Anthropology

On St. Patrick's Day, 33 Million Americans Will Claim To Be Irish, But In 1776 Few Irish Wanted To Be American

all the drama seem to have left because by the end of the century Scotland had given us different ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 8 2025 - 7:28pm

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