Archaeology vs Paleontology: What Students Should Know Before Choosing a Path
Learn the real difference between archaeology and paleontology, career paths, and how students can choose the right field.
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Cover Stories
Best Career Paths Archaeology Students Can Build Today
Discover top careers for archaeology students, how their skills transfer across industries, and what future opportunities look like.
Resource Management Protocols: What Undergraduates Must Know About Underwater Archaeology
Learn the essential resource management protocols for underwater archaeology. Explore academic requirements and ethical frameworks for marine degree students.
Which of the Best Archaeology Books Actually Capture the Reality of Fieldwork?
Discover the best archeology books that depict the gritty, methodical reality of excavation. Trade Hollywood myths for authentic academic fieldwork stories.
How humans took over the planet
New ASU research shows the role cultural evolution played in our ability to inhabit nearly every corner of the world.
GAZA, the future has an ancient heart
Materials and memories of the Mediterranean
Hunted by neanderthals: Giant elephants traveled hundreds of kilometers across Ice Age Europe
International research team analyzes prehistoric teeth of European straight-tusked elephants.
Exploring the Past: How Modern Archaeology Is Revealing the Hidden Story of Human Civilization
First evidence that North Sea ‘Lost World’ had habitable forests during the last Ice Age
First absolute dating of Palaeolithic paintings in the Dordogne
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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.
