Answers to Archaeology Questions

Questions answered about archaeology, anthropology, palaeoanthropology and history of science...

09 February 2024

What have been the era appropriate messages?

08 August 2023

First, you need to define what you mean by curry...

08 August 2023

Does this group of hominids change our perception on human intelligence?

10 March 2023

Do cultures that burn their dead leave less behind for us to understand?

22 November 2022

What is the paleo diet, and is it better than any other diet?

22 November 2022

Is there an amount of time that has to pass? Or is it more nuanced than that?

22 November 2022

What clues do bones have as to the age or sex of a skeleton?

23 February 2021

What were the health impacts of the vastly different diets and lifestyles of aristocrats and peasants?

05 March 2020

If they were so similar to us, why did they disappear and not humans?

05 March 2020

What do you do when the dentist won't be free for another few thousand years?

05 March 2020

If we could speak to each other, would we get on?

22 October 2019

Could you eat a triceratops?

09 April 2019

How long did it take for the dinosaurs to die?

13 November 2018

How far back in time would you have to go, to notice that us humans looked different from our ancestors?

14 November 2017

And what's the mummification process?

14 November 2017

Did dinosaurs live in herds, or on their own?

14 November 2017

Can you assume their from the same creature?

14 November 2017

Is there any difference between fur and hair? And what did a dinosaurs "skin" look like?

14 November 2017

Egyptologist, Meghan Strong, explains how ancient writing was used at the time.