Archaeology

Teams of scientists are hurriedly attempting to save ancient sites that could provide insights into how people moved across Mesoamerica—before they are lost forever.

• By Barbara Fraser

Just how old is the problem of economic inequality?

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

In Miami-Dade County, researchers are working to save sites at risk of being destroyed by rising ocean waters.

• By Jessica Leigh Hester

The most comprehensive archeological database created to date finds that just a one-meter rise in sea level could imperil thousands of historically significant sites.

• By Kate Wheeling

Israel Antiquities Authority and Nature and Parks Authority workers dig in an underground tunnel on May 25th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Until recently, the reigning theory on who the first Homo sapiens in North America were pointed to the Clovis people, evidence of whose culture was discovered in the American Southwest. That theory has been powerfully challenged by, among others, Meadowcroft, an archaeological dig in western Pennsylvania that began in the 1970s.

• By Steve Moyer

Toy hand axes, rock bashing, and special burials indicate that Neanderthals were cooler parents than previously thought, according to a new theory.

• By Ryan Jacobs

Ancient people of Mesoamerica apparently liked a hot drink in the morning, too. A spicy hot drink, that is.

• By Michael Todd

Archaeologists working in Peru sat on the find of a lifetime for months, keeping the artifacts safe from thieves.

• By Marc Herman