In a provocative opinion piece in the New York Times, Dean Spears makes the case for worldwide human population to peak at about 10 billion people toward the end of
CfAS Associate Marcy Rockman on NPR
The Impact of Infectious Disease on Human Societies Globally, the coronavirus pandemic has had far-reaching and continuing effects on mortality, health, and well-being. Economies, social interactions, and food security and
 Shortly after the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS) was established in 2017, CfAS sponsored two proof-of-concept projects using the working group model pioneered by the National Center for Ecological Analysis
Large scale databases are critical for helping scientists decipher long-term patterns in human evolution. This paper describes the conception and development of such a research database and illustrates how big
A key issue facing urban systems today is adaptation to climate change. Past urban experience should provide useful information in this regard, but efforts to leverage insights from the urban
Gary Feinman, MacArthur curator of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago and CfAS Board Member, recently wrote an article for Human Bridges, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
According to a recent article published in Science, land abandonment and rural depopulation is accelerating rapidly in the world today. The forces driving it are the same as those driving
A new analysis by The Upshot1, perhaps of interest to archaeologists, suggests that the same economic forces that years ago drove working-class Americans out of the cities may be reaching
A recent article in the Conversation by Chapurukha Kusimba and David Reich, describes a collaborative effort between scientists and descendant communities to examine the origin of the Swahili People. Scholars
When thinking about ideas of synthesis in our understanding of the past, archaeologists often look for ways to build large, interdisciplinary datasets that can connect important pieces of the human
CfAS’ first strategic plan details the Coalition’s vision for archaeological synthesis and lists its objectives for the next 5 years.
The Coalition was busy at last week’s Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Thursday morning, we held a meeting for current and potential affiliates to learn more
CfAS Partners and Associates contribute to February Issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice on refining archaeological data collection and management.
