Archeology is a scientific discipline within the broader field of the social and historical sciences that investigates past human societies primarily through their material remains, including artifacts, features, ecofacts, and constructed landscapes. It employs systematic field methods such as survey, excavation, and stratigraphic recording, combined with laboratory analyses including radiometric dating, bioarchaeology, geoarchaeology, and material characterization techniques. Archeology formulates and tests hypotheses about cultural processes, technological systems, subsistence strategies, social organization, and long-term human–environment interactions, integrating theoretical frameworks from anthropology, history, and related disciplines to reconstruct and interpret cultural sequences and transformations over time.
A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to both ancient North Africa ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Penn State Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jacob Holland-Lulewicz is among a group of archaeologists who have spent years conducting research on the barrier islands off the coast of Georgia. The islands have changed shape ...
Earth Sciences
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Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between solar activity and Earth's ...
Planetary Sciences
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Ötzi the Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his well-preserved remains, he's still helping us understand our past. A new digital reconstruction of the ...
How does climate change affect the way humans organize themselves? How has it shaped the course of human evolution? An international team of scientists, including scientists from the Université de Montréal, think the key ...
Earth Sciences
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A new study led by Dr. Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible journey of humankind's best friend across the Americas, showing how dogs slowly spread southward alongside ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 18, 2025
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The world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and Indigenous islanders' spiritual ties to the sea that must be protected, NGOs and native peoples say.
Environment
Mar 26, 2025
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Are human spacecraft, landers, rovers and other space-exploration debris little more than trash littering the surface of Mars, or the modern equivalent of Clovis points—treasured artifacts marking Homo sapiens' lust for new ...
Space Exploration
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