Anthropology Published in Decade: 2010s
2. 
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
by:
Jean Manco
3.95 avg rating — 714 ratings 3. 
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
by:
Chip Colwell
4.40 avg rating — 384 ratings 4. 
Humanimal: How Homo Sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History
by:
Adam Rutherford
3.83 avg rating — 2,681 ratings 5. 
Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
by:
Joshua Tucker
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 6. 
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Selling Salem's Witches: An Ethnography of a New England Tourist Town
by:
Alexandra Aird
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 9. 
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
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Pat Shipman
3.71 avg rating — 590 ratings 
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Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
by:
Chip Walter
4.01 avg rating — 1,233 ratings 10. 
Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future
by:
Riane Eisler
4.46 avg rating — 83 ratings 
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Jared Diamond
3.78 avg rating — 10,885 ratings 14. 
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story 3.94 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
by:
E. Fuller Torrey
4.25 avg rating — 399 ratings 14. 
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
by:
Chris Stringer
3.86 avg rating — 1,565 ratings 18. 
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.30 avg rating — 45,197 ratings 
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
by:
Ian Tattersall
4.06 avg rating — 1,316 ratings 21. 
Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class
by:
Noelle Stout
3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings 23. 
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
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Spencer Wells
3.77 avg rating — 1,142 ratings 
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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution 4.19 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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The Archaeology of Pineland: A Coastal Southwest Florida Site Complex, A.D. 50-1710 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
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Henry Gee
3.91 avg rating — 441 ratings 
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
by:
Charles King
4.26 avg rating — 2,337 ratings 38. 
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Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing
by:
Anand Pandian
4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings 40. 
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Black Magic and Bogeymen: Fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972-74
by:
Richard Jenkins
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings 42. 
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
by:
Don Kulick
4.16 avg rating — 1,008 ratings 43. 
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
by:
Sarah Parcak
3.73 avg rating — 992 ratings 44. 
Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the Military (Heritage Matters, 3)
by:
Laurie Rush
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 45. 
Exotic No More: Anthropology for the Contemporary World
by:
Jeremy MacClancy
3.76 avg rating — 75 ratings 
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Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity
by:
Ashley Lemke
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 49. 
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 4.11 avg rating — 15,877 ratings
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Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
by:
Ashanté M. Reese
4.33 avg rating — 189 ratings 51. 
The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes (When the Land Meets the Sea, 2)
by:
Ben Ford
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 52. 
New Life for Archaeological Collections (Society for Historical Archaeology Series in Material Culture)
by:
Rebecca Allen
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Inside Science: Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science
by:
Robert E. Kohler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (Volume 41) (California Series in Public Anthropology)
by:
Ieva Jusionyte
4.41 avg rating — 91 ratings 62. 
Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
by:
Michael L. Cepek
4.38 avg rating — 80 ratings 63. 
100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
by:
Stephen Le
3.62 avg rating — 597 ratings 
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Land of Disenchantment: Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk
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Ian Hodder
4.08 avg rating — 166 ratings 68. 
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
by:
Mark Auslander
3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology
by:
David Gregory
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Landscape Archaeology: Reading Interpreting American Historical Landscape
by:
Rebecca Yamin
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 74. 
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Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals
by:
Bonnie J. Morris
4.34 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art
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Paul G. Bahn
4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings 
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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge: Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
by:
Dean E. Arnold
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by:
David Reich
4.14 avg rating — 5,855 ratings 83. 
Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture
by:
Andrea Stone
4.61 avg rating — 46 ratings 84. 
The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
by:
David J. Meltzer
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 85. 
First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America
by:
David J. Meltzer
4.13 avg rating — 232 ratings 86. 
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
by:
Carl Hoffman
3.86 avg rating — 781 ratings 87. 
Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context
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Ian Kuijt
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Handbook of Landscape Archaeology (World Archaeological Congress Research Handbooks in Archaeology)
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Bruno David
4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings 90. 
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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
by:
Sang-Hee Lee
3.91 avg rating — 885 ratings 92. 
Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans
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W. John Kress
4.07 avg rating — 90 ratings 
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Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Life and Death on the Nile: A Bioethnography of Three Ancient Nubian Communities it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change 4.09 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Nature and Antiquities: The Making of Archaeology in the Americas
by:
Philip L. Kohl
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 