Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
The SAPIENS editors review the year’s events with anthropology in mind.
News
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Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions
A new study suggests at least two close relatives of Homo sapiens may have died out as their environments changed.
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A Mammoth Find Near Mexico City
Scientists have identified the largest ever assemblage of mammoth bones.
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Archaeologists Respond to the Black Lives Matter Movement
A recent panel discussion encouraged scholars from across the U.S. to consider the experiences and contributions of Black people in this discipline.
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Were Women the True Artisans Behind Ancient Greek Ceramics?
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.
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Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic “Collapse”
Controversial new archaeological research casts doubt on a classic theory of this famous island's societal collapse.