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An ethnography that re-examines the U.S. military base issue in Okinawa not as a political problem involving only humans, but ...

Max Lehman delves into a kind of future past inspired by science fiction, where modern tech and prehistoric visual culture ...

The Romance Languages and Literatures Associate Professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss satire as verbal violence ...

Ireland’s pre-eminent and now perhaps post-factual reputation for Cead Mile Failte (one hundred thousand welcomes) does not apply to the people of Israel ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the first two intact burial contexts at Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye, offering new insights into how its Neolithic inhabitants treated their dead and potentially ...

US public life is currently mired in extreme partisan division, institutional decay and widespread political violence. Can initiatives of post-conflict societies play a role in civic reinvention?

An analysis of ancient bones found in a Chinese cave offer glimpses of how Denisovans lived more than 130,000 years ago ...

Archaeologists have identified tiny 80,000-year-old projectile points in Uzbekistan that may have been used like arrowheads. Their size, design, and impact damage closely resemble weapons found much ...

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every population on Earth that no fossil records can account for. But did our ...

One of the most enduring myths of humankind is that pertaining to giants. In almost every major civilization and culture in the world, there are tales of ancient giants, enormous and powerful, ...

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