Topic: Tom Dillehay

Identifying cancer

The article reports on the development of an automatic method based on vibrational microspectroscopy that identifies the presence of metastatic cancer cells without the need for staining and without human input by Northeastern University professor Max Diem and his team. SCOPE'S ...

Coming to America

Ever since the news began spreading, that site, called Monte Verde, has received a lot of attention from archeologists seeking traces of a pre-Clovis human presence in the Americas. And then Tom Dillehay of the University of Kentucky, the final speaker, began ...
THE first Americans used seaweed as a medicine and a food. The range of seaweed and land plant remains found at Monte Verde in southern Chile, widely accepted as the oldest settlement in the Americas, suggests the settlers knew enough about both ...

Latest: First Americans thrived on seaweed

Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, argues that the seaweeds were used both as food and medicine. The choice of seaweeds, and local land plants also identified at the site, show that the residents had good knowledge of both coastal ...

First Americans thrived on seaweed

Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, argues that the seaweeds were used both as food and medicine. The choice of seaweeds, and local land plants also identified at the site, show that the residents had good knowledge of both coastal ...
Archaeologists have long thought that people in the Old World were planting, watering, weeding, and harvesting for a good 5,000 years before anyone in the New World did such things. In a paper the journal Science published last June, Tom Dillehay ...