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Unearthing the Secrets of Smith Creek
by Dan McLerran
Excavations are beginning to reveal the evolution of a pre-Columbian mound-builder site in Mississippi.
Spirit Cave: The World’s Oldest Natural Mummy
by Jesse Holth
The discovery and study of a mummy found in a Nevada cave, and other recent revelations, have shed remarkable new light on the pre-Columbian peopling of the Americas.
Crossing the Timor
by Bob Hobman
A group of modern seafarers are testing the hypothesis that prehistoric mariners were the ancestors of Oceania’s populations.
Thor Heyerdahl and the Theory of the Archaeological Raft
by No Author
Author P.J. CAPELOTTI summarizes how experimental archaeology has shed light on our understanding of the role of ancient maritime technology in the global human journey.
The Hohokam: Canal Masters of the American Southwest
by Paul Joseph De Mola, FRGS
Before the arrival of the Spanish, a Native American culture of the American Southwest built a flourishing civilization with a sophisticated irrigation system that rivaled the ancient Roman aqueducts.
A Mummy in Providence
by Arianna Zakrzewski
Rhode Island's resident Egyptian mummy is restored to his coffin home.

Rhode Island's resident Egyptian mummy is restored to his coffin home . . .

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Cover Stories

New cultural horizon at pre-Columbian settlement

Extinct human species likely breast fed for a year after birth, NIH-funded study suggests

Findings may inform strategies for breast feeding in modern populations.

Reassessing the Arrival of Humans in the Americas

Food may have been scarce in Chaco Canyon

Gorillas found to have ‘complex societies,’ suggesting deep roots of human social evolution

Dental evidence of human admixture in Asia

Murder in the Paleolithic? Evidence of violence behind human skull remains

Ancient DNA sheds light on the origins of the Biblical Philistines

Ancient genomes suggest that the Philistines descended from people who migrated across the Mediterranean and reached the shores of the southern Levant at the beginning of the Iron Age.

Bonobo diet of aquatic greens may hold clues to human evolution

Newly-discovered 1,600-year-old mosaic sheds light on ancient Judaism

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, together with a team of researchers and students find the first ancient Jewish depiction of the Elim episode from the biblical book of Exodus.

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A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3,000-year-old prosthesis

Multispectral imaging reveals ancient Hebrew inscription undetected for over 50 years

Military correspondence from the First Temple period discovered on reverse side of well-studied artifact at The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv University researchers say.

New research reveals earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa

Scientists have pioneered a technique to directly date prehistoric rock paintings in southern Africa, which revealed dates much older than previously thought.