Author: Smiti Nathan
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The Careful Choices Behind Bronze Age Aegean Weapons
What can ancient weapons reveal about the choices people made in the past? Archaeologist and art historian, Dr. Tenninger Kellenbarger, guides us through the world of Bronze Age Aegean weaponry.…
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How This Bioarchaeologist Connects Maryland’s Past to Its Present
How can we learn about people who lived centuries ago, but were not included in typical written records? Biocultural anthropologist, Alex McDougle, guides us through her work on free and…
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This Artifact Is the Oldest Representational Art…So Far
This posts explores an Indonesian cave painting and why the date of the earliest cave paintings keeps getting older.
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The Bone Artifact Hiding Hundreds of Seeds
This post explores a Roman artifact that contained hundreds of Hyoscyamus niger seeds and some possible answers to why someone might have wanted to keep these specific seeds safe.
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How This Moche Artifact Revealed a Forgotten Queen
This post explores a Moche artifact and how it’s changing our understanding of leadership in the ancient Moche world.
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Decoding Diaspora Through a Family Scrapbook
What can a crumbling family scrapbook reveal about history and the way diasporic communities make meaning? Religious scholar, Dr. Richard Newton, guides us through the surprising story of how a…
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These Identical Ancient Artifacts Were Stacked for a Reason
This post explores two identical metal artifacts from Oman and how researchers figured out what they were.
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The Archaeology Behind the English Alphabet
Where did English alphabet come from and how do we know this? Linguist and writer, Dr. Danny Bate, guides us through the archaeology and linguistic history behind the letters many…
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The Bronze Age Artifacts Unraveling What We Know About Anatolian Textiles
This post explores two burnt textiles that reveal something new and blue about Bronze Age textiles in Anatolia.
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Rethinking Water History at Shushtar in Iran
What can water systems tell us about people in the past and present? Landscape archaeologist, Dr. Mehrnoush Soroush, guides us through the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Shushtar in Iran…