Prehistoric human footprints reveal a rare snapshot of ancient human group behavior
The footprints of over 20 different prehistoric people, pressed into volcanic ash thousands of years ago in Tanzania, show possible evidence for sexual division of labor in this ancient community.
Briana Pobiner, Research Scientist and Museum Educator, Smithsonian Institution
• conversation
May 14, 2020 • ~8 min
May 14, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: anthropology human-evolution archaeology paleontology human-behavior behavior tanzania paleoanthropology hominins prehistory
Rewilding: lessons from the medieval Baltic crusades
The Baltic crusades had a long term impact on the local environment – 700 years later, the details of this are clear.
Rowena Banerjea, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Reading
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May 11, 2020 • ~8 min
May 11, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: environment biodiversity history archaeology interdisciplinarity rewilding medieval-history deep-time
Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we're using new techniques to get it right
Modern dating techniques are providing new time frames for indigenous settlements in Northeast North America, free from the Eurocentric bias that previously led to incorrect assumptions.
Sturt Manning, Director of the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory and Professor of Classical Archaeology, Cornell University
• conversation
April 29, 2020 • ~9 min
April 29, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: archaeology new-york ontario radiocarbon-dating indigenous-history colonialist colonial-america colonial-history european-settlement beads
Humans domesticated horses – new tech could help archaeologists figure out where and when
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. A decade ago, new techniques appeared to have provided answers – but further discoveries change the story again.
William Taylor, Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder
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March 2, 2020 • ~10 min
March 2, 2020 • ~10 min
Tags: ancient-dna archaeology teeth domestication mongolia horses kazakhstan adna zooarchaeology
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