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Jun 4, 2024 | 
sapiens.org | Marlaina Martin
Content Warning: This article and the film it features contain mention of mental health struggles, police violence, sexual abuse, and suicide. ✽Black women are not invincible. However obvious this statement may seem, many Black women encounter people who frame them as perpetually strong—to magical and almost superhuman levels. The “Strong Black Woman” can overcome any problem, withstand any obstacle, and endure any hardship.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
sapiens.org | Marlaina Martin
An anthropologist explains how the outpouring of grief over New York’s Flaco the owl reflects changing attitudes toward these creatures.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Marlaina Martin
Sicily1 hour agoDNA Study Shows When Ancient Greeks Colonized Italygreekreporter.com - Tasos Kokkinidis • 1hA recent DNA study by an international team of scientists showed when Ancient Greeks colonized Magna Graecia in Italy.Magna Graecia is the name of …Rome4 hours agoIs America Declining Like Ancient Rome? openculture.com - Colin Marshall • 4hPursued to any depth, the question of whether the United States of America counts as an empire becomes difficult to address with clarity.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
sapiens.org | Rick Schulting |Marlaina Martin |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia |Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽THE IDEA THAT TWO different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
sapiens.org | Marlaina Martin
✽Deaths from opioid overdoses in the U.S. are surging. Overdose fatality rates began rising , with medical professionals prescribing higher rates of opioids, a class of pain-relieving drugs with addictive qualities. Since 2013, overdose rates have spiked with wider access to powerful synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl. Media coverage and policy debates on the opioid crisis have predominantly centered the stories of White opioid users, who have accounted for around 80 percent of overdose deaths.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Marlaina Martin |Hipólito Sanchiz Alcaraz |Annie Tucker |Robert Lemelson
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽THERE ARE ANCIENT PIRATES and modern treasure hunters. They are separated by more than 200 years of history, differences in available technology, and types of sponsorship that keep them afloat—the former sailing for a country and the latter protected by a company.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Lynne J. Quick |Marlaina Martin |Stephen Nash |Victoria Gibbon
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽IF YOU ARE ALLERGIC to pollen, you are likely to curse the existence of these microscopic particles. You’re not alone: of the world’s population suffers from hay fever, which is often driven by pollen allergies. Shifting global climates are likely to push that figure even higher.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Victoria Gibbon |Marlaina Martin |Veronica Gonzalez |Beni Sumer Yanthan
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. ✽IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 100 years since the skeletonized remains of nine people were removed from their graves on a farm near the town of Sutherland in South Africa’s Northern Cape province.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Brian Anthony Keeling |Rolf Quam |Marlaina Martin |Sarah Lacy
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. ✽HOMO SAPIENS, OUR OWN species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence. Then what happened?
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Jan 31, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | John Thomas |Marlaina Martin
The mosaic tells a grim tale of revenge from near the end of the Trojan War, famously described in Homer’s Iliad. Over three panels, it depicts the duel between the Greek hero Achilles and Prince Hector of Troy and the unsavory outcome of Achilles’ victory. The mosaic is an incredible find. It is the only known representation of the Trojan War from Roman Britain and tells the story in an unusual “comic strip” style.
