Anthropology
- Humans
Herders, not farmers, built Stonehenge
Farming’s temporary demise in ancient Britain may have spurred the creation of the iconic stone circle.
By Bruce Bower - Humans
Language family may have Anatolian origins
Major language family started in Anatolia 8,000 years ago or more, a contentious analysis concludes.
By Bruce Bower - Humans
Good times led to grisly custom
Ancient Chileans developed artificial mummification after an increase in the numbers of living and dead people made naturally preserved bodies hard to ignore.
By Bruce Bower - Humans
New fossils hint at ancestral split
Jaw and face bones suggest two Homo species lived in East Africa nearly 2 million years ago.
By Bruce Bower - 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.
By Meghan Rosen - Humans
Mideast violence goes way back
One-quarter of skulls excavated in troubled region display injuries from clubs or other weapons.
By Bruce Bower -
- Humans
Ancient North Africans got milk
Pottery study unveils early dairy practices among Saharan cattle herders.
By Bruce Bower -
- 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.
By Bruce Bower - Humans
Ancient walking gets weirder
Fossil footprints and bones suggest variations among human ancestors in upright gait and stance.
By Bruce Bower - Humans
From the ashes, the oldest controlled fire
A South Africa cave yields the oldest secure evidence for a blaze controlled by human ancestors.
By Bruce Bower