Despite their ubiquity, surface occurrences of obsidian artifacts at archaeological sites throughout western North America have traditionally been viewed as unworthy of serious attention because of ...

The appearance of bow and arrow technology in the archaeological record of Wisconsin occurred approximately 1,500 years ago during a time archaeologists refer to or identify as the Late Woodland ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago—which, based on its location, means that said someone must have been a ...

Stone tools found in some of the earliest settlements in the Americas are challenging the prevailing theory of when the first migrations to the region happened. These tools, probably used as spear ...

Université de Bordeaux and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Novosibirsk report initial findings from an ~80 ka site, Obi-Rakhmat in Uzbekistan, identifying three projectile armature types, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Collected by Arctic explorer Harold H ...