In a dark limestone chamber beneath the Belizean rainforest, past dripping stalactites and ancient footpaths worn by centuries of ritual use, archaeologists ...

Somatosphere welcomes you to the April edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and ...

David Beriss The time has come to reveal the winners of this year’s glorious SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest! Our decision this year ...

Somewhere high in the Andean highlands, over 9,000 years ago, a young woman was laid to rest with the tools of her trade: stone projectile points, scrapers, ...

In a quiet bone lab in Copenhagen, researchers have traced a modern genetic shield against HIV to a single ancient ancestor—someone who lived thousands of ...

Long before hedge funds, private property, or multinational tax havens, human societies were surprisingly equal. Across a wide range of Neolithic ...

It is late March 2022, and as always the weather is sunny in Tucson, Arizona. But a big meeting gathers a binational party inside an air-conditioned ...

By the time the sun rose over the jagged folds of the Catalan Pyrenees some 20,000 years ago, the snow crust had already hardened under the feet of a small ...

Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch Open Unit by Paul Antick. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the ...

The Met Museum in New York, the Louvre in Paris, the Pergamon in Berlin—museums across the U.S. and Europe maintain ...

Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what ‘resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case this is being read in the future ...

More than 3,000 years ago, long before Rome rose or Athens dreamed of democracy, bronze was already reshaping the ancient world. Weapons, tools, and ...