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How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia

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Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. This narrative of Whiteness and of Argentina as the Europe of South America persists today, as highlighted in a 2021 speech by then Argentine President Alberto Fernndez.

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Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures

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The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century. where I teach.

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Climate and the First South Americans: How Ancient Environments Shaped Early Human Settlement

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The early human settlement of South America stands as one of the last great migrations in human history, yet the environmental conditions that shaped this journey remain debated. Although a single lithic tradition/category is assigned to each site, some contain more than one (e.g., The modelling work (e.g., <2,5000 masl = orange.

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22,000-Year-Old Footprints Reveal the Earliest Evidence of Human Transport Technology

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The Footprints That Rewrite History In the shifting gypsum sands of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a series of fossilized human footprints have surfaced, casting a striking new light on the ingenuity of Ice Age inhabitants. Quaternary Science Advances. DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100274 2025.100274 Bustos, D.

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Tracing the Huns’ Genetic Legacy: A Eurasian Patchwork of Ancestry

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Within a few decades, they built an empire that stretched from the Eurasian steppe to the heart of Central Europe, reshaping political landscapes and leaving an imprint on European history. These European burials included individuals with "eastern-type" traits—characteristics often associated with nomadic steppe traditions.

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Early Humans in the Heart of the Rainforest: A 150,000-Year-Old Mystery Unfolds

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21 , and photos taken of the remaining artefact collection at the Institut des Sciences Anthropologiques de Développement (ISAD) in 2021. Quarrying activity at Anyama between 2020 and 2021 irreversibly damaged much of the Bété I site, erasing priceless evidence of our past. "It Their conclusion?

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On the Tracks to Translating Indigenous Knowledge

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ASKING “THE GODDAMN INDIAN” In March 2021, I (co-author Alicia) met with George and his son, Mike, over Zoom. Co-author Mike picked bitterroot for crafting traditional medicine in Lac Seul in 2008. Riders on the Number 1 travel out of densely populated Toronto into a landscape of forests and lakes—and deep human history.

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