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APRIL 14, 2025

A sweeping archaeological analysis 1 led by Gary Feinman of the Field Museum of Natural History offers a strikingly different view. “The idea that big populations or new technologies automatically lead to widening inequality simply doesn’t hold up in the archaeological record.” But what if that assumption is wrong?

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MARCH 26, 2025

Archaeology often deals with what remains—the bones, the stone tools, the charred remnants of ancient hearths. Anthropologist Lisbeth Loutderback extracting plant residues from a metate at an archaeological site on public land in southcentral Oregon. In Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-Particles in Archaeological Samples.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , the study draws on data from over 47,000 houses spanning nearly 3,000 archaeological sites and 10,000 years of human history. It leverages a globally compiled dataset unprecedented in archaeological scope, allowing comparisons across regions, timespans, and social structures.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Late Pleistocene Human Evolution in East Asia: Behavioral Perspectives Provides a behavioral perspective on hominin evolution, highlighting key fossil and archaeological findings in East Asia. Source: Current Anthropology, 2017.

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MARCH 13, 2025

A new genetic and archaeological study 1 has revealed that leopard cats ( Prionailurus bengalensis ), small wild felines native to East Asia, lived alongside people in China’s early agrarian societies for at least 3,500 years—only to disappear from human settlements centuries before the arrival of domestic cats via the Silk Road.

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APRIL 16, 2025

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Despite their size, archaeological evidence suggests relatively even distribution of house sizes and public investment in civic infrastructure. "We

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. 2017) – Discusses the micromorphological analysis of combustion features in Paleolithic sites.

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APRIL 23, 2025

The book draws on anthropologys four-field tradition to show how our ways of knowingwhether biological, linguistic, archaeological, or culturalare always shaped by politics, language, funding, and history. Facts dont float above culture; theyre produced within it. Its also a tool for making science itself more accountable. Is Science Racist?

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

This investigation, which began in 2017, brought together a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, anthropologists, and geneticists. Genetic Continuity and Cultural Evolution While the genetic evidence suggests stability, the archaeological record at Oakhurst shows that the culture of its inhabitants was dynamic. 1 Gretzinger, J.,

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Zlatý kůň skull, found in 1950 in what is now the Czech Republic.Credit.Marek Jantač Decoding the Oldest Genomes The ancient genomes analyzed in this groundbreaking study come from two pivotal archaeological sites: Zlatý kůň in Czechia and Ranis in Germany. Journal : Genome Biology , 2017.

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MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” First, we traveled to the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park where the original indigenous village had been located in 1565 when the Spanish arrived.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Jasmin interned at the NHHC’s Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) and assisted in updating the UAB’s public outreach on the Navy Yard by creating posters to highlight ongoing and recent projects, specifically on the shipwreck sites of the Revolutionary War gunboat USS Spitfire and War of 1812 commodore Joshua Barney’s flagship Scorpion.

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APRIL 18, 2025

“We’re looking at a highly structured social and cognitive event,” said zooarchaeologist Jarod Hutson of the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Center in Germany. “This wasn’t a matter of chance or instinct. It was cooperative planning.” “They were building tools with specific forms and purposes.”

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : European Journal of Archaeology , 2004. Journal : Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2009.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Spanning over 250 individuals, the study integrates genetics with archaeological and dietary evidence, shedding new light on the egalitarian nature of LBK societies. Source: Nature , 2017.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

“Charterhouse Warren is one of those rare archaeological sites that challenges the way we think about the past,” Schulting says. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 45, 94–108. Journal of Archaeological Science , 51, 181–190. Image credit: Schulting et al. Antiquity, December 2024. link] Smith, G.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Archaeological evidence for cannibalism in prehistoric Western Europe ( Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ). Upper Paleolithic ritualistic cannibalism at Gough’s Cave ( Journal of Human Evolution ). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.003 2015.06.003 Saladié, P., & Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Exposed section of archaeological sediments dated to to 110 thousand years ago at Tinshemet cave A new study, published in Nature Human Behaviour 1 , brings fresh insight into this question. For decades, researchers have debated the nature of their interactions. Did they coexist peacefully, exchanging ideas and technologies?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Archaeological sites across Britain and the Continent have shown that human bodies—sometimes whole, sometimes disarticulated—were deliberately placed in watery locations, possibly as offerings or part of funerary customs. A Place for the Dead: The Role of Human Remains in Late Bronze Age Britain." Oxford University Press.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

For scholars of gender archaeology and history, the body has become a privileged site for the investigation of women’s lives in antiquity (Liston 2012; Shepherd 2012). 2017) Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Morter, and J.E. Robb (eds) Social Dynamics of the Prehistoric Central Mediterranean.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

By refining dating methods, researchers have expanded the horizons of archaeology, enabling more nuanced interpretations of our ancestors’ lives and creativity. Journal : Quaternary International , 2017. Journal : Journal of Archaeological Science , 2019. Journal : Journal of Archaeological Science Reports , 2021.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Interestingly, archaeological evidence suggests that human presence in certain regions, like Central Asia, waxed and waned depending on climatic conditions. Publication : Catena (2017) This study examines aridity trends in Central Asia through grain size and magnetic susceptibility proxies in loess-paleosol sequences. Francke, et al.

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