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Movement of crops, animals played key role in domestication
![Earliest evidence for domestic yak found using both archaeology, ancient DNA](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/y2_760-2048x1463_0.jpg?itok=Of5Gd0Qu)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Liu_X_IMG_0689.jpg?itok=B2mAB4gP)
Food Globalization Dynamics in Prehistory and the Climate
![Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Ampersand/Uluburunmap.jpeg?itok=rrZgairH)
Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
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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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Mueller_NP1333879.jpg?itok=57NujZiA)
America’s Lost Crops Rewrite The History of Farming
![Researchers of ancient DNA set guidelines for their work](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Frachetti_M_IMG_0652.jpg?itok=TOP8At5u)
Researchers of ancient DNA set guidelines for their work
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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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Fritz_G_IMG_9615.jpg?itok=kj9Zh950)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Kidder_TR_IMG_0597.jpg?itok=C_gRhOjE)
New evidence supports idea that America’s first civilization was made up of ‘sophisticated’ engineers
![’Til the cows come home](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/EL-MJ-XL-at-Mogou-copy_760.jpg?itok=s31XOyk3)
’Til the cows come home
![Now Streaming: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Petra Vaiglová, An archaeologist’s view: how connectivity drove our human past](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Vaiglova_P_P1400368.jpg?itok=TKtBPfuA)
Now Streaming: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Petra Vaiglová, An archaeologist’s view: how connectivity drove our human past
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Highlands hunt for climate answers
![Study: Scant evidence that ‘wood overuse’ at Cahokia caused local flooding, subsequent collapse](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/cahokia_matt_gush_021.jpeg?itok=9jwIkhrc)
Study: Scant evidence that ‘wood overuse’ at Cahokia caused local flooding, subsequent collapse
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Under climate stress, human innovation set stage for population surge
![Now Streaming: Assistant Professor Helina Woldekiros, The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Woldekiros_H_P1044498.jpg?itok=bXZ2-OWh)
Now Streaming: Assistant Professor Helina Woldekiros, The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire
![Holland-Lulewicz discovery named Top 10 in 2020](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Luleuwicz_J-1188456.jpg?itok=-kfGq1nv)
Holland-Lulewicz discovery named Top 10 in 2020
![Secrets of the ‘lost crops’ revealed where bison roam](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Mueller_NP1333879.jpg?itok=57NujZiA)
Secrets of the ‘lost crops’ revealed where bison roam
![Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric China](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Liu_X_IMG_0689.jpg?itok=B2mAB4gP)
Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric China
![Fritz wins book award for ‘Feeding Cahokia’](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Fritz_G_IMG_9615.jpg?itok=kj9Zh950)
Fritz wins book award for ‘Feeding Cahokia’
![Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Luleuwicz_J-1188456.jpg?itok=-kfGq1nv)
Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization
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Marshall elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
![Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Marshall.jpg?itok=5Ec0VsLn)
Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago
![Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with her donkeys, for the love of polo](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Marshall.jpg?itok=5Ec0VsLn)
Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with her donkeys, for the love of polo
![‘Lost crops’ could have fed as many as maize](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Mueller_NP1333879.jpg?itok=57NujZiA)
‘Lost crops’ could have fed as many as maize
![Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Woldekiros_H_P1044498.jpg?itok=bXZ2-OWh)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Luleuwicz_J-1188456.jpg?itok=-kfGq1nv)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/Catlin.jpg?itok=gCrBMZ1v)
Graduate student Caitlin Rankin receives Richard Hay Award from Geological Society of America
![Ancient DNA study tracks formation of populations across Central Asia](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Frachetti_M_IMG_0652.jpg?itok=TOP8At5u)
Ancient DNA study tracks formation of populations across Central Asia
![Time to retire the ‘pristine myth’ of climate change](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Kidder_TR_IMG_0597.jpg?itok=C_gRhOjE)
Time to retire the ‘pristine myth’ of climate change
![Long live the long-limbed African chicken](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Woldekiros_H_P1044498.jpg?itok=bXZ2-OWh)
Long live the long-limbed African chicken
![Bison overlooked in domestication of grain crops](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Bison overlooked in domestication of grain crops
![Women shaped cuisine, culture of ancient Cahokia](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Fritz_G_IMG_9615.jpg?itok=kj9Zh950)
Women shaped cuisine, culture of ancient Cahokia
Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks
![Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Anthro_Liu_X_IMG_0689.jpg?itok=B2mAB4gP)
Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia
![Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala
![Liu and colleagues receive NSF funding for millet research](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/foxtail%20millet%20field%20in%20inner%20mongolia.%20liu.jpg?itok=Z8jJPIf8)
Liu and colleagues receive NSF funding for millet research
![Compared to nomadic communities, Silk Road cities were urban food deserts, study finds](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/silkroadmarket-760x434.jpg?itok=UKiie-Kw)
Compared to nomadic communities, Silk Road cities were urban food deserts, study finds
![Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/a_aerial_view_of_mgk4.jpg?itok=-ZC6MJHa)
Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?
