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
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Where and when the first people appeared in North America is a debated subject many cannot agree on. It has previously been said
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Tribal earth ovens built long before the Egyptian pyramids are being excavated as part of the first archeological project made public by
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In January 1989, a worker discovered the remains of an ancient skeleton in a quarry near Buhl, Idaho, United States. The skeleton was named the
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News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A new paper from the University of Bristol rewrites the history of the darkest, most bizarre event in the history of paleontology.
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Utahraptor is going to need 10 million more candles on its next birthday cake. A geological study of the rock formation that encased a
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cycads, a group of gymnosperms that can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be
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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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