Tag: Archaeology
Explorer Robert Ballard’s memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in...
Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University
Who doesn’t love a good story, especially one about amazing discoveries in Earth’s farthest reaches?...
Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of...
Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State
Fields of rust-colored soil,...
Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of...
Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State
Fields of rust-colored soil,...
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,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
