By Gary M. Feinman Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very...

The attraction to luster is rooted in our evolutionary history and has persisted among prehistoric artifacts, ancient civilizations, and...

Başur Höyük in Türkiye By Brenna R. Hassett Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site...

By Vijay Prashad In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is...

Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically...

The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional...

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life....

By KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab) - Geminids Over Kitt Peak National Observatory, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.o...

Frederick L. Coolidge explains the link between numerosity and language. morebyless, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Marjorie Hecht...

A panoramic view of Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, UK - Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 By Brenna R. Hassett A recent...

Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers. Image via Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By...

Display of prehistoric stone tools at Melka Kunture Prehistoric Site -- Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Deborah...

By Brenna R. Hassett There is a great deal of attention in modern societies to inequality and the social problems it causes. Often...

We know from history that there are many ways we can live together—let’s explore the idea. Aerroscape & Lino Zeddies, CC BY-SA 4.0 By...

What draws us to such a distant and long-gone time? A fruitful relationship has always existed between prehistory (a scientific...

You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. By Brenna R. Hassett, Human...

Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about...

Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar...

By Brenna R. Hassett, Human Bridges We know that humans live relatively long lives, and we certainly know that we spend a larger...

Collaborative efforts between forest agencies and Indigenous communities are improving wildfire management by combining oral histories...