Ethnology

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The remains of a European pond turtle found in an ancient grave in northern Poland could shed new light on the Wielbark culture, a Roman Iron Age culture associated with Gothic and other Germanic peoples who lived in the Barbaricum (that is, outside the Roman Empire) between the 1st and 5th century AD.

Goths living in northern Poland between the first and fifth centuries were talented silversmiths and produced jewelry that was as high-quality as items from the Roman Empire.

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A German museum has returned to Colombia two "sun masks" belonging to the Indigenous Kogi people. The wooden artifacts date back to the 15th century and had been in the museum's possession for more than 100 years.

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Known as "the grandfather of African cinema," Sembène created powerful female characters who challenged Western notions of gender and sexuality.

Curators are realizing that returning looted artifacts isn't closing museums—it's opening new doors. "The ethnographic museum of the past is making its way to the exit."

With a dark past behind him, Reichel-Dolmatoff went on to pioneer the Colombian cultural anthropology scene, bringing indigenous ayahausca use to light.

A wildly un-German tradition returns after a pandemic hiatus.

Mali Obomsawin's first solo album combines Wabanaki hand drums and jazz arrangements. She calls it "the first authentic statement" in her creative journey.

U2 surveillance aircraft criss-crossed the globe photographing everything from 70,000 feet. The pictures, now on display at the Penn Museum, reveal a wealth of archaeological information.

An exploration of what we can learn about history from three big buckets of human knowledge: inorganic, organic, and human history.

Members of the Ponca tribes in Nebraska and Oklahoma visited the Massachusetts university on June 3 for the ceremonial return of the artifact.

Its oldest gallery, Northwest Coast Hall, reopens May 13 with rare cultural objects and a fresh emphasis on the lives of Indigenous people who made them.

Putin's war relies on an ultranationalist ideology pushed by far-right Russian thinkers who see Ukrainian nationhood as a fiction.

Researchers looking to identify some of the most difficult "finds" in archeology—including sites used by nomadic hunter-gatherer communities—are tapping technology to help in the search.

"Ukraine's glory hasn't perished," begins the anthem, which is being played by orchestras worldwide as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

The government of Mexico said Thursday it succeeded in getting a pre-Hispanic artifact removed from a planned Vienna auction, part of an effort to win the return of archaeological treasures that has largely been unsuccessful so far.