Anthropology & Archaeology

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11
Jan
2023

Weathered history: what ancient countrysides can...

Today’s media increasingly serves us clickbait climate histories. Headlines prompt us to read how the city-states of the Maya collapsed because of drought, how massive empires like that of the Neo-Assyrians...
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16
Jun
2022

Six millennia of Aegean art… in six hundred...

This book, initially published in French as ‘L’art égéen’ (two volumes, Paris 2008-2014), provides a history of the artistic output accompanying the development of Aegean civilisations, from the...
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11
Apr
2022

Visions for Racial Equality

Image reproduced with the kind permission of the National Library of Scotland and the Church of Scotland World Mission Board....
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13
Sep
2021

Archaeology as History on the Great Plains

Many people see “history” as something we get from written records that tells us how important people influenced great events—colleagues in my institution’s history department sometimes make that...
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8
Jan
2021

Who Cares about the Lives of Aztec People?

We do! The Aztecs have gotten a lot of bad press over the years. Popular accounts stress human sacrifice, warfare, and imperial exploitation. Although historians and archaeologists have tried for decades...
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1
Dec
2020

A Crisis of Confidence or Rebirth of Conviction?...

As Covid 19 has swept the globe, leaving over a million causalities in its wake, it has generated a profound crisis of confidence. Citizens throughout the world question their governments’ abilities...
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3
Jun
2020

In Spitting Distance of Flammable (the...

My earliest spitting memory comes from a movie. A character, trussed up or held down, spits at the villain. I’ve forgotten the name of the movie but there are half a dozen similar scenes in Hindi cinema...
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29
May
2020

What can archaeology do to help fight pandemic...

“Not much,” might be one’s first reaction to this essay’s title question. Archaeologists are not exactly first responders. We are, if anything, last responders. And yet surprisingly, archaeology...
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