Photographs and more information from the excavations prompted by railroad construction in central Germany are posted at National Geographic News. Last month, archaeologists announced the discovery of burials spanning several thousand years, some of which contained shell beads, copper and amber jewelry, and hundreds of dog teeth. Fort George Cay in the Turks & Caicos […]

 A 14,230-year-old scraper-like bone tool has reportedly been found in Oregon’s Paisley Cave, where coprolites dated to 14,000 to 14,270 years ago were found last year.  But Pennsylvania’s Meadowcroft Rockshelter dates to 16,000 years ago.   Conquistador Hernando de Soto probably stopped in Telfair County, Georgia, in 1540, according to Dennis Blanton of the Fernbank Museum […]