The Impact of Infectious Disease on Human Societies Globally, the coronavirus pandemic has had far-reaching and continuing effects on mortality, health, and well-being. Economies, social interactions, and food security and
The science is clear: climate change is the crisis of our time and must be addressed by all sectors of society at unprecedented speed and scale. Transformative climate action that
The European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) is the largest professional association of archaeologists in Europe. It is also a CfAS Partner, and many CfAS Associates are members. The Association’s annual
 Shortly after the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS) was established in 2017, CfAS sponsored two proof-of-concept projects using the working group model pioneered by the National Center for Ecological Analysis
Large scale databases are critical for helping scientists decipher long-term patterns in human evolution. This paper describes the conception and development of such a research database and illustrates how big
A key issue facing urban systems today is adaptation to climate change. Past urban experience should provide useful information in this regard, but efforts to leverage insights from the urban
Gary Feinman, MacArthur curator of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago and CfAS Board Member, recently wrote an article for Human Bridges, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The Database of Religious History (DRH; https://religiondatabase.org), based at the University of British Columbia and funded through a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation, is the largest and most
According to the recent Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report, today urban areas house about 1/2 of the human population, generate 2/3 of its economic output,
CfAS partners and affiliates may be interested in the forthcoming Big Historical Data Conference, organized by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. The conference aims to bring
According to a recent article published in Science, land abandonment and rural depopulation is accelerating rapidly in the world today. The forces driving it are the same as those driving
A new analysis by The Upshot1, perhaps of interest to archaeologists, suggests that the same economic forces that years ago drove working-class Americans out of the cities may be reaching
Anthony Fauci was recently interviewed by David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times. Much of the interview turned on the lessons learned about the Covid pandemic and our society’s response.
A recent article in the Conversation by Chapurukha Kusimba and David Reich, describes a collaborative effort between scientists and descendant communities to examine the origin of the Swahili People. Scholars
When thinking about ideas of synthesis in our understanding of the past, archaeologists often look for ways to build large, interdisciplinary datasets that can connect important pieces of the human
