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How Power Pervades Portrayals of Human Evolution
Standpoints
Unearthing Culinary Pasts—With Help From Llama Poop
Unearthed
What Bigfoot Teaches Us About Public Mistrust of Science
Phenomenon
Expanding worlds by exploring everything human.
Feeling What We Are/
A’yel jtaleltik
Counterpoint
Excavating a 19th-Century Detroit Saloon
Unearthed
Why Nahua Pilgrims Carry Thousands of Papers Up Sacred Peaks
Participant Observation
Giving Winter a Funeral in Transylvania
Culture Lab
A Love Letter to the Munay-Ki
Reflections
Why I Ask My Students to Swear in Class
Expressions
Ancient DNA Supports Swahili Oral Traditions
Origins
The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse
Participant Observation
The Rebellion Recorded on the Rosetta Stone
Decoded
When I See Spring in Your Eyes/
yeli bU’ vuċh canen Ạċhen mnz nō bhar
Human Rights
The Psychedelics Industry Is Booming—but Who’s Being Left Out?
In Flux
Twitter’s Blue Tick Is a Fake Signal
Phenomenon
Post-
Reflections
Neighborliness Matters to Your Health
Maladies
Finding Ceremony for Ancestors Held in the Penn Museum and Other Colonial Institutions
Viewpoint
What It Means to be Human in an Asylum
Creative Nonfiction
Dating Apps Can Gauge Attraction but Not Chemistry
Decoded
Extraordinary Lessons From a Community-Led Excavation
Material Culture
“T”
Phenomenon
Slow Death by Volcano
Maladies
On Flores Island, Do “Ape-Men” Still Exist?
Uncanny Valley
Apparition in Sugarland
Phenomenon
My Search for the Origins of Clothing
Origins
Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right’s Dangerous Transphobia
Field Notes
A Birth and a Death—a Haunting of Igbo Landing
Phenomenon
The Astounding Origins of Chaco Canyon Timber
Dwelling
The Human Roots of Japan’s Cherry Blossoms
Entanglements
In the Event of Flooding
Identities
What a Cow’s Horn Reveals About Khoisan Medicine
Unearthed
Why These Hong Kong Urbanites Are Farming
Dwelling
How Do We Heal?
Wayfinding
Can Digitizing Gravestones Save History?
Field Notes
Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete?
Standpoints
a love letter to my
qáqnaʔ
Kinship
What Molars and Math Reveal About the Human Brain
Lab Bench
Five Highlights From the 2023 RAI Film Festival
Expressions
Looking for the Lepchas
Reflections
Advocating for Archaeology’s New Purpose
Standpoints
(RE)THINK HUMAN
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