Fort McCoy has hosted archaeological investigations for several decades, and these investigations have been performed by dozens of archaeologists of varying backgrounds. The goal of the lead ...

A 15,000-year-old projectile may provide indirect evidence for how and when people first arrived in the Americas.Credit: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University Thousands of ...

Girl finds pre-historic projectile point on Long Branch beach, less than a month after LBI discovery Unfinished projectile point, designed for spears, likely from Early Woodland period, c. 500 BC ...

Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas, helping to fill in the history of how ...

QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA—Archaeologist Corey O’Driscoll has developed a method of determining if wounds on bones were made by spears thrown from a distance. Indirect evidence from examining stone point, ...

Some of the Western Stemmed projectile points found in Oregon’s Paisley Cave. Image: Jim Barlow A hundred years ago, archaeologists thought Native Americans came to North America only 5,000 years ago.

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