archaeology

The Meeteetse Museums will be butchering a bison with stone tools at the end of October. The event is part of the Meeteetse Museums' ongoing Bison of the Bighorn Basin Project where the museum is collecting and researching historic bison skulls found in the area.

Tiger chert is a stone that formed about 50 million years ago in Wyoming and the surrounding region, and artifacts made from the rock are found around the…

An ochre mine in Sunrise, Wyoming may be one of the earliest mining sites in North America. Archaeologists have been working to preserve the mine, called…

Update November 15, 2019 at 3:30p.m.: According to Travis Duncan with Colorado Parks and Wildlife: "The commission voted to dismiss both citizen...

Rapid population growth in the Mountain West means new infrastructure. Under federal law , potential sites for things like road expansions must be...

Thousands of years ago, Wyoming was home to mammoths. Archeologists have been studying interactions between the first humans and last mammoths in the…

An archaeological dig in the Mountain West has unearthed several giant sites of Native American ruins. The dig is happening in advance of planned...

Archeologists and other scientists will gather at an important prehistoric mining site in Southeastern Wyoming today. The researchers hope to learn more…

Archaeologists are in a race against time to document some artifacts found in the Mountain West.

How archaeologists are trying to track down the remaining pieces of a mammoth found in Wyoming.