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H2 New stories
H2 Spotlight
H2 ANIMAL ASSOCIATIONS
H2 Sapiens activity
H2 EXPLORE ANTHROPOLOGY
H2 Podcast
H2 Stay connected
H2 All stories
H3 Reclaiming Collective Life in a Fractured U.S.
H3 Ancient Tools in East Asia Reveal Middle Paleolithic Innovation
H3 When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus
H3 Why Are People Worshipping the Virgin Mary as a Goddess?
H3 How Virtual Reality Is Restoring Liberia’s Culture
H3 In Deforestation’s Wake, Wild Animals Turn Troublesome
H3 What Rez Dogs Mean to the Lakota
H3 Scientists Uplift Indigenous Human-Horse Histories
H3 What Is Anthropology?
H3 What Is Linguistic Anthropology?
H3 What Is Cultural Anthropology?
H3 What Do Archaeologists Do?
H3 Follow us on
H3 Get our Friday newsletter with new stories and more
H3 In Japan, Rethinking What It Means to Care for the Dead
H3 Huh? The Valuable Role of Interjections
H3 When Calls for Vengeance Go Online
H3 A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive
H3 The Hopes and Hazards for AI in Reconstructing Ancient Worlds
H3 “Stop This Invader!”—The War on Spotted Lanternflies 
H3 Erasure I and Erasure VI
H3 How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia
H3 Tallahassee Ghazal
H3 Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living
H3 Debitage
H3 Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures
H3 In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal
H3 Broken Sonnets for the Anthropocene
H3 David Graeber’s Lasting Influence on Anthropology and Activism
H3 Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya
H3 Pequi Winds
H3 Launching Starship in South Texas
H3 A Spacecraft’s Dance From French Guiana to Jupiter
H3 The First Space Launch for Mauritius
H3 How Cosmic Explorations Are Reshaping Life on Earth
H3 Emic/Etic
H3 Envisioning a More Empathetic Treatment of Great Ape Remains
H3 Were Twins the Norm in Our Primate Past?
H3 Passing Notes
H3 How a Megadam Disrupts the Flow of Water—and Money
H3 Cómo una megarrepresa interrumpe el flujo de agua —y dinero—
H3 The Vanishing Traces of Our Earliest Ancestors in Indonesia
H3 Heaven on Earth and Jesus Is Palestinian
H3 The Battle to Protect Archaeological Sites in the West Bank
H3 The Strange Power of Laughter
H3 An Order for My Backpack and Three Stages of Nowhere
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/culture/something-between-us-...essay / Excerpt Reclaiming Collective Life in a Fractured U.S. Anand Pandian After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out a...
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/archaeology/ancient-tools-chi...essay / Field Notes Ancient Tools in East Asia Reveal Middle Paleolithic Innovation Ben Marwick An archaeologist explains his team’s insights into how Quina ...
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/archaeology/looted-antiquitie...op-ed / Viewpoint When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus Petra M. Creamer An archaeologist considers whether students should learn from antiquities looted from...
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/culture/virgin-mary-goddess-w...essay / Icons Why Are People Worshipping the Virgin Mary as a Goddess? Emma Cieslik Amid a goddess worship revival, some feminists are revering the mother of...
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/culture/virtual-reality-liber...essay / Material Culture How Virtual Reality Is Restoring Liberia’s Culture Craig Stevens and Chrislyn Laurie Laurore Traveling Treasures is a new project le...
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/culture/west-papua-deforestat...essay / In Flux In Deforestation’s Wake, Wild Animals Turn Troublesome Sophie Chao The destruction wrought by the expansion of large-scale oil palm plantatio...
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/culture/rez-dogs/op-ed / Cultural Relativity What Rez Dogs Mean to the Lakota Richard Meyers and Ernest Weston Jr. Dogs on Native American reservations can be dangerous, but ...
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/biology/indigenous-human-hors...essay / Lost in Translation Scientists Uplift Indigenous Human-Horse Histories William Taylor and Yvette Running Horse Collin An archaeologist and a Lakota g...
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/language/what-is-anthropology/essay / Ask SAPIENS What Is Anthropology? Danilyn Rutherford The broad field of anthropology is the science of humanity that studies “everything human,” focu...
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/language/what-is-linguistic-a...essay / Ask SAPIENS What Is Linguistic Anthropology? Sonia N. Das Linguistic anthropologists study language in context, revealing how people’s ways of commun...
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/culture/what-is-cultural-anth...essay / Ask SAPIENS What Is Cultural Anthropology? Devin Proctor Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the dizzyingly diverse ways people live today, i...
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/archaeology/what-do-archaeolo...essay / Ask SAPIENS What Do Archaeologists Do? Peter Nelson and Sara Gonzalez Archaeologists use a wide variety of methods to explore a fascinating range of ...
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