Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

A new archaeological study in Japan, published in the August issue of Journal of Archaeological Science, has produced evidence supporting the idea that population growth can lead to an increase in ...

The ancient civilization that inhabited Easter Island wasn’t destroyed by warfare, according to a recent study, contrary to what some researchers believe. Researchers from Binghamton University ...

Last month, Associate Professor of Archaeology Felipe Rojas and Dartmouth postdoctoral fellow Robert Weiner ’16 MA’16 published their paper “Choreographic empathy beyond human and animal.” The paper ...

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Coastal areas are characterized by high energetic conditions associated to the wave transformation process and by numerous underwater cultural heritage (UCH) sites whose preservation is crucial given ...

Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few people. Experiments with replicas and 3D models revealed design features ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Cobb Institute of Archaeology is celebrating its 50th anniversary Oct. 16-18 with a weekend of special events highlighting a half-century of groundbreaking ...

The transport of Rapa Nui’s (Easter Island) monumental moai statues has been debated for over a century. Based on a systematic analysis of 962 moai, with a focus on 62 road statues, combined with 3D ...

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