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What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?

Excavations at the site of 'Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions…

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Did Neanderthals Make Art?

Experts continue to debate whether Neanderthals were painters and jewelry-makers. A paleoanthropologist explores the evidence for Neanderthal art and the…

2 years ago

Surviving the Ice Age

An anthropologist describes the multiple ice ages of the Earth’s past and how our species survived the most recent one.…

2 years ago

Are Asian’s descendants of Denisovans ?

The new excavation of a fossil tooth places an enigmatic group of ancient humans in Southeast Asia more than 130,000 years…

2 years ago

Structuralism PYQ

Levi - Strauss work on kinship (15 Marks , 2021) How  do  the  concepts  of  binary  opposites  and  exchange  figure …

3 years ago

Meet the Ancient Technologists Who Changed Everything

For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some 3 million years ago, our ancestors were…

3 years ago

PYQ- Regionalism, Communalism, & Ethnic and Political Movements

Discuss the regionalism and demand for autonomy in India from Anthropological perspective with respect to Kashmir/Nagaland /Bodoland / Gorkhaland agitation…

3 years ago

PYQ – Role of Anthropology in rural and tribal development

Describe the functions of Tribal Research Institutes in India.(20 marks , 2020)Examine the strengths and weaknesses of anthropology in the…

3 years ago

PYQ – Tribal Administration

Discuss the interventions made by the Non-Governmental Organizations for empowering tribal women. (15 marks , 2021)Identify some special programmes for…

3 years ago

PYQ – Tribe and Nation State

Distinctive cultural features of tribes of Andaman Islands (10 marks, 2018 )Critically evaluate the term tribe, as compared to term…

3 years ago