Anthropology This Priest Was Embalmed With Wood Chips Through His Rectum—And It Worked Surprisingly Well May 8, 2025
Anthropology This Indigenous Group Doesn’t Sing to Babies or Dance—and It’s Reshaping Anthropology May 6, 2025
Anthropology This ancient South American culture used ritual drugs to reinforce social hierarchy May 5, 2025
Anthropology These 400,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusks Carved by Early Humans May Be the Oldest Evidence of Prehistoric Intelligence April 24, 2025
Anthropology 16,000-Year-Old Dog-Like Skeleton Found in France Raises Haunting Questions April 24, 2025
Anthropology Medieval Female Scribes Were Far More Common Than Previously Thought. At Least 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts Were Copied by Women March 12, 2025
Anthropology Hominins in Africa were shaping bone tools as early as 1.5 million years ago March 5, 2025
Agriculture AI Is Deciphering Ancient Inscriptions That Experts Have Struggled With for Centuries March 5, 2025
Anthropology Ancient DNA Reveals Most Europeans Had Dark Skin Until Just 3,000 Years Ago February 16, 2025
Anthropology Paleolithic culture cannibalized their enemies — and maybe their friends as well February 12, 2025
Anthropology Paleolithic kids had cheek piercings 29,000 years ago — and the proof is in the teeth February 5, 2025
Anthropology Could These Ancient Artifacts Have Been Created to End a Volcanic Winter? January 17, 2025
Anthropology In Ancient Britain, men would leave their home to live with their wives January 16, 2025
Anthropology Lasers reveal stunning ancient tattoos hidden on 800-year-old Peruvian mummies January 14, 2025
Anthropology Chimp Choose Their Stone Tools Like Our Human Ancestors From 2.5 Million Years Ago January 8, 2025
Anthropology Some Cultures Have No Words for Numbers Beyond ‘Three’. Here’s What They Can Teach Us December 26, 2024
Anthropology This Babylonian Student’s 4,000-Year-Old Math Blunder Is Still Relatable Today December 20, 2024
Anthropology Modern Humans and Neanderthals Had Kids for 7,000 Years and the Legacy Lives in Our Genes December 13, 2024
Anthropology New Study Reveals Hunter-Gatherers Are the Ultimate Athletes Regardless of Gender December 4, 2024
Anthropology Neanderthals and early humans started burying their dead at the same time — and it may be more about competition than honoring the dead November 4, 2024
Anthropology A Wild Theory Suggests Kissing Started as Ape Grooming — and the Science Is Fascinating October 29, 2024
Anthropology Scientists find a new Neanderthal population that stayed completely isolated for 50,000 years September 13, 2024
Anthropology Smallest Human Limb Bone Ever Sheds New Light on Homo floresiensis, The ‘Hobbits’ August 6, 2024 - Updated on August 7, 2024
Anthropology Researchers find traces of 12,000-year-old Aboriginal ritual carried out for millennia July 3, 2024
Anthropology Archaeologists unearth 500-year-old skeletons of Inca toddlers with smallpox July 3, 2024
Anthropology Discovery of six-year-old Neanderthal child with Down syndrome rewrites history of human compassion June 28, 2024
Anthropology From Stone Tools To Smartphones: The Genesis Of Cumulative Culture In Human History June 27, 2024 - Updated on June 28, 2024
Anthropology ‘Lucy’, our iconic 3.2-million-year-old ancestor, may have been hairless. What this means for the evolution of nudity and shame June 24, 2024