Archaeologists identify oldest known projectile points in the Americas
Among the stone tools recovered from the site were 14 complete and fragmentary stemmed projectile points, dated to around 16,000 years ago.
North America
Convoys: the British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America
REVIEW BY PATRICK BONIFACE. Military success throughout time has been dependent on the orderly and safe supply of goods, food, fuel, ammunition, and personnel. Ancient mariners devised the convoy system to protect these vital supplies, and over the centuries little…
Vikings settled in North America exactly 1,000 years ago, study confirms
Discovered in 1960 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is the first and only base established by the Vikings in North America.
Footprints offer early evidence of human occupation in North America
These tracks could offer concrete evidence that humans reached North America before glacial advances closed the ice-free corridor and Pacific Coastal Route
Raising the dead, 1865
In June 1864, Cold Harbor was the site of a fortnight-long battle during the American Civil War.
A year later, photographer John Reekie visited the battlefield and captured pictures of men as they roamed the fields, collecting and reburying the bones of dead soldiers.
World News: Saudi Arabia, North America, Peru
Footprints in the desert The earliest-known human footprints from the Arabian Peninsula have been discovered in an ancient lake deposit in the south-west of the Nefud Desert. They were discovered as part of the Palaeodeserts Project, which is studying the…