When Edgar B. Howard heard that a road crew in eastern New Mexico had stumbled across a cache of big ancient bones, he dropped everything and grabbed the first westbound train. At the time—November ...

New geological evidence unearthed in the US suggests that a catastrophic cosmic event may have wiped out a once-thriving culture more than 12,800 years ago. Researchers analyzing sediment samples in ...

This photo, taken during the 2002 excavation of the Topper site, reveals the normal depth to which archaeologists had traditionally dug at Clovis sites. Below that is the lowest level to which ...

Illustration of a group of Western Clovis people, including a mother with her 18-month-old son, about 12,800 years ago at a site in Montana, as they process the carcasses of hunted mammoths near the ...

The Clovis theory, over time, acquired the force of dogma. “We all learned it as undergraduates,” Waters recalled. Any artifacts that scholars said came before Clovis, or competing theories that cast ...

Researchers have uncovered fascinating insights into the lives of prehistoric Native Americans who made camp in the Great Lakes region around 13,000 years ago. The camp, now called the Belson site, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first humans who spread across North America during the last Ice Age put mammoths at the top of their menu, according to scientists who secured the first direct evidence of ...