We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. Many fisheries are collapsing, and those in ...

The world’s oceans hold their secrets close, including clues about how people lived tens of thousands of years ago. For a large portion of humanity’s existence, sea levels were significantly lower (up ...

The project: a tribal perspective / Judy Wright -- The project: an archaeological perspective / Julie K. Stein -- Ethnographic background / LLyn De Danaan -- Field and laboratory methods and ...

POCKOY ISLAND — Take a football field, reshape it from a rectangle into a circle, and you’ve got something about the same size as an ancient coastal shell midden. Two of these middens, about 4,300 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. From left, University of Southern Maine intern Grayson Jones of Brunswick, ...

NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA—A 2,000-year-old natural marine pearl was discovered at the Brremangurey Rockshelter during excavations conducted by researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW), the ...

As global oyster populations decline and fisheries collapse, archaeologists may be able to inform effective management with perspectives of human-oyster connections stretching back millennia. As ...