Anthropology

Divorce Monday: January Divorce Rush Dates Back To The Middle Ages

contract marriage in the middle ages. All that was needed was that a man and a woman said the words “I ...

Article - The Conversation - May 2 2025 - 4:14pm

Mayan Equality- Not Just Royalty Were Allowed To Build Temples For Human Sacrifice

“Maya scholars have basically assumed that rulers built all the temples,” she said. “No one has ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2008 - 3:51pm

Ancient Romans Ate Meals Most Americans Would Recognize

Piso, after all, was Julius Caesar's father-in-law and a consul of Rome. What's for dinner? ...

Article - Joel Shurkin - May 25 2015 - 11:10am

The Most Violent Era In America Was Before Europeans Arrived

There's a mythology about the native Americans, that they were all peaceful and in harmony ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2025 - 3:13pm

Lost Architecture Of The Shakers Goes Digital- And A Shaker 'Online' Community Is Coming

insights into Shaker life and culture. All of these come to life in Kozan's virtual reconstructions of ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2008 - 11:59am

Souls And Stones- Death Rites Of The Iron Age

archaeological evidence from the Iron Age. Having all of that information helps an archaeologist study the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2008 - 5:03pm

CSI Neanderthal: Interspecies Homicide Of Shanidar 3

points. Looking back at this Paleolithic cold case, the study's authors evaluated all the possible ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2009 - 3:21pm

Old History Is New Again: Ancient Carthaginians Did Sacrifice Their Children

or Shakespeare was a woman, Richard III was beloved by all, etc. and so revisionists suddenly began ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2014 - 7:09pm

Is Religion A Consolation Worth Having?

whatever way commends itself to them. If I were a religious person, I would suppose that theology, with all ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 21 2014 - 4:18pm

There Was No 'Paleo Diet'- Ancient People Ate What They Had

"jacks-of-all-trades." The paper covers earliest hominid evolution, from about 6 to 1.6 million years ago. This touches ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2014 - 9:27am