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In a recent article in the New Yorker, Manvir Singh traces the origin and evolution of the concept of Indigenous from its colonial roots to its present use to cover

The polished surface of SAG45f, a fire-scar sample from Voyageur’s Island in Lake Saganaga. The innermost ring of the sample dates to 1679 and the outer ring to 1989, when the tree was windthrown. Fire scars recorded in the rings of the tree indicate the passing of 10 low-severity fires between 1702 and 1850, after which not another fire was recorded at the site.

The Coalition’s latest project, which integrates settlement, ecological, climatic, and population health data, got underway this past week with a kick-off meeting at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology in

The Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS) partnered with the Initiative for Sustainable Development in Africa (ISDAf) to sponsor a collaborative workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania August 13-16, 2022 to investigate the

On 14 December 2022 Jeff Altschul and Keith Kintigh were pleased to describe and discuss CfAS with a group of about 35 Swedish archaeologists. The talk was given at the

Nedra Lee, Richard Benjamin, and Chris Fennell (a CfAS member) are delighted to announce this new book series. Overview: Restorative justice in heritage and archaeology embraces initiatives for reconciliation of

Reigning in the bewildering variety of open source tools available to archaeology.

Synthesis often involves integrating archaeological and environmental data. SKOPE (Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments) is a free web application that provides easy access to tree-ring based annual retrodictions of precipitation

Article on ArchaeoEcology

Data Quality and Reuse for Archaeological Synthesis

Since 1975, the United States’ highest honor for early career scientists and engineers has been NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award. One of this years’ laureates is Jessica Tierney, a paleoclimatologist

Announcement of a publication of interest to CfAS Partners and Associates

Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for his groundbreaking work in establishing the science of archaeogenomics, and for for his discoveries concerning the

Archaeological research can help ensure that technological innovations have equitable and geographically broad benefits.

Clare Boerigter, an environmental storyteller, is excited to share her recent story on the CfAS-funded People, Fire and Pines Project. In this piece, Boerigter explores the false-yet-still-dominant narrative of the