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Why Viking museums still can’t escape the warrior myth
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Scandinavian museums are navigating the tension between public desire for the 'warrior' myth and the nuanced reality of Viking Age social structures.
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This Australian cave hid 25,000 years of ritual secrets
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Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death
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France’s Constitutional Council recently blocked a proposed law that would have prohibited children under 15 from using social media. The council concluded that the restrictions infringed upon freedom…
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a closing reflection
"To anthropologists, the world is a field of possibilities, and the task is to describe how people find their way through it."
— Tim Ingold