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Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2025

What Is: Extinction Level Events

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A Chronicle of Earth's Biotic Crises and an Assessment of Future Threats Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Defining Biotic Catastrophe ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Did Lead Limit Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Extinct Hominids?

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UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Easter Island’s statues actually “walked” – and physics backs it up

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A research team including Binghamton University archaeologist Carl Lipo has confirmed via 3D modeling and field experiments that the ancient...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

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The Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan in central Mexico. Photo Credit: Christophe Helmke, University of Copenhagen More than two millennia ag...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

The life of a Stone Age man has been mapped

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Illustration Credit: Niels Bach CC-BY 4.0 Researchers have mapped the life of a Stone Age man in detail. New scientific methods have revolut...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Viking dentistry was surprisingly advanced

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Teeth from individuals among the Viking Age population of Varnhem in Västergötland, Sweden, are clinically examined by Carolina Bertilsson a...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Plague from Egypt: topos or reality?

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Fortress in Alexandria, Egypt From Alexandria and Pelusium, goods and people traveled from Egypt to the entire Mediterranean region. Did epi...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes

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analysed the distribution of the portion of DNA inherited from Neanderthals in the genomes of humans (Homo sapiens) over the last 40,000 yea...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Climate and human land use both play roles in Pacific island wildfires past and present

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SMU fire scientist Christopher Roos Photo Credit: Courtesy of  Southern Methodist University It’s long been understood that human settlement...
Friday, September 29, 2023

New study shows signs of early creation of modern human identities

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SapienCE researchers have publiched a new study which provides vital information about how and when we may have started developing modern hu...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Hunting anything that flies

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Pillar from Göbekli Tepe depicting a vulture with its wings spread.  Photo Credit: © Nadja Pöllath / SNSB-SPM Birds were an important source...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

New insights into the origin of food sharing among humans

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Chimpanzees Gremlin and son Grendel, begging for food, at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Minnesota A...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Romantic Love in Humans May Have Evolved From Same-Sex Friendship

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Two adolescent male chimpanzees, Barron, 15, and PeeWee, 9, grooming. Photo Credit: Aaron Sandel. Romantic heterosexual relationships in hum...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

New Model for Human Evolution Suggests Homo Sapiens Arose from Multiple Closely Related Populations

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View of the village of Kuboes, on the border of South Africa and Namibia. DNA samples were collected from Nama individuals who have historic...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Apes may have evolved upright stature for leaves, not fruit, in open woodland habitats

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Artistic rendering of the open woodland habitat reconstruction at Moroto II with Morