Called "Doc" by students, James Adovasio was an archaeologist and former Mercyhurst University professor known for his work at Meadowcroft Rockshelter.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Often when people hear the word "archaeologist," they think of an iconic film character like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. However, ...

An amateur archaeologist in western Germany has discovered 934 Roman silver denarii, the biggest coin treasure from the time of Emperor Hadrian ever found in the country. Oliver Riedl had only turned ...

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.

Historical artifacts discovered in the wrong time period An archaeologist mistook them for pennies. A mining crew dragged a statue out of a Siberian bog. A New Mexico boulder showed up carrying the ...

According to Zlatkov, however, the significance of the era of Samuel is not limited to military defeats and the loss of statehood ...

Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why ...

Welcome to Ask a Professor, our series that offers an insider’s view of life in academia. This month we interviewed Amy V. Margaris, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College. Margaris is ...

Love the idea of unearthing ancient artifacts? Archaeology gives you the chance to dig into the past to learn more about human history. The archeology career focuses heavily on sciences, research, ...

The hoard, buried south of Cologne in the second century AD, is the biggest coin treasure ever found in Germany from the time of Hadrian ...