Adventures in Ancient Plants
June 18, 2024
Patricia Gensel has spent her career studying 400-million-year-old plants at Carolina and across the globe.
Archaeology
Getting Their Hands Dirty
June 22, 2022
This summer, undergraduates are experiencing history firsthand as part of the archaeology program’s field school
The Bone Decoder
May 18, 2022
Clark Larsen uncovers the stories of bones, recreating the lives of people who lived thousands of years ago.
Sifting Through Schoolyard Memories
October 14, 2021
This summer, UNC-Chapel Hill PhD student Colleen Betti and 80 volunteers rushed to uncover a historic schoolyard that was about to be paved over and transformed into a parking lot. Their mission: to illuminate the overlooked, everyday lives of African American school children from the 19th century.
Chloe Scattergood
April 22, 2020
Chloe Scattergood is a senior majoring in archaeology and minoring in art history and geological sciences within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. She has spent the past two summers uncovering artifacts in Huqoq, Israel, and plans to pursue a master's degree focused on colonial-era ceramics from the American East Coast.
Animals that Fueled the World
April 15, 2020
When an archaeologist uncovers an artifact, while likely enthralled by the piece, they are more interested in what it can teach them about human behavior. Zooarchaeologists have a similar goal. UNC researchers Benjamin Arbuckle and Heather Lapham use ancient animal remains, texts, and iconography to understand how relationships with animals changed peoples’ lives and the world.
Utilizing Geophysics to Uncover History
May 17, 2017
Central North Carolina is home to a vast array of historic landscapes that weave in and out of our day-to-day paths. On Saturday, April 30, Mike Shore’s Geological Archaeology class spent a day investigating the historic Ayr Mount site in Hillsborough, where several structures that once stood above ground now lie beneath the surface.