Time Team America

An acre of land in a Maryland suburb holds vital clues to life on Southern plantations during the height of slavery. Josiah Henson once lived here as an enslaved overseer.

Working against a three-day deadline, Time Team America digs for the skeletons of long-extinct bison that roamed Oklahoma 10,000 years ago.

Near the end of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers quickly erect a prison to house overflow from the infamous Andersonville Prison.

Time Team America uses airborne 3D mapping and ground penetrating radar to explore the extent of a Basket Maker III community that thrived 1,400 to 1,500 years ago.