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APRIL 14, 2025

A sweeping archaeological analysis 1 led by Gary Feinman of the Field Museum of Natural History offers a strikingly different view. “The idea that big populations or new technologies automatically lead to widening inequality simply doesn’t hold up in the archaeological record.” But what if that assumption is wrong?

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

His career trajectory focused on the archaeology of complex societies in central Mexico c. His many retrospective examinations and reflections on the state of Mesoamerican archaeology marked him as a leading synthesizer, and he was often called upon to provide commentaries and updates on Formative central Mexico.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 1976 , at the end of his leadership, a short film about the application of urban climatology to urban planning—showing Schwalb in a brown suit describing the arrows of aeroroutes on the city map—was screened at the first UN-Habitat conference in Vancouver.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

The mission of the Teaching Circle, envisioned by Lac Seul First Nation co-author George Kenny, is to articulate a worldview held by Indigenous cultural Insiders. For knowledge of the area’s history, O utsider researchers naturally draw on ethnographic, historic, and archaeological data—but their knowledge of the details is patchy.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Through this work, drawing on knowledge from human skeletal biology, anatomy, and archaeology, we often confront the immense social and racial inequalities that can play a role in the circumstances of ones death. This is the flagship U.S. ADVOCATING FOR THE DEADAND THE LIVING Advocacy and activism are nothing new to anthropology.

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