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Advances in computer power mean archaeologists can now tell a huge amount about what’s underground without picking up a spade.
Khaled al-Asaad was a world renowned scholar before his death at the hands of Islamic State.
These massacres entail killing on a relative scale seen today only in the most war-torn countries.
One of the by-products of field projects working in the same area over a prolonged period of time is the realisation that the team makes an enduring contribution to the local community.
Future archaeologists sifting through Glastonbury’s earth will look for clues as we do at Stonehenge.
A genomic sequencing study suggesting that the 9,000-year old skeleton dubbed “Kennewick Man” was Native American will intensify a 20-year-old dispute about what should happen to the remains.
Archaeology is protected as part of the planning process but the huge wave of planned house building means this is at risk.
A completely new human ancestor dating back to 3.5– 3.3 million years ago has been discovered.
The destruction of Iraq and Syria’s cultural heritage is more than wanton vandalism – it’s a grim political project.
Discovery of 3.3m-year old stone tools in Kenya are the oldest-known manufactured artefacts.
Stone tools excavated in Kenya date back 3.3 million years – making them about a million years older than the oldest known fossils from our own hominid genus Homo. Who made and used these tools?
The change of lifestyle from 10,000 years ago had a dramatic impact on the male divefrsity revealed in DNA.
ISIS’s destruction of archeological treasures is horrifying but reflects a too-human history of obliterating the past of “enemy” cultures. Moreover, all is not really “lost.”
New research upends the previous theory that tsetse flies – and the disease they carry – were the main reason the spread of livestock domestication in Africa stalled out for a thousand years.
New discovery is evidence of trade with continental Europe.
Social media is making it easier for extremists to recruit individuals to commit cultural attacks.
Recently in Aleppo, Syria, the Jabha Shamiya militia has started carrying out a new urban warfare strategy: tunnel bombing. Aside from the human damage wrought by this tactic, it is also extremely damaging…
“Viking!” was the word retired businessman Derek McLennan shouted to metal detector enthusiasts standing in a field in Dumfriesshire in south-west Scotland in September. He had just uncovered a hoard of…
Metal detecting enthusiast Derek McLennan’s recent discovery of Viking-age artefacts at a site in Dumfries and Galloway is both spectacular and impressive. Not only did he uncover a hoard of Viking-age…
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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