Prologue: historicizing the origins of American archaeology -- American antiquities: a grand theme for speculation -- Rediscovering the mounds: scientific enquiry and the westward movement -- ...

An after-hours event at the Museum of the American Revolution next month will explore the thousands of 18th century ceramics, pottery, glassware and animal bone fragments found under the museum site. ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before ...

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 ...

Robert Madden of Colorado State University identified and examined more than 600 sets of dice, or binary lots, recovered from ...

Before the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were perhaps 50 native Chinese people in the United States. Just a few decades later, there were more than 100,000, and seemingly every city, ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across North America are challenging our understanding of the continent’s prehistoric past. From the arid Southwest to the coastal regions, these finds reveal a rich ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that the world's oldest known dice were crafted and used by Native American ...