Tag: Archaeology
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...
Humans domesticated horses – new tech could help archaeologists figure out...
William Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder
In the increasingly urbanized world, few people still ride horses for reasons beyond sport or leisure. However, on horseback,...
Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape
Wyatt Oswald, Emerson College; David R. Foster, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Chilton, Binghamton University, State University of New York
An interpretive sign stands at the...
Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the...
Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) and Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid
In 1924, a 3-year-old child’s skull...
Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ from Flores...
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Universidade Federal de Goias and Pasquale Raia, University of Naples Federico II
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new...
Rising seas threaten hundreds of Native American heritage sites along Florida’s...
Jayur Mehta, Florida State University and Tara Skipton, Florida State University
Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these...
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...
