KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE—Science Magazine reports that inscriptions written in Cherokee script have been discovered at the head of an underground stream in Alabama’s Manitou Cave. Made up of 85 characters ...

Six students from Lee University participated in a summer archaeology field school at the site of Fort Armistead, a Cherokee removal fort in Cherokee National Forest near Coker Creek, Tenn.

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 ...

SHOVEL BUM: Since 2004, Ben Steere has been involved in archaeological work in Western North Carolina. He now teaches at Western Carolina University. Photo courtesy of Western Carolina University As ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An archaeology dig in Knoxville is finding artifacts for the history books. Researchers with the University of Tennessee are digging around the Cherokee Farm Greenway, searching for ...

There is no question that Native Americans have lived in this region for at least 10,000 years, but there is some question about whether they all were Cherokee. David Moore, Warren Wilson College ...

For the Native Americans who were relocated along the Trail of Tears, disease, hunger, and stress were constant companions. The Indian Removal Act resulted in the forced march in 1838 of 17,000 ...

Starting on May 18, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian introduced a new program called “Cherokee Friends” with the group’s goal being to give visitors the “Cherokee Experience” through an exhibition in ...