Anthropology Magazine
How Deaf and Hearing Friends Co-Navigate the World
Expressions
The Problems of Evolution as a “March of Progress”
Counterpoint
We All Love Roses
Reflections
Expanding worlds by exploring everything human.
Did Neanderthals Make Art?
Expressions
How a Coerced Confession Shaped a Family History
Kinship
Wisdom From the Winding Path
Excerpt
What the Anthropology of Smell Reveals About Humanity
Human Nature
Looking Into the World of Frog Gigging
Field Notes
Difficult Truths: Confronting Irish Industrial Schools
Reflections
What Ancient Stone “Swiss Army Knives” Mean
Material Culture
What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal
Mindsets
Stop Projecting Nationalism Onto Stonehenge
Dwelling
Did Margaret Mead Think a Healed Femur Was the Earliest Sign of Civilization?
Entanglements
Living With the Prospect of Assisted Dying
Excerpt
Is Donated Blood a Gift or a Commodity?
Culture Lab
Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts?
Lost in Translation
What the Discovery of Denisovan Remains in Laos Means
Borderlands
Maize and Okra
Kinship
Tree Rings Are Evidence of the Megadrought—and Our Doom
Curiosities
Crystal Worl’s Countermural Tells a Different History of Alaska
Expressions
Five Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine
Pastimes
Cooking Debris in an Australian Cave Tells a Story of Resilience
Unearthed
Do Children Need Special Foods?
Counterpoint
The Deep Human Story of Collecting Fossils
Phenomenon
What the Vai Script Reveals About the Evolution of Writing
Decoded
Here’s How to Make Olive Oil Like an Ancient Egyptian
Culture Lab
Indigenous Mapmaking, or Bringing a Dead Map to Life
Excerpt
We Should Talk More About the Abortion Pill
Viewpoint
Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Human Nature
Busting Myths About Sex and Gender
Excerpt
Haunted by a Secret War
Excerpt
Impossible Choices at the Crossroads of Motherhood and Fieldwork
Field Notes
Reinterpreting Life and Death in Ancient Nubia
Unearthed
Unmasked: Illustrating COVID-19 in Okoboji
Crisis
Nurturing Autism Acceptance in Indonesia
In Flux
The Amazing Archive of First Nations Stories Written on Stone
Unearthed
What Is SAPIENS Magazine?
Ask SAPIENS
SAPIENS Podcast Season 4 Reflections and Celebrations
Mindsets
The Yaghan Rise Again
Unearthed
What Do Anthropologists Do?
Ask SAPIENS
The Cosmic Serpent
Phenomenon
(RE)THINK HUMAN
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