Tag: Archaeology
Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline
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...
Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Visitors to East Africa are often...
Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Visitors to East Africa are often...
We’re just beginning to grasp the toll of the Islamic State’s...
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...
America’s archaeology data keeps disappearing — even though the law says...
Keith Kintigh, Arizona State University
Archaeology – the name conjures up images of someone carefully sifting the sands for traces of the past and then...
Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract...
Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver
The remains of a 6-inch long mummy from Chile are not those of a space alien, according to recently...
Fossil jawbone from Israel is the oldest modern human found outside...
Rolf Quam, Binghamton University, State University of New York
New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing anthropologists to reexamine our evolutionary...
Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of...
Shelby Putt, Indiana University
How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
