In total, archaeologist Robert Madden observed 659 sets of Native American dice from 57 archaeological sites across 12 ...

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 ...

A new study shows that dice and games of chance date back thousands of years earlier than experts previously thought.

A University of Wyoming archaeologist is the lead author on a new paper that has potentially upended what we know about the history of humanity in ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before ...

An after-hours event at the Museum of the American Revolution next month will explore the thousands of 18th century ceramics, pottery, glassware and animal bone fragments found under the museum site. ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across North America are challenging our understanding of the continent’s prehistoric past. From the arid Southwest to the coastal regions, these finds reveal a rich ...

Before the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were perhaps 50 native Chinese people in the United States. Just a few decades later, there were more than 100,000, and seemingly every city, ...

As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, ...

Archaeology, slavery, and marronage : a complex relationship / Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Charles E. Orser -- Maroon and leftist praxis in historical archaeology / Daniel O. Sayers -- Archaeology of ...