Students are staging an open-ended occupation of the anthropology library after the University of California, Berkeley, announced it would shutter the 67-year-old institution to save money.
Tag: Archaeology and Anthropology
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Ancient Romans Dropped Their Bling Down the Drain, Too
Archaeologists have recovered a trove of fallen, forgotten ring stones from an 1,800-year-old bathhouse in England.
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Tulsa Reaches ‘Breakthrough’ in Search for Massacre Victims
More than a century after a white mob burned down the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla., a community known as Black Wall Street, the city moved a step closer to identifying victims.
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DNA Confirms Oral History of Swahili People
A genetic analysis of dozens of ancient skeletons from East Africa helps pin down the origins of coastal Swahili society.
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In a Roman Tomb, ‘Dead Nails’ Reveal an Occult Practice
Forty-one bent or twisted iron nails, unearthed from a second-century imperial burial site, were meant to keep the deceased in their place.