Ancestral memorials from Kenya called vigango have been stolen and sold as "art" around the world. An anthropologist working to return them wonders what the spirits experience when they are displaced.
It is beautiful when museums go beyond returning objects toward “propatriation”—collaborating to commission new objects for display.
For years, archaeologists working in Mesa Verde National Park have been looking for evidence of where Ancestral Puebloans harvested the thousands of trees they used to build their elaborate cliff dwellings.
An anthropologist—and identical twin—grapples with different cultural understandings of twinship.
How did cannabis—a plant humans have been using for more than 10,000 years—become so vilified in the U.S.?
Archaeologists in New Mexico are pioneering surprising research methods—involving tree rings, pottery, and blasts of light—to explain why wildfire suppression doesn’t work.
