archaeology

Find out what UCLA archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg has learned from studying Easter Island’s famed statuary for four decades.

UCLA’s Lara Fabian considers the myths of Indiana Jones.

UCLA marine archaeologist Justin Dunnavant’s work unearths the stories of escaped slave townships in the Caribbean. Now, his innovative mapping methods are expanding Black cultural history.

The research examined DNA extracted from the bones of 27 individuals who lived in the Meuse Basin between 49,000 and 40,000 B.C.E.

She introduced students to the science underlying ancient materials and encouraged them to think like materials detectives.

The building appears to have been created primarily to amplify sound and music.

Jason De León was thunderstruck when he won the National Book Award — the second time in two years a UCLA professor has walked away with the honor.

She joined UCLA’s art, design and art history department in 1965 and taught for nearly five decades until retiring in 2012.

In practice and in scholarship, magic continues to intrigue and inspire students, faculty and staff throughout UCLA. Here are a few quick glimpses behind the glamour.

Research by UCLA and La Brea Tar Pits scientists upends theory that saber-toothed cats, other large mammals were hunted out of existence.

As “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” whips into theaters, a UCLA doctoral candidate describes her real-life archaeology adventures.

The new effort will train graduate students to repatriate objects that may have been obtained illegally or unethically.

UCLA archaeologists Giorgio Buccellati and his wife, Marilyn, have traveled together on a 60-year journey that led them to the hidden treasures of a lost city in Syria.

In her new book, “The Good Kings,” UCLA’s Kara Cooney draws parallels between pharaohs and present-day authoritarians.

Centering Tribal Stories will train University of California scholars on collaborations with Native American communities.

The globetrotting UCLA professor explores shipwrecks to study the relationship between ecology and enslavement in the former Danish West Indies.

Sackett, who was one of the founders of the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has died after a long illness.

Schachner describes how he “accidentally” got into the field and his goals for the program.

UCLA’s Monica Smith tracks the ways metropolitan hubs in different parts of the world emerged unrelated to one another, but in similar forms.

Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who will be on “60 Minutes” April 21, continues to seek insight from the statues and for the living descendants of their makers.

Arcadia Fund grant will help open access to rare manuscripts from St. Catherine’s Monastery.

Video: UCLA's professor of near eastern languages and cultures walks and talks about archaeology, ancient Egypt and more.

Lloyd Cotsen, former chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Neutrogena Corporation and longtime philanthropist to UCLA, died at his Beverly Hills home on May 8. He was 88.

Impoverished locals in Mai Adrasha panning for tiny flakes of gold have dismantled much of what in other parts of the country has been preserved as tourist destinations.

Matthew Robb, the new chief curator of UCLA’s Fowler Museum, believes we still have much to learn from the ancient cultures of the Americas.