New fossils reveal a previously unknown Australopithecus species that coexisted with early human ancestors 2.6 million years ago in Ethiopia.| The Debrief
This is a week when I’ve been thinking about old friends who are, as it happens, ex-friends. Maybe it’s a special category of friendship. I’ve devoted a recent column to David, who was a valued philosophical colleague. Together we shared … Continue reading → The post Where Are the Ex-Friends Now? appeared first on Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column.| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
I briefly review six books that improved my anthropological grounding and appreciation of rewilding over the summer of 2025 Continue reading →| Do the Math
Por Vishal Wilde. Artículo original: Rethinking Systems for Structuring Time, 24 de Mayo, 2025. Traducido por Felix Hallowkollekt. Repensando los sistemas para estructurar y usar el tiempo El tiempo es fundamental para la existencia y la experiencia humana. Los marcos sociales para estructurar y entender el tiempo y la experiencia temporal han, sin embargo, permanecido...| Center for a Stateless Society
Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük, one of the most important sites in central Türkiye, have unearthed new evidence of ritual activity that sheds light on early town life and spiritual practices. The site, located on the edge of the Konya Plain near the modern city of Konya, was occupied from 7100 to 5950 BCE and is commonly […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists have made a surprising discovery in Maya cultural traditions: decorative jade dental inlays, a practice previously thought to be exclusive to adults, have now been found in the teeth of children. The study, recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, was based on three isolated teeth from the Pre-Hispanic skeletal collection of […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Some years ago, when a team from Eurac Research explored the warehouses of the National Archaeological Museum of La Paz, Bolivia, they discovered more than 50 mummies and over 500 pre-Columbian skulls. Even though they were stored with utmost care, these items were not only exposed to fungi and bacteria but also posed a problem […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the first known infant burial ever found in a Roman military camp in Iberia, which provides valuable insight into the blending of life, law, and ritual activity within the Roman military. The study, published in Childhood in the Past and led by Marta Fernández-Viejo of León University and Burgos […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists excavating in northern Vietnam have uncovered rare evidence of violent conflict in prehistoric Southeast Asia. The skeleton of a male, dating to about 12,000 years ago, reveals that he had been struck by a projectile tipped with a stone point. Although he survived the initial attack, the wound eventually became fatally infected, researchers reported […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Excavations at the prominent mound of Uşaklı Höyük on the central Anatolian plateau have produced finds that may rewrite the known history of Hittite ritual life. In the eighteenth season of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Central Anatolia, led by University of Pisa professor Anacleto D’Agostino in partnership with Turkish and British scholars, researchers discovered […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
The first people to set foot in the Americas crossed with them not only stone technology and survival skills across the icy expanse of the Bering Strait. Along with these, a new study published in Science indicates that they also carried a genetic legacy inherited from two extinct relatives—Neanderthals and Denisovans—that could have helped them […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A mystery in human evolution may be close to being solved, thanks to a new study by the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in France. A nearly complete cranium discovered in 1960 inside the Petralona Cave in northern Greece has defied all efforts at identification and precise dating for several decades. The new study, published in […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct relatives, and may have even contributed to the fact that Homo sapiens thrived while the others became extinct. These are the findings of a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists excavating in southwestern Kenya have uncovered strong evidence that early hominins were transporting stones over long distances about 2.6 million years ago—hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously believed. The evidence, recently published in Science Advances, indicates that Oldowan tradition toolmakers not only produced convenient tools but also deliberately transported raw materials from […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Ten years after its discovery, the Huei Tzompantli of Tenochtitlan reveals new insights into Mexica society, ritual, and origins.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
on reading The Dawn of Everything| Winnie Lim
Cornell’s Olin Library is turning the page with a grand reopening August 27—featuring raffle prizes, open houses, and a new chapter written into its six-decade legacy. [...]| 14850.com
