A bronze artifact resembling a broken buckle wrapped with a bit of leather has been unearthed at a 1,000-year-old Eskimo dwelling in Alaska’s Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. Archaeologists from the University of Colorado at Boulder think the bronze part of the artifact was probably produced in East Asia and reached Alaska through trade from the […]

Kristina Killgrove of Vanderbilt University wants to sequence DNA extracted from ancient, lower-class Roman skeletons. She knows from isotope analysis that some of these people had immigrated to Rome from distant lands, and she thinks DNA could provide some answers to questions about their origins. “It’s an untapped data source, especially about the common people, […]