Almost exactly five years ago, the Cumberland River swelled with over a foot of torrential rain and crested, inundating Nashville, Tennessee, as well as parts of Kentucky and Mississippi. This ...

JOHNSON CITY — The East Tennessee State University and General Shale Natural History Museum and Gray Fossil Site will observe Tennessee Archaeology Awareness Month with a host of activities for all ...

Turkeys figured prominently into pre-contact Native American life, but the first archaeological evidence of probable domestication in the Southeast U.S. has just been found at a site in Tennessee.

Environment and Conservation Commissioner Jim Fyke has announced the appointment of Michael C. Moore as Tennessee's new state archaeologist. Mr. Moore has served as acting state archaeologist since ...

Part of the future Nashville Sounds ballpark was on display Saturday, specifically about 10 feet underground of what will be left-center field. The 27th Tennessee Archaeology Meeting presented ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - A Franklin man's backyard became one of 11 Tennessee sites added to the National Register of Historic Places this week after archaeological digs there turned up one of the two ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Historical Commission and the State Historic Preservation Office have awarded 21 grants totaling more than $800,000 to support preservation of historic and ...

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—According to a Science News report, a new study of turkey bones unearthed in 1985 in a burial pit at the Fernvale site in central Tennessee suggests that they may have been used ...

The Tennessee Division of Archaeology and Middle Tennessee State University will host the 26th annual Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology meeting Friday and Saturday in the Ed Jones Auditorium ...

Have you ever wanted to be an archaeologist? Do you love to learn about local history? Well then come on out to the Tennessee Council for Professional Archaeology’s first ever Archaeology Day at Bells ...

We report on a recently discovered, dark zone, mud glyph cave art site in East Tennessee. The cave vestibule contains intact sedimentary deposits preserving prehistoric archaeological layers in ...