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Sapiens
APRIL 3, 2024
In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 5, 2024
A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. DOI : 10.1002/evan.21955
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The collection of articles, written by a diverse group of African and international scholars, urges us to rethink the legacy of this discovery. But many other African fossils—particularly those collected during the colonial period—reside in European museums. Current Anthropology , 53(S6), S000-S000. 1 Dart, R.
Anthropology News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
On my campus, there is a zoological faculty, and its museum. This museum is filled with larvae in various stages of development, tadpoles and eggs, joining forces to enact different stages of a single life. Anthropology and taxidermy are not dissimilar practices. Anders Burman’s article “ Are Anthropologists Monsters?
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
The social life of these clothes had a shift, akin to the widely discussed binary shift from commodity to gift within anthropological discourse. These make me wonder at the many silently maintained museums of absence that form an unofficial archive of conflict, telling stories that official histories often overlook.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 7, 2024
My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation. I’m an archaeologist anthropologist who started writing in the anthropology publication about 15 years ago and had the seed idea of what would become SAPIENS and brought it to fruition. That topically we are focusing on anthropology.
Sapiens
APRIL 16, 2024
PLATFORM OR PLOY After the release of Hancock’s 2022 Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse , archaeologists contested and condemned his claims through the forums of an open letter , news articles , op-eds , social media , and blog posts. Ham used the spectacle to raise funds for his Creation Museum. Hancock invited a direct debate.
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