Tag: Archaeology
How do archaeologists know where to dig?
Gabriel D. Wrobel, Michigan State University and Stacey Camp, Michigan State University
National Geographic magazines and Indiana Jones movies might have you picturing archaeologists excavating...
Archaeologists determined the step-by-step path taken by the first people to...
Matthew F. Napolitano, University of Oregon; Jessica Stone, University of Oregon; Robert DiNapoli, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Scott Fitzpatrick, University...
What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by...
Joshua Kumbani, University of the Witwatersrand
Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound...
When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell...
Nick Longrich, University of Bath
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question....
Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first...
Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond
The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that,...
Brewing Mesopotamian beer brings a sip of this vibrant ancient drinking...
Tate Paulette, North Carolina State University
It’s been about five months since I set foot in a bar. Like many of you navigating life in...
Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous...
Sturt Manning, Cornell University
Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609...
What tooth tartar taught us about baboons kept captive in ancient...
Claudio Ottoni, Sapienza University of Rome
Many people know it’s important to clean their teeth to prevent a build-up of dental plaque. This sticky film...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
