Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared between 1587 and 1590 in North Carolina.

Whether the colonists were killed by Native Americans, starved to death, or left for greener pastures has eluded historians. But new research suggests the colonists’ fate may not have been ...

Southern Connecticut State University’s Archaeology Field School invites community members, students, and history enthusiasts to get hands-on with the past.

Horton added, "We think that they assimilated into the Native American community and their descendants, their sons, their granddaughters, their grandsons carried on living on Hatteras Island until ...

Horton added, "This is metal that has to be raised to a relatively high temperature … which, of course, [requires] technology that Native Americans at this period did not have." ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

(The Center Square) – A Native American group is pleased with the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to refer an investigation into New York institutions to the Department of Justice over ...

In some of the earliest settlements in North America, specifically in Jamestown (in modern-day Virginia), and the Plymouth colony (in modern day Massachusetts), the original settlers that survived ...

(WJAR) — Three inmates of Native American ancestry are suing Rhode Island’s prison system, claiming their religious rights are being violated by not being allowed to participate in ceremonies ...