Anthropology
RETROSPECT

The utopian torch
The hundredth anniversary celebration for Darcy Ribeiro highlights the anthropologist's contribution to sociology and education
By Diego Viana
Paleontology

The first bipedal hominids
Considered the oldest representative of the human lineage, the species Sahelanthropus tchadensis lived around seven million years ago
By Redação
Archaeology

Ancient peoples dug up the dead
Digging up the dead and then burying them again with adornments was a common mortuary practice for ancient South American peoples
By Redação
HISTORY

Possible origin of the Black Death
Black Death may have originated in the region of Eurasia that is now Kyrgyzstan, west of China
By Redação
INTERVIEW

Karen Strier: Four decades with the muriquis
American anthropologist has contributed to primate conservation in the Atlantic Forest and trained almost 80 Brazilian researchers
By Maria Guimarães and Carlos Fioravanti
Demographics

Discoveries about the past
Early demographic data show that 20% of households were headed by women in colonial Brazil
Anthropology

Recognition for Indigenous Scholar
Maria Manuela Ligeti Carneiro da Cunha was awarded the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Prize for Science and Technology in the Human and Social Sciences, Languages, and Arts category
By Redação
History

Population decline in pre-colonial Amazonia
In response to environmental changes, epidemics, or wars, the populational decline of the Amazon region may have started 300 to 600 years before contact with European settlers
By Redação
Iconography

Gazing at the other
Using photographs, a researcher analyzes the phenomenon of human zoos
By Diego Viana
COVID-19

Death of a man; extinction of an ethnic group
Aruká Juma, the last person to speak the language of the Juma people, died of COVID-19 on February
By Redação
Archaeology

30,000 years ago in the Americas
Mexican site suggests settlement of the Americas began 30,000 years ago
History

The first voyages across the Pacific
The first inhabitants of Polynesia had contact with native peoples from the Americas just over 800 years ago
By Redação
Covid-19

Research during quarantine
Fernando Carvall“When I saw the results, I thought: this virus is going to infect everyone” The first reports about the disease in China sparked my curiosity. The Chinese discovered that the virus enters the cells via the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 [ACE2] receptor. Its expression depends on the ACE2 gene, which plays an important role in... View Article
By Redação
Archaeology

Primitive gardens in the Amazon
Evidence of cassava and pumpkin cultivation, dated at 10,350 and 10,250 years ago respectively, helped an international team of researchers to identify 4,700 artificial forests in the Llanos de Moxos region in Bolivia
By Redação
Obituary

An anthropologist of violence
Alba Zaluar, a pioneer in crime and social policy studies, dies at 77
Population genetics

The last of the Tupiniquim
Indigenous people from Espírito Santo reached the Brazilian coastline 1,200 years ago and later met European colonizers during the Age of Discovery
Computer Science

Discriminatory algorithms
How artificial intelligence assumes discriminatory behavior and what science can do to prevent it
By Suzel Tunes