WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
Prehistoric tracks detail a moment when mammoths, sloths and humans crossed paths. The footprints found at White Sands National Park are more than 10,000 years old. (Courtesy of the National Park Service) – By Livia Gershon SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 Oct 14 – A small …
Delegates from 34 Native tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, 1880. National Archives – By Dwanna L. McKay, Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College 2020 Jul 16 – Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation …
COVID-19 has spiked in ultra-Orthodox Jewish parts of New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images – By Joyce Dalsheim, Associate Professor of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte 2020 Oct 07 – A spike in coronavirus cases in several Orthodox Jewish areas …
Researchers say prehistoric mastodon bones bear human-made markings The surface of mastodon bone showing half impact notch on a segment of femur. (Tom Deméré, San Diego Natural History Museum) – By Brigit Katz SmithsonianMag.Com 2017 Apr 26 – In 1992, construction workers were …
For centuries, indigenous history has been largely told through a European lens. John White, circa 1585-1593, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA – By Sturt Manning, Director of the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory and Professor of Classical Archaeology, Cornell University …
A 19th-century engraving depicts the Angel of Death descending on Rome during the Antonine plague. J.G. Levasseur/Wellcome Collection, CC BY – By Andrew Latham, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College 2020 Oct 01 – Before March of this year, few probably thought disease …
Mike Stewart / AP – By Dennis McNevin, Professor of Forensic Genetics, University of Technology Sydney 2020 Sep 27 – Far-right White supremacist ideology is on the rise in Europe, North America and Australia. It appeals to a racist notion whereby many White …
If confirmed, the footfalls would represent the oldest evidence of Homo sapiens’ presence on the Arabian Peninsula – Researchers identified seven prehistoric human footprints at Alathar, a dried-up lake bed in Saudi Arabia. (Palaeodeserts Project) – By Alex Fox, SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 Sep 21 …
The accents that creep into the way we speak can reveal a lot about where we are from, but there are also subtle clues visible in our faces and the way we move. (Credit: Alamy) – By Leo Benedictus 2020 Sep 13 – …
Pulverized ancient bone can provide DNA to scientists for analysis. Xin Xu Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CC BY-ND – By Melinda A. Yang, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond 2020 Sep 15 – The very first human beings originally emerged …
