2010s in anthropology

2013

• Discovery of Homo naledi an extinct species of hominin, found in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa's Gauteng province

2015

• Announcement of the discovery of Homo naledi made

• Lewis Binford (April 11) (archaeologist)
• Carlos Iván Degregori (May 18)
• Edmund Snow Carpenter (July 1)^[1]
• Allen R. Maxwell (November 16)
• Marc Swartz (December 14)

• Elizabeth Brumfiel (January 1)
• Steven Rubenstein (March 8)
• Dennison J. Nash (March 20)^[2]
• Neil L. Whitehead (March 22)
• Phillip V. Tobias (June 7)
• Michel-Rolph Trouillot (July 5)^[3]
• Anna Lou Dehavenon^[4]

• Masao Yamaguchi

• David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011)
• Tim Ingold, Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description (2011)
• Christoph Antweiler, Inclusive Humanism: Anthropological Basics for a Realistic Cosmopolitanism (2011)
• Angela Davis, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (2012)