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Frachetti receives $2.4 million to study resilience in Asia-Pacific region
Obituary: Patty Jo Watson, professor emerita in anthropology, 92
Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa
Movement of crops, animals played key role in domestication
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
Reimagining power relations: non-hierarchical social complexity at Poverty Point
Food Globalization Dynamics in Prehistory and the Climate
Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
Arts & Sciences announces fall 2022 SPEED grant winners
Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China
America’s Lost Crops Rewrite The History of Farming
Researchers of ancient DNA set guidelines for their work
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
New evidence supports idea that America’s first civilization was made up of ‘sophisticated’ engineers
’Til the cows come home
Now Streaming: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Petra Vaiglová, An archaeologist’s view: how connectivity drove our human past
Highlands hunt for climate answers
Study: Scant evidence that ‘wood overuse’ at Cahokia caused local flooding, subsequent collapse
Under climate stress, human innovation set stage for population surge
Now Streaming: Assistant Professor Helina Woldekiros, The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire
Holland-Lulewicz discovery named Top 10 in 2020
Secrets of the ‘lost crops’ revealed where bison roam
Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric China
Fritz wins book award for ‘Feeding Cahokia’
Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization
Marshall elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago
Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with her donkeys, for the love of polo
‘Lost crops’ could have fed as many as maize
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
Graduate student Caitlin Rankin receives Richard Hay Award from Geological Society of America
Ancient DNA study tracks formation of populations across Central Asia
Time to retire the ‘pristine myth’ of climate change
Long live the long-limbed African chicken
Bison overlooked in domestication of grain crops
Women shaped cuisine, culture of ancient Cahokia
Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks
Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia
Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala
Liu and colleagues receive NSF funding for millet research
Compared to nomadic communities, Silk Road cities were urban food deserts, study finds
Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?
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.
Fritz and Mueller receive Southeastern Archaeological Conference Award
Ancient barley took high road to China, changed to summer crop in Tibet
Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala
Archaeology: Ancient seeds, pollen show Ohio’s ‘lost crops’
Frachetti Uncovers Lost City
Video: Elissa Bullion leads the bioarchaeology team at Tashbulak site
Targeted excavating leads to lost city
Fiona Marshall named to the US National Academy of Sciences
Webs of Memory, Frames of Power: Collective Remembering in the Archaeological Record
New Anthropology Faculty Hires
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
Ancient skulls may belong to elusive humans called Denisovans
Archaeology Summer Research Opportunity in Kazakhstan
Neanderthals Were People, Too
Digging into Archaeoastronomy
Graduate Student Highlight: Edward Henry
Mystery in Louisiana
How the chicken crossed the Red Sea
MichMash Podcast interview with TR Kidder
David Freidel and the excavations of Waka
Natalie Mueller receives SAA Student Paper Award
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
The YouTube Review: Where Creativity and Archaeology Meet
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
After the Ph.D.: Lynne Rouse
Curious Louis: City’s last surviving Mississippian mound, Sugar Loaf, to be preserved this summer
Undergraduate alumna continues work in zooarchaeology
Were cats domesticated more than once?
Wanderlust and Research Meet in Archaeology
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
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
Exploring Other Disciplines
Conroy Uses A.I. to Locate Fossil Sites
