Archaeologist still depend upon tools used for hundreds of years, but some are taking advantage of what technology offers. Things like ground penetrating radar, microscopes, even satellites. Learn ...

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The archaeology session of the seminar examined how new scientific tools, interdisciplinary methods, and digital technologies are transforming the study of the past while creating new frameworks for ...

While the human remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society (as they had once been thought to be), ...

Learn about the excavation process of archaeology as Dr. Peter V. Lape and his team dig up the past. Archaeology is the study of human behavior based on the evidence of artifacts excavated from the ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent. By Franz Lidz A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper ...

A narrative investigation into the lavish, plaster-encased burials of infants in Roman York, revealing hidden grief.

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

The looters had plans to plunder an ancient cave workshop from the Second Temple Period on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus.