Humanity’s First Global Ancestor
THE UPDATE: Decades of fossil discoveries have illuminated our understanding of a deep-time human ancestral species that persisted and spread across the globe well more than one million years...
Footprints in Time: Second Edition
The updated anthology on fossil footprint discoveries that have changed how we look at human evolution and dispersal in prehistory.
Discoveries Among Tuscany’s Etruscan Tombs
An archaeological team unearths new finds by revisiting a network of ancient Etruscan sites in central Italy.
The Olmec World
What we now know about the ancient Olmec, the remarkable civilization that preceded the Maya in Mesoamerica.
Deep Time Spaniards
Prehistoric sites in Spain are informing a shifting paradigm of human evolution and dispersal.
Echo from the Past: How Göbekli Tepe is Reshaping Our Understanding of the Neolithic
An eBook Primer
The Lords of the Fifth Sun
Gods, calendars, and human sacrifice in the world of the ancient Aztecs.
Traveling Upright: Humanity’s First Global Ancestor
Decades of fossil discoveries have illuminated our understanding of a deep-time human ancestral species that persisted and spread across the globe well more than one million years ago.
Yin, the Lost City of Kings
Decades of excavation and investigation have revealed China’s last magnificent Bronze Age Shang Dynasty capital, the city that gave birth to the Chinese script.
The Architectural and Archaeological Legacy of the Christian Persecution
For contemporary archeologists hoping to come upon the leftovers of the Rome of the Caesars, they must often search beneath the ubiquitous layers of the Rome of the Popes.
The Papantla Pole Dancers
An ancient Mesoamerican community performed a precarious ritual dance to curry favor with their gods.
The Masters of Akrotiri
In the world of the Bronze Age, an ancient people on an Aegean island created some of Europe’s earliest masterworks of art.
Getting to Know Them: The Neanderthal Heritage
A ‘golden age’ of research has enlightened scientists and the general public alike about who the Neanderthals really were.
The Red Queen of Palenque
The archaeology and the story: The critical role a great Maya queen, and women generally, played in Maya society.
The Ten Tombs
A renowned scholar shares his perspective and research on fascinating tombs and finds bearing on the historical Jesus and his times.
Beyond the Aegean: exploring ancient mobility in western Anatolia
Mobility and change between ancient western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean was a complex and impactful process, says this scholar.
Return to Meadowcroft
Over 50 years after excavation began at Meadowcroft rockshelter, it still ranks among the most remarkable sites of early human habitation in the Americas: an interview with archaeologist James...
