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

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

"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.

Vikings were not the first people to live at L’Anse aux Meadows ... when archaeologists began theorizing that Norse settlers had reached North America, they initially looked further south ...