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How to reclaim space for civil society in times of democratic decline
In a time when civil society voices are increasingly dismissed as radical or disloyal, new research led by Ph.D. student Lee ...
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A New Way of Looking at the Role of Animals in the Rise of Modern Societies
With Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin challenges familiar narratives.
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Dexterity and climbing ability: how ancient human relatives used their hands
Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...
Psychedelics Allowed Ancient Peruvians to Consolidate Power, Study Says
In a new study, archaeologists uncovered 2,500-year-old psychoactive drug paraphernalia in an archaeological site in the ...
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Ancient Israelites were more worldly than their insular Judean cousins, study shows
Using statistical methods from field of ecological biodiversity, Israeli scholars analyze 1,000 First Temple period names and ...
Name diversity sheds light on social patterns in ancient Hebrew kingdoms
A new study has uncovered hidden social patterns in ancient Hebrew kingdoms by analyzing personal names from archaeological ...
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Ireland’s Ancient Tombs Were Much More Than Burial Sites
Ireland’s iconic megalithic tombs may not have served as burial sites for elite dynasties as previously believed. Recent ...
Archaeologists Explored Secret Mountain Rooms—and Found Ancient Psychedelic Paraphernalia
Researchers discovered that pre-Inca stone structures from the mountains of Peru had secret rooms accessible to only the most ...