archaeologists

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The University of Aberdeen will now lead a larger five-year exploration of the site, which archaeologists hope could reveal "a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Foreign digs must work with Iraqi archaeologists, bringing their international expertise.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

For years, archaeologists have debated when humans first arrived on the ancient landmass known as Sahul, which once connected present-day Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

What separates the archaeologists and Egyptologists from the narrator, editor and supervisor of the music is that there are very few definitive answers to questions being asked three millennia after the fact.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

As another example, archaeologists originally assumed that Mexican corn, beans, and squashes reached the southeastern United States by the most direct route via northeastern Mexico and eastern Texas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond