Archaeology

There’s a 30-acre site in Central Texas that has yielded over 2.6 million artifacts about the early human presence in the Americas. The Gault Archaeological dig is rewriting the history and our understanding of the earliest people who inhabited Texas. But saving this site from exploitation has been a fight. We’ll hear about the documentary “The Stones are Speaking.”

“If that’s a stump, it’s the weirdest stump I’ve ever seen.”

The work will not affect visitors' access to the church, nor will it affect visits to any of the other parts of the Alamo grounds.

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using animal bones — 1 million years earlier than researchers previously thought.

July 19 is 'Ask an Archaeologist Day.' TPR's Kayla Padilla sat down with San Antonio-based Maya archaeologist Jennifer Mathews to talk about the field.

The more than half mile long wall, called the Blinkerwall, was likely used by Stone Age hunter-gatherers to herd reindeer toward a shooting blind.

Artifacts recovered during excavation efforts of the 300-year-old structure include Spanish Colonial ceramics, Goliad ceramics, musket balls, lithic debitage, and gunflints.

The arrow was found at a site on Mount Lauvhøe that was previously covered in ice. The new discovery adds new "time depth" to the research site.

In Alpine on Tuesday, U.S. and Mexican officials gathered for a repatriation ceremony of ancient artifacts that were stolen from a museum in northern Mexico in 2008.

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: 'The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women.'