Burned lithic artifacts are among the most reliable proxies for prehistoric fire use in the archaeological record, yet the roles of raw material varia…

Have you ever made fire from scratch, without matches or charcoal? In the summer of 2015, I tried to recreate fire using flint, pyrite, and tinder. It quickly became clear that making fire is a learne...

Guiding the Next Generation of NAGPRA Practitioners: Formalizing Undergraduate NAGPRA Education

There have been calls for the expansion of community-engaged approaches within the archaeology of Pleistocene Africa. Such programs face challenges trying to connect deep histories with present commun...

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Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...

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Philbert Katto's Global Initiatives Grant Report.

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.

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Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis

Anatomy Now - January 8, 2025