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The archaeology of Native North America Dean R. Snow, Nancy Gonlin, Peter E. Siegel

Dean R. Snow is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His archaeological research interests are in Iroquoian and Algonquian ...
TheTravel on MSN

This little-known Colorado national park town has North America's highest concentration of archaeological sites

The historical town contains a highly concentrated amount of archaeological sites, unveiling the lives of Native Americans in ...
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Unlocking the past : celebrating historical archaeology in North America / edited by Lu Ann De Cunzo and John H. Jameson, Jr

Introduction: The stuff of histories and cultures / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- PART 1. CULTURES IN CONTACT: MELTING POTS OR NOT? / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- Spaniards and Native Americans at the missions of La ...
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Who the "Ancient Giants" of North America really were

This documentary investigates claims of ancient giants in North America using archaeology, historical records, and ...
USA Today

Humans could have arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier, new research shows

A growing number of archaeological and genetic finds are fueling debates on when humans first arrived in North America. New research presented Dec. 15 at the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting ...
ZME Science

Ice Age Nomads in North America Invented Dice and Gambling 12,000 Years Ago

Historians assumed that humans first started gambling in the Old World. Scholars traced the earliest dice to Bronze Age ...
Science Daily

Ancient bone dice reveal 12,000-year history of gambling in America

A new study in American Antiquity, a leading journal of North American archaeology published by Cambridge University Press for the Society for American Archaeology, presents compelling evidence that ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Western science beginning to catch up to what Indigenous history has always known

A very, very old mammoth tusk found near a road-widening project, for State Route 54 near National City in the early 1990s, set off considerable controversy among scientists. When a group of ...
University of Wyoming

Kelton Meyer

Dr. Meyer joined the anthropology faculty as an assistant professor in 2025. He specializes in the archaeology of the earliest hunter-gatherers in North America as well as Formative era societies ...

Native American use of dice, probability predates currently known Old World dice by millenia

In total, archaeologist Robert Madden observed 659 sets of Native American dice from 57 archaeological sites across 12 ...
University of Wyoming

UW-Led Study Traces Indigenous Population Shifts in North America Before Europeans

Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...