Credit: David Hiser/Environmental Protection Agency The bow and arrow only arrived in western North America 1,400 years ago, according to a recent dating of over a hundred ancient weapons. This is ...
Dean R. Snow is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His archaeological research interests are in Iroquoian and Algonquian ...
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Ancient weapon revolution: How the bow and arrow spread across western North America 1,400 years ago
In A Nutshell Researchers dated 136 preserved organic weapons from western North America and found the bow and arrow appeared in both northern and southern regions around 1,400 years ago. In the south ...
Introduction: The stuff of histories and cultures / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- PART 1. CULTURES IN CONTACT: MELTING POTS OR NOT? / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- Spaniards and Native Americans at the missions of La ...
For thousands of years, prehistoric hunters across western North America relied on the atlatl, a powerful dart-throwing device, to take down their prey. However, a recent comprehensive study reveals ...
In the barren lands of the Eastern Oregon desert, a team of University of Oregon archaeologists, field archaeologists and volunteers sift through dirt, rocks, rain water and 18,000-year-old camel ...
A very, very old mammoth tusk found near a road-widening project, for State Route 54 near National City in the early 1990s, set off considerable controversy among scientists. When a group of ...
Dr. Meyer joined the anthropology faculty as an assistant professor in 2025. He specializes in the archaeology of the earliest hunter-gatherers in North America as well as Formative era societies ...
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