Indigenous Land
Supernatural figures highlight the spiritual complexity of the Amazon
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Archaeologists explored a colossal rock in the Colombian Amazon with 3,200 ochre paintings, revealing ancient mythology and intricate human-nature relationships.
Interviews
The Labors of a Heathen: An Interview with Joshua Rood Part II
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“Nexion is wrath,” the Eddas, and Michael Jordan: The second part of Lyonel Perabo’s conversation with Joshua Rood.
Interviews
The Making of a Heathen: an interview with Joshua Rood, Part I
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“Even though Ásatrú might not have been quite where I had imagined it, people were actively trying to work toward something. You don’t get temples and songs and chants and beautiful ceremonies and certainly not a deep knowledge system overnight. You need to discover and build these things. And you need a community to do it with.”
News
The repatriation and grisly history of the Smithsonian’s ‘racial brain’ collection
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The Smithsonian Institution will begin repatriating a collection of human brains collected unethically and with the intent of proving white superiority.
Culture
The male hunter debunked: New research ends myth about hunter-gatherer sex roles
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New research takes a fresh look at existing data and busts the hunter-gatherer sex roles myth.