Photo by Madeline Scarborough Quinton Carpenter and his son Joe Rankin share Carpenter’s collection of arrow heads, mound pipes and other prehistoric tools at Campus Martius Museum in Marietta for ...

A practical packing guide organized by categories, including daily site essentials, documentation items, and personal health and hygiene. Key items include a dependable dig bag, refillable water ...

It's history revealed in the dirty little details. So scientists and students huddled on their hands and knees this summer, methodically sifting through the dirt for artifacts. They searched near the ...

Union High School students are digging into a new skill: archaeology. During Monday’s inaugural “Archaeology Day,” social studies students got the chance to try their hands at an excavation. The ...

Students at Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired in Baton Rouge are getting an introduction this summer to archaeology, including a taste of what it’s like to participate in an excavation. This ...

On Saturday afternoon, Amy Clearman stood in front of about a dozen kids at Fort Vancouver and asked a simple question: “What is archaeology?” Speaking in soft voices, the kids, all between ages 8 and ...

A group of 20 children gathered around a giant dig box on Wenas Mammoth Mountain during the Wenas Mammoth Foundation’s annual paleontology and archaeology summer youth camp in Selah this week. Safety ...

Students in a University of South Carolina archaeology class spent this year's spring semester digging up glimpses of the past on the university's historic Horseshoe. Honors professor Kelly Goldberg ...

A CASHEW is a tough nut to crack. You must carefully balance it on an anvil and bash it with a hammer, while avoiding contact with the caustic resin in its shell. This takes great skill. Yet bearded ...