Archaeology

Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic

A skeleton missing its lower left leg and dated to 31,000 years ago provides the earliest known evidence for surgical limb removal

A landmark study is the first major effort to quantify how lactose tolerance developed

A medieval cemetery yields DNA evidence of the deadly pandemic bacterium’s Central Asian ancestor

An International Space Station project is “one small step” for off-world fieldwork

A new generation of scholars working in the Holy Land remain haunted by scripture and riven by modern politics

For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history

The discovery of the wreck is “a milestone in polar history,” says the director of the search for it

A ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1942 can today help track large pulses of mud from the Mississippi River

Quantum timing, the evolution of animal sounds, militias, and more in the January 2022 issue

Scientists have a new understanding of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism that challenges assumptions about ancient technology

An ambitious project is underway to develop a robot with enough smarts, strength and sensitivity to restore fragmented archaeological remains