Anthropology

New Study Challenges 'Myth' Of Cahokia's Lost Civilization

Sarah Fenske

In the popular imagination, Cahokia seems to represent a cautionary tale. What today remains only as a series of mounds outside Collinsville, Illinois,…

Arts

UMSL professor Susan Brownell is studying hospitality at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Lara Hamdan

The Olympic Games are historic festivals that showcase a wide variety of athletic talent – but they also go beyond sports entertainment.On Thursday’s St.…

An adult female chimpanzee arrives at a termite nest with two fishing probes. She transfers one fishing tool to her offspring, who uses it to fish for termites, while keeping the other tool for her own use.

Health, Science & Environment

Scientists capture first videos of mother chimps teaching offspring to use tools

Eli Chen

In 1960, Jane Goodall saw two chimps remove the leaves off of small twigs and used them as tools to fish for termites in the ground, which they ate.It was…

Arts

Uncovering prehistory on the SIUE campus

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 7, 2011 - SIUE students learn by doing as they uncover effigy heads and flint stones on…

Health, Science & Environment

On Science: Meet our Hobbit cousin

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 10, 2009 - Science is by its nature a feisty enterprise, with researchers evaluating each…

Rita Cooper, 67, examines pieces of clay and stone retained by the half-inch screen she used to filter dirt. 2008 photo 300 pals

Health, Science & Environment

Volunteers become amateur archaeologists at Cahokia Mounds

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: June 6, 2008 - While Indiana Jones strikes gold at the box office, amateur archaeologists at Cahokia…