The Biggest Treasure I Found After Five Decades in Archaeology
Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an…
Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an…
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo Western society is largely in the grips of an entrenched mythology that premodern non-Western states and empires were organized despotically, markedly different…
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo The modes of communication that a society uses can tell us a lot about its political structure. A research study we published in…
The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times…
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo Recent archaeology emerging from ancient Mesoamerica is flipping the script of public understanding about the people and institutions that inhabited this world:…
In a remarkable new study, the broad-brush patterns between how we use and mark public space and our collective well-being were investigated in 2022 by Quynh C. Yue and colleagues who…
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