Zapatera and Other Mysteries
By Andrew Califf The motionless, yet seemingly sentient, stone figure peers through the dangling vines and swaying leaves to get a glimpse of Lake [...]
Spiders, Scorpions and Snakes
By Andrew Califf Students clear foliage around exposed burial urns at El Rayo’s Locus 3 to further excavate the cemetery. One of Geoffrey [...]
First Day Breaking Dirt
Grid lines being laid out at Locus 3, the cemetery. The cracked urn in the foreground is one of four visible on the [...]
Visit to the National Palace
By: Andrew Califf We visited the grand National Palace and Ivonne Miranda Tapia, the director of Nicaragua’s Institute for Culture, gave us a tour. [...]
A Day in Granada
By Andrew Califf and contributions by Jerry Walter, Simone Judea Muhammad, Philip Hutton, Anna Brown and William Robison. Geoff McCafferty’s IFR team arrived in [...]
The Washington Post: Genetic researchers work to overcome suspicion among indigenous groups
In 2003, the Havasupai Indians of Arizona issued a banishment order against Arizona State University, forbidding researchers from setting foot on their reservation in response to prior [...]
National Geographic: Exploring Ciudad Perdida | Lost Cities With Albert Lin
Ciudad Perdida or "The Lost City" is high up in Colombia’s most isolated mountain range, the Sierra Nevada. Archaeologists have spent decades [...]
Santa Barbara Independent: ‘Hostile Terrain 94’ Toe-Tag Exhibit at UCSB Portrays Crossing Deaths in ‘Hostile Terrain 94’
In a gallery at the back of UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum, four folding worktables face a large map dotted with location markers and [...]
Archaeology Magazine: The Sorrows of Spike Island
Millions were forced to flee during the Great Famine—some of those left behind were condemned to Ireland’s most notorious prison. By Jason Urbanus January/February 2020
The Southern Illinoisan: Returning home: Sacred artifacts held by SIU Carbondale reburied with Hopi, Navajo ancestors
CARBONDALE — In the spiritual tradition of the Hopi Tribe, which, along with its Puebloan ancestors, has populated the American Southwest for centuries, death is [...]