HAMPTON, Va. – To honor early American explorers, NASA will fly into space four coins and a nearly 400-year-old artifact from historic Jamestown. The items will be aboard space shuttle Atlantis during ...

It is a buckler, she explains, a shield used in handto- hand combat. It was found in a trench surrounding the fort’s east bulwark. By 1607, she says, bucklers were considered largely obsolete as tools ...

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. For 30 years, archaeologists have been digging at Jamestown, the first permanent British ...

Jamestown residents likely turned to Indigenous dogs as a food source several times during the first 10 years of their Virginia colonization, according to a new study in American Antiquity. They also ...

JAMESTOWN, VA. – NASA researchers are helping archaeologists at Historic Jamestowne learn more about North America’s first settlers. Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists have discovered a piece of ...

JAMESTOWN, Va. — Jamestown’s roots run deep. It’s the spot where settlers built a permanent English settlement along the James River four centuries ago. These days, archaeologists have been digging, ...

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