But what if we told you that one of the largest and most sophisticated ancient cities in the world once thrived right in the ...

Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America ... "on the spot," Pauketat wrote in the book "Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi" (Penguin, 2010).

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Willerslev had organized previous investigations of ancient North American DNA ... David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Unlike many past studies, Picuris ...

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

Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life. White Sands National Park has some of the most archaeologically rich sand in North America, and it is within this New ...

Archeologists studying a forested area in northern Michigan say they've uncovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient Native ... across North America," says Gayle Fritz ...