Food is essential to life, and is an important and integral part of the archaeological record. Archaeology facilitates examination of ancient food, using those results to define our understanding of culture and chronology. Radiocarbon dating charred food crust presents challenges. We have mastered issues of recovery and lab treatment, but archaeology retains assumptions about food […]

Jamie Hodgkins, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver presents New species belonging to the genus Homo are discovered more and more frequently. Paleoanthropological research has revealed that our own family lineage is far more complex than once thought, yet it is also true that through time this diversity has been whittled down to one remaining species, […]

Marilyn A. Martorano, MA, Martorano Consultants LLC, presents A new class of prehistoric artifacts called portable lithophones has been identified from Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. “Litho” is Greek for stone and “phone” means sound; a lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a purposely-selected rock (often formally-shaped) that is […]