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South American maize varieties
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Corn domestication took some unexpected twists and turns
A DNA study challenges the idea people fully tamed maize in Mexico before the plant spread.
By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, December 13, 2018
Tibetan Plateau site excavation
News in Brief | Archaeology
Stone Age people conquered the Tibetan Plateau’s thin air
By Bruce Bower | 12:58pm, November 30, 2018
stone tool artifact
News | Archaeology
Stone-tool makers reached North Africa and Arabia surprisingly early
By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, November 29, 2018
Dead Sea
News in Brief | Archaeology
An exploding meteor may have wiped out ancient Dead Sea communities
By Bruce Bower | 10:00am, November 20, 2018
vanilla beans
News | Archaeology
A Bronze Age tomb in Israel reveals the earliest known use of vanilla
By Bruce Bower | 12:49pm, November 19, 2018
ancient game
News in Brief | Archaeology
A Bronze Age game called 58 holes was found chiseled into stone in Azerbaijan
By Bruce Bower | 1:12pm, November 16, 2018
mammoth, mastodon, and gomphothere
Feature | Archaeology
How mammoths competed with other animals and lost
By Alexandra Witze | 12:30pm, November 13, 2018
cave painting of red animal in Borneo
News | Archaeology
Like Europe, Borneo hosted Stone Age cave artists
By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, November 07, 2018
ancient antelope jaw and teeth
News in Brief | Archaeology
Fossils hint hominids migrated through a ‘green’ Arabia 300,000 years ago
By Bruce Bower | 11:13am, November 01, 2018
drying tobacco leaves
News in Brief | Archaeology
People in the Pacific Northwest smoked tobacco long before Europeans showed up
By Jennifer Leman | 3:00pm, October 29, 2018
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