Over years and across long distances, an international filmmaking team collaborated to bring to life the origin story of how…
Dating the Arrival of Modern Humans in AsiaA team of researchers explains how the discovery of a human skull and jawbone helps push back the timing of…
What Pots Say—and Don’t Say—About PeopleArchaeologists long abandoned the simple notion that “pots are people”—that people’s identities directly correspond with the pottery they made and…
On the Quandaries of Aquatic ForensicsA team of scientists, including an anthropologist, explains the challenges and methods for locating, identifying, and retrieving human remains from…
Extinguishing the Idea That Hobbits Had FireResearch has overturned earlier claims that a diminutive human relative, Homo floresiensis, lit fires—but big stories die hard. SMOKING HOT…
Piecing Together the Puzzle of Oman’s Ancient TowersIn recent years, the Omani government has invested in archaeology and heritage tourism to boost its economy—renewing interest in mysterious…
A New Take on an Old Fossil Hints at Ancient MigrationsTwo anthropologists explain how an enigmatic human fossil jawbone—and its 3D-printed reconstruction—may evidence an early Homo sapiens presence in Europe…
Why Store 41,000 Bison Bones?An archaeologist explains why a museum keeps so many bones from the Jones-Miller site, an ice age bison kill on…
Scientists Uplift Indigenous Human-Horse HistoriesAn archaeologist and a Lakota genomics scientist explain how combining archaeology, DNA, and Indigenous knowledge can help revise colonial human-horse…
What Indiana Jones Gets Right About ArchaeologyAs Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise’s shortcomings while espousing its merits.…
