At the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the archaeology department has over 1 million artifacts from all over the ...

Archaeologists excavating a Spanish stone-and-adobe structure in Arizona uncovered a 480-year-old gun. Experts believe the “wall gun” was associated with the Coronado expedition. The wall gun is now ...

From personalized vaccines to next-generation screening technologies, the ways the world treats and detects cancer could shift dramatically in the coming years. But there are many challenges ahead, as ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) — Archaeologists discovered the foundation of a 1600s house during the construction of the new Colin G. and Nancy N. Campbell Archaeology Center in Colonial Williamsburg. “It ...

Humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the ultimate flexible eaters—chasing carbohydrates and fats from plant and animal sources alike. A new study in the Journal of Archaeological ...

Birds that build their nests with natural and artificial materials sometimes hold archaeological surprises for us. Certain species of large raptors like the Bearded Vulture reuse the same nests for ...

Prehistoric connections around the Gulf Coast / Nancy Marie White -- Rivers in the sea: the Gulf of Mexico as a cultural corridor in antiquity / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson -- A new look at the Gulf Coast ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — From prehistoric spear throwing to sifting for artifacts — archaeologists and natural resources specialists with the Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...