Short-form archaeology investigations focused on real sites, real artifacts, and cautious interpretation.
Follow the evidence across three distinct investigation lanes.
Recent investigations, summarized with the evidence up front.
A forensic look at the Holzman site in Interior Alaska, separating the headlines of 'oldest tools' from the hard, directly dated evidence of mammoth tusks and...
An investigation into the Beach Cache and Beacon Island, separating commonly cited Clovis-era claims from fully verified radiocarbon dates in North Dakota.
Deep beneath the Kansas High Plains, stratified Clovis and Folsom deposits were preserved within buried paleosols. A forensic look at how Ice Age sedimentation...
A healed 3 cm cranial opening discovered in a late 9th-century mass grave in Cambridge shows measurable bone remodeling—evidence that Viking Age trepanation was...
Start with the orientation page, then follow an arc to see how the evidence accumulates.
