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Archaeology

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Archaeology

What Ancient Pottery Can Teach Us About Everyday Lives in the Time of Jesus and Herod the Great

January 14, 2025
Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024
Undergraduate Research

For BU Undergrad, Meal Leftovers Aren’t Trash—They’re Glimpses into the Past

October 24, 2024
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Bioarchaeology

The Histories of Enslaved People Were Written by Slavers. A BU Researcher Is Working to Change That

August 13, 2024
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Archaeology

Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Nile Valley Settlements Found in Forgotten Treasure

April 16, 2024
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Archaeology

Archaeology Student Trevor Lamb Found Some of Alaska’s Oldest Woven Textiles on Kodiak Island

October 26, 2023
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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022
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Maya Archaeology

What Ancient Toilets Can Teach Us about Maya Life—and Tamales

June 5, 2022
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Paleoanthropology

Is “Dragon Man” a Missing Link in Human Evolution?

July 9, 2021
Archaeologist John "Mac" Marston holds a vile of ancient seeds found at an archaeological dig.
Environmental Archaeology

What Can We Learn from an Ancient Pea?

October 7, 2019
Professor of Archaeology Catherine West holds a clamshell in Dutch Harbor middens where she studies ancient climate change adaptation in the Aleutian Islands.
Archaeology

Clamshells and Climate Change

November 14, 2017
Arctic Ground Squirrel
Archaeology

Arctic Squirrels: Invasive or Native Species?

February 22, 2017
James Pokines, assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine
Anthropology

Bone Detective

July 21, 2016
View of temples in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico
Archaeology

Lessons from Teotihuacan

August 24, 2015
Boston University BU, Farouk El-Baz
Archaeology

Farouk El-Baz Tapped by Egypt President

October 6, 2014

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