CU Boulder archaeologist Scott Ortman and colleagues around the world explore relationships between housing size and inequality in PNAS Special Feature If the archaeological record has been correctly ...

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The authors of this study say we should view the environment as an archaeological archive whose record can be studied with a view to both understanding and helping to reduce plastic pollution. To do ...

"Plastics are everywhere—from the deep ocean to high mountains—so are ubiquitous, resilient, and toxic as they continually break down, eventually to nanoscale. In this new paper we question how ...

December 6, 2021 — Archaeological records have long helped scientists discover past important events, learn about extinct species and explore past ways of life. Might ancient history inform efforts to ...

Imagine a remote Galapagos beach, where iguanas stomp around between fishing nets, flip flops, baseball caps and plastic bottles. Stuck in the sand is the empty packet for food sold only in Ecuador, ...

Understanding the Gaps in Africa’s Archaeological Record Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage ...

Rock art explored by archaeologists in the Colombian Amazon has provided an insight into the complex relationship between the earliest settlers on the continent and the animals they encountered. Rock ...

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Rock art explored by archaeologists in the Colombian Amazon has provided an insight into the complex relationship between the earliest settlers on the continent and the animals they encountered.

The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia ...