Grace Ellis Summer 2024 Identifying Pre-contact Ports and Construction in the Amazon Doctoral candidate Grace Ellis is the lead author on a new archaeological study, published Spring 2024, that has identified the first known occurrence of pre-European-contact, constructed wharves at the port site, Macurany, located along the Middle Amazon River in Brazil. The open-access article, […]
Leisz Wins Fulbright and Bound for Vietnam Joshua Zaffos Stephen Leisz first arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1997 to help map land uses and land-cover in the country’s mountainous areas and to train others to monitor environmental changes. Hanoi’s first traffic lights, new skyscrapers, and steady population growth of the previous decade represented Doi Moi […]
Opportunity beckons Geography student to London School of Economics Joshua Zaffos Additional content by Becca Lee-Simpson Justin Smith was touring London during a post-high-school gap year when he stumbled upon his future. After wandering the famed West End District, Smith found himself gazing at the iconic arch-framed entrance of the Old Building of the London […]
Modern humans reached westernmost Europe 5,000 years earlier than previously known Discovery may indicate modern humans and Neanderthals lived in the area concurrently University of Louisville Additional content by Joshua Zaffos Modern humans arrived in the westernmost part of Europe 41,000-38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known. That’s according to a study […]
