By Kiara Craig, Anthropology students participated in an excavation of the University Quad to analyze its cultural history through artifacts. The excavation ran between Sept. 11 and Oct. 30. Students ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

Undergraduates in a Harvard anthropology course have begun excavating Harvard Yard, the area between Harvard Hall and Holden Chapel, for the twentieth year of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

A monumental 5,000-year-old cultic space unearthed in Iraq may redefine how archaeologists understand the earliest urban societies and their spiritual foundations.

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

(This is the third of a series of essays on the unique contributions of the humanities program at the University of Guam to the island and the wider Pacific region.) Every semester, when we begin a ...

In celebration of the Day of the Dead, the Penn Museum hosted a "Dia De Los Muertos" culture fest for the fourteenth year.

Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. But archaeologists have been puzzling over whether the artwork really shows the infamous ...

So, you think comics are just for kids? Then check out the West Chester University’s Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology newest exhibit, “Panel by Panel: The Social and Cultural Impact of Comics” ...

Dr. Marie-Loraine Pipes, a zooarchaeologist and adjunct professor of anthropology at SUNY Geneseo, recently sat down with The ...

Therese "Terri" Miner is running as a ‘write-in’ candidate against St. Lawrence County Coroner June Wood. Miner holds a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Potsdam where she majored in ...