The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information. The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford. Archaeologists are used ...

Humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the ultimate flexible eaters—chasing carbohydrates and fats from plant and animal sources alike. A new study in the Journal of Archaeological ...

The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information. The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford. Archaeologists are used ...

Dates for the formation of the sub-dune gravel ridges that form the core of the spit on which the Murlough sandhills lie were obtained by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) measurements, and ...

This paper outlines some basic formulae that allow archaeologists to assess the significance of stone alignments relative to astronomical events. The Beaghmore alignments are investigated as an ...

Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily skewed by radiocarbon calibration curves ...

Whenever someone learns that I am an archaeologist, whether it’s at a party, a conference, or even when I saw a new doctor last week, there is an almost inevitable follow up question: “You’re an ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority launched the Israel National Archaeological Database, a major digital platform that makes decades of archaeological research accessible to anyone in the world, on ...

MONTEVIDEO -- George Frink knew the value of Montevideo's location at the confluence of the Chippewa and Minnesota Rivers when he looked over the scene from a hill in 1867 and named the community he ...