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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Tennessee is getting a brand new state park, and it happens to be on the location of one of the state's most incredible underground natural wonders.

Tennessee State Parks on Saturday dedicated the new Cardwell Mountain State Archaeological Park, making it the third archaeological park added to the state park system, preserving more than 5,000 ...

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 ...

Tennessee has just officially designated its 64th state park, and it's located near prominent caves. Here's everything you ...

University of Tennessee archaeological students working at a former campus parking lot uncovered additional sections of a known Civil War trench. The students found remnants of a fire, pottery, glass ...