A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared ...

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

Two Chinese nationals have been charged with allegedly smuggling into the U.S. a fungus called "Fusarium graminearum, which ...

"Up to this point, we didn't believe there was any other lineage that would appear in South America," said archaeologist ...

These first Africans in Virginia were ... people. (See also: Jamestown colonists resorted to cannibalism.) England had made several unsuccessful attempts to start a colony in North America before ...

Native Americans May Not Have Come From Japan, Study on Ancient Teeth Reveals Why the Theory ‘Simply Does Not Match’ For a ...

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The win hands the festival’s top prize to a director who had been banned from leaving Iran for more than 15 years.

Robert Prevost has been elected the first North American pope and will be known ... “Peace be with all of you'”, were his first words as pontiff. White smoke poured from the chimney of the ...

Despite being the last continents on Earth to be inhabited by humans (excluding Antarctica), the Americas are thought to have been home to around half of all language families ever spoken.