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Recent surprising fossil finds of such creatures as the “Hobbits” in Indonesia and the Denisovans in Siberia tell us that

Chimamanda Adichie (“The danger of a single story”) is

Based on evidence from sites such as Hardin Village and Indian Knoll, do archaeologists think that early farmers were healthier than foragers (aka hunter-gatherers) on average?

Many of the European travelers who visited “exotic” peoples in the 19th century were “amused” (because they thought that Western civilization represented the peak of cultural development) to find that the people they met also thought of themselves as superior. Indeed, many of the terms used to identify various cultures mean, simply, “the real people”. The belief that one’s own way of life is superior to others is called

Cuneiform is the term for the early writing in what part of the world?

We now know that chimpanzees (including bonobos) are the closest living relatives to humans. This means that

In Frans de Waal’s TED talk “Moral behavior among animals”, he explains that among our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, pretty much all conflict and stress is handled with violence and even warfare.

Franz Boas tried to make anthropology a science, so he developed the idea of cultural relativism to help anthropologists be more objective. At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries (before his ideas became mainstream), Western scholars commonly believed that most non-Europeans were

Homo erectus is generally associated with which of the following tool-making technologies?

Most anthropologists consider themselves “scientific” in part because their claims have to be based on some sort of evidence to be taken seriously.