"Anthropology" Blogs & Blog Posts

For the Love of Cats in Turkey SAPIENS by Emily Sekine On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies. ✽ While visiting eastern Turkey to climb Mount A...

The record drought in Brazil has caused the Amazon River to drop to its lowest point in over a century, causing declines in crops and increased water insecurity for the people of the region. In just the last few months, the Rio Negro, one of the larg...

Let me set the scene for you. You are at a wedding. The reception and ceremony are taking place in the bride’s backyard, with chairs set up on slate slabs surrounding the house’s cerulean blue pool amidst impeccably gardened hydrangea bushes. The...

5,000-year-old Maykop cauldrons of the Bronze Age have blood and milk proteins from cattle, sheep, or goats — evidence for what ancient meals included.

Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team have discovered a cave in Africa riddled with the bones of an extinct species, Homo naledi, a small hominin ape that lived 250,000 years ago, about when our own species, Homo sapien, was emerging. — R...

They say “fences make good neighbors,” but if I’m to believe my TikTok feed, that’s a load of hoohockey: It’s all purple mountain majesties and property line disputes out there. It’s not just #fencetok, either. According to a 2016 study,...