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Archaeology
Archaeology: is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities.
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JUN 28, 2017Earth & The Environment
Over 7,000 years ago, before agriculture had even taken hold in human subsistence, humans survived year-round in the har ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 01, 2017Plants & Animals
The bulk of the wooly mammoth population is thought to have died out some 14,000 years ago, but that’s not to say ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 14, 2017Earth & The Environment
A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by Seoul National University’s archeologist Dr. David Wright p ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 15, 2017Earth & The Environment
On Saturday coders around the country joined a hackathon organized by DataRefuge and the Environmental Data and Governan ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 07, 2016Microbiology
The Silk Road has been implicated in the transmission of infectious disease, and it’s no longer an educated guess. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 19, 2016Videos
In 1992, The European Institute for Underwater Archaeology, or IEASM, began a research study in cooperation with the Egy ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 22, 2015Earth & The Environment
To celebrate Earth Day, this article from The Independent takes an inventory of how our planet has fared since the holid ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 09, 2015Earth & The Environment
Dozens of tombs filled with up to 40 mummies each have been discovered around a 1,200-year-old ceremonial site in Peru's ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 07, 2015Immunology
Modern humans have been blamed for killing off the Neanderthals by out competing them, breeding with them and even outri ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Technology
Some 2.5 million years ago, early humans survived on a paltry diet of plants. As the human brain expanded, however, it r ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 05, 2015Earth & The Environment
DNA analysis has revealed evidence for a massive migration into the heartland of Europe 4,500 years ago.
Written By: Robert WoodardFEB 24, 2015Earth & The Environment
Researchers have found a 55,000-year-old partial skull in the northern Israel community of Manot, from about the time wh ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 30, 2014Genetics & Genomics
For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, s ...Written By: Peter MicheliMAY 08, 2014Earth & The Environment
Sometimes archaeological discoveries are made in places where you least expect them. That was certainly the case for a r ...JUN 28, 2017Earth & The Environment
Over 7,000 years ago, before agriculture had even taken hold in human subsistence, humans survived year-round in the har ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 01, 2017Plants & Animals
The bulk of the wooly mammoth population is thought to have died out some 14,000 years ago, but that’s not to say ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 14, 2017Earth & The Environment
A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by Seoul National University’s archeologist Dr. David Wright p ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 15, 2017Earth & The Environment
On Saturday coders around the country joined a hackathon organized by DataRefuge and the Environmental Data and Governan ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 07, 2016Microbiology
The Silk Road has been implicated in the transmission of infectious disease, and it’s no longer an educated guess. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 19, 2016Videos
In 1992, The European Institute for Underwater Archaeology, or IEASM, began a research study in cooperation with the Egy ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 22, 2015Earth & The Environment
To celebrate Earth Day, this article from The Independent takes an inventory of how our planet has fared since the holid ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 09, 2015Earth & The Environment
Dozens of tombs filled with up to 40 mummies each have been discovered around a 1,200-year-old ceremonial site in Peru's ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 07, 2015Immunology
Modern humans have been blamed for killing off the Neanderthals by out competing them, breeding with them and even outri ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Technology
Some 2.5 million years ago, early humans survived on a paltry diet of plants. As the human brain expanded, however, it r ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 05, 2015Earth & The Environment
DNA analysis has revealed evidence for a massive migration into the heartland of Europe 4,500 years ago.
Written By: Robert WoodardFEB 24, 2015Earth & The Environment
Researchers have found a 55,000-year-old partial skull in the northern Israel community of Manot, from about the time wh ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 30, 2014Genetics & Genomics
For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, s ...Written By: Peter MicheliMAY 08, 2014Earth & The Environment
Sometimes archaeological discoveries are made in places where you least expect them. That was certainly the case for a r ...
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