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Madonna on Nightline in 1990 interviewed about MTV’s decision to ban the Justify My Love video.

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Prehistoric children as young as three were encouraged by adults to make cave art 13,000 years ago, new research shows.

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A Collaborative Online Project

…with the goal to explore contemporary anthropology through essays, short articles, and opinion pieces written from diverse perspectives.

Edited by group of anthropology graduates from University of Kentucky and Texas State University.

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All 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998

loveforearth:
Affenbande (by Kirsten Storm)

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Affenbande (by Kirsten Storm)

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Chicago’s nineteenth ward reeked of overripe fruit and kerosene the day Mary Stastch killed her baby. According to the Chicago Tribune on July 29, 1911 the unemployed single mother and recent immigrant from Austria left Cook County Hospital earlier that week and “wandered about Chicago for two days with the baby in her arms, looking for work.” But with the growing labor crisis leaving nearly 250,000 people jobless her search would have been difficult even without a newborn in tow.

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Grandparents barely existed until as recently as 30,000 years, research suggests, because early humans died so young.

But when people did start to survive into older age, it had “far-reaching effects” that led to the development of new tools and art forms.

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Articles and publications by one of the key figures in the field of visual anthropology

(Jay Ruby interviewing Frank Zappa, NYC, 1970)

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WANT to know the history of your ancestors? Look no further than your genome. It seems every one of us carries in our genes a million-year record of past human population size.

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