The other day I scanned the internet for news of ex-friends who’d stayed significant in my memory. “We quarreled,” as French philosopher Sartre said about one former friend, the philosopher Merleau-Ponty, “a quarrel does not matter. It’s just one more … Continue reading → The post Ave Atque Vale (Hail and Farewell) appeared first on Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column.| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
Doran Spielman’s When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David Is the Bible a history book? Did the stories in it (or some of the more literal-sounding ones) really happen? Or are we modern people obliged … Continue reading → The post When the Stones Speak appeared first on Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column.| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city had changed. There was something different in the atmosphere, which was leading to far-reaching, unexpected effects. For instance, during my morning commutes as I turned on the radio to one of Delhi’s most popular radio stations the radio jockey blared every hour or so, ‘Hawa-laat’! The Hindi word Hawalaat translates as a prison. If the word...| Platypus
This somewhat unexpected claim appears in Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, Chap. 49; I'd have thought neither the man nor the book needed any introduction. The book is to 20th C. anthropology roughly as Max Weber's Protestant Ethic is to 20th C. sociology, and to 21th C. anthropology roughly as Newton's Opticks is to quantum electrodynamics: both indispensable and completely outdated. As for the man, he pioneered the study of myth and ritual, contributed 9 entries in the Encyclopae...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Researchers in northeastern Ethiopia have made a thrilling discovery of fossilized teeth that may belong to a new branch of humanity, shedding more light on a critical period in human evolution. The remains are between 2.8 and 2.6 million years old and were found at the Ledi-Geraru archaeological site in the Afar Region—a region already […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists have unearthed surprising genetic evidence that two individuals buried at opposite ends of the south coast of England in the 7th century CE had recent West African ancestry. The findings, published in Antiquity, contradict centuries of traditional beliefs about the extent of migration and cultural connections in the Early Middle Ages. The discovery comes […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists working at the site of Heraclea Sintica, a Roman city in what is now southwestern Bulgaria, have uncovered the remains of six men who perished in a catastrophic earthquake in the late 4th century CE. The discovery, in the southwestern corner of the city’s Roman forum, offers a glimpse into the human toll of […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A skull unearthed more than 50 years ago from a prehistoric burial site on the northwestern Italian coast has been confirmed as the earliest known example of artificial cranial modification (ACM) in Europe. The find, dated to between 12,190 and 12,620 years ago, suggests that purposeful head shaping was practiced during the Late Upper Paleolithic, […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A team of researchers has uncovered the first direct genetic evidence identifying two infectious diseases that caused the terrible losses of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army in its retreat from Russia in 1812. The findings, released as a preprint on bioRxiv, challenge a long-standing assumption that epidemic typhus was the major cause of death among the retreating […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A set of ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the timeline for human habitation of the region by hundreds of thousands of years, confirming that early human relatives made a major oceanic crossing to arrive on the island much earlier than previously thought. The discovery, made by researchers […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A new study led by IPHES-CERCA and published in Scientific Reports provides evidence of 5,700-year-old human cannibalism in El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain. The research shows that the event occurred in the context of a violent clash between Late Neolithic herder communities. The remains of at least eleven individuals—children, adolescents, and adults—were […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Nora and Margret introduce their applied anthropology podcast which explores themes of health technology and society.| the polyphony
#SudanWarSeries: Sudanese's refugee survivalism (Cairo's logic) The post Navigating Displacement: Sudanese Hustling in Cairo appeared first on African Arguments.| African Arguments
Decades of global surveys point to a single, consistent foundation of well-being: our relationships.| The MIT Press Reader
In 2025 Sage is celebrating our origin story. When she was 24 years old, Sara Miller McCune, a female entrepreneur, founded a […]| Social Science Space
In Liaisons Dangereuses, the eighteenth-century epistolary novel of cynicism by Choderlos de Laclos, the plot turns around two aristocrats who co-conspire to seduce their unsuspecting victims. Their purpose is not so much to gratify sexual desire as to enjoy the … Continue reading → The post Women Enemies and Women Friends appeared first on Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column.| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
