at the Fernvale site in central Tennessee suggests that they may have been used by Native Americans to make tattoos between 5,520 and 3,620 years ago. …

Pedro: The Mysterious Mountain Mummy In June of 1934, two prospectors, Cecil Main and Frank Carr, were using explosives to mine for gold in the San Pedro Mountains of Wyoming.  After the dust of one of their blasts cleared, Main and Carr discovered a small room in a cave.  There they found a tiny, mummified …