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Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ from Flores...

Staff Writer - October 12, 2019

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...

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Rising seas threaten hundreds of Native American heritage sites along Florida’s...

Staff Writer - September 28, 2019

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...

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Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots...

Staff Writer - August 31, 2019

Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lucas Stephens, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,...

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Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline

Staff Writer - June 3, 2019

Alison Kyra Carter, University of Oregon Cambodia’s famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world’s largest religious monuments, visited by over 2 million...

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Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa

Staff Writer - June 2, 2019

Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) Visitors to East Africa are often...

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Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa

Staff Writer - May 30, 2019

Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) Visitors to East Africa are often...

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We’re just beginning to grasp the toll of the Islamic State’s...

Staff Writer - May 15, 2019

Fiona Greenland, University of Virginia; James Marrone, Johns Hopkins University; Oya Topçuoğlu, Northwestern University, and Tasha Vorderstrasse, University of Chicago The Islamic State surrendered its...

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America’s archaeology data keeps disappearing — even though the law says...

Staff Writer - October 18, 2018

Keith Kintigh, Arizona State University Archaeology – the name conjures up images of someone carefully sifting the sands for traces of the past and then...