WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
A curator at the British Museum details the spooky find in a new book. The tablet depicts a male ghost being led back to the afterlife, curator Irving Finkel says. Photo: British Museum / Line drawing: James Fraser and Chris Cobb for The …
By Edward Helmore Last modified on 2021 Oct 10 – Zachary Horwitz ran a five-year scam that defrauded wealthy investors of at least $227m by claiming to be in licensing deals with Netflix and HBO. It’s a tale about a Hollywood grifter that …
Indigenous Peoples Day is celebrated in many states across the U.S. grandriver/E+ via Getty Images – By Susan C. Faircloth, Professor & Director of the School of Education, Colorado State University Updated 2021 Oct 07 – Columbus Day celebrations in the United States …
The author examining pictographs in 60th Unnamed Cave, Tennessee. Alan Cressler By Jan Simek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee 2021 Sep 29 – On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south …
Gibraltar cave chamber discovery could shed light on Neanderthals’ culture. By Sam Jones in Madrid, @swajones 2021 Sep 28 – Researchers excavating a cave network on the Rock of Gibraltar have discovered a new chamber, sealed off from the world for at least …
Adolescents always liked hanging out together, as new evidence of human activity from more than 20,000 years ago reveals. – By Robin McKieLast modified on 2021 Sep 26 The White Sands of New Mexico have been a popular tourist attraction for a remarkably …
Artist’s evidence-based depiction of the blast, which had the power of 1,000 Hiroshimas. Allen West and Jennifer Rice, CC BY-ND – By Christopher R. Moore’ Archaeologist and Special Projects Director at the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program and South Carolina Institute for Archaeology …
Cassandra, Evelyn de Morgan, 1898 – By Lawrence Wittner Dr. Lawrence Wittner is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press). 2021 Sep 19 News at Home – In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess …
A pedestrian walks by a help wanted sign posted in the window of hardware store on 2021 Sep 16 in San Francisco, California. Unemployment claims inched up to 332,000 from a pandemic low of 312,000 a week before. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) …
Tools and bones in Moroccan cave could be some of earliest evidence of the hallmark human behavior. The Contrebandiers Cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, where the bone tools and bones were found. Photograph: Contrebandiers – By Nicola Davis Science correspondent @NicolaKSDavis …
