New study finds that doing mentally demanding tasks while engaging in endurance exercise makes some, but not everyone, feel more tired. Sheds light on how early modern humans effectively gathered food over long distances.
2,500 years ago, the Chinese states of Wu and Yue produced elaborate swords representing the pinnacle of bronze-casting technology. Many of these swords have survived for millennia with little visible corrosion. Until recently, the techniques that made...
My project will investigate Slovenian and Austrian fibulae (brooches) from the Iron Age (ca. 800 BCE–1 CE). Through the use of archival research, artifact analysis, and data utilization, I aim to elucidate varying aspects of European prehistory including...
The study of any sub-field can often feel like a closed club—usually because it is, whether intentionally or not. The study of khipus, Andean knotted-cord records, is a textbook example, with only a handful of scholars working on these records full time...
