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GemGemRemy/Pixabay/The festival-in-the-desert known as Burning Man will not happen this year, canceled like many events in deference to COVID-19. But it will probably be… -
Hillebrand Steve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia/The border wall will be built, says the president. And the administration is letting little stand in the way, including concerns about cultural artifacts.…
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Archaeology on the ground is easy to understand: dig in the ground, find something, carefully--very carefully--remove it from the ground, analyze, repeat.… -
Giants once roamed the Earth in our region. Mammoths and mastodons, elephant-like creatures, were common until humans hunted them to extinction. Evidence…
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The driving of a final spike in Ashland in 1887 completed the railroad line running up the West Coast. But the project took a few shortcuts along the way,…
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Our region is rich in history, much of it hidden just below the surface. Mark Tveskov and Chelsea Rose from the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of…
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Imagine becoming an international celebrity, when you're way too old to enjoy it. Dead, even. This is the after-life story of the human fossils Lydia Pyne…
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The history of our region is rich in detail, and a crowd of people will get their hands dirty this summer digging into it. Quite literally. The Geisel…
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At the peak of Maya civilization, something like ten million people lived on the Yucutan Peninsula. Fewer than a million live there now, near the ruins of…
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For a place that's not a real state, there sure are a lot of things named "Jefferson." Those include an annual meeting to discuss history and archaeology…
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We don't all have it in us to dig in the dirt for signs of past life and civilizations. But we certainly can watch the people who do. And there's ample…
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In a world that applauds the latest and greatest, it's refreshing to see a big celebration over some decidedly old information: humans living in south…
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It's not exactly playing in the dirt, but it's close. Archaeology allows its practitioners to spend time literally digging up pieces of our history. And…
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Much of our history is underfoot, literally. Archaeology is all about digging into the ground to find clues to previous inhabitants and previous…
