A remarkable Mexican American scholar, Zelia Nuttall she helped change the conversation around pre-Columbian cultures. Researchers can trace her work through publications held in the collections of ...

Who’s afraid of David Graeber? Not the dozens of D.C.-area residents who showed up on a recent night at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library to hear the anthropologist and radical activist talk ...

In its fifth season, Sapiens, a podcast created by Sapiens Anthropology Magazine, speaks with anthropologists to help uncover what makes us human. This season will be hosted by cultural anthropologist ...

In the fall of 1957, the Soviet Union satellite Sputnik 1 streaked across the night’s sky. The event kicked off the Space Age. It also captured the attention of 9-year-old Jack Stuster, who watched ...

I had no idea, as my plane dodged antiaircraft fire in the skies above the Tonkin Gulf, that our aircraft carrier’s voyage home would bring me a much greater and more meaningful adventure. I have long ...

Renowned anthropologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, whose groundbreaking research transformed our understanding of chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91. The legendary British scientist, best ...

All nine seasons of the terrific BBC show Waking the Dead are live and RTB (that’s ready-to-binge – innovative, we know) on WGBH Passport. Popular in the UK in the early oughts – and a big hit in ...