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Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution; Sabrina Curran, Ohio University, and Virgil ...

An artist’s view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts were processed in the cooking pits. The research centers on the Zvejnieki ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Excavated in 1917 or 1918 by MAI ...

While bone is twice as tough (resists fracture), ivory has double the strength (withstands breaking completely). Ivory is ...

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such as tools, bones, and pottery. Experimental archaeologists, however, go a ...

The “mesozoic cow” was a dinosaur with hundreds of ever-replacing teeth. Here’s how its uniquely adapted skull allowed it to graze like cattle on low vegetation.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Excavated in 1919 during the Samuel ...