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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
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
Beside a large rock, a team digs at an archaeological site scattered with blue and green buckets and sandbags. Some team members wear red hats.
essay / Standpoints

In Human Origins Research, Communities Are the Missing Link

Jessica Thompson
A paleoanthropologist reflects on relationships between researchers and communities living around sites relevant to human evolution.
Una imagen en blanco y negro muestra a una mujer que lleva a un bebé en un arnés frontal mirando a dos personas que examinan objetos en el suelo de una cueva bajo una luz de pie.
essay / Field Notes

Decisiones difíciles en la encrucijada de la maternidad y el trabajo de campo

Jamie Hodgkins and Jessica Thompson
Dos antropólogas que han realizado trabajo de campo estando embarazadas, o recientemente convirtiéndose en madres, comparten con valentía sus experiencias personales y hacen un llamado a crear culturas laborales favorables a la familia que se alineen con la evolución humana.
A black-and-white picture shows a woman carrying a baby in a front harness looking at two people examining objects on the floor of a cave under a standing light.
essay / Field Notes

Impossible Choices at the Crossroads of Motherhood and Fieldwork

Jamie Hodgkins and Jessica Thompson
Two anthropologists who’ve conducted fieldwork while being pregnant or new moms bravely share their personal experiences and call for family-friendly work cultures that align with human evolution.
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.
A group of people stand with their backs to the camera around a bonfire at night
essay / Human Nature

How Early Humans Shaped the World With Fire

Jessica Thompson, David K. Wright, and Sarah Ivory
An archaeological project in Malawi shows how nearly 100,000 years ago, humans used fire to create wide-scale, permanent transformations of the natural environment. It's time to abandon the idea of “pristine nature.”