Digital tools allow archaeologists to identify similarities between fragments and artifacts and potentially recover previously unknown parts of their stories.
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Cylinder seals were intimately tied to their owner, showcasing their identity, beliefs and social status.
Repatriation is now a legal responsibility, but also a matter of human rights, an anthropologist writes.
By bridging culture and computation, heritage algorithms challenge the myth of ‘primitive cultures’ and forge a new understanding of science and art.
Despite opening to mixed reviews, the final instalment is a classic Indiana Jones caper that doesn’t disappoint.
A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.
Ghana’s national museum has been reopened after being closed for seven years.
From the high Yukon to the mountains of Central Asia, melting ice exposes fragile ancient artifacts that tell the story of the past – and provide hints about how to respond to a changing climate.
Did people settle these islands by traveling north from South America, or in the other direction? Reanalyzing data from artifacts discovered decades ago provides a definitive answer.
Africa has always contributed to global technological breakthroughs and economic systems.
A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
It’s a comforting falsehood that once an artifact joins a museum’s collection, it’s safe for eternity. Museums face many foes in the fight to preserve – a lack of funds might be the biggest.
Cultural resource management archaeologists don’t choose where they dig. Instead they identify, evaluate and preserve cultural heritage sites in locations slated for development.
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Director Emerita, Public Archaeology Facility and Senior Research Associate, Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor, Environmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong
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Postgraduate Student in Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology, University of Oregon
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Professor of Archaeology + Associate Director for Research and Collections, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon
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University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oregon
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Smuts Research Fellow in African Studies, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Information, University of Michigan
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Research Professor and Director of the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey (SEPAS) at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina
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Programme Leader & Broadcast Lecturer, School of Business & Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland
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Associate Professor, Department of Historical and Classical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology