What Indiana Jones Gets Right About Archaeology
As Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise’s shortcomings while espousing its merits. DR. JONES RETURNS Pop culture’s most famous archaeologist…
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What Bigfoot Teaches Us About Public Mistrust of Science
In the 1960s, credentialed scientists, including physical anthropologists, hunted for the legendary Sasquatch. How did they fall for the hoax? ✽ In the late 1960s, Bigfoot seemed to…
Car-user paid model for funding bike-transportation infrastructure; a cheeky proposal reconsidered for 2025
I wrote this first in 2023, when Edmonton’s city council failed to fully budget for completion of the planned bicycle-as-transportation infrastructure. Mine was an audacious, madcap response to…
What Does the Armenian Genocide Have to Do With Florida?
Archaeologists have often ignored evidence for the 1915 Armenian genocide that has long been denied by Turkey. The consequences have lessons for the U.S. as Florida limits educators…
Is War Inevitable? Consider the Ancient Maya
Two archaeologists show how investigating tactics, weaponry, and the logistics of battle helps answer questions about social conflict in the human experience. ✽ Arresting trails of light arc…
A Major Museum’s Attempt to Center Native American Voices
Chicago’s Field Museum recently unveiled their new Native North America Hall, redesigned with input from Native collaborators. But does it go far enough to address past harms? ✽…
The Dangers of Ancient Apocalypse’s Pseudoscience
Reviewing Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, an anthropologist explains how its host Graham Hancock devalues both archaeology and Indigenous heritage. This article was originally published at The Conversa…
Derogatory Place Names Need Indigenous Revision
Changing offensive place names on public lands is a strong move toward decolonization. But to heal relationships and address ecological crises, non-Native people must do more. ✽ On…
Próximo Número: 05/Septiembre/2022
Read Time:13 Second ¡Os anunciamos la nueva fecha para el próximo número! ¡NOS VEMOS EL 5 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 CON NUEVOS ARTÍCULO…
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Read Time:5 Minute, 2 Second Cuando Antonio Machín cantaba aquello de: “Yo no puedo comprender cómo se pueden querer dos mujeres a …
We Should Talk More About the Abortion Pill
In May 2018, activists took abortion pills as part of a protest against anti-abortion laws in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Many were dressed as characters from The Handmaid’s Tale,…
Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Despite myths of “pink” brains and “blue” brains, human brains are mosaics of what have stereotypically been characterized as male and female traits. CSA-Printstock/Getty Images At the re…
Mamá quiero ser youtuber (y mi profe también). O del sinsentido en la innovación educativa.
Read Time:2 Minute, 44 Second En los últimos años (y no tan últimos) parece que la educación no para de cambiar. El nuevo mandamien…
Impossible Choices at the Crossroads of Motherhood and Fieldwork
Co-author Jamie Hodgkins holds her daughter as she co-directs the excavations at the Arma Veirana site in northwestern Italy. Fabio Negrino/University of Genoa Many women* in science who…
Hoy he visto a una niña con un velo
Read Time:1 Minute, 1 Second Hoy, cuando volvía a casa, he visto a una niña con un velo. Pero no era una niña cualquiera. Es una ni…
La alarma social creada alrededor de las denominadas “bandas latinas”. Un problema enquistado en Madrid que todos debemos abordar
Read Time:12 Minute, 14 Second En la madrugada del sábado 06 de febrero (2022) nos impactó la noticia de una pelea en pleno centro …
#MeToo Anthropology and the Case Against Harvard
On February 4, The Harvard Crimson broke the news of an open letter, signed by 38 faculty members, in support of John Comaroff. This prominent professor of anthropology…
Should You Feel Bad About Your Pandemic-Era Plastic Waste?
Plastic waste has grown exponentially across the globe during the pandemic. Matthew Williams-Ellis/Universal Images Group/Getty Images “Sometimes I want to avoid producing excessive waste…
Margaret Mead Imagined Different Futures
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (center), actor Robert Redford (left), and historian Lola Van Wagenen (right) attend “A Future With Alternatives,” a symposium held in 1978 in New York City.…
Egyptology Has a Problem: Patriarchy
Ramses II built many temples to his own divinity, like the Ramesseum in Luxor, originally called the Temple of Millions of Years to imply his reign would never…
Consumer Culture Won’t Lead to Body Positivity
Focusing on what bodies can do shifts attention away from cultural lenses that focus on how bodies look. Holly Falconer/Getty Images I have an 8-year-old daughter. From time…
A Hidden Figure in North American Archaeology
As a historian of science, I am interested in determining who gets credit for scientific discoveries and why. Sadly, credit often goes to the powerful and connected, not…
Meet the Ancient Technologists Who Changed Everything
The idea of crafting and using beads as ornamentation may have spread from North Africa outward to other parts of the African continent and to Europe. Nicholas R.…
When Biblically Inspired Pseudoscience and Clickbait Cause Looting
Archaeologist and co-author Morag M. Kersel stands in one of thousands of looters’ pits at the Early Bronze Age cemetery of Bâb adh-Dhrâʿ in Jordan. Yorke M. Rowan…