An Anthropologist’s Father’s Day, 2020

Today is Father’s Day (en Castellano abajo). Like its mothers’ counterpart, it is not a simple holiday because there is a wide range of fathers. Some fathers have been with us all our lives, including women who, for many reasons, are pulling double-duty every day. Some people have not biologically reproduced and are fathers anyway.…

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Dietary variation among indigenous Nicaraguan horticulturalists and their dogs: An ethnoarchaeological application of the Canine Surrogacy Approach

Dietary reconstruction via stable isotope analysis is an important part of the study of past populations, but can raise issues in many parts of the world where human remains are scarce, absent, or restricted due to ethical concerns. Given these issues, some researchers have used domesticated dogs as human dietary proxies via the Canine Surrogacy…

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