Archaeologist and biostatistician Erik Otárola-Castillo leads the research team that used 3-D imaging, shape analysis and Bayesian statistics to identify butchery cut marks with an 88 percent success rate in classifying butchery behaviors. The 3D imaging technology is similar...
Tens of thousands of known archaeological sites are threatened by sea level rise in the southeast, and far more currently unknown and unrecorded.
Credit: Anderson et al., 2017 CC-BY
Sea-level rise may impact vast numbers of archaeological and historic sites, cemeteries,...
Skeletal fossils of the hand of Homo naledi pictured in the Wits bone vault at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sept. 13, 2014. The fossil hand is one of many...
The fossils provide further evidence that early anthropoids were minuscule creatures.
Credit: Northern Illinois University
At Northern Illinois University, Dan Gebo opens a cabinet and pulls out a drawer full of thin plastic cases filled with clear gelatin capsules. Inside each...
Return to Antikythera project chief diver Philip Short inspects the bronze spear recovered from the Antikythera Shipwreck.
Credit: Brett Seymour, Copyright: Return to Antikythera 2014
A Greek and international team of divers and archaeologists has retrieved stunning new finds from an...
The weapons of bronze found within the tomb included a meter-long slashing sword with an ivory handle covered with gold.
Credit: University of Cincinnati, Pylos Excavations
On the floor of the grave lay the skeleton of an adult male, stretched out...
UWM anthropology doctoral student Kevin Gartski takes notes on his iPad at Malloura, while students work on site.
Credit: Jody M. Gordon
Looking at a terra-cotta figurine from Cyprus with new digital technology, researchers are able to see the 2,500-year-old thumbprint...
A mirror discovered in the tomb of a Greek warrior in southwest Greece refers to a scene of a goddess holding a mirror in one of four gold rings unearthed in the excavation by a team of UC researchers.
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UC archaeologist Shari Stocker stands at the site of the Griffin Warrior, a 3,500-year-old tomb in southern Greece.
Credit: University of Cincinnati
In the more than two years since University of Cincinnati researchers unearthed the 3,500-year-old tomb of a Bronze Age...
These are fossil teeth under electron microscope.
Credit: University of Portsmouth
Fossils of the oldest mammals related to humankind have been discovered on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset.
The two teeth are from small, rat-like creatures that lived 145...
Reconstruction of Morturneria.
Credit: S. J. Godfrey
In 1984, Sankar Chatterjee - curator of paleontology for the Museum of Texas Tech University - and his student, Bryan Small, made an astounding discovery.
Working on Seymour Island in Antarctica, they...
