An archaeologist pieces together a recipe for olive oil crafted in ancient Egypt. It’s easy for you to try at home.
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Revealing an Ice Age Route for Indigenous PeoplesHiking through swamps, cutting across thick bush, and canoeing across open waters, archaeologists have identified a corridor through Vancouver Island where Indigenous peoples may have sojourned 18,500 years ago.
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Heritage?A new study led by an anthropologist and a heritage sites protection specialist offers a path forward for decolonizing heritage management in Rwanda—and beyond.
Can Indigenous Language Comics Save a Mother Tongue?Publishers and researchers are creating graphic publications to help stem the loss of Hñäñho, spoken by the Ñäñho people.
These Unheralded Workers Are Helping Prevent the Next WildfireIn Southern California, an anthropologist’s research aims to illuminate his late father’s work of weed abatement. He’s learning how crews of migrant Latinx workers bring deep environmental knowledge to stop destructive fires at the wildland-urban interface.
How Pottery Offers Glimpses Into Ancient FoodwaysArchaeologists, armed with new technology and old fragments of food containers, are piecing together what humans in the past cooked and ate.
