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 unauthorized DNA research done on tribal members’ blood samples. In [...]
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 exploring this dense jungle to find out about the people [...]
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 hung with clusters of yellow and orange tags. More tags [...]
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 the beginning of two journeys, “distinct but inseparable,” according to [...]
Archaeological Institute of America: Ferrycarrig 2019: Experimental Archaeology – Furnace Building And Iron Smelting
This summer saw a new program at the Carrick site. The IAFS partnered with Dr. Brendan O’Neill from University College Dublin to run an experimental archaeology program at the Carrick Centre. It was a two-week [...]