This March, SAPIENS is partnering with the Royal Anthropological Institute’s RAI Film Festival to celebrate anthropological documentaries. ✽ The art…
Picturing the Deep Universe Is Deeply HumanThe James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning photos require extensive image processing—revealing as much about humanity as about the universe. In…
When Life Imitates Art in UkrainePhotographs from Russia’s war on Ukraine dissolve an archaeologist’s fondness for a Soviet-era sculpture. ✽ On February 24, 2022, the…
Piecing Together History From a Roman MosaicThe 2020 discovery of an ancient villa in Britain uncovered the most important Roman mosaic found in the last century.…
Best of SAPIENS 2022In a year of continuing global conflagrations, anthropologists investigated a wide range of pressing and curious questions about humanity’s past,…
Confronting Xenophobia Through Food—and ComicsAn anthropologist who migrated from India to the U.K. uses his research to illustrate how fellow migrants from India maintain…
What Is Anthropological Poetry?SAPIENS’ poetry editor and inaugural poet-in-residence break down what makes certain poems anthropological and explore how poetry has the potential…
Did Neanderthals Make Art?Experts continue to debate whether Neanderthals were painters and jewelry-makers. A paleoanthropologist explores the evidence for Neanderthal art and the…
What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages RevealMeet Christine Schreyer, a linguistic anthropologist who created the Kryptonian language for a Superman movie and researches the people who invent new tongues and seek to sustain ancient ones.
Crystal Worl’s Countermural Tells a Different History of AlaskaIndigenous artist Crystal Kaakeeyáa Worl’s new public mural honoring Tlingit activist Elizabeth Peratrovich places Alaska Native peoples’ resistance to colonialism at the center of Juneau’s history.
