archaeology

Ostrich beads mark the ebb and flow of migration

A self-funded researcher’s work on ostrich beads shows how a flooded river basin cut ties between African communities for 40,000…

4 years ago

Apocalypse then

A space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom

4 years ago

A trove of buried human history

Among the remains found at Sunghir, where funeral rituals ranged from the ornate to the desultory, the dead with physical…

8 years ago

How we know that Neanderthals were artists

Two researchers explain how they concluded that Neanderthals were not all that different from the modern humans who replaced them…

8 years ago

Every ring tells a story

The past comes clothed in rich detail, thanks to tree ring comparisons, archaeological evidence, oral traditions, linguistics, genetics, and other…

8 years ago