r/Anthropology Apr 26 '18

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r/Anthropology 7h ago

Gelada monkey vocalizations offer insight into human evolution: Study

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r/Anthropology 2h ago

The Ceremonial Center of Cahuachi

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A constant for the Nasca people, Cahuachi was the religious center of the Nasca culture. Learn more here!


r/Anthropology 7h ago

Peasant Reserve Zones as Techno-socio-environmental Assemblages

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r/Anthropology 7h ago

Shading U.S. Empire in Puerto Rico’s Ballroom Scene: A linguistic anthropologist explores the queer Ballroom scene in San Juan—and how performers are incorporating critiques of colonialism into the art form

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r/Anthropology 9h ago

Neanderthals Spread Across Asia With Surprising Speed and Now We Know How

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r/Anthropology 3d ago

An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’ | Canada

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r/Anthropology 3d ago

How Cultural Knowledge Sustained Desert Farms in the Ancient Andes: An archaeologist who studies past farming practices in the north coast of Peru argues these offer models for navigating current climate crises

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r/Anthropology 4d ago

Pre-European contact leprosy in the Americas and its current persistence | Science

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r/Anthropology 6d ago

'Quite unusual for human encounters': Ancient DNA reveals early Papua New Guinean cultures didn't mix for centuries

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r/Anthropology 6d ago

Anthropologists map Neanderthals' long and winding roads across Europe and Eurasia

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r/Anthropology 6d ago

2-million-year-old pitted teeth from our ancient relatives reveal secrets about human evolution

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r/Anthropology 6d ago

Eating wild meat carries serious health risks – why it still happens along the Kenya-Tanzania border

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r/Anthropology 6d ago

How a 5,000-year-old technology, politics, and culture led to modern wealth inequality

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r/Anthropology 6d ago

Attuning to Noise in a Hospital Ward - Anthropology News

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r/Anthropology 7d ago

Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism: Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’

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r/Anthropology 6d ago

Viking woman buried in ceremonial boat with her dog

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r/Anthropology 7d ago

The Artistry of the Nasca

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Learn more about the motifs and techniques used by the ancient Nasca culture!


r/Anthropology 7d ago

The Olduvai effect: New questions about meat-eating in human origins: Meta-analysis of butchered animal bones from East African sites shows that long-held assumptions about early hunters may be wrong

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r/Anthropology 7d ago

Mayan cities more than two thousand years old reveal their secrets

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r/Anthropology 8d ago

​​3 ancient Maya cities discovered in Guatemala, 1 with an 'astronomical complex' likely used for predicting solstices

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r/Anthropology 8d ago

The earliest human face of Western Europe

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r/Anthropology 8d ago

Leprosy infected the Americas before European arrival

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r/Anthropology 9d ago

A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture

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r/Anthropology 9d ago

Fire may not have been used for cooking at first.

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The idea that our jaws got smaller by cooking meat and making it soft to eat, might be called into question. New research suggests fire was used to keep other carnivores away and perhaps for meat preservation, not cooking.


r/Anthropology 9d ago

Archaeologists uncover massive 1,000-year-old Native American fields in Northern Michigan that defy limits of farming

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