The UA Little Rock Garden Site Archaeology Project welcomed students, employees, and community members to an open house on March 14, offering a firsthand look at the universityâs ongoing efforts to uncover the historical significance of its campus.
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown that they can use stars and the remains they leave behind to conduct a special kind of archaeology in space.
University of Utah anthropologists with the Natural History Museum of Utah uncover microscopic plant residues in bedrock metates, revealing insights into the diets and traditions of ancient Indigenous communities.
The University of West Florida Archaeology Institute is leading the search for Fort Kirkland in Okaloosa County, Florida, thanks to a $250,000 grant from the Department of State. UWF students, faculty, archaeologists, local families and veterans with Task Force Dagger Special Operations Foundation are working together to study and memorialize the fort.
âA professor at the Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, has discovered evidence of an earthen embankment indicating another large ancient community in the location overlapping the old city of Nakhon Ratchasima.â
Young female chimpanzees make their nests earlier and more often than young male chimps, demonstrating their independence right from the start, a new UdeM study finds.
Saint Louis University will become the permanent home of Fontbonne Universityâs renowned Center for Bosnian Studies.
Since May 2020, researchers at the George Washington University have been studying COVID-19 death, memorialization and misinformation. The project, âRituals in the Making,â aims to learn more about how rituals changed during the pandemic, how we honored those who died and the impact on frontline workers and families.
Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island. IUâs Jayne-Leigh Thomas visited the island in December as an invited guest of Rapa Nui representatives and is working with them on several research projects focused on the ethics of repatriation.
Study of modern-day fishes, along with genetic and fossil analyses, shows that synovial joints first appeared in the earliest ancestors of jawed fishes.
Furman Professor Studied Real-Life Nickel Boys
A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction.
Have you ever wondered what a mummy smells like? According to research reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, itâs âwoody,â âspicy,â and even âsweet.â
Indiana University environmental anthropologist Eduardo Brondizio was awarded the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work on human-environment interaction in the Amazon and global-level work linking biodiversity to humankind. He is sharing the prize with Argentinian ecologist Sandra DĂaz.
An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and smoking â considered to be a relatively recent societal curse â are all risk factors to heart disease. But if that is the case, did heart disease exist thousands of years ago?
Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in collaboration with David Reich's ancient DNA laboratory at Harvard University. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia between 6.400â2.000 BCE. They found out that a newly recognized Caucasus-Lower Volga population can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations. The new study is published in Nature.
An international team of researchers including Dominic Stratford, PhD, of Stony Brook University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, have discovered that an ancient human ancestor found in deposits at the Sterkfontein Caves, Australopithecus, which lived more than three million years ago in South Africa, primarily ate plant-based foods. The finding, published in the journal Science, stems from an analysis of tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus fossils and is significant because the emergence of meat eating is thought to be a key driver of a large increase in brain size seen in later hominins.
A first-of-its-kind study found subtle, but distinct vowel pronunciations in Pacific Islanders attending more diverse schools in Utah compared to students in a predominately white high school, confirming the theory that groups to differentiate along ethnic lines where more groups share the same social space.
Researchers have discovered what may be the worldâs oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin.
An interdisciplinary research team led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber from the University of Vienna, together with experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has analysed a skull that was found in the ruins of Ephesos (Turkey) in 1929. It was long speculated that it could be the remains of ArsinoĂŤ IV, the sister of the famous Cleopatra.
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