Season 2 Sites

TIME TEAM AMERICA is sharpening their trowels for a second season of archaeological investigations into America's past. Time Team America joins archaeologists on sites already in progress and expands the effort with the latest technology, expertise and additional manpower. What secrets to the past will the earth divulge on each of our three-day missions? Check out the new sites we'll be investigating this summer and look for the new season of episodes in 2013.

Crow Canyon

In Crow Canyon we'll continue to explore a village that 2000 years ago was home to people of the Basket Maker III era, a culture that advanced with technologies like farming, pottery, and the bow and arrow. Recent discoveries at Crow Canyon lead researchers to ask: was this site more than just a village? Was this concentrated settlement hotbed of invention that propelled this culture? The Basket Maker III era laid the foundation for the Ancestral Pueblo people, who later built some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world in the nearby Mesa Verde region.

The Bones of Badger Hole

At Badger Hole, Oklahoma, the Time Team America crew excavates what may be the largest Folsom-period bison kill site in North America. Long extinct, Bison Antiquus roamed the plains 10,000 year ago. How were hunters able to kill so many without the help of bows and arrows or even horses?

Josiah Henson House

Hidden on an acre of land in a Maryland suburb just outside of Washington, DC, sits a remarkable and unexpected historical artifact — a house from an 18th Century slave plantation. For 30 years it was home to Josiah Henson, an enslaved man whose famous 1849 autobiography is said to have inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Time Team America will bring its expertise and hi-tech tool-kit to uncover clues that tell his story, and the story of this small plantation.