The final days at one of Arizona’s most famous ancient landmarks were fraught with violence and death, new research shows.
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Hundreds of Dice, Game Pieces Found in Utah Cave Shed Light on Prehistoric Gambling
A cave on the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake is giving archaeologists a rare glimpse into a seldom-studied aspect of life in the ancient West — prehistoric gambling. Researchers…
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Utah Cave Full of Children’s Moccasins Sheds Light on Little-Known Ancient Culture
Archaeologists on the trail of a little-known ancient culture have found a cache of clues that may help unlock its secrets: a cave containing hundreds of children’s moccasins. The cave,…
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Western Digs’ Top 5 Archaeology Stories of 2013
The topics range from butchered human remains to video games. The stories they tell come from as long ago as 10,500 years, and as recently as the 1980s. Of the…
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Plains Indian Fortress With Moat, ‘Underground Apartments’ Unearthed in Oklahoma
A tumultuous time on the southern Plains is slowly returning to the surface in Oklahoma, where archaeologists have excavated a 250-year-old fortress built by a people known as the Taovaya,…
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New Discoveries in Arizona May Be ‘Game-Changers’ in Study of Ancient Culture’s Fate
The remains of houses, bits of charcoal, and rarely seen types of pottery are tantalizing new clues in one of the more persistent mysteries of Southwestern history: What happened to…
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Long-Hidden Sites Discovered in the Southwest May Change Views of Ancient Migrations
A type of site never before described by archaeologists is shedding new light on the prehistory of the American Southwest and may change conventional thinking about the ancient migrations that…
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