6 Items Tagged

Anthropology

Tucson, Arizona

Mission Garden

A living museum of curated gardens honors 4,000 years of agriculture in the Santa Cruz River basin.

Barranquilla, Colombia

Museo MAPUKA

Explore the rich history of Colombia's Indigenous peoples.

Martinique's vibrant dance tradition includes bèlè, which participants have described as an "otherworldly" experience.

Martinique's Bèlè Dance Is a Celebration of Land, Spirit, and Liberation

For centuries, the Caribbean island's tradition has been a symbol of resistance, healing, and empowerment.

Camee Maddox-Wingfield June 6, 2022

These Neronian points have no equivalent technology among the Neanderthal groups that lived before and after the arrival of the first modern humans in Grotte Mandrin.

How a Baby Tooth and Soot Rewrote the Story of Humans in Europe

Modern humans arrived in Southern France—deep in Neanderthal territory—10,000 years earlier than thought.

Ludovic Slimak February 14, 2022

Students in a new paleoanthropology master’s program—co-led by the Turkana Basin Institute and Turkana University College—visit Kenya's Kokiselei archaeological site.

East Africa's New Generation of Human Evolution Researchers

In a region central to the study of human evolution, a new program focuses on training more African students.

Linda Nordling December 13, 2021

Part of the collection at the Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology.

Prague, Czechia

Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.