Archaeological Method News Today

At the U of As Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, Wolfgang Alders, a National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellow, is using satellite imagery and archaeological methods to better understand the origins of urban life on the eastern African Swahili Coast, a vast region spanning the modern countries of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.

Our world is riddled with fascinating, perilous, but beautiful holes into the quiet depths of the crust.

The study found striking parallels between how Neanderthals and modern humans used the space within the places they lived.

New evidence of one of the first cities in the Pacific shows they were established much earlier than previously thought.

Traditionally, experts assumed that Neanderthal behavior was less complex than that of our own species.

Research has shown that Neanderthal and modern humans organised their living spaces similarly.

<p>New evidence of one of the first cities in the Pacific shows they were established much earlier than previously thought, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU).  </p> <p>The study used aerial laser scanning to map archaeological sites on the island of Tongatapu in Tonga, showing Earth structures were being constructed in Tongatapu around AD 300. </p>

Roughly 14,500 to 10,500 years ago, in the transition from the last glacial period, Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples harvesting vegetation from the wetlands of eastern Jordan created a habitat for birds that would otherwise have migrated, a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory reveals.

A new study suggests that human activities pave the way for increased wetland productivity. Read more here.

When did humans develop cultural beliefs about children, gender or burial practices?Answers remains elusive, and they are made more so by the lack of remains from key periods of prehistory.