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Announcement

After ten years of exploring humanity in all its diversity, SAPIENS has concluded its publishing chapter.

While the magazine has closed, its living archive endures—open to all and preserving the many ideas, voices, and discoveries that deepen our understanding of what it means to be human.

Must Conservation and Indigenous Rights Clash?

As over 50 countries sign on to the “Thirty by Thirty” plan that would set land aside from human use, some scholars worry about its effects on marginalized communities.

Fugitive Archaeological Spaces

This webinar explores the struggles and successes of Black and Indigenous archaeologists to build new organizations that sustain will capacity building, community engagement, and decolonizing research methodologies.

Unsettling the Past: Radically Reimagining Archaeological Knowledge

This webinar explores how Black and Indigenous knowledge systems can reshape how archaeology is practiced.

How Sweat Lodge Ceremonies Heal War’s Wounds

After trying conventional treatments for PTSD, an anthropologist who is also a veteran stepped into the first of many Native American ceremonies for vets and emerged with much more than he initially expected.

dear gretas

An anthropologist offers a letter-poem for the pandemic era to environmental activist Greta Thunberg—and to the rest of us—while re-envisioning our species as Humo ludens collaborans (humorous playful collaborators).

What Rez Dogs Mean to the Lakota

Dogs on Native American reservations can be dangerous, but they have a long history and traditional role in many Indigenous communities. Remembering that is key to avoiding future violence.

Women at the Hearth and on the Hunt

New archaeological findings about hunting challenge entrenched beliefs about gender roles in ancient hunter-gatherer societies.

“For the Welfare of the Whole People”: Heritage Stewardship in Indigenous and Black Communities

This webinar panel explores how Indigenous and Black activists, scholars, and community organizers serve as leaders in the preservation of their own heritage.

The Travesties of India’s Tribal Boarding Schools

Two researchers argue that India’s large-scale tribal boarding schools revive features of 19th- and 20th-century boarding schools in North America and elsewhere that sought to strip Indigenous peoples of their families, languages, and cultural identities.

A Journey of Interspecies Surprises

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest known trackway of ancient human fossil footprints, offering evidence of interactions between an adult and a child, and the presence of megafauna.