Arts/Culture

Chemical analysis of the statue reveals its age and original polychromatic designCredit: Sepúlveda et al, 2020. The Pachacamac Idol of ancient Peru was a multicolored and emblematic sacred icon worshipped for almost 700 hundred…

Neandertals collected clam shells and pumice from coastal waters to use as toolsCredit: Villa et al., 2020 Neandertals collected clam shells and volcanic rock from the beach and coastal waters of Italy during the Middle…

Merit Ptah is often called the first woman doctor, CU Anschutz researcher calls it a case of mistaken identity AURORA, Colo. (Dec. 16, 2019) - For decades, an ancient Egyptian known as Merit Ptah has been celebrated as the first female…

Australia's First Nations people have unique ties to the landCredit: Flinders University It's time to write about Indigenous Australian place relationships in a new way - in a language that speaks in Indigenous terms first, to…

UMass Lowell faculty member to reach, research ethnomathematics in US, South Africa LOWELL, Mass. - A UMass Lowell education professor has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to further her efforts to teach students at home and abroad about…

Credit: Media+Environment CC BY 4.0 CHICAGO, IL (December 10, 2019) -- Scholastica, a peer review and publishing software and service provider for academic journals, is pleased to announce the launch of a new University of California…

Investigators in China created a functioning 3D-printed ukulele and used acoustics to compare its sound quality to a standard wooden instrumentCredit: Xiaoyu Niu SAN DIEGO, December 5, 2019 -- Music is an art, but it is also a…

Credit: Bernabei at al., 2019 The ancient Romans relied on long-distance timber trading to construct their empire, according to a study published December 4, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mauro Bernabei from the National…

By correlating bright lines within the atomic spectra to audible tones, individual atom notes can be identified to create atom songs, allowing us to 'see' their musicCredit: Skidmore College SAN DIEGO, December 4, 2019 -- Atom music is…

Study finds correlation between bead size and herding practices in ancient African culturesCredit: Miller et al, 2019 Researchers can track cultural changes across ancient Africa by tracking the sizes of ostrich eggshell beads,…