Our early ancestors were more like vultures than we might like to think
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Anthropology
The iconic heads hewn from volcanic rock may have been wobbled into place by the Rapa Nui people who created them
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Other cultures across Asia were preserving their dead for millennia before the Egyptians
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Climate change is throwing traditional calendars into disarray
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Lasers reveal hidden details of ancient body ink
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Living with a Papua New Guinea tribe in the ’80s presented this anthropologist with a question for today.
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Jennifer Raff is on a mission to rewrite the history of human origins in the Americas.
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How scientists over history excavated the fakes.
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How an old dictionary is revealing new perspectives on an Indigenous culture.
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An anthropologist shows how bonding with another species could help humans come together.
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