DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides ...

University of South Carolina archaeologist Al Goodyear and the paradigm-shifting finds from his archeological site in Allendale County are getting the star treatment in an hour-long feature on the ...

A newly-discovered mammoth butchering site proves that humans were in North America nearly 15,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists have revealed. The site from 37,000 years ago ...

Archaeologists have discovered two previously unknown forms of spearpoint technology at a site in Texas. The triangular blades appear to be older than the projectile points produced by the ...

Archaeologists at a Central Texas site have unearthed artifacts that the first humans arrived in North America roughly 2,500 years earlier than previously thought, raising questions about how they ...

Experiments were undertaken to evaluate a natural versus cultural origin for a set of modified pebbles and cobbles found in pre-Clovis-age contexts at the Big Eddy site (23CE426) in southwest Missouri ...

This image shows the mastodon rib with the embedded point near the end of the bone. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 21, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Geneticist. Anthropologist. Science writer. For decades, the so-called “Clovis-First” model dominated archaeological ways of ...

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN—According to a statement released by the University of Michigan, a Clovis camp site has been discovered on farmland in southwest Michigan. It had been previously thought that the ...