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Earliest evidence for domestic yak found using both archaeology, ancient DNA

Earliest evidence for domestic yak found using both archaeology, ancient DNA

Front Page Story of Archaeology Magazine: Wheat Irrigation in Ancient China’s Dry Land

Front Page Story of Archaeology Magazine: Wheat Irrigation in Ancient China’s Dry Land

Reimagining power relations: non-hierarchical social complexity at Poverty Point

Reimagining power relations: non-hierarchical social complexity at Poverty Point

Food Globalization Dynamics in Prehistory and the Climate

Food Globalization Dynamics in Prehistory and the Climate

Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

Arts & Sciences announces fall 2022 SPEED grant winners

Arts & Sciences announces fall 2022 SPEED grant winners

Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China

Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China

America’s Lost Crops Rewrite The History of Farming

America’s Lost Crops Rewrite The History of Farming

Researchers of ancient DNA set guidelines for their work

Researchers of ancient DNA set guidelines for their work

New database highlights underrepresented scholars of African archaeology

New database highlights underrepresented scholars of African archaeology

Rooted in St. Louis: Professor Gayle Fritz illuminates the history of St. Louis human-plant relationships at Cahokia

Rooted in St. Louis: Professor Gayle Fritz illuminates the history of St. Louis human-plant relationships at Cahokia

New evidence supports idea that America’s first civilization was made up of ‘sophisticated’ engineers

New evidence supports idea that America’s first civilization was made up of ‘sophisticated’ engineers

’Til the cows come home

’Til the cows come home

Now Streaming: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Petra Vaiglová, An archaeologist’s view: how connectivity drove our human past

Now Streaming: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Petra Vaiglová, An archaeologist’s view: how connectivity drove our human past

Highlands hunt for climate answers

Highlands hunt for climate answers

Study: Scant evidence that ‘wood overuse’ at Cahokia caused local flooding, subsequent collapse

Study: Scant evidence that ‘wood overuse’ at Cahokia caused local flooding, subsequent collapse

Under climate stress, human innovation set stage for population surge

Under climate stress, human innovation set stage for population surge

Now Streaming: Assistant Professor Helina Woldekiros, The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire

Now Streaming: Assistant Professor Helina Woldekiros, The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire

Holland-Lulewicz discovery named Top 10 in 2020

Holland-Lulewicz discovery named Top 10 in 2020

Secrets of the ‘lost crops’ revealed where bison roam

Secrets of the ‘lost crops’ revealed where bison roam

Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric China

Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric China

Fritz wins book award for ‘Feeding Cahokia’

Fritz wins book award for ‘Feeding Cahokia’

Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization

Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization

Marshall elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Marshall elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago

Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago

Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with her donkeys, for the love of polo

Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with her donkeys, for the love of polo

‘Lost crops’ could have fed as many as maize

‘Lost crops’ could have fed as many as maize

Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa

Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa

The social networks and structural variation of Mississippian sociopolitics in the southeastern United States

The social networks and structural variation of Mississippian sociopolitics in the southeastern United States

Graduate student Caitlin Rankin receives Richard Hay Award from Geological Society of America

Graduate student Caitlin Rankin receives Richard Hay Award from Geological Society of America

Ancient DNA study tracks formation of populations across Central Asia

Ancient DNA study tracks formation of populations across Central Asia

Time to retire the ‘pristine myth’ of climate change

Time to retire the ‘pristine myth’ of climate change

Long live the long-limbed African chicken

Long live the long-limbed African chicken

Bison overlooked in domestication of grain crops

Bison overlooked in domestication of grain crops

Women shaped cuisine, culture of ancient Cahokia

Women shaped cuisine, culture of ancient Cahokia

Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks

Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks

Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia

Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia

Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala

Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala

Liu and colleagues receive NSF funding for millet research

Liu and colleagues receive NSF funding for millet research

Compared to nomadic communities, Silk Road cities were urban food deserts, study finds

Compared to nomadic communities, Silk Road cities were urban food deserts, study finds

Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?

Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?

Affiliating Classic Period Political Entities Through Insignias Of Power In The Central Maya Lowlands

Affiliating Classic Period Political Entities Through Insignias Of Power In The Central Maya Lowlands

Kinship and Religious Identities in Medieval Central Asia (8th-13th c. CE): Tracing Communities of Mortuary Practice and Biological Affinity.

Kinship and Religious Identities in Medieval Central Asia (8th-13th c. CE): Tracing Communities of Mortuary Practice and Biological Affinity.

