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Kevin Corrigan, a graduate candidate in landscape architecture from the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis, says good landscape design can make cities more resilient and beautiful.

Using satellite imaging and drone reconnaissance, archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis have discovered an ancient irrigation system that

New research from Washington University in St. Louis and Sichuan University in China explores how and why ancient communities built social relationships and cul

The research, by Michael Frachetti in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and researchers at Sichuan University in China, explores how and why ancient communities built social relationships and cultural identities across the extreme terrain in Tibet.

<p>Using advanced geospatial modeling to compare environmental and archaeological evidence, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Sichuan University in China found evidence that connects ancient mobility and subsistence strategies to cultural connections forged among Tibetan farmers and herders in the Bronze and Iron Ages — adding to understanding of how and why ancient communities built social relationships and cultura...

In a new Sciences Advances report, a team of researchers led by Michael Frachetti, at Washington University in St. Louis, is calling for a strengthened commitment to transdisciplinary collaboration to study past and present human-environmental interactions, which they say will advance our understanding of the complex, entangled histories.

Finds from one of the world’s oldest shipwrecks hint that miners in Central Asia and Turkey provided a crucial metal to Mediterranean rulers.

Nomads from Uzbekistan didn't need empire or centralization to hold near monopoly power over tin sales in the ancient Near East, 3,500 BCE.

The 14th century BC Uluburun shipwreck is helping archaeologists unravel the supply chains and trade networks of the late Bronze Age.

The tin had planned to travel to markets in the Middle East that were supposedly going to be made into a coveted bronze metal..