What Created the 12,900-Year-Old Black Layer?
At Murray Springs in southeastern Arizona, a dark organic-rich layer formed above a Clovis-age landscape near the beginning of the Younger Dryas. A forensic...
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At Murray Springs in southeastern Arizona, a dark organic-rich layer formed above a Clovis-age landscape near the beginning of the Younger Dryas. A forensic...
At Kalambo Falls in Zambia, waterlogged sediments preserved two large logs deliberately shaped to interlock across a cut notch at least 476,000 years ago. A...
At the Powars II site beside the Wyoming ghost town of Sunrise, archaeologists documented a Paleoindian hematite quarry securely used nearly 13,000 years ago. A...
At the submerged Pharos site in Alexandria, archaeologists raised 22 massive architectural blocks for study and scanning, including monumental doorway pieces...
Start with the orientation page, then follow an arc to see how the evidence accumulates.