AI-powered archaeology draws out hidden evidence of fire use by early humans University of Toronto Researchers from the University of Toronto, the Weizmann Institute of Science and Hebrew University have identified new evidence of the use of fire by ancient humans at least 800,000 years ago at a site in western Israel. The discovery, described in a … Read more
The Politics of “Ukraine” Versus “the Ukraine” – SAPIENS SAPIENS The Politics of “Ukraine” Versus “the Ukraine” – SAPIENS Impossible Choices at the Crossroads of Motherhood and Fieldwork SAPIENS by Jamie Hodgkins and Jessica Thompson Co-author Jamie Hodgkins holds her daughter as she co-directs the excavations at the Arma Veirana site in northwestern Italy. Fabio Negrino/University of … Read more
Paul Farmer https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Paul_Farmer Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard … Jeff Farmer (wrestler) · Liberation theology · John Comaroff · Partners In Health Paul Farmer, Pioneer of Global Health, Dies at 62 Paul Farmer (1959–2022) Nature.com Paul Farmer (1959–2022) #MeToo Anthropology and the … Read more
Meet the Ancient Technologists Who Changed Everything SAPIENS by Nicholas R. Longrich The idea of crafting and using beads as ornamentation may have spread from North Africa outward to other parts of the African continent and to Europe. Nicholas R. Longrich This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. For the first few … Read more
This is a list of online resources that aim at communicating anthropological research to the broader public. Feel free to add more links! [shortcut to this doc, https://tinyurl.com/anthro2021outreach ] Impressions from the Master Class “Participatory Digital Ethnography” Digital Ethnography Initiative It was our pleasure to organize the Master Class Participatory Digital Ethnography together with the Vienna Visual … Read more
How Human Are We? SAPIENS by Nicholas R. Longrich Hand axes crafted by Homo erectus required skills and planning—and likely, generational knowledge. Nick Longrich This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. READER QUESTION: We now know from evolutionary science that humanity has existed in some form or another for around two million years or more. Homo … Read more
How People Actually Use Their Smartphones SAPIENS by Laura Haapio-Kirk and Georgiana Murariu [no-caption] John Cei Douglas In 2022, the smartphone, first introduced by IBM, will celebrate its 30th birthday. Most of us now use a smartphone every day—whether we like it or not. Previously associated with young people, these technologies have become ubiquitous around the world … Read more
Will Bog Archaeology Fade Away? SAPIENS by Nathaniel Scharping / Archaeologists excavate a bog in Hatfield Moors, England, to uncover Late Stone Age structures. Henry Chapman In the southernmost tip of Sweden, just over an hour from neighboring Denmark, is the ancient peat bog of Ageröd. For nearly a century, this waterlogged landscape has been revealing its secrets to … Read more
Archaeologists Should Be Activists Too SAPIENS by Allison Mickel and Kyle Olson Archaeologists are well-suited to help organize protests such as this “Count the Vote” rally in 2020. Jon Irons When Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paused counting votes for one night during the 2020 presidential election, unfounded conspiracy theories about election security began to fly. Peru’s Incan Rope Bridges … Read more
Six Reasons to Save Archaeology From Funding Cuts SAPIENS by John Schofield / Archaeology offers a detailed look at humanity’s past and important insights into the present and future. Jo Ahmet/Kent County Council This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Archaeology is in trouble. The U.K. government recently announced plans to cut its subsidy … Read more
We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Read our full statement here: https://t.co/BWxrHgEs6H #SaveSheikhJarrah #FreePalestine — MidEastAnthro (@mes_aaa) May 14, 2021 MES Statement on Palestine We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people against ongoing settler colonialism and condemn Zionist violence against them, including forced evictions and retaliatory violence by Israeli state forces against … Read more
A Great Tree Has Fallen: The Passing of Marshall Sahlins – CounterPunch.org CounterPunch A Great Tree Has Fallen: The Passing of Marshall Sahlins – Marshall D. Sahlins, titan of anthropology, 1930–2021 UChicago News Remembering Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) | The Chicago Blog UChicago News Remembering Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) | The Chicago Blog Marshall D. Sahlins, Groundbreaking Anthropologist, Dies … Read more
It is said to see anthropology lost two of its major voices. I remembered the day Rabinow was at the Rice when I was a doctoral student. For those who do not know who Sahlins and Rabinow are.
The Untold Stories of Archaeology’s Women SAPIENS by Brenna Hassett, Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Rebecca Wragg Sykes, and Tori Herridge For Women’s History Month, it has become traditional to rifle through the great names of the past, pluck out a few that strike the imagination and have the appropriate gender marker, and dust them off for a new audience. … Read more
Cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson dies at 81 Today.com Cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson dies at 81 In Europe, more than two thirds of all academic anthropologists are living in precarity antropologi.info (via FocaalBlog) In the general public, academics are often viewed as being part of an elite, who lives comfortable lives. In reality this is only true for … Read more