NAHA--Researchers in Okinawa Prefecture have confirmed the discovery of the oldest artificially colored ornament ever found in Japan. Officials of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum made ...

In a new study, an archaeologist says that she's identified beads made from seashells by apprentices in the Chumash Indian bead trade before the arrival of Europeans. As the world's leading authority ...

A team of archaeologists and its trusty drone are revealing an island community that once supplied valuable beads to the inland towns of the Mississippian culture, which thrived in the eastern United ...

As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California's Native Americans, Lynn Gamble(link is external) knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell ...