Ongoing excavations in northern Iraq add to our knowledge of the neo-Assyrian empire – and the beauty of its cities.
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The jewellery and human remains discovered at a recent excavation in Northamptonshire shed light on the elite position of some newly-Christian women in seventh century England.
The preparation of ancient meals in prehistoric West Africa combined vegetables, pulses, tubers and, possibly, herbs and spices.
Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
A remarkable set of discoveries has confirmed that parts of Stonehenge first stood 140 miles away at Waun Mawn, west Wales.
Archaeologists used to dig primarily at sites that were easy to find thanks to obvious visual clues. But technology – and listening to local people – plays a much bigger role now.
Digging the dirt on the joys of archeology.
For centuries, historians have assumed that ‘primitive societies’ couldn’t have possibly come up with advanced techniques on their own.
New excavations at an Indonesian cave have pushed back the time the ‘hobbits’ disappeared to about 50,000 years ago.
Was there a ‘dinosaur Pompeii’ in China? New research questions the claim.
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Researcher, Centre for Archeological Science, University of Wollongong
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Head of Archaeology, University of Salford
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Professor of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeobiology, University College Cork
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Canada Research Chair in Human Origins, Lakehead University
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Associate Professor of Classics, Brown University
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Assistant Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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University of St Andrews
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Trinity College Dublin
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CNRS Permanent Member, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès
