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Today we're exploring how pottery can teach us about ancient foodways! sapiens.org/archaeology/po…

“Although the prison system in the U.S. may seem relatively humane by comparison, our country has the highest incarceration rate in the world.” Read more: sapiens.org/culture/prison…

“Today, archaeology is a truly multidisciplinary science that is far more advanced than the archaeology of the 1920s. We now use sophisticated excavation-control techniques...” sapiens.org/archaeology/fo…

We're pleased to see Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 featured in this article by Nathan J Robinson in Current Affairs. "What we need is more public scientists to explain the work of science to lay audiences," Robinson writes. We agree! Our aim is to make anthropology accessible.

🎙️ This week on the SAPIENS podcast: A lawyer and anthropologist examines the history of the longest road in South Africa and why a proposed extension may repeat past violence. 🎧 Listen now: sapiens.org/culture/south-…

Today, we’re going to #DigDeeper into one of the most pressing questions in biological anthropology: where, geographically speaking, did we come from? sapiens.org/archaeology/hu…

“Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisition—so long as that recent history pervades the lesson.” Read more: sapiens.org/archaeology/lo…

From the archive. “… archaeology, and its umbrella discipline of anthropology, are, in fact, well-suited to activism—and not just because the logistical skills developed through fieldwork come in handy when organizing protests.” sapiens.org/archaeology/ar…

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From the archive. “For much of the 20th century, the Ainu narrative created by outsiders revolved around their demise. But something else caught the attention of Japanese colonists and others traveling to Mosir: the Ainu’s relationship with bears.” sapiens.org/archaeology/ai…

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From the archive. On Fiji’s islands, shifting sea levels have left a tangled legacy of conflict and survival. sapiens.org/archaeology/cl…

🎙️ This week on the SAPIENS podcast: A lawyer and anthropologist examines the history of the longest road in South Africa and why a proposed extension may repeat past violence. 🎧 Listen now: sapiens.org/culture/south-…

From the archive. From Palmyra in Syria to Timbuktu in Mali, a wave of destruction has erased monuments to humanity’s past. Does their loss really matter? sapiens.org/archaeology/pr…

“When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus” by Petra M. Creamer Read the full article: sapiens.org/archaeology/lo… 📸 During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, looters ransacked the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad. Patrick Robert/Corbis/Getty Images

From the archive. “There were many reasons why Jesus was portrayed in what has become the worldwide standard, and none of them were to do with preserving historical accuracy.” sapiens.org/archaeology/je…

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From the archive. How are environmental factors impacting one of the world’s oldest examples of cave art? sapiens.org/archaeology/su…

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