The Resilience of The Awá Against Modernity
Over at the Washington Post, there’s an interesting article documenting how two Amazonian Awá tribeswomen have escaped the modern life …
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Ritual Human Sacrifice Paved Way For Complex Societies
Anthropologists from New Zealand have collected evidence that suggests that ritualized human sacrifice was a formative rite that paved way …
Easter Island Wasn’t Destroyed By War
For centuries, there has been this belief that Rapa Nui suffered a catastrophic population crash, possibly due to war. But …
Race Is A Social Construct
One of our all time most popular posts here on Anthropology.net is a 2008 blog post, “Race as a Social …
The Role of Technology & Culture On Human Evolution
Blombos Cave is an important site discovered in the ’90’s. It is about 300 km east of Cape Town, South …
Between The Knots, Untying The Mystery Of Incan Khipus
Khipus are an ancient language system in the form of wool or cotton strings with knots. There is an intricate …
Neandertal Post-Mortem Modification
A study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology has for the first time analysed the fragments of three …
Mapping Ötzi’s Tattoos
All 62 of Ötzi’s tattoos have been mapped. They are mostly located over joint spaces and are thought to play …
The Uphill Climb of Time for the Yupno of Papua New Guinea
For many of us, the concept of time is linear. Whether French or Iraqi, the past is referred as behind oneself; …
56 Family Portraits From East Asia
I haven’t bothered to translate this page, but I’ve stumbled across a collection of 56 family portraits from East Asia …
