Archaeology - Research Articles

Across the Americas, Indigenous traditions recall ant-folk, giants, and shadow-people who occupied the land before humans arrived.

Weighing archaeological, genetic, and historical evidence for whether chickens reached the Americas before Columbus.

Continent-by-continent survey of archaeological, textual, and biochemical evidence for ancient entheogenic practices.

How a prehistoric serpent-goddess cult may have jump-started self-aware thought and spread its rites across the globe.

A comprehensive historical analysis of claims that Phoenician sailors reached the Americas before Columbus, examining evidence and scholarly debate from classical antiquity to modern times.

Comparison of the early Holocene emergence of the Aboriginal Dreamtime symbolic system with the Near East’s Neolithic ‘revolution of symbols,’ examining Australian rock art, technology, exchange networks, language diffusion, and cognitive impacts.

A comprehensive analysis of evidence and scholarly debate surrounding pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact between the Americas and Old World civilizations.