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Archaeology
January 11th, 2011
Discover the stone that is more than a stone in The Field Museum’s Elizabeth Hubert Malott Hall of Jades.
November 11th, 2010
The Field Museum houses one of the nation’s largest mummy collections. Discover what we can learn about ancient life by examining beliefs about death in Inside Ancient Egypt.
April 10th, 2013
Properly piecing together a rare early human skull is a difficult task, but Robert Martin and JP Brown use modern technology to give us a new look at Magdalenian Woman!
February 28th, 2013
The Neolithic settlement of Szeghalom-Kovácshalom has been the subject of archaeological investigation since 2010. Using data gathered during geophysical analysis and excavation, the research team created a virtual reconstruction of how the site may have looked at the height of its occupation.
January 11th, 2013
The team of the America for Bulgaria Foundation (ABF) Archaeological Program at the Anthropology Department of The Field Museum participated in the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association (AIA-APA) in Seattle from January 2-6. The team helps to administer a program at the museum called Archaeological and Anthropological Grant Opportunities in Bulgaria (AAGOB), and it works in partnership with staff at the American Research Center in Sofia. Together, both teams comprise the ABF Joint Archaeological Program.
August 30th, 2012
Bill Parkinson studies 6500-year-old societies in eastern Europe. How did those societies form? How have they changed into the world we see today? And how can anthropologists find out after all this time, and with all the dirt, mud, and rocks in the way?
March 12th, 2012
The Postdoctoral Fellow of the America for Bulgaria Foundation, Tsenka Tsanova, begins working with the Paleolithic stone collection in the Anthropology Department at The Field Museum.
January 26th, 2012
Summer 2013: Teens like YOU make things happen at The Field Museum! APPLICATIONS DUE MONDAY, MAY 20TH!
