WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
The Chumash people poked bits of psychoactive plants into cave ceilings next to their paintings. Datura wrightii – Credit: Rick Bury (art)/Melissa Dabulamanzi (Datura)/PNAS – By Robby Berman 2020 Nov 27 – Mysterious pinwheel paintings in a California cave are probably representations of …
How superstition collided with public health concerns to create a modern monster. Vampires came when folk tradition filled the void of scientific knowledge. In this illustration, men gather at a gravesite to kill a purported vampire. (Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images) – …
Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images – By Jennifer Ho, Professor. Asian American Studies, University of Colorado Boulder 2020 Sep 01 – News that Sen. Kamala Harris was Joe Biden’s choice for the 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee …
The National Archives has scanned more than 300 agreements between the United States and Indigenous tribes. Ratified Indian Treaty 37: Eel River, Wyandot, Piankashaw, Kaskaskia, and Kickapoo—Vincennes, Indiana Territory, August 7, 1803 (Courtesy of the National Archives) – By Nora McGreevy SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 …
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 …
