All Ancient Pages articles related to North America in the sections of archaeology, history, civilizations, places, myths and legends, Biblical mysteries, ancient history facts, featured stories, ancient symbols and Vikings.
North America Archive
Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Botanists and paleontologists, led by researchers from CU Boulder, have identified a fossil chili pepper that may rewrite the geography and evolutionary timeline
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Some things are not always what they appear to be, and sometimes the answer to a mystery can be a real surprise. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historical records have long suggested that Medieval Norse colonists on Greenland (AD 985–1450) relied on imported materials such as iron and wood. Until
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - About 100 to 66 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, the climate was warmer than the present. Many new species appeared
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncietPages.com - We don't know what it was or how it happened. According to newspapers and journals, it suddenly 'arrived' quickly from the West and did
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - More than 300 peculiar petroglyphs have been discovered scattered across the American Southwest. Most of these petroglyphs are known as water glyphs in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A researcher at the University of Kentucky is helping solve a mystery on the coast of North Carolina: Where did coal found on
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have described a new species of bat based on the oldest bat skeletons ever recovered. The study on the extinct bat,
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Scientists used a new technique that examines temperature records stored in bacteria to better understand the environmental conditions that may have led
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The continent of North America is where horses first emerged. Millions of years of evolutionary changes transformed the horse before it became the
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – About 360 million years ago, in the shallow subtropical waters above what is now the city of Cleveland, an armor-plated fish many
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a new study, several researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder reenacted a small part of a trek that people in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have pinpointed two intervals when ice and ocean conditions would have been favorable to support early human migration from Asia to North
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Featured Stories
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How can we tell what old carvings are worthy of further investigation and may contain a secret message? Sometimes, we encounter carvings we
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Few have been aware of this, but in the last 18 months, archaeologists have been digging at the Brickell on the Miami River,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers led by a Texas A&M University professor has identified the Manis bone projectile point as the oldest weapon made
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The transition to agriculture from hunting and gathering in pre-colonial North America led to changes in age-independent mortality, or mortality caused by factors
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A surprising discovery was made in the Field Museum in Chicago, US. An ancient sword that sat inside the Field Museum for nearly
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A young girl has made the discovery of a lifetime! During a visit to Calvert Beach in Maryland on Christmas Day, nine-year-old Molly
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The movement of people across the Bering Sea from North Asia to North America is a well-known phenomenon in early human history. Nevertheless,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Louisiana State University (LSU) Campus Mounds sit on high ground overlooking the Mississippi River floodplain and have been a gathering place and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The wide expanse of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico holds the preserved footprints of life that roamed millennia ago. Giant sloths and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Beautiful, sacred, 4,000-year-old petroglyphs etched into a rock in Nevada have been defaced by two men who have now been sentenced for their
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The belief in vampires is widespread and goes far back in time. Stories of vampires are today mostly encountered in books and movies,
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages-com - An unusual exhibition is taking place in Kentucky, USA. Backed by the Ark Encounter and the associated Creation Museum a full-sized Ark of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An incredible find is being reported from Wisconsin, where an ancient canoe carved from a single piece of white oak has been discovered
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating at fort St. Joseph in Michigan, an archaeology student unearthed a beautiful, unique heart-shaped Jesuit ring. The intact ring has been
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It really doesn't matter whether the person is young or older, it's a find of a lifetime. Still, to a youngster who is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research reveals more information about the LSU Campus Mounds, including the discovery of thousands of years old charred mammal bone fragments and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Last month, scientists announced human footprints believed to date from the end of the last Ice Age had been discovered on the salt
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent study by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin finds that a site in New Mexico offers some of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Human footprints believed to date from the end of the last Ice Age have been discovered on the salt flats of the Air
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is a small bronze artifact in the Cincinnati Art Museum's East Asian art collection in Ohio. It is not particularly remarkable at
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are currently exploring a mysterious passageway under the world's longest known cave system. Their mission has been successful so far and the
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Georgia Guidestones have been vandalized on previous occasions. The recent destruction of the monument dubbed "America's Stonehenge" near Elberton took place on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An archaeological dig on one of Northeast Florida's unique sea islands, Big Talbot Island has been very successful so far. Scientists and students
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Between 18 million and 12 million years ago, the Great Plains supported an unprecedented variety of hooved mammal species that browsed on leafy
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are hopeful conducted high-tech scans will reveal some secrets of an ancient canoe discovered in Wisconsin, North America. The canoe was brought
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations led by Wyoming's state archaeologist and involving University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Since 1979, when the first cave art was documented in North America, dozens of other examples have come to light. Among these, the
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