Anthropology

Godly Kings: How War, Politics And Propaganda Helped Bring Down The Mayans

The discovery of an ancient painted vase in the Central America lowlands offers new clues into the mysterious breakdown of ancient Maya civilization- because it bears one of the longest hieroglyphic texts ever found. The shattered vessel was discovered in ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2019 - 10:31am

El Salt Neanderthal Settlement Patterns Revealed? They Likely Moved With The Seasons

Using ancient fire remains from 11 well-preserved and overlapping open-air hearth structures, scholars have inferred Neanderthal group mobility and settlement patterns which indicate specific occupation episodes, perhaps according to season ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2019 - 9:46am

Paper Links E-Cigarette Use To Child Abuse

Do you vape? A new paper suggests you may have been abused as a child- at least in statistical parsing of a small survey. A sample of 208 people aged 18-21 was used to create a correlation between childhood maltreatment and e-cigarette use, and explored th ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2019 - 1:22pm

The Voynich Manuscript Has Been Decoded. Again. Except It Hasn't.

Beinecke MS 408, commonly called the Voynich manuscript (after Wilfrid Voynich, a book dealer who bought it in Italy), has long been dismissed as gibberish by most, but beginning in 1915, and certainly since the 1960s, it has also been a source of fascinat ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 18 2019 - 5:01pm

Archeologists Are Too Colonial, Says Anthropologist

In a recent paper, Lehigh University anthropologist Professor Allison Mickel says archaeological excavations are often led by foreigners from the West while dependent on the labor of people from the local community, a relic of Western colonial and imperial ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2019 - 8:33am

Gender Inequality Has Been Around Since The Stone Age

The Neolithic period, the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of civilizations, began about 12,000 years ago with the advent of agriculture in the Epipalaeolithic Near East. It spread to other parts of the world. It provides not just the first evidence ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2019 - 9:35am

Overcrowding, Infectious Disease, Violence And Environmental Issues- Welcome To Urban Life In 7000 BC

Many people feel the need to live in important times, so they complain about how much worse things are today. But scientists studying the ancient ruins of Çatalhöyük, in modern Turkey, found that its inhabitants- 3,500 to 8,000 people at its peak- experien ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2019 - 4:11pm

To Halal Muslims On Vacation, Sharia Values Matter As Much As Destination

When choosing a halal holiday, Muslim travel destinations are based on more than the location and the hotel. They also factor in Islamic religious values, such as Iman (faith) which may mean halal food, segregated facilities for men and women, prayer facil ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 2:00pm

Identity Gaps In LGBTQ Liberal Political Perspectives

It was said there was a 'rainbow wave' of LGBTQ voters after the Trump presidency and a new survey analysis set out to find what makes them tick.  To do so, authors distilled results a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults collected by ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2019 - 5:00am

Media Create Increases In Gun Sales

If revenue numbers are true, gun manufacturers don't like when Democrats are in the White House. During the Clinton and Obama administrations gun sales did quite well, because Democrats are perceived by Republicans as more inclined to ban things and p ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 6:27pm