UW’s Anthropology Building is now the George C. Frison Building, in honor of the Worland native and UW graduate who achieved international acclaim as an archaeologist during a lengthy career as a UW ...

Workers were just starting construction on a new apartment complex in northeastern Brazil when they began finding human bones and pottery shards, their edges worn smooth by time. Soon, excavations at ...

James Skibo, Wisconsin's state archaeologist and a well-known figure in the field, died recently in a scuba diving accident in Lake Mendota. He is being remembered for his curiosity and enthusiasm.

Archaeologists have discovered 16 ancient canoes left behind by Indigenous people along the shore of a Wisconsin lake, in what they described as the prehistoric version of a modern-day docking station ...

If they’re lucky, archaeologists find bones, pottery, stone tools, beads and other sturdy remnants of the past. However, they’re less likely to unearth wooden artifacts, which tend to disintegrate ...

An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the history of Homo sapiens." The inscriptions that Bacon, 67, decoded date back tens of thousands of years.

Vikings were formidable Scandinavian warriors and sailors who, from around 800 to 1050 CE, raided, traded, and settled throughout northern Europe, Iceland, Greenland, and even as far as North America.

A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He's done it by sailing like one. Archaeologist Greer Jarrett, a doctoral student at Lund University, has ...

Kisha Supernant has brought radar technology to the search for burial sites in Canada while she works to reshape her profession’s relationship with Indigenous communities. By Ian Austen OTTAWA — At 15 ...