In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared…

Cattle may seem like uniquely American animals, steeped in the lore of cowboys, cattle drives and sprawling ranches. But cattle…

An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological…

Prior to the first world war, sprawling European empires collectively controlled roughly 80% of Earth’s landmass. Following WWII, that percentage…

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In our last “Talking Taino” we described a variety of ways that meals were prepared without clay pots. The invention…

Irving Rouse, the doyen of Caribbean archaeology, once estimated that pottery comprised 90% of all artifacts found in the region.…

A ruler and scale can tell archaeologists the size and weight of a fragment of pottery – but identifying its…