In this episode, we are joined by Tennessee State Park Ranger Dedra Irwin to discuss Tennessee’s unique woodland-era Pinson Mounds complex.
Category: Archaeology
An anomalous abundance of platinum discovered at an archaeological site in South Africa offers support in favor of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis.
A recent large-scale study undertaken by an international team of scientists is offering what has been called “the most extensive investigation south of the equator” to offer evidence of the Younger Dryas (YD) Impact Hypothesis.
In 1982, a discovery was made in Florida that would turn back the pages of history almost 7,300 years, becoming one of the most important in North American archaeology.
On this edition of the podcast, we speak with archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf about ancient tattooing practices.
Perhaps none of the proposed pre-Clovis sites in North America has aroused more controversy over the years than the Topper Site, an ancient chert quarry located in Allendale County, South Carolina.
The ancient stone circles known as “medicine wheels” remain mysterious, and continue to have a highly sacred role in the lives of many of the First Nations people.
The Gault site, an archaeological dig site located northeast of Austin, Texas, has yielded new evidence of human habitation 16 to 20 thousand years ago.
An anonymous delivery to an American University helped solve the mystery of the long-lost Fremont figurine.
New advancements in aerial photography allow archaeologists to learn as much from high above a prospective site as they can from what lies beneath its surface.