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How Stone Age Humans Unlocked the Glucose in PlantsEarly cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants were just as key to ...
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Raymond Corbey interviewed about new book on the missionary's perspective on New Guinean ritual artProtestant missionaries have provided the earliest and most detailed sources regarding the ritual art of the Papuan peoples of the Geelvink Bay. Raymo...
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Archaeologist Rachel Schats on Science071 about malaria in medieval low countriesOsteoarchaeologist Rachel Schats investigates traces of malaria in old human skeletons. Even though the disease cannot be spotted directly in bone mat...
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Caribbean island of St. Kitts gets first Doctor in ArchaeologyOn February 4th standing before his doctoral committee at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology, St. Kitts-born Cameron Gill, successfully defended and re...
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Interview with osteoarchaeologist Rachel Schats in National Geographic MagazineOsteoarchaeologist Rachel Schats investigates traces of illnesses and disorders in human skeletons. Her search for malaria in the Low Countries' middl...
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Treasure hunting takes toll on Eastern Badia archaeological siteThe Jordan Times has interviewed Peter Akkermans about the damage done to the Early Islamic archaeological site of Khirbet Al Umari, Jordan. "The degr...
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Video: Ethnobotanical immersion in CameroonPlants are vital resources throughout human history, but we know little about how they were used and valued prior to agriculture. Sandrine Gallois, an...
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Archaeologist Andrew Sorensen on Dutch TV on prehistoric BBQThe Dutch TV programme Keuringsdienst van Waarde investigated the origin of BBQ taste. Prehistoric fire expert Andrew Sorensen was invited to explain ...
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Osteoarchaeology Laboratory takes centre stage in student video on osteologyOur MSc in Human Osteology student Judyta Olszewski, together with Raven Todd Da Silva, made the first of a series of videos on the study of human bon...
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'Small brewers show how craft principles could reshape the economy – but they’re under threat'In order for the economy to become sustainable, a shift in how we think about production is required. Archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catalin Popa,...
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'Eastern Desert tombs reflect successful culture adapted to harsh environment’
The Jordan Times interviewed professor Peter Akkermans about this research on ancient tombs in Jordan's Eastern Desert. “The evidence of this flourish...
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Ancient populations pioneered the idea of recycling wasteThe circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the product...
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Digging into stone age secretsArchaeologist Dr Gerrit Dusseldorp's research project was covered by a South African newspaper. Dusseldorp and his team investigate the evolution of h...
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Archaeologist Sada Mire hosts radio and TV programmesSomali archaeology in Somaliland takes centre stage in a BBC World Service radio programme and a China Global Television Networks (CGTN) programme, bo...
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Siberian 'unicorn' takes centre stage in radio interviewThe publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution about the so-called Siberian unicorns took centre stage in a Dutch radio interview.