Tag: Anthropology

We've had a Denisovan skull for almost a century and never even knew.

It sounds like a scene from gothic fiction, but it’s real.

What were these outsiders doing so far away from home?

Two ancient mummies reveal a mysterious, isolated lineage in North Africa.

New research reveals that both bonobos and chimpanzees use sexual behavior to ease social tension

That's a whole million years earlier than what we previously thought.

These marks found with footprints could be from 22,000-year-old primitive sleds, making them the oldest vehicle tracks.

For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted in a sudden population ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland unearthed a stunning cave filled with prehistoric secrets. The Maszycka Cave, as it’s ...

A groundbreaking study of the Durotriges tribe in Iron Age Britain reveals that women played central roles in their society.

Childhood curiosity likely transcended all species of humans.

We're starting to find more traces of Denisovan-human interbreeding.

There's more to this art than meets the eye.

Humans and weed go back 120 centuries.

It's only the second hand axe made out of bone that scientists have ever come across.

DNA analysis shows a 'profoundly different' landscape than we thought.

Neanderthals were every bit as complex and advanced as early humans -- and perhaps even more so.

Well this study is bound to raise some eyebrows.

Thieves plundered the cave, but they left researchers a bone.

A must-read book spanning time and science.

Their unique skills provided a huge advantage to the groups who embraced them.

Modern archaeology is a lot like crime scene investigation.

How did people get to America, and when? A new, 'pioneering and neat' study may have some answers.

In 1912, palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and the amateur antiquarian Charles Dawson made a stunning announcement, which turned out to ...

Anthropologists have uncovered a 430,000 year old homo skull with fatal wounds that represents the earliest identified murder case in ...

Roman gladiators - some of the most feared warriors in history were mostly vegetarian, a new anthropological study has shown. ...

In 2004, anthropologists and archaeologists working in Indonesia uncovered what was named "the biggest anthropological finding for 100 years" - ...

A study suggests that humanity's transition to civilization coincided with a drop in testosterone. Less of the hormone is associated ...

In what is quite an exciting study, a mixed team of researchers and cave divers announced the discovery of a ...

A new, controversial analysis of a skull suggests that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus were in fact the ...

You may understand that all people are different, but it takes a lot of genetics to understand just how different ...

A new carbon dating technique developed by Australian scientists may warrant a new extinction theory for the Neanderthals, which according ...

Strangely enough, it was computer simulation that provided the mathematical support for the grandmother hypothesis - a famous yet controversial ...

During the Neolithic period, man made the big jump from hunter-gatherer to farmer and agriculturalist, eventually moving on to larger ...

In a recent important palentological find, it seems that one of our ancient ancestors, the so called "Nutcracker Man" who ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have shown that our closest ...

It's not because they deserve it, if that's what you're thinking - you mysoginistic bastard; and it's not because they're ...