A Window on Humanity’s Turbulent 2021
The SAPIENS editorial team looks back at the year through an anthropological lens—and closes with a roundup of some of our favorite pieces published in the magazine in 2021.
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Tiny Snails Help Solve a Giant Mystery
Archaeologists may finally know the age and true identity of the “Rude Man,” also known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, one of dozens of geoglyphs etched into the British countryside.
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When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows
A study finds that there may be health benefits when family ties are linked through mothers and women head households.
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Earliest-Known Animal Cave Art
Archaeologists' dates on ancient cave art in Indonesia push the timeline for the first animal depictions back thousands of years.
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Must Conservation and Indigenous Rights Clash?
As over 50 countries sign on to the “Thirty by Thirty” plan that would set land aside from human use, some scholars worry about its effects on marginalized communities.
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Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
The SAPIENS editors review the year’s events with anthropology in mind.