The Story | “The crucial thing is the story.” That is what I claim in A Good Look at Evil, my book which holds that the person who...| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
In 'Something Between Us,' anthropologist Anand Pandian explores the walls that divide America| The Hub
A specialist in economic transformations in West Africa, Guyer was celebrated for her theoretical discourse as well as the 'forward motion' she inspired among scholars and her devoted students| The Hub
Associate Professor of Anthropology Miriam Belmaker has been named the 2025 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC) Outstanding Mentor. This award recognizes University of Tulsa faculty who oversee TURC projects and go above and beyond expectations, leaving a profound impact on their students’ education and careers. Belmaker, whose lab focuses on the past and present ecological […]| The University of Tulsa
Worship has three, or maybe five, dynamic directions. There is a gift and receipt dynamic to it. It looks a little bit like this: Worship goes up, it goes out, or sideways, and it goes in. What I m…| nuakh
Patriotism and the rise of cross cultural fascism The post Of Nostalgia and Strongmen appeared first on African Arguments.| African Arguments
In Christianity Today’s July/August 2025 issue on artificial intelligence.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Today’s post comes to us from Jennifer Moore, the Regents’ Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico and author of the new book Women’s Work: Building Peace in... READ MORE The post The Work of Writing Women’s Work appeared first on University of Pennsylvania Press.| University of Pennsylvania Press
New research challenges Australia's early human migration timeline, highlighting conflict between genetic and archaeological evidence.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Evidence from a 33,000-year-old sloth bone in Uruguay suggests early human hunting of megafauna in South America before the Ice Age.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Neanderthals used heat and water to extract fat from bones 125,000 years ago, revealing advanced food processing skills.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Ochre tools from Blombos Cave reveal early Homo sapiens used pigment for advanced stone toolmaking 70,000–90,000 years ago.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Ancient genomes of M. lepromatosis in Chile reveal leprosy existed in the Americas 4,000 years ago, long before European contact.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
DNA from Çatalhöyük reveals a female-centered society with matrilineal lineage and rich burial rites for women over 9,000 years ago.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A 42,000-year-old mammoth ivory boomerang from Obłazowa Cave, Poland, rewrites the origins of boomerangs and symbolic tools in human history.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Atsei Cooper, a master's student in anthropology, is one of 17 contemporary native artists featured in a new exhibition at the McClung Museum.| The Graduate School
Rosa Mistika is a Swahili classic by one of Tanzania’s most revered writers, Euphrase Kezilahabi. It was banned upon publication in 1971 and translated into English by Jay Boss Rubin... READ MORE| Yale University Press
The University of Tulsa is pleased to announce that Aaron Schoenfeldt has been selected as the 2025-26 Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow at the Helmerich Center for American Research on the grounds of Tulsa’s renowned Gilcrease Museum. Schoenfeldt holds a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago and will receive his doctorate […]| The University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa’s Graduate School recently hosted the 2025 Graduate Student Awards Banquet. Several unique honors were bestowed upon students and faculty who stood out in their research or mentorship: the Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award, presented to a student whose research has made a substantial and original contribution to their academic field; the […]| The University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa is pleased to announce a new academic program, the Judaic & Near Eastern studies minor, as well as the return of Hebrew language classes beginning in fall 2025. The minor in Judaic & Near Eastern studies allows students to delve into the rich traditions, historical narratives and cultural dynamics of Judaism […]| The University of Tulsa
“…human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.” Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986) * Sleep was a mystery to our distant ance…| Literary Hub
Ever wonder what it is like to be in the next life, that is, to be dead? (I thought it best to leave the word “dead” out of the title of this essay.) Since this is something we all must face sooner or later, I thought it might be of interest to engage in some […]| Strange Notions
For those who reject the notion of free will, our experience of making our own decisions is nothing more than a deep-seated illusion. “The reality is,” insists biologist Anthony Cashmore, “not only do we have no more free will than a fly or a bacterium, in actuality we have no more free will than a bowl of […]| Strange Notions
Last month I was very happy to be able to add a few thoughts to a discussion on Tim Jenkins’ (my PhD supervisor of almost ten years ago…) six new books on the history and anthropology of the concept of the flying saucer and the alien (“Images of Elsewhere”, published by Peter Lang) for a … Continue reading A Response to Tim Jenkins’ “Images of Elsewhere”, Six New Books on Flying Saucers – Book Launch, Cambridge 14th May 2025| Professor Beth Singler
