Dear NAPA Members, As NAPA President, I am entering new spaces and conversations about the state of anthropology in this historic ...

For decades, Papua New Guinea's rich maritime history was told through the lens of wind and war canoes. The story centered on the men—brave seafarers who ...

Guthman, Julie. The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food. University of California Press. 272 pp. ISBN ...

For decades, the prevailing narrative in medical archaeology held that leprosy—specifically, Hansen's disease—was a disease that came to the Americas with ...

Welcome To NAPA NAPA promotes human-centered work applied to practical problems by linking a network of professional anthropologists working across ...

By the time a small group of humans stepped into Eurasia around 50,000 years ago, all earlier attempts at migration beyond Africa had faded into ...

n the Java Sea, beneath the sediment-rich waters of the Madura Strait, archaeologists have found something that rewrites part of the story of human ...

At Çatalhöyük, one of the world’s earliest known cities, generations of Neolithic families buried their dead beneath the floors of their own homes. For ...

The usual story goes something like this: climate change, population pressure, dwindling game. Faced with scarcity, ancient foragers had no choice but to ...

I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like this. I am sipping the coffee Carlos brought ...

On the northern shore of Guam, inside a beachside cave shaped by salt and wind, researchers have found evidence of one of the oldest rice traditions in the ...

After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an Alawite background, originally from my ...