Fritz and Mueller receive Southeastern Archaeological Conference Award

Fritz and Mueller receive Southeastern Archaeological Conference Award

Ancient barley took high road to China, changed to summer crop in Tibet

Ancient barley took high road to China, changed to summer crop in Tibet

Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala

Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala

Archaeology: Ancient seeds, pollen show Ohio’s ‘lost crops’

Archaeology: Ancient seeds, pollen show Ohio’s ‘lost crops’

Frachetti Uncovers Lost City

Frachetti Uncovers Lost City

Video: Elissa Bullion leads the bioarchaeology team at Tashbulak site

Video: Elissa Bullion leads the bioarchaeology team at Tashbulak site

Targeted excavating leads to lost city

Targeted excavating leads to lost city

Fiona Marshall named to the US National Academy of Sciences

Fiona Marshall named to the US National Academy of Sciences

Webs of Memory, Frames of Power: Collective Remembering in the Archaeological Record

Webs of Memory, Frames of Power: Collective Remembering in the Archaeological Record

New Anthropology Faculty Hires

New Anthropology Faculty Hires

Mice have been infesting homes ever since humans started building them

Mice have been infesting homes ever since humans started building them

New research reveals secrets of how the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road were formed

New research reveals secrets of how the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road were formed

Ancient skulls may belong to elusive humans called Denisovans

Ancient skulls may belong to elusive humans called Denisovans

Archaeology Summer Research Opportunity in Kazakhstan

Archaeology Summer Research Opportunity in Kazakhstan

Neanderthals Were People, Too

Neanderthals Were People, Too

Digging into Archaeoastronomy

Digging into Archaeoastronomy

Graduate Student Highlight: Edward Henry

Graduate Student Highlight: Edward Henry

Mystery in Louisiana

Mystery in Louisiana

How the chicken crossed the Red Sea

How the chicken crossed the Red Sea

MichMash Podcast interview with TR Kidder

MichMash Podcast interview with TR Kidder

David Freidel and the excavations of Waka

David Freidel and the excavations of Waka

Natalie Mueller receives SAA Student Paper Award

Natalie Mueller receives SAA Student Paper Award

Earth’s Future: Causes and consequences of climate change

Earth’s Future: Causes and consequences of climate change

Green Gardening: Professors and students tend to the rooftop garden at McMillan Hall on Washington University's Campus

Green Gardening: Professors and students tend to the rooftop garden at McMillan Hall on Washington University's Campus

The YouTube Review: Where Creativity and Archaeology Meet

The YouTube Review: Where Creativity and Archaeology Meet

BrieAnna Langlie recognized for academic excellence and leadership by AWF

BrieAnna Langlie recognized for academic excellence and leadership by AWF

Farming during the Auca Runa: Agricultural Strategies and Terraces during the Peruvian Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1100-1450) Altiplano, Peru

Farming during the Auca Runa: Agricultural Strategies and Terraces during the Peruvian Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1100-1450) Altiplano, Peru

After the Ph.D.: Lynne Rouse

After the Ph.D.: Lynne Rouse

Curious Louis: City’s last surviving Mississippian mound, Sugar Loaf, to be preserved this summer

Curious Louis: City’s last surviving Mississippian mound, Sugar Loaf, to be preserved this summer

Undergraduate alumna continues work in zooarchaeology

Undergraduate alumna continues work in zooarchaeology

Were cats domesticated more than once?

Were cats domesticated more than once?

Wanderlust and Research Meet in Archaeology

Wanderlust and Research Meet in Archaeology

Social and Economic Organization of Early Herder Exchange Networks in Southern Kenya: Perspectives from the Elmenteitan Quarry Site

Social and Economic Organization of Early Herder Exchange Networks in Southern Kenya: Perspectives from the Elmenteitan Quarry Site

Change and Continuity of Land Use: A geoarchaeological study of paleosols in Neihuang County

Change and Continuity of Land Use: A geoarchaeological study of paleosols in Neihuang County

The Non-masticatory Use of Teeth among Late Pleistocene Humans: Macroscopic and Microscopic Perspectives on Anterior Dental Wear

The Non-masticatory Use of Teeth among Late Pleistocene Humans: Macroscopic and Microscopic Perspectives on Anterior Dental Wear

Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diets in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala:  A Paleoethnobotanical Perspective

Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diets in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala: A Paleoethnobotanical Perspective

Exploring Other Disciplines

Exploring Other Disciplines

Conroy Uses A.I. to Locate Fossil Sites

Conroy Uses A.I. to Locate Fossil Sites

Agricultural Intensification and Formative Period Society

Agricultural Intensification and Formative Period Society