Ancient stories from across the world tell of skies on fire and oceans rising. For centuries, scholars dismissed them as ...

This documentary walks through the entire prehistoric timeline of North America, showcasing ancient seas, early reptiles, ...

An ancient Skiri Pawnee star map on elk skin reopens the debate about its true function and challenges Western interpretations.

The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are stunning natural light displays. Ancient North American cultures viewed them ...

While they didn't live in a pineapple under the Phosphoria Sea, it turns out a good chunk of the prehistoric Intermountain ...

The crow-sized, slate-blue-backed peregrine falcon, with its bright yellow feet, soars across the skies from Greenland’s ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

Michigan is the ancestral homeland of Anishinaabe peoples, namely the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi — the historic Council of Three Fires alliance — and the Indigenous presence pre-dates European ...

Dr. Nicholas Kessler and his colleagues examined the largest known marker post from the ancient North American city of Cahokia. Their study is published in PLOS One. Cahokia emerged around 1050 CE as ...

The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...