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In South America, Researchers Work to Save a Disappearing History of Movement

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.

Barbara Fraser

Economics

Across the Great Divide

Just how old is the problem of economic inequality?

Kevin Charles Fleming

Environment

Saving Florida’s Archeological History From Climate Change

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

Jessica Leigh Hester

Environment

How Rising Sea Levels Threaten America’s Cultural Heritage

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.

Kate Wheeling

Israel Antiquities Authority and Nature and Parks Authority workers dig in an underground tunnel on May 25th, 2017, unveiling evidence from 2,000 years ago of the battle of Jerusalem following the destruction of the Second Temple.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: An Archaeological Dig in Jerusalem

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

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

What It’s Like to Get Punished as a War Criminal for Destroying Ancient Monuments

International law holds that demolishing historical sites is a war crime, and one of the first prosecutions just…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

There’s More to Syrian Archaeology Than Palmyra

Some five years into its violent civil war, Syria remains a hotbed of archaeological exploration. Such exploration involves…

Pacific Standard Staff

Social Justice

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.

Steve Moyer

Environment

Cavemen Were Awesome Parents

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

Ryan Jacobs