![Affiliating Classic Period Political Entities Through Insignias Of Power In The Central Maya Lowlands](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/juan_carlos_research.jpg?itok=FjXW93F8)
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.](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
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](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Fritz and Mueller receive Southeastern Archaeological Conference Award
![Ancient barley took high road to China, changed to summer crop in Tibet](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/chorten_and_barley_fields-760x490.jpeg?itok=SOqXoHNZ)
Ancient barley took high road to China, changed to summer crop in Tibet
![Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala
![Archaeology: Ancient seeds, pollen show Ohio’s ‘lost crops’](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Archaeology: Ancient seeds, pollen show Ohio’s ‘lost crops’
![Frachetti Uncovers Lost City](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Home%20Slides/Ceramics_Tashbulak-760x428.jpg?itok=NJT-thwd)
Frachetti Uncovers Lost City
![Video: Elissa Bullion leads the bioarchaeology team at Tashbulak site](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/youtubevideo.elissabullion.png?itok=2cl7QVrs)
Video: Elissa Bullion leads the bioarchaeology team at Tashbulak site
![Targeted excavating leads to lost city](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/frachetti-thesource.jpg?itok=N4K2qEvU)
Targeted excavating leads to lost city
![Fiona Marshall named to the US National Academy of Sciences](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/fionapicture.jpg?itok=E0z9DA3j)
Fiona Marshall named to the US National Academy of Sciences
![Webs of Memory, Frames of Power: Collective Remembering in the Archaeological Record](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Webs of Memory, Frames of Power: Collective Remembering in the Archaeological Record
![New Anthropology Faculty Hires](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/newfaculty2017.png?itok=dIYKUV9g)
New Anthropology Faculty Hires
![Mice have been infesting homes ever since humans started building them](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/liorweissbrod.jpg?itok=ssG1RZgp)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/photo_michael_frachetti.jpg?itok=NU7aEGPR)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/sciencemagimage.jpg?itok=fBO6WTDh)
Ancient skulls may belong to elusive humans called Denisovans
![Archaeology Summer Research Opportunity in Kazakhstan](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/frachetti-photo.jpg?itok=sn5_FEKi)
Archaeology Summer Research Opportunity in Kazakhstan
![Neanderthals Were People, Too](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/nytimes.png?itok=MbV7xisI)
Neanderthals Were People, Too
![Digging into Archaeoastronomy](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/woodhengecahokia.jpg?itok=YogZGFc-)
Digging into Archaeoastronomy
![Graduate Student Highlight: Edward Henry](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/edhenrydirt.png?itok=fFxRQjQH)
Graduate Student Highlight: Edward Henry
![Mystery in Louisiana](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Mystery in Louisiana
![How the chicken crossed the Red Sea](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/konso_village_ethiopia_10902510403-760x505.jpg?itok=va6YQrRT)
How the chicken crossed the Red Sea
![MichMash Podcast interview with TR Kidder](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/kidder.jpg?itok=lKc44Ycb)
MichMash Podcast interview with TR Kidder
![David Freidel and the excavations of Waka](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/waka.jpg?itok=ZD4dsOEI)
David Freidel and the excavations of Waka
![Natalie Mueller receives SAA Student Paper Award](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/nataliamueller.jpg?itok=vgmEyCxg)
Natalie Mueller receives SAA Student Paper Award
![Earth’s Future: Causes and consequences of climate change](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/earthsfuture.png?itok=JWPBvR3M)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/greengardening.jpg?itok=_vx6Si9o)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/lego.png?itok=QDFazmmw)
The YouTube Review: Where Creativity and Archaeology Meet
![BrieAnna Langlie recognized for academic excellence and leadership by AWF](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/brieannaaward.jpg?itok=3MXEF5Q3)
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](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/lynnerouse.jpg?itok=Eg1JPNrr)
After the Ph.D.: Lynne Rouse
![Curious Louis: City’s last surviving Mississippian mound, Sugar Loaf, to be preserved this summer](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Curious Louis: City’s last surviving Mississippian mound, Sugar Loaf, to be preserved this summer
![Undergraduate alumna continues work in zooarchaeology](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/africapano.png?itok=nBObDu4N)
Undergraduate alumna continues work in zooarchaeology
![Were cats domesticated more than once?](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Were cats domesticated more than once?
![Wanderlust and Research Meet in Archaeology](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Wanderlust and Research Meet in Archaeology
![Social and Economic Organization of Early Herder Exchange Networks in Southern Kenya: Perspectives from the Elmenteitan Quarry Site](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
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](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
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](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/como_self.jpg?itok=PFeToG-T)
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](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diets in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala: A Paleoethnobotanical Perspective
![Exploring Other Disciplines](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Microscope_photography_small.jpg?itok=bupD_PqO)
Exploring Other Disciplines
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Conroy Uses A.I. to Locate Fossil Sites
![Agricultural Intensification and Formative Period Society](https://anthropology.wustl.edu/files/anthropology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/bruno3.jpg?itok=IN3lfV9j)