If, like me, you’ve spent a lot of your life in progressive/liberal circles, it’s easy to believe that any kind of authoritarianism is “unnatural”, alien to normal, healthy human behaviour. Sometim…| Magistra et Mater
COVID-19 continues to plague us, Mpox is an emerging global threat, and the avian flu is decimating industrial poultry as well as endangered wildlife. What do all these epidemics have in common? They originated in wild animals and spread to domestic animals and people. This pattern of spread is a trademark of many diseases, termed […] The post Could Restoring Forests Reduce Disease Risk? A Case Study of Hantavirus in Madagascar appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
The History of Social Science has published its first issue. Sponsored by the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), the journal offers an international forum for the... READ MORE The post First issue of History of Social Science now available appeared first on University of Pennsylvania Press.| University of Pennsylvania Press
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901–November 15, 1978) intended to make a life out of painting. Instead, she became the world’s best-known cultural anthropologist, becoming the discipline’s most revered patron saint. A 1959 audio interview captured Mead’s deceptively ordinary extraordinariness: Doctor Mead is of small build, she has blue eyes, she’s plain folks – there are no wares about her. You get the impression that she’d be at home anywhere – in an igloo, a native hut, or a ...| The Reconstructionists
Two recent studies show that bonobos demonstrate female coalition power against male dominance, and suggests humans historically exhibited egalitarian behaviours, challenging notions of inevitable …| Nicola Griffith
According to The Missing Profits of Nations report, a research collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen, at least 72 percent of Fortune 500 companies maintain subsidiaries in offshore tax havens, with an estimated 40 percent of multinational profits shifted to tax havens each year.| rackham.umich.edu
Technical mastery has long been part of religious or spiritual awe, as well as a means to create or strengthen power relations... Bitcoin and all the aura surrounding its creation had this same characteristic.| The Crypto Syllabus
A Conversation with Robert Ashmore about the poetry of Li He.| Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Family forms Emmanuel Todd, The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structures and Social Systems (Blackwell, 1985, French original from 1983) was written a long time before the author became a promine…| Magistra et Mater
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and …| Recall This Book
The first in a series of ongoing blog posts from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives’ Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative, spotlighting the labor of Smithsonian media collections staff. With millions of exceptional more »| Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
Welcome to the Monday Report, where you can read about UT Press books that have appeared in the media each week. Here is the news for 3.3.25| University of Texas Press
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as long-distance ethnonationalism; here they speak wi…| Recall This Book
A Q+A with Anthropologist Philipp Demgenski| Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
We will not go gentle into that good night here at Strong Language. We will rage. Oh, we will rage, all right, uttering our shit’s, fuck’s, and damn’s until the bitter-ass end. And that’s true for …| Strong Language
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Author: Alexander Dugin Translator: Jafe Arnold Originally published in Literaturnaia gazeta [Literary Newspaper] in 2003, republished in the book The Radical Subject and its Double (Moscow: Eurasian Movement, 2009). *** The human and the world. It would seem that the posing of such a question is relevant at all times. However, everything is much more […]| Eurasianist Internet Archive
Author: Alexander Dugin Translator: Jafe Arnold Chapter 1 of Noomakhia – The Yellow Dragon: The Civilizations of the Far East (Moscow: Academic Project, 2018) *** China is recognized to be an independent and unique civilization by virtually everyone, and therefore there is no need to prove this. Rather, we are faced with attempting to reveal the structure […]| Eurasianist Internet Archive
Living with a Papua New Guinea tribe in the ’80s presented this anthropologist with a question for today.| Nautilus
Written by Yu-Han Huang and Li-Ting Chang. This article is about the 30th NATSA Conference’s closing forum, which discussed the historical development of Taiwan Studies as a field, particular…| Taiwan Insight
Father Deacon Ananias's paper delivered at the 2024 Orthodox MontaNIKA conference at Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte, MT.| Patristic Faith
A surprise discovery reveals cocaine may have been widely available and used in Europe, centuries earlier than previously thought.| The Debrief
Recent fossil discoveries on the Indonesian island of Flores have revealed that Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as "hobbits" were even tinier than previously thought.| ArchaeologyNews Online Magazine
Researchers have uncovered a significant Slavic settlement and burial ground near Wettin-Löbejün in Germany.| ArchaeologyNews Online Magazine
Archaeologists have unearthed a large Bronze Age burial mound surrounded by Iron Age cremation burials in Petershagen-Windheim, Germany.| ArchaeologyNews Online Magazine
Donald Nonini and Dorothy Holland interviewed sustainable farmers and food activists across N.C. to develop better models for local food systems.| UNC Research Stories
Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions.| University of Toronto Press
Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions.| University of Toronto Press
A few weeks ago, Rachel Schurman and I published The Complex Choreography of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Africa in the journal African Affairs. In the article, we surveyed nearly 30 years of strategic and well-funded efforts by donors to bring GMOs to Africa. These efforts, we contend, have so far yielded very little. How come? We argue that […]| Joeva Sean Rock
I'm very excited to be giving a talk at UC Berkeley next month on genetically modified crops, sustainability, and qualitative research methods.| Joeva Sean Rock
Happy to share that my article, “We Are Not Starving: Challenging Genetically Modified Seeds and Development in Ghana" received the 2019 Boahen-Wilks Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Article in Ghana Studies.| Joeva Sean Rock
On October 23, 2019, the University of San Francisco hosted five leading African food sovereignty activists for a night of discussion, food, and networking. We were fortunate to hear from Victoria Adongo (Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana), Mariam Bassey-Orovwuje (Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa), Dr. Million Belay (Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa), Mariam […]| Joeva Sean Rock
It’s December, which means I’ve hit the year anniversary of my defense (wow!) and 2019 is near. I’ve been reflecting on work done the past year – not because productivity is the goal – but because I, like many others, constantly fall into the trap of feeling underproductive and therefore overlooking actual accomplishments. So, I […]| Joeva Sean Rock
Why aren't rich and tasty food cultures more central to development efforts?| Joeva Sean Rock
A team of scientists sequenced genomes from people who lived in a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel between the 12th and 8th centuries B.C.| Smithsonian Magazine
A Writer's Conscience | I just finished reading – actually skimming – what I’m tempted to name as the worst book in the history of the...| Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column
The Rackham Program in Public Scholarship supports publicly engaged scholarship through mutually beneficial projects created between Rackham students and community partners.| Rackham Graduate School: University of Michigan
The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Year’s War, though it isn’t usually thought of that way. In the first few da…| Recall This Book
Before she became the host and star of Violent Majorities, the RTB series on Israeli and Indian ethnonationalism, Ajantha Subramanian sat down with Elizabeth and John to discuss The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India. It is much more than simply an historical and ethnographic study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology. Ajantha talked … Continue reading "121* Ajantha Subramanian on the Caste of Merit (EF,JP)"| Recall This Book
Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen turn from hosts to interlocutors in an episode that ties a bow on our Violent Majorities conversations about Indian (episode 1) and Israeli (episode 2)ethnonationalism. Along with John they discuss commonalities between Balmurli Natrajan’s charting of the “slippery slope towards a multiculturalism of caste” and Natasha Roth-Rowland‘s description of the … Continue reading "120 Violent Majorities Roundup (Ajantha, Lori, JP)"| Recall This Book
“What is mainstream shifts to the right every generation.” Natasha Roth-Rowland is a writer and researcher at Diaspora Alliance, a former editor at +972 Magazine, and an expert on the Jewish far right. She joins anthropologists Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian midway through a three-part RTB series, “Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism.” Listen to episode 1 here. The three discuss the … Continue reading "119 Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethno...| Recall This Book
RTB listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner (Professor of English and Theater at Harvard, editor of more than one Norton Anthology, and author of many prizewinning books) from that fabulous RTB episode about his “deep history” of literature and literacy, The Written World. And you know his feelings about P. G. Wodehouse from his Books in Dark … Continue reading "116 “We are all latecomers”: Martin Puchner’s Culture (JP, EF)"| Recall This Book
To mark the publication of John’s book Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea (My Reading), with Oxford University Press, John and Elizabeth take to the airways to share their love of Le Guin’s “speculative anthropology,” gender politics, and goats. And we share a delight we’ve been holding back for just this occasion, a series of clips from … Continue reading "112 Earthsea, and other realms: Ursula Le Guin as social inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])"| Recall This Book