Many universities and museums in the U.S. have long held Native American burial artifacts, other sacred objects and even human remains. Most of these collections were acquired in the late 19th and ...

During a presentation to the Bourne Conservation Commission on May 7, scientific researcher John Steinberg flashed a dark blue screen on a projector that was flecked with bright yellow markings. "You ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

Darren Parry panned his camera over the northern Utah desert, where sagebrush and cheatgrass have rooted deep into the sand and the Hansel Mountains mark the horizon like a jagged picture frame. Then ...

VENICE, Fla. -- A burial site hidden for some 7,000 years beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico likely has archeologists picking their jaws up from the floor. As Dr. Ryan Duggins, an underwater ...

If you know where to look, the imprint of New Jersey's indigenous people remains across Monmouth and Ocean counties and the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kerri J. Malloy, San José State University (THE CONVERSATION) Many universities and ...