Tag: Archaeology
Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lucas Stephens, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
