From the piney woods of Maine to the California desert, here's where to get back to nature.

It's worth planning ahead to camp in California's Yosemite National Park, where you can see the famous granite peaks El Capitan and Half Dome. Head into Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada for an ...

Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and ...

You’ve probably come across ancient tools before – some in museums, some in textbooks, and some that just look like random objects if you don’t know what you’re looking at. In this quiz, we’ve ...

New research is forcing archaeologists to confront an inconvenient truth about atlatls, a weapon that's been linked to Clovis hunters for decades despite the dearth of evidence. Reading time 3 minutes ...

Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village outside Avella will host two special programs Saturday, offering visitors the opportunity to experience prehistoric technology in action and explore one of ...

New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, and ...

The findings by UW Professor Todd Surovell, Professor Emeritus Robert Kelly and colleagues from other institutions are the latest development in a long-running debate over the behaviors and movements ...