For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history
The similarities and differences between your genome and that of everyone else who ever lived is essentially human history written in our genes. The genetic genealogy is a way to read that history and understand where we came from.
A Black cowboy named George McJunkin, who died 100 years ago, found a site that would transform scientific views about the deep history of Native Americans in North America.
An interview with anthropologist Irma McClaurin dives into the process and meaning behind creating an archival home for Black feminist work.
Watch palaeo-artists as they recontruct and interpret the layers of a Neanderthal skull to arrive at the face of ‘Krijn’, a young man with a conspicuous lump over his right eyebrow.
Molecular anthropologist Christina Warinner, graduate student James Fellows Yates, and a large international team looked at the oral bacteria stuck to the teeth of Neanderthals and preagriculture modern humans that lived more than 10,000 years ago.
Boas was an outlier in a field that tolerated if not justified white racial superiority over the world’s “lesser” breeds, He and his intellectual successors— largely women-did what scholars and journalists need to do: listen, ask questions, observe.
Not all Neanderthals were ‘cavemen’: half were women. What can archaeologists tell us about how they lived?
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Graeber helped organize the initial Occupy Wall Street protest and was credited with helping to develop the slogan, "We are the 99%."
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