How to capitalize on the past without being a jerk

Brad Lidge made two All-Star games as an MLB closer. Then his curiosity led him in a different direction.

On gloomy islands and utopian orchards

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So, imagine this—a man in Denmark was just trying to improve his backyard when he stumbled upon a treasure trove of Viking silver! In just half an hour of…

Errol Flynn, Heinrich Schliemann, and the epic struggle for authenticity

How animals help us tame death

The domestic history of an awkward artifact

Architecture, Hitler, and bad ballrooms

Microcosmic magic and manifesting destinies

Weird times. I write about contemporary life through the lens of archaeology. Histories behind the headlines, artifacts of our time, pre-industrial skills we need, futurist anthropology. MacArthur Fel...

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” has won the Oscar for best documentary feature. The film’s central figure and co-director is a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia.

An archaeologist unspools the story of a female leader buried over 1,000 years ago on the Tibetan Plateau.

What does our treatment of the ancient dead tell us about ourselves?

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

A 5,000-year-old whalebone figurine was recently rediscovered in a box at the Stromness Museum, in the Orkney Islands of northern Scotland.

Honestly, I don't think we'll win if you don't

One of the things I've been thinking about for a while is the the structure of the  archaeological record of Earth orbit - all the spacec...

Or, Archives in the Arctic

A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

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“I don’t exist in an after climate crisis—we know now that there is no after, only varying degrees of loss, varying degrees of change. My mother was a climate writer who found that her words …