WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
New findings about the 12,500-year-old Shigir Idol have major implications for the study of prehistory. Hunter-gatherers in what is now Russia likely viewed the wooden sculpture as an artwork imbued with ritual significance. (Sverdlovsk Regional Museum) – By Nora McGreevy SmithsonianMag.Com 2021 Mar …
A selection of tools found at the Mongolian site Tolbor-16. UC Davis – By Michael Irving 2019 Aug 19 – The story of human history is patchy at best, but now another patch may have been filled in. Archaeologists have found ancient tools at …
So much for rest in peace. Image source: live.staticflickr.com – By Mike Colagrossi 2019 Sep 16 – Australian scientists found that bodies kept moving for 17 months after being pronounced dead. Researchers used photography capture technology in 30-minute intervals every day to capture …
Jubilee singers at Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee, pose for promotional photograph, circa 1871. William L. Clements Library – By Samantha Hill, 2019 – 2021 Joyce Bock Fellow at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan and current graduate student …
Floraes Mallewagen (Flora’s wagon of fools): Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, c1640 (photo: Laura Blanchard), CC BY-SA – By Anne Goldgar, Professor of Early Modern History, King’s College London Updated 2018 Feb 12 – Right now, it’s Bitcoin. But in the past we’ve had dotcom …
Santo Tomás Catholic Church in Abiquiú, N.M., is the site of an annual saint’s day celebration in late November that includes cultural elements of the Genízaros, the descendants of Native American slaves. John Burnett/NPR – By John Burnett – Twitter 2016 Dec 29 …
Roseann Bacha-Garza (left), a borderlands historian, stands with Olga Webber-Vasques at the grave of the latter’s great-great-grandfather, the abolitionist John Ferdinand Webber, in the family cemetery. – By John Burnett/NPR 2021 Feb 28 Heard on All Things Considered 13-Minute Listen Download – In …
Violence linked to the ideology has killed as many as 50 people in the US and Canada and sparked debate among counterterrorism experts and police. Demonstrators hold portraits during a rally to commemorate the Montreal mass shooting of 14 female engineering students in …
Epidemiologist Shanna Swan says low counts and changes to sexual development could endanger the human species. Swan offers advice on how to protect themselves from damaging chemicals and urges people to ‘do what we can to safeguard our fertility, the fate of mankind, …
What can be known about Perú’s pre-Incan civilisation? Chachapoya sarcophagi, Perú. Alamy. – By Brendan Sainsbury | Published in History Today Volume 71 Issue 2 February 2021 – Recent archaeological discoveries have shed new light on the history of Perú’s Chachapoya people. Until …
