In a new paper published in the journal Psychological Review, Cory Cobb, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, and colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin, proposed a cultural continuity hypothesis stating that humans are universally motivated to retain and preserve key parts of their cultures across time and space.

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), together with international partners, have developed a software called “AutArch”. It harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and big data to revisit old archaeological collections — and could thus revolutionize archaeological data analysis. The researchers published their results in the high-impact journal Journal of Archaeological Science on June 3, 2025. AutArch is available as open source software on GitHub and Zenodo.

Winners’ Work Includes Research on Asian American Immigration, Holocaust Archaeology, Enslavement of Roma People, Glass Production in Pre-Colonial Africa and Black Africans in Europe During the Renaissance

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers have helped bring clarity to the great migration of early Pacific pioneers, considered to be ancestors of many Pacific people including Māori. In a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, a group of international researchers involving several from Otago have recovered the first ancient genomes (aDNA) from Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago – unlocking genetic insights from a region as culturally rich as it is historically pivotal.