Did the Sutlej once flow into the legendary Saraswati River? Scientists have spent decades studying sediments, satellite ...
An international team of archaeologists reports the discovery of a previously unknown Maya city hidden beneath a millennium ...
Alejandro Blas Lizama or “Tun Al,” a pioneering CHamoru archeologist, artist, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, and also a tireless champion of CHamoru rights passed earlier this month at the age of 80 ...
Thanks to DNA, relatives of an American Revolutionary War soldier now know the name of their long-lost cousin who died in ...
A new ancient DNA study published in Science Advances provides evidence that political power among Scythian elites may have been inherited through family lineages that extended across multiple burial ...
A UW La Crosse senior is combining two passions—archaeology and tattoos—into a groundbreaking research project that's ...
Scientists identified a teen soldier who died in the Battle of Camden 246 years ago. They hold out hope of naming at least ...
The Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú (the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru, or MNAAHP) is the largest and most extensive in Peru, ...
For more than a century, anthropology has been guided by a set of assumptions about origins, innovation and geography. Chief among them is the influential “Out of Africa” model, which, while correctly ...
Scientists drove ATVs for miles and then hiked miles more through dense forest to reach a site untouched by looting on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. They named it Minanbé, meaning “there is no path.” By ...
After his wife’s death while doing fieldwork, he rejected writing as a detached observer, setting off a profound shift in cultural anthropology. By Trip Gabriel British archaeologists may have found ...
Long ReadThe Paris Catacombs reopen to the public on Wednesday, April 8, after five months of renovations. The timing offers a chance to reflect on how human remains are handled in cultural and ...