
Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
The SAPIENS editors review the year’s events with anthropology in mind.
The SAPIENS editors review the year’s events with anthropology in mind.
A new study suggests at least two close relatives of Homo sapiens may have died out as their environments changed.
Scientists have identified the largest ever assemblage of mammoth bones.
A recent panel discussion encouraged scholars from across the U.S. to consider the experiences and contributions of Black people in this discipline.
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece going back some 3,000 years—and that this failing could speak to a more consequential blind spot involving gender.
Controversial new archaeological research casts doubt on a classic theory of this famous island's societal collapse.