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 ...

Ancient footprints discovered in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging long-held beliefs about when humans first arrived ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...