Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America offers readers an opportunity to learn about the earliest days of the United States from those who were there and to consider colonial history from multiple perspectives.
Using texts and images, a University of Arkansas researcher has for the first time reconstructed the time when the use of porticos – roof-covered structures supported by columns – gave way to loggias, or recessed porticos.
A breakthrough in research of Hebrew scriptures has shed light on the period in which the Bible was written. Prof. Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa has deciphered an inscription dating from the 10th century BCE and has shown that this is a Hebrew inscription.
An international team of researchers, including Erik Trinkaus, professor of Anthropology at Washington University in Saint Louis, has reanalyzed the complete immature dentition of a 30,000 year-old-child from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Portugal. The new analysis of the Lagar Velho child shows that these “early modern humans” were “modern” without being “fully modern.”
Researchers at NIST and George Washington University have shown that the teeth of some apes are formed primarily to handle the most stressful times when food is scarce. Their findings imply that if humanity is serious about protecting its close evolutionary cousins, the food apes eat during these tough periods must be included in conservation efforts.
A biblical expert at the University of Chicago, Margaret M. Mitchell, together with other experts has concluded that one of the University Library’s most enigmatic possessions, an alleged early version of the Book of Mark, is a forgery. The book will remain in the library for other scholars to use in studying the authenticity of ancient books.
An international group of anthropologists offers a new theory about the diffusion of maize to the Southwestern United States and the impact it had.
Northern Michigan University geography researchers completed a three-year study that offers new insights on the history of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
Years of scientific debate over the extinction of ancient species in North America have yielded many theories. However, new findings from J. Tyler Faith, GW Ph.D. candidate in the hominid paleobiology doctoral program, and Todd Surovell, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming, reveal that a mass extinction occurred in a geological instant.
A Texas Tech University professor will work on project to document, revitalize and teach the Comanche language.
In a new book Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace Since 1945 (University of Florida Press), University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Professor of History Colin Davis, Ph.D., along with his co-editor, Robert Cassanello, present a collection of seven essays that examine the impact that migration and globalization are having on labor in the American South.
The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, characterized by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri.
Despite claims in the soon-to-be released movie “2012” that the end of the world is near as purportedly foretold by the Maya prophecy, the end of the current Maya calendar on Dec. 21, 2012, does not predict a global cataclysm, according to a University of New Hampshire archaeology professor and Maya scholar.
Will the year 2012 spell the end of life on Earth as we know it? Columbia Pictures’ upcoming disaster movie "2012" suggests that it will. Based loosely on interpretations of the Mayan long count calendar, which ends its 5,125-year cycle on December 21, 2012, the movie’s trailer features the tagline, “Mankind’s earliest civilization warned us this day was coming.” But judging by the track records of other ancient apocalyptic traditions, we probably have nothing to worry about, says Allen Kerkeslager, Ph.D., associate professor of theology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
Research examining microscopic marks on the teeth of the “Lucy” species Australopithecus afarensis suggests that the ancient hominid ate a different diet than the tooth enamel, size and shape suggest, say a University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues.
A scientific analysis of a recently discovered adapiform, an ancient primate, reveals that the fossil, called Afradapis, is not on the evolutionary lineage of anthropoids (Old World Monkeys and higher primates, including humans) but instead more closely to lemurs and lorises.
In January, Williams College Professor of Chemistry Anne Skinner, along with six Williams students, will visit the headwaters of the Blue Nile to conduct archeological research. The project is part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East’s oldest continuously spoken and written languages. Researchers are making high-quality electronic images of nearly 700 Aramaic administrative documents that were incised or written in ink on clay tablets.
Two Native American Music Award winners highlight this year’s Moundville Native American Festival, from Wednesday, Oct. 7 to Saturday, Oct. 10, at Moundville Archaeological Park.
Fabric and textile artist Jay McGirt is sewing thousands of feathers onto a piece of burlap. The piece of decorated fabric, when completed, will stretch across the top of a Native American palanquin.
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