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Vampires, pirates, ghost ships, skeletons—if it isn't Halloween, it can only be one thing: National Geographic News's annual lineup of our most popular archaeology coverage.
Artist Giulio Paolini has a contemporary installation at the Archaeological Museum of Naples which may interest those staying in the city.
( University of Western Ontario ) The first study of its kind, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, detected the stress hormone cortisol in the hair of ancient Peruvians, who lived between 550 and 1532 A.D.
BLANDING, Utah (AP) — High above the spiky sandstone spine known as Comb Ridge that snakes for 120 miles through the desert, archaeologist Winston Hurst treads carefully through a cave of ruins.
By: Alex Geiser The role anthropologists play when sent with troops to Iraq and Afghanistan is stirring ethical debates among some experts....
David Moore is helping to change the way we look at early American history.
( Washington University in St. Louis ) An international group of anthropologists offers a new theory about the diffusion of maize to the Southwestern United States and the impact it had.Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study, co-authored by Gayle Fritz, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and colleagues, suggests that maize ...
WESTAMPTON - Tuesday's Township Committee meeting will begin an hour early because officials will discuss the future of the Timbuctoo archeological digs near Rancocas Road.
Richard T. Antoun, a respected Binghamton University anthropology professor who grew up in Shrewsbury, spent his entire career seeking peace. His work focused on bridging the divide between religions and cultures, particularly in the Middle East.
The Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders could vote soon, possibly at its Dec. 10 meeting, on County Executive Brian Hughes’ recommendation of a Philadelphia firm to do an archaeological study of the Jacobs Creek bridge area.
Through the refracted blue-neon reflection of nightlife’s anthropological looking glass, time has a way of bending in on itself, rendering context useless. It’s supposed to do that.
The anthropology professor who was stabbed to death in his upstate New York office was a Shrewsbury native and avid Red Sox fan who had traveled the world trying to promote...
One measure of the vigor of the Israeli democracy can be seen in the candor and clear-sightedness of its scholars and other public intellectuals, ranging from journalist and historian Tom Segev (“1967”) to archaeologist Israel Finkelstein (“The Bible Unearthed”).
VESTAL, N.Y. - A graduate student has been accused of fatally stabbing a 77-year-old Binghamton University anthropology professor. Authorities say Abdulsalam al-Zahrani (ab-DUHL'-sah-lam al-zah-RAH'-nee) was charged with murder Saturday in the death of Richard T. Antoun on Friday.
A University of Washington student recently made a surprising archaeological find on the Seattle campus. While doing some landscaping work near the botany greenhouse, the freshman dug up an ancient Indian artifact.
Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Paleolithic.
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