Meet the Ancient Technologists Who Changed Everything
A series of Stone Age geniuses invented a range of technologies that shaped human evolution and laid the foundation for our world.
Opinion
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When Biblically Inspired Pseudoscience and Clickbait Cause Looting
A team of anthropologists argues that shoddy research linking biblical Sodom to an archaeological site created media hype that harms science and leads to looting.
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The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet
One anthropologist contends that far too many species have been lumped into one category: Our story is more complicated, he argues.
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What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling
Two anthropologists look back on one of the year’s most binged animated shows on Netflix—the supernatural Filipino crime thriller Trese—and what it missed about the stories of Indigenous peoples.
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Repatriation Has Transformed, Not Ended, Research
A myth persists that when museums and other institutions return ancestral remains to Indigenous communities, it is in opposition to research—that needs to change.
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How Human Are We?
An evolutionary theorist considers how traits we think of as human may have been shared by other hominins.