Anthropology

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

January is a strain for most people. It’s dark and the festive lights don’t disguise this anymore. You’re back at work and the next holiday may be some way off. You’ve just had to spend a large amount of time with your family. This has consequences. ...

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

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 with nature- it's easy to create narratives when there is no written record. But archeology keeps its own history and a new paper finds that the 20th cent ...

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

COVID-19 Border Closures Increased German Dislike Of Immigrants

Early in 2020, the President of the United States said America should cut travel from China due to COVID-19 concerns. This was dismissed as xenophobia by states like New York and California, because the World Health Organisation had not declared it a pande ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 7 2025 - 1:19pm

Does Global Warming Cause War?

A new paper suggests that the world's largest polluters remain safe from the environmental damage they help create and the countries least to blame face the greatest threats because of, oddly, violent conflict. This is counter-intuitive but it is the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 20 2025 - 3:44pm

Who Paid For Prostitutes First, The Human Or The Monkey? The Chen Paper Turns 20

It is often joked that 'prostitution was the first profession' and, that it is not a profession aside, the sentiment may be true. Someone with a lot of food and the ability to prevent it being taken may have worked out a deal with someone who had ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 21 2025 - 9:32am

Does Ecology Have A Cultural Cancer?

A new paper argues that academic ecology is culturally corroded.  'Stay in your lane', 'do you want to die on that hill?' and other territorial and undermining behavior were reported by 44% of predominantly ecologists who responded to a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2025 - 12:25pm

Humans Have Always Adapted To Changing Climates- It's Why We Conquered The World

In the Cradles of Civilization, there are entire cities covered in sand that were once thriving places. The climate shifted and humans did with it. One of our greatest cultural achievements has been our ability to adapt to a natural world that is out to de ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2025 - 1:04pm

New Clues About The Frankenstein Mummies Of Cladh Hallan

Whenever mummies are mentioned, our imaginations stray to the dusty tombs and gilded relics of ancient Egyptian burial sites. With their eerily lifelike repose, the preserved bodies of ancient Pharaohs like Hatshepsut and Tutankhamen stir our imaginations ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 10 2025 - 9:15am

'Windeby Girl' Mummy's Secret- She Was A Boy

Bog mummies are 2000-year-old mummies from the Iron Age that were preserved with amazing detail by the peat bogs of Europe. Physical anthropologists draw conclusions from the eerily preserved hair, leathery skin and other features in the mummies that emerg ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2025 - 9:34am

Deontological Decisions: Your Mother Tongue Never Leaves You

Ιf you asked a multilingual friend which language they find more emotional, the answer would usually be their mother tongue – the one they used while growing up and probably still use at home. This does not mean they are incapable of expressing emotion in ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 23 2025 - 8:39am