Do Clothes Make a Messiah?
Jesus' dress was simple—and probably scruffy. There's a reason that still matters.
Do Clothes Make a Messiah?
Archaeology
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How Chinese Immigrants Built—and Lost—a Shellfish Industry
They founded California’s first commercial abalone fisheries, but after a few short decades, they were forced out by institutional racism. Let’s not repeat the same mistakes with current and future immigrants.
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Secrets of a Brothel Privy
The outhouse of a 19th-century Boston brothel might not be the first place you’d think to look for revealing clues about the past—but maybe it should be.
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Why This Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange (and So Important)
An ancient interment site in Russia challenges us to rethink how Paleolithic humans in Europe treated their dead and organized their societies.
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Transcontinental Travel—2,000 Years Ago
People who were part of the Hopewell culture ventured far and wide to obtain large quantities of raw materials.
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Can the Hunt for Skeletons Help Heal a Nation’s Wounds?
Anthropologists in Cyprus are quietly working to unite the intensely divided island country—by finding and identifying human remains.