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Overview of the site with a sieving station for clay soil in water-filled bins, using fine mesh sieves to recover the smallest artifacts.

Science

On the trail of Indigenous peoples in Outaouais

6 August 2024

Article

The Proyecto Arqueológico Ucanal team at the Mayan site of Ucanal, located in northern Guatemala.

Science

UdeM students search for traces of the Mayan past in Guatemala

30 July 2024

Article

This new study underscores the significance of directly comparing the spatial behavior of Neanderthals and ''Homo sapiens'' within the same site, using consistent parameters, to minimize analytical bias.

Society

Make yourself at home... 40,000 years ago

5 April 2024

Article

Professors Isabelle Ribot and Carlos Jacome Hernandez, Mexico's consul-general in Montreal, Alejandro Estivill Castro and Étienne Houle, master's student in anthropology.

Science

The long journey of a child who died over 2,000 years ago

7 February 2024

Article

Riparo Bombrini during excavation

Society

The old grind just got a little older

19 June 2023

Article

Society

Children from mixed backgrounds with one Muslim parent have plural identities

19 May 2023

Article

Society

India’s skewed sex ratio

7 March 2023

Article

Society

Religious plurality in Quebec is a fact

23 February 2023

Article

The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial

Community

Bringing up baby, 10,000 years ago

26 September 2022

Article

Culture

"Odibi", a graphic novel about the Anishinaabeg of Lac Simon

5 April 2022

Article

The site of Ganj Dareh, which means "valley of treasures", in Iran.

Science

Using Philip Smith’s archaeological archives to rediscover Iran’s “Treasure Valley”

10 February 2022

Article

Mario Martone, Laurence McFalls, Mariella Pandolfi, Christiane Lutz and François Girard

Culture

Staging opera for a contemporary audience

9 February 2022

Article

We illustrate a conservative view of potential human adaptations based on similar technology today and from science fiction (Elson, 2016; Smith, 2008). Extreme heat may require protective personal clothing for outdoor activity – in this hypothetical case, a sealed helmet and a suit conducting water and coolants around the body. Outdoor agriculture in 2500 may be managed by automated drone-machinery.

Science

The climate emergency: a Q&A with Ariane Burke and Julien Riel-Salvatore

27 October 2021

Article

Among the observations they made in the wild, the researchers noted that chimpanzee mothers share food with their offspring that is difficult to swallow or food that they cannot chew themselves, most often done with staple foods.

Science

Something to chew on

21 May 2020

Article

Excavation of a double burial at Shum Laka Rockshelter in Cameroon, containing the remains of two boys who lived ~8000 years ago and who were genetically from the same family. Ancient DNA reveals that these two individuals and another pair of children buried three millennia later at Shum Laka were from a stable population that was then almost completely replaced by the very different populations living in Cameroon today.

Society

Where do we come from?

22 January 2020

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