Sight unseen, sifting through a foot of sediment, his fingertips suddenly danced across the flaked edges of countless stone ...

A fossil discovered in New Mexico could rewrite the history of dinosaurs by revealing a giant tyrannosaur that predates T.

Trace Arkansas’s ancient past through earthworks, pictographs, museums, and historic sites that bring Native American ...

Two landmarks will be renamed Soule Park and Soule Hill, in honor of a historic figure on the other side of the Sand Creek Massacre.

This Pew Research Center analysis summarizes key facts about Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) living in the United States. Pew Research Center does demographic studies, opinion polls and ...

In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

The justices appeared largely unmoved by the government's argument that President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship does not violate the Constitution Tom Williams/CQ-Roll ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 ...

Indigenous people in the western United States invented dice more than 12,000 years ago, offering archaeologists the world's oldest evidence of gambling and possibly the oldest use of probability, a ...

Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question ...

The Trump administration’s lawyer, Solicitor General John Sauer, admitted before the Supreme Court Wednesday that he hadn’t thought too much about one of the big questions in President Donald Trump’s ...