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Jul 12, 2021
The Macabre and Magical Human-Canine Story
Zooarchaeologists and geneticists are exploring how wolves…
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Jun 29, 2021
An Archaeologist on the Railroad of Death
The 1950s Hollywood movie
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Jun 21, 2021
How Museums Can Do More Than Just Repatriate Objects
It is beautiful when museums go beyond returning…
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Jun 15, 2021
What Makes Injections Hard to Swallow?
An anthropological assessment of the differences between pills…
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May 10, 2021
Archaeology in the Ashes of Notre Dame
Two years ago, a fire devastated Paris’ iconic Catholic…
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Apr 23, 2021
How Scientific Taxonomy Constructed the Myth of Race
Botanist Carl Linnaeus’ classification system has…
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Feb 22, 2021
How Imperialism Gave Us 2020
News headlines suggest that the problems of 2020 were unprecedented, but…
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Dec 28, 2020
Ancient Beer Is Craft’s New Frontier
Scientists are partnering with brewers to taste test ancient recipes and sip a long-lost past.
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Dec 3, 2020
Did Processed Foods Make Us Human?
Experimental archaeologist Bill Schindler’s globe-trotting research…
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Nov 17, 2020
An Archaeology of Marijuana
How did cannabis — a plant humans have been using for more than 10,000…
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