A network of large granite blocks lying on the seabed off Sein Island in Brittany, France, has been identified as a ...

The brick side of Fort Clinch State Park in front of a blue ocean with grasses and white sand and a blue sky. - Benjamin Klinger/Getty Images Florida, America's Sunshine State, is home to 175 state ...

If you know where to look, the imprint of New Jersey's indigenous people remains across Monmouth and Ocean counties and the people are still here.

According to a new study, groups undertaking land use and development planning are in the dark when it comes to information about significant Indigenous sites. Researchers have called for the ...

A small discovery that sparked big questions later in the history of America. In 1957, a local resident discovered an odd-looking coin while digging at a nearby shell midden on the coast of Maine.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Since first exiting Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens have transformed landscapes in a surprising number of ways. Cities ...

I am currently reading The Big Oyster: History on the half shell, a chronicle of New York City told through its renowned oyster beds. Even though I am a local, I was only vaguely aware of the city’s ...

Visitors come from all over the globe to see Charleston’s beautiful, centuries-old historic buildings. Yet very few people — even locals — ever make the half-hour drive to Awendaw to see what may be ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. Many fisheries are collapsing, and those in ...

Construction crews have uncovered a shell midden while excavating a site for a new subdivision on Wrangell Island. Middens are ancient sites made up of shells and other remains. They can help tell the ...