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Cover Stories
TU Graz conducts research into endangered cultural heritage in the Western Himalayas
Using 3D technology and interdisciplinary expertise, a research team has explored Buddhist temples in the remote Dolpo region of Nepal and digitized them for posterity.
Historic Halifax Unearthed: How Metal Roofing Preserves the City’s Oldest Structures
New radiocarbon dating of Egyptian artifacts puts Thera (Santorini) volcanic eruption prior to Pharaoh Ahmose
First study given access to artifacts in British museums for radiocarbon dating the transition period between the Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
Training AI to identify ancient artists
Griffith researchers built and tested a digital archaeology framework to learn more about the ancient humans who created one of the oldest forms of rock art, finger fluting.
Analysis of 4.4-million-year-old ankle exposes how earliest ancestors moved, evolved
Ancient lead exposure shaped evolution of human brain
A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. Instead, the findings reveal our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead for over two...
From Ancient Artifacts to Modern Accidents: How Regional Discoveries in New York Reflect Legal Lessons in Preservation and Responsibility
Large-scale prehistoric hunting structures in Europe
Paranthropus and the Greatest Whodunit of All Time
Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of human cultural innovation.
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Other Stories
Research reveals ancient Maya lessons on surviving drought
Huge variety of plant foods made their starvation unlikely.
Nits on ancient mummies shed light on South American ancestry
New technique means head lice can provide clues about ancient people and migration.
Scientists digitally ‘unwrap’ mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I for the first time in 3,000 years
Study shows that 21st dynasty restorers ‘lovingly restored’ mummy, dispelling theory that they were bent on reusing old royal burial equipment.
New dates for Viking trade
Solar flare throws light on ancient trade between the Islamic Middle East and the Viking Age.
Humans Reached Remote North Atlantic Islands Centuries Earlier Than Thought
Faroes Settled Well Before Vikings Arrived, Lake Sediments Show.
Mystery solved: Footprints from site A at Laetoli, Tanzania, are from early humans, not bears
Findings provide conclusive evidence that multiple species of hominins co-existed on the landscape.
Volcanic eruptions contributed to collapse of China dynasties
Eruptions create sulfuric acid clouds in the upper atmosphere and can cool the climate.
A Child of darkness
The first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species.
More than ceremonial, ancient Chaco Canyon was home, new study says
Early puebloans impacted the ecosystem around Chaco Canyon earlier than previously believed.
