The pigment in Gwion Gwion style rock art makes radiocarbon dating impossible. Instead, researchers used mud wasp nests to date the paintings.

New research with skulls upends ideas about who arrived in the Caribbean when. "We're going to have to reinterpret everything we thought we knew."

There's now have a way to detect a crucial cooking process in the archaeological record: the nixtamalization of maize.

Experimental cultivation of the "lost crops" goosefoot and erect knotweed suggests they could have once fed as many indigenous people as maize.

In the 1970s, 25 to 42% of Native American women of childbearing age underwent sterilizations, often without consent or under duress.

Climate has been a major driver for wildfire severity in California's Sierra Nevada region, which also means that future climate change will drive

"We must have fire in order to continue the traditions of our people. There is such a thing as good fire."

The Nunavik Inuit in Canada are genetically distinct from all other known groups, a new study finds. Some variations put the group at risk of brain aneurysm.

An entire rattlesnake turned up in a coprolite, or fossilized feces. Here are two potential explanations.

Who was Pocahontas? Not the "human ad" for the Virginia colony, the chaste savior of John Smith, or the Disney princess, a new book shows.