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• Sacred shrew mummies reveal species distribution in ancient Egypt

  22 April 2016

  

   

• Study reveals ancient link between mammoth dung and pumpkin pie

  23 November 2015

  

   

• Jamestown skeletons identified as colony leaders

  28 July 2015

  

   

• Greenhouse “time machine” sheds light on corn domestication

  31 January 2014

  

   

• Funeral flowers in the Stone Age: Q&A with Smithsonian anthropologist Reuven Yeshurun

  23 September 2013

  

   

• New book reveals Ice Age mariners from Europe were America’s first inhabitants

  1 March 2012

  

   

• Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

  18 January 2012

  

   

• Rising seas, development are altering prehistoric artifacts in the Chesapeake’s tidal zone

  9 January 2012

  

   

• Digitization project brings ancient Near Eastern inscriptions into 21st Century

  26 July 2011

  

   

• Study reveals environmental impact of American Indian farms centuries before Europeans arrived in North America

  9 May 2011

  

   

• Mummies featured in new Smithsonian exhibition

  31 March 2011

  

   

• New archaeological evidence reveals California’s Channel Islands as North America’s earliest seafaring economy

  3 March 2011

  

   

• Starch grains found on Neandertal teeth debunks theory that dietary deficiencies caused their extinction

  3 January 2011

  

   

• Scientists issue call to action for archaeological sites threatened by rising seas, urban development

  22 October 2010

  

   

• Fungi still visible in wood charcoal centuries after burning

  13 March 2010