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Antarctica, a Natural Laboratory for Archaeological Validity of Early Stone Tool Sites

A study titled Antarctica as a ‘natural laboratory’ for the critical assessment of the archaeological validity of early stone tool sites was recently published in the online Journal&nbsp…

Screen showing the title of virtual Rock Box with 4 white buttons spaced out underneath it with light grey background . White boxes have writing Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic and fossil. Underneath is a dark grey background with Igneous(9) written in white text as if selected then under that with three rocks each in it's own square white box and a play button on each, showing it is an interactive page.

A Low-Cost, User-Friendly Technology for Making Samples and Artifacts Accessible to Online Audiences

The pandemic precipitated the need for virtual access to science through technology and hence the creation of the Virtual Rock Box. Rock samples from the Polar Rock Repository were…

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Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought

National Geographic published an article on July 22, 2020 discussing discoveries made using rock samples stored at the Byrd Center's Polar Rock Repository (PRR). These samples were collected…