BBC North West News - YouTube Jul 11, 2018

"A tiny but intricately carved sculpture of what may be the head of a biblical king, dating back over 2,800 years, has been discovered at the ancient city of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel." By Owen Jarus June 07, 2018

"Clues to the mystery of why Viking colonies in Greenland flourished and fell have been found in the DNA of medieval walrus bones housed in more than a dozen European museums." Associated Press Aug 8, 2018

"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

"[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 to the region, along with new domesticated animals and plants (including cattle, sheep, goats, and horses, and wheat and barley)—all seemingly at different times and places." by Dr. Rowan K. Flad 7.11.17

"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

"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  

"Out of the Classroom and into the Field: 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 former IFR field school participant and UCLA graduate, Ben Nigra. Boytner explains how he found archaeology, the backstory that led him to start the IFR, and the value of field work.

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 have demonstrated that the upland rice field systems in the region were responses to the social and political pressure from intrusive Spanish colonization into the region starting at c. AD 1600. To determine the impacts of Spanish colonialism on Philippine highland populations, the 2016 field season of the Ifugao Archaeological Project (IAP) focused on the Old Kiyyangan Village, an abandoned settlement in the town of Kiangan, Ifugao. The IAP’s primary research goals were: 1) to document highland political and economic responses to colonialism by looking [...]

Human activity in Pieria ranges from the Late Neolithic (3,500 BCE) through Hellenistic (330-150 BCE) periods. The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project explored the dynamics of landscape and landscape change, with a focus on sea level changes and related shoreline shifts. Integrated geophysical and geomorphological investigations aimed to reconstruct the palaeoshoreline that defines the location and extent of the port of ancient Methone. This was crucial information that helped guide and focus plans for the broader study of the Haliakmon Delta – a unique environment linking riverine and coastline transport/communication routes to regional models of landscape evolution. Field school students were involved in examining the relationship between the site’s ancient history and industries to its strategic location and port, its unique natural [...]