Mapping noses in the Basque Country

Anthropologist Esther Rebato [pictured here] of the University of the Basque Country has mapped the presence of nasal characteristics in people who dwell in the Basque Country. Her study is: “Aspectos métricos y morfoscópicos  de la región nasal en vascos [“Metric aspects and morphoscopic the nasal region in Basques”],” Esther Rebato, Munibe Antropologia – Arkeologia, no. […]

Anthropology essay assignment: Mummy

This month’s Anthropology Essay Assignment for Classrooms is to write a 50-word essay summarizing the anthropological and psychological import of this Associated Press report. It describes a situation in the city of Concord, New Hampshire. Here are sentences from the beginning, middle, and end of that report: The mummified body of a baby, kept by […]