In the American-Statesman archives we found the previous story on the treasures buried beneath Zilker Park in Austin ...

If pressed, most Kansans would guess the Kansa Indians were the state’s first farmers and corn was their first crop. And they’d be wrong. “There were people farming here a thousand years ...

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians from the Middle ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism, used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars ...

How one photographer helped give birth to the National Park Service By Lily Rothman There is no shortage of things to see in America’s national parks. Whether the view is of dappled Acadia or ...

I have worked on numerous projects in economic prehistory with Clyde Reed since about 2003. Much of our research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with ...

The study, based on an innovative analysis of pottery production and circulation, opens the door to identifying similar ...

Spencer primarily researches the early prehistory of hunter-gatherers in the High Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West, but also maintains research interests in geoarchaeology, site ...