How Pottery Offers Glimpses Into Ancient Foodways
Archaeologists, armed with new technology and old fragments of food containers, are piecing together what humans in the past cooked and ate.
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Will Bog Archaeology Fade Away?
Climate change and other human activities are transforming bogs in ways that may destroy the famously well-preserved artifacts and human remains many contain.
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Haunted by My Teaching Skeleton
Many skeletons that students use to learn about the human body are the remains of people with lives and stories. We need to remember and respect that.
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Five Questions for Anna Goldfield
In this free live event, Yoli Ngandali, SAPIENS Media & Public Outreach Fellow, asks Anna Goldfield five questions about human evolutionary biology and Neanderthals. Anna Goldfield holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and specializes in analyzing faunal remains from archaeological sites, with particular emphasis on the diets of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans. In this live Q&A, Goldfield will share thought-provoking data about our ancient relatives and humanity’s ever-expanding …
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Stop Calling the Aleutians Pristine
Indigenous peoples who lived in the Aleutian Islands for thousands of years didn’t trash the environment—that doesn’t mean their presence should be dismissed.
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Peru’s Incan Rope Bridges Are Hanging by a Thread
A remarkable ancient technology and tradition of creating suspension bridges to unite communities in the Andes is sadly fading into history.