Anthropology

Anthropology

Pots from hunter-gatherer site in China tell tale of lifestyle shift

Chinese foragers settled down and made pottery shortly before farming’s ascent.

Anthropology

Ritual cannibalism occurred in England 14,700 years ago

Human bones show signs of ritual cannibalism in England 14,700 years ago.

Genetics

Mummies tell tuberculosis tales from the crypt

Hungarian mummies contracted multiple strains of tuberculosis at the same time, researchers find.

Anthropology

Beads suggest culture blocked farming in Northern Europe

Baltic hunter-gatherers blocked farming’s spread from south.

Anthropology

Ancient Homo fossils found in Kenya

Finds from three individuals add to skeletal diversity of early members of human genus.

Anthropology

Footprints offer clues about daily hominid life

Early male members of the human genus spent a lot of time together by the water, as their footprints attest.

Anthropology

Kennewick Man’s bones reveal his diet

Pacific Northwest man who lived 9,000 years ago ate from an almost entirely seafood menu, a new analysis finds.

Anthropology

‘Little Foot’ pushes back age of earliest South African hominids

Study suggests Lucy’s species had a South African foil nearly 3.7 million years ago.

Anthropology

Ancient hominids moved into Greece about 206,000 years ago

New analysis puts people at a contested Greek site about 206,000 years ago.

Anthropology

How to reconstruct the face of an extinct human ancestor

3-D designer reconstructs portraits of ancestors for the human family album.

Archaeology

Telling stories from stone tools

Existing stone tool categories may hide more than they reveal. New methods for analyzing stone artifacts aim to better reconstruct how hominids interacted and moved across Africa, Asia and Europe.

Anthropology

‘The Invaders’ sees dogs as key to modern humans’ success

Neandertals went extinct when Homo sapiens transformed wolves into hunting aids, author proposes.