
Tiny Snails Help Solve a Giant Mystery
Archaeologists may finally know the age and true identity of the “Rude Man,” also known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, one of dozens of geoglyphs etched into the British countryside.
Archaeologists may finally know the age and true identity of the “Rude Man,” also known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, one of dozens of geoglyphs etched into the British countryside.
It is beautiful when museums go beyond returning objects toward “propatriation”—collaborating to commission new objects for display.
With the help of key contemporary ethnographic texts about modern San peoples, archaeologists are reconsidering the meaning of cave paintings created by ancient San in a new—and sacred—light.
An anthropologist goes back to see Sulawesi cave paintings he reported in Indonesia decades ago—and mourns their degradation and loss.
Archaeologists' dates on ancient cave art in Indonesia push the timeline for the first animal depictions back thousands of years.
An anthropologist—and identical twin—grapples with different cultural understandings of twinship.