Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Unearth Traces of a Mysterious Medieval City That Was Abandoned Under Puzzling Circumstances Hundreds of Years Ago

Found in a Polish forest, the town of Stolzenberg appears to have been built around the turn of the 14th century. Surveys ...

Ancient skeletons sitting upright found at French school. See photos.

According to a March 18 news release by the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research, five skeletons were found in January 2025 at the Joséphine Baker school in Dijon, about ...

He Discovered a Legendary Sunken Treasure—and Accidentally Uncovered a 360-Year-Old Crime

When an expedition mapping the scattered wreckage of a Spanish galleon located illegal Mexican coins, they exposed something ...
University of Wyoming

UW-Led Research Resets Age of Famous South American Archaeological Site

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted theory that the people who made and used Clovis ...

When did humans arrive in the Americas? A new study reignites the debate

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.
Live Science

Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.'

A new analysis of archaeological layers at Monte Verde in Chile suggests that people lived there 4,200 years ago, not 14,500 years ago as originally proposed. But many experts point to errors in the ...

New study challenges a site that’s key to how humans got to the Americas

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of hu ...