Tag Archives: Archaeology

Search for Sculptor’s Stone Reveals New Marble Outcrops

Isotope geochemistry and grain size analysis, combined with a long summer’s hike, start to resolve an art history puzzle Continue reading

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Subsurface imaging shows scale of the tragedy of Indigenous children

Archaeologists and geophysicists in Canada are trying to pinpoint the signatures of unmarked burials by using geophysical methods in varied terrains. Continue reading

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Food residues help date ancient pottery

Radiocarbon dating of carefully extracted fatty-acid compounds could become a robust archaeological tool. Continue reading

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