Anthropology

  1. Anthropology

    Butchered bird bones put humans in Madagascar 10,500 years ago

    Humans reached the island near Africa 6,000 years earlier than thought, raising questions about how its megafauna went extinct.

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  2. Genetics

    German skeletons hint that medieval warrior groups recruited from afar

    Graveyard finds may come from an ancient European warrior household with political pull.

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  3. Anthropology

    A fossil mistaken for a bat may shake up lemurs’ evolutionary history

    On Madagascar, a type of lemur called aye-ayes may have a singular evolutionary history.

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  4. Archaeology

    The debate over people’s pathway into the Americas heats up

    Defenders of an ice-free inland passage for early Americans make their case.

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  5. Genetics

    Indonesia’s pygmies didn’t descend from hobbits, DNA analysis suggests

    Short people living on the Indonesian island of Flores don’t appear to have DNA from controversial, small-bodied Stone Age hominids called hobbits.

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  6. Anthropology

    Cremated remains reveal hints of who is buried at Stonehenge

    Ancient stone monument held burials of people from more than 200 kilometers away, a new study suggests.

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  7. Anthropology

    Conflict reigns over the history and origins of money

    Thousands of years ago, money took different forms as a means of debt payment, archaeologists and anthropologists say.

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  8. Anthropology

    How an ancient stone money system works like cryptocurrency

    Money has ancient and mysterious pedigrees that go way beyond coins.

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  9. Earth

    You’re living in a new geologic age. It’s called the Meghalayan

    The newly defined Meghalayan Age began at the same time as a global, climate-driven event that led to human upheavals.

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  10. Genetics

    North America’s earliest dogs came from Siberia

    North America’s first dogs have few descendants alive today, a study of ancient DNA suggests.

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  11. Anthropology

    Foot fossil pegs hominid kids as upright walkers 3.3 million years ago

    A foot from an ancient hominid child suggests that Lucy’s species, Australopithecus afarensis, walked early in life.

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  12. Archaeology

    Mongolians practiced horse dentistry as early as 3,200 years ago

    Horse dentistry got an early start among Bronze Age Mongolian herders.

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