How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America

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Researchers are trying to dismantle the flawed concept of homogeneous racial mixing that has fostered discrimination in Mexico, Brazil and…

Did Processed Foods Make Us Human?

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Article created by Bill Schindler Experimental archaeologist Bill Schindler’s globe-trotting research has led him to champion a diet based on…

The Diet of the Future Is a Menu That Draws From the Ancient Past

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Article created By Bill Schindler It was the opportunity of a lifetime. I was starring in National Geographic’s The Great Human Race,…

Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to Homo Sapiens?

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Around 200,000 years ago, in what is now northern Israel, a small band of tech-savvy humans dragged home and dismembered…

The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet

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One anthropologist contends that far too many species have been lumped into one category: Our story is more complicated, he…

What’s Left Unsaid When a Language Dies

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Deep in Papua New Guinea, the speakers of Tayap have stopped using their native tongue. In ADeath in the Rainforest, an…

Changes of Divination in traditional and digital times

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Aman stands in front of a judge, accused of stealing. The judge consults a source that will determine whether to…

In establishment of Ancestry: Does DNA Simplify or Complicate Repatriation Claims?

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A restitution effort in South Africa illustrates the challenges to scientists, policymakers, and living descendants as they navigate the complex repercussions of…

Five Breakthrough Signs of Early Peoples in the Americas

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More and more archaeological finds reveal a complex picture of how and when people first arrived in North America. Alot…

COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL APPROACH

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Anthropology is a comparative and integrated discipline. Anthropologicalresearch examines all the societies, simple and complex. Anthropologicalresearch has two purposes:to collect…