Scientists exploring an underwater region off the coast of Alaska discovered an ancient stone fish trap that may be the oldest ever found. University academics working with the Sealaska Heritage ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

In the late summer of 1805, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition came upon a camp of Shoshone Indians, who gifted the haggard explorers a meal that raised their spirits. ...

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Archaeologists excavated 7,000-year-old wooden fish traps at Tesse lake for the first time after a hiker stumbled on the ruins, photos show. Photo from the Cultural History Museum Standing on the bank ...

The weir was found as part of a project organized by the Sealaska Heritage Institute and SUNFISH Inc. to explore submerged caves in southeastern Alaska “to seek evidence of early human occupation.” A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers including a University of Vermont anthropologist have discovered a large-scale fish-trapping facility in Belize dating ...

A key legislative committee contended that some of the changes don’t comply with state law, leaving the Department of Fish & Wildlife vulnerable to lawsuits. A trapper sets a trap for beaver during ...

Jonathan Koehler is working the biggest fish-trapping contraption on the Napa River and finding out good news about Chinook salmon after a historic rain year. This eight-foot-diameter metal funnel ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - Idaho Fish and Game has lifted the hunting, fishing and trapping closures in the previously closed reach of the Snake River upstream of “broken bridge” (Yingst Grade) to ...