Recovering family history for millions of African Americans: Kendra Taira Field is named chief historian for the 10 Million Names project
Ethical challenges of studying historical DNA that connects living people to enslaved and free African Americans at Catoctin Furnace, an early ironworks (18th–19th century)
Daughters breastfed longer, and women accumulated greater wealth in ancient California matriarchal society
Evidence of ancient breeding of scarlet macaws in today’s New Mexico in the 1100s, according to a study in PNAS Nexus
Pottery suggests a surprising diversity of ethnic groups in the US Virgin Islands before Columbus; the study has been published in Heritage Science
A landmark study on history of horses in the American West, published in Science, relies on Native knowledge
Scientists may have solved a Chaco Canyon mystery by hauling logs with their heads; they might have employed tumplines woven from yucca plants
Texas A&M-led research team identifies oldest bone spear point in the Americas; the study has been published in Science Advances
Oregon State archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the Americas at the Cooper’s Ferry site along the Salmon River, Idaho
Archaeologists awarded a National Science Foundation grant to survey Florida cultural heritage sites damaged by Hurricane Ian
