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Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
An image features a group of figures drawn in reddish-brown paint on a rock face in what is today Tanzania.
op-ed / Unearthed

What Ancient DNA Reveals About Life in Africa 20,000 Years Ago

Elizabeth Sawchuk, Jessica Thompson, and Mary Prendergast
Newly sequenced African aDNA shows dynamic ancient migratory patterns and interactions around the Later Stone Age that shaped human history.
New opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration among field- and lab-based scientists have come about through the rise of biomolecular archaeology.
essay / Crossroads

Archaeology Is Having a Great Century So Far

Mary Prendergast and Elizabeth Sawchuk
Here's why satellite imagery, lidar scans, ancient DNA analyses, and more are helping scientists break open the past. 
essay / Crossroads

Ancient DNA Illuminates Pastoralism’s Rise in Africa

Mary Prendergast and Elizabeth Sawchuk
A new study pieces together clues to the multistep process behind the origins of livestock herding in sub-Saharan Africa.