Smithsonian Magazine: Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?
"Newly discovered evidence is upending our understanding of how early settlers made a life on the island — and why they suddenly disappeared" By Tim Folger SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE MARCH 2017
Harvard Magazine: Digging Deep into Chinese History
"[The Tao River Archaeological Project] was begun in 2012 to investigate technological changes in Northwest China during the late third and early second millennia B.C.E., a period during which new materials, like metals, were introduced [...]
Oxford Brookes University: New population of the secretive bay cat discovered on Borneo
"Scientists are one step closer to understanding the secretive bay cat after capturing camera trap footage of species in a forest where it was thought it did not exist." Friday, 28 April 2017
Smithsonian Magazine: Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear?
"Treasure found in prehistoric graves in Bulgaria is the first evidence of social hierarchy, but no one knows what caused the civilization’s decline." By Andrew Curry SMITHSONIAN JOURNEYS QUARTERLY APRIL 18, 2016 Â
Backdirt: Out of the Classroom and into the Field
"Out of the Classroom and into the Field:Â Ran Boytner and the Field School Revolution" Founder and Executive Director of the IFR, Dr. Ran Boytner, was interviewed for UCLA Cotsen Institute Archaeology Annual Review: Backdirt, by [...]
Backdirt: The Ifugao Archaeological Project
The Ifugao Rice Terraces are UNESCO World Heritage monuments that attest to the ingenuity and communitarian management of Cordilleran people of Luzon in the Philippines. Once thought to be over 2,000 years old, archaeological excavations [...]