Anthropology

  1. Anthropology

    Sticks, stones and bones reveal emergence of a hunter-gatherer culture

    A cave in southern Africa was occupied by people very much like those living in the region today.

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  2. Humans

    Mideast violence goes way back

    One-quarter of skulls excavated in troubled region display injuries from clubs or other weapons.

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  3. Anthropology

    Scientists can’t decide if shoulders of giants were broader or just better organized

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  4. Humans

    Ancient North Africans got milk

    Pottery study unveils early dairy practices among Saharan cattle herders.

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  5. Anthropology

    Maya calendar savvy suggests apocalypse is farther in the future than December

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  6. Humans

    Highlights from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Portland, Ore., April 11-14

    Shorts on Stone Age finds in Southeast Asia, chatting among Neandertal ancestors and early cannibalism.

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  7. Humans

    Ancient walking gets weirder

    Fossil footprints and bones suggest variations among human ancestors in upright gait and stance.

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  8. Humans

    From the ashes, the oldest controlled fire

    A South Africa cave yields the oldest secure evidence for a blaze controlled by human ancestors.

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  9. Humans

    New ancestor grasped at walking

    By 3.4 million years ago, two human relatives built differently for upright movement inhabited East Africa.

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  10. Anthropology

    Measure Your Giant Carefully And His Size Will Shrink

    Ongoing controversy over a hobbitlike hominid.

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  11. Humans

    Evolution takes Asian refuge

    Multiple humanlike species may have arisen in cold-weather retreats and then interbred with ancient people.

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  12. Anthropology

    Frozen mummy’s genetic blueprints unveiled

    DNA study reveals the 5,300-year-old Iceman had brown eyes, Lyme disease and links to modern-day Corsicans and Sardinians.

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