A revised map of plant geographical regions of the Southern Levant
Land-use/cover change (LUCC) has been a focus of study on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico for the last decade. Researchers have grappled with forest regeneration processes and urban growth in an island setting as indirect consequences of major
Lessons in sustainability, evolution and human adaptation, courtesy of the Holocene
The El Gigante rockshelter in western Honduras is among only a handful of archaeological sites in the Americas that contain well-preserved botanical remains spanning the last 11,000 years. Considered ...
Anthropologist's mapping project shows how Peru transformed after colonization
Parker VanValkenburgh has dedicated more than a decade of research to understanding how colonialism impacted Peru's Indigenous people in the 16th century. That time marked a turning point in the region: ...
The Discovery in Olympus (Lycia) of One of the Oldest Known Paintings of Christ Pantocrator with a Discussion of its Iconography.
The semicircular exedra in the north of Olympus’s Church No. 3, with its cenotaphs and paintings, must have enabled the church to serve as a place of memorial for bishops. Some of the fresco fragments belong to a haloed figure in the lower part. It...
War in Europe is more than 5,000 years old, researchers find
Conflict has existed throughout human history, and it has often been violent. Attacks, assassinations, raids, ambushes, and vendettas feature in archaeological records almost as far back as the origin ...
A princess's psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript found
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may ...
The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was exceptionally versatile, as becomes clear when studying its multiple uses both within Ancient Egypt and beyond its borders.
In the framework of Graeco-Aegyptiaca III lectures, Richard Hunter (Cambridge) will discuss ‘Penultimate thoughts: choliambic verse in Graeco-Roman Egypt and beyond’.
Beaver exploitation testifies to prey choice diversity of early humans
Exploitation of smaller game is rarely documented before the latest phases of the Pleistocene, which is often taken to imply narrow diets for earlier hominins.
Roman colloquium on Late Antiquity and Early Christian Studies
The first Roman colloquium on Late Antiquity and Early Christian Studies will be held at the Notre Dame Rome Gateway Center on Friday, December 15, 2023.
The international conference Recent Work on the Cults of Boeotia, Archaeology, Epigraphy, and History is organized by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.