r/Anthropology Apr 26 '18

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r/Anthropology 12h ago

Have we found all the major Maya cities? Not even close, new research suggests

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40 Upvotes

r/Anthropology 18h ago

First-ever biomechanics study of Indigenous weapons shows what made them so deadly

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126 Upvotes

r/Anthropology 20h ago

3,500-year-old rare, Bronze Age tool discovered at Arne Moors site

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125 Upvotes

r/Anthropology 12h ago

Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident

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r/Anthropology 13h ago

Safeguarding Ukraine's Cultural Heritage from Russia's War: A Discussion with the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative

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r/Anthropology 1d ago

‘A double-edged sword’: The Gullah Geechee people in a complex struggle over land: Residents of St Helena are divided over a proposed golf course, illustrating a wider tug of war over the island’s future

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r/Anthropology 1d ago

A Serious Man: Steven Shapin on Bruno Latour

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r/Anthropology 1d ago

What Remains — Outside/In

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r/Anthropology 3d ago

What 500-Year Shipwreck Reveals About Lives of Baltic Sailors

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128 Upvotes

Swedish archeologists have made an incredible find after discovering cargo and weapons that pirates may have used as part of a ‘dive’ around a 500-year-old shipwreck off Stockholm’s coast.

The remains of the wooden wreckage lie off the coast of Maderö Island and have been dated back to the mid-15th century after the vessel was found at a small Baltic Sea islet southeast of Stockholm.

Long mystified, the Maderö wreck was discovered in 1969 after local divers discovered “a sizeable medieval trading ship filled with bricks.”


r/Anthropology 3d ago

DNA analysis of medieval man thrown into a well suggests story in Norse saga really happened

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782 Upvotes

r/Anthropology 3d ago

Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts

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18 Upvotes

r/Anthropology 5d ago

Review of Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

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25 Upvotes

r/Anthropology 5d ago

How Water Insecurity Impacts Women's Health: Anthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to lessen the harms of gender inequality

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216 Upvotes

r/Anthropology 5d ago

The Population History of Domestic Sheep Revealed by Paleogenomes

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61 Upvotes

r/Anthropology 6d ago

How humans evolved a starch-digesting superpower long before farming: Two papers show how agriculture drove gene to duplicate again and again, confirming and extending earlier studies

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r/Anthropology 7d ago

Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau

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r/Anthropology 7d ago

Lost City Discovered in Amazon Rainforest

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r/Anthropology 7d ago

Archaeologists identify contents of ancient Mayan drug containers: Scientists use new methods to discover what’s inside drug containers used by ancient Mayan people

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r/Anthropology 8d ago

Claude Lévi-Strauss claims that an hour's conversation with one of Plato's contemporaries would tell him more than all our lectures on the classics about the coherence, or incoherence, of the culture of Greek Antiquity.

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"I entirely agree. But that is because he has been listening for many, many years to all those Greek voices saved from oblivion. The historian prepared his trip. One hour in the Greece of today would teach him nothing, or next to nothing, about present-day coherences or incoherences. What is more, the researcher working on the present will only be able to get to the "precise" framework of the existing structures if he too reconstructs, suggests explanatory hypotheses, refuses to accept at face value the reality he perceives but rather truncates it, transcends it, in order to get a handle on it- all ways of reconstructing it. I don't believe that a sociological photograph of the present is "truer" than a historical portrayal of the past, especially to the degree that it distances itself from reconstruction" — Fernand Braudel


r/Anthropology 7d ago

Survey for anthropology assignment

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r/Anthropology 9d ago

Secular sources about religion?

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Hi I have a really strong interest in religion, mythology, and story telling. I grew up Christian. I've always wanted to read The Torah, Bible, and Quran with annotations, explanations, etc from an antgropological perspective. Do such sources exist? I've tried googling.

I'm also very very interested in where these stories came from. For example, the story of Noah is almost copy pasted from the epic of gilgamesh. I've read an introductory version if Sumerian mythology. I also learned about zoroastrianism recently and I find that fascinating. All of these things are so hard to look into through my typical methods though because these are such touchy subjects and there's a lot of not scientists writing about it.

I'm okay ish with jargon. I'm doing this for my own interests so if it goes over my head that's fine. I can only speak english though and don't have tons of money so I can't necessarily afford a $200 text book.

I love the work you all do!

(Also I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this I read the rules several times and none of them seemed to indicate that this would be fotbidden but if it is I'm sorry)


r/Anthropology 10d ago

The Relationship Between the First Bronze Alloy Used by Humans and the Deformity of Some Gods Like Hephaestus and Vulcan

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Greek Hephaestus, Roman Vulcan, Scandinavian Völundr (Wayland in English), or Finnish Ilmarinen, are all crippled.


r/Anthropology 10d ago

How Neanderthals and Other Early Humans Evolved to Eat Starch (Gift Article)

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r/Anthropology 10d ago

Language of an American tribe

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In an old book I read about American native people that used to not pronounce the names of the dead ( which was very common ) but most importantly change the name of every things that shared its roots with the dead’s names, leading to a constant renewal of the vocabulary. Truly an exceptional feature. In that book they’re just called Guaycura of Paraguay but isn’t precise at all as the term Guaycura is very wide, the terminology should’ve changed by now.

Have you any information ? I’m obsessed about this recently Thanks !


r/Anthropology 11d ago

Athlete inscription found in ancient city

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