Our special series, ‘Postindustrial landscapes, communities, and heritages’ has been published!
Read the editorial here.
Read the editorial here.
Our special series in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage has been published! Read our guest editorial here.
August 11, 1963 [Indiana University News Bureau Press Release Launching the Indiana University Museum of History, Anthropology, and Folklore] [PDF: IU Museum of History Anthropology and Folklore Origi…
Those who follow debates around the Anthropocene will be familiar with a very prominent premise: that the scale of the Anthropocene is incommensurate with human time. Or, in…
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. Hopes were high ahead of the UN climate talks at the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid. Albeit some rocky weeks…
Signe Askersjö: In a modest room within the Govanhill recreational centre, on the other side of the wall from a children’s karate lesson, advocates for Scottish independence had…
Many decades ago, I traveled to the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Francisco. Still a graduate student, I accompanied three fellow anthropologists-in-traini…
”Archaic” Homo sapiens subspecies were widespread across Africa and Eurasia. Not all looked like Neanderthals – many were clearly much more like anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens. …
While I was in the Kalahari with a group of hunter-gatherers called the Kua, a woman died. I did not witness this, I arrived at the camp after…
A great talk by the formidable Leanne Simpson; the talk has the same title as her excellent book that is available with the University of Minnesota Press here.
Hey TAL fans and friends! We’re in the process of moving domains (so sorry if you’ve had trouble accessing the site) over to be hosted by our friends…
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
On 10/26, 2019 I visited the Open house at the Oregon State Archives, Salem, OR, and was supremely disappointed at their new exhibit Rust Rot Ruin. which documents…
As an urban compost coordinator I have supervised efforts to increase compost collection both commercially and residentially in New York City over the past five years. The job…
It’s been a very busy time of year for me and so I’ve done a bad job publicising my podcasts for New Books Network, and this despite my…
Clive Spash, never one to leave you wondering what he thinks, on how environmentalism has been captured by new forms of economic reasoning. Always worth revisiting his critique…
I’m very happy to announce that my new entry on ‘mining’ is now available on the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. I worked pretty hard on this piece so……
Firstly, we’d like to introduce you all to Alex D’Aloia, who is managing our Facebook group TFS Chats – you might remember the blog post that he wrote…
Tribal? “Tribalism” as the term is frequently used by evolutionary biologists, means a human tendency to form groups larger than the personal network. What they are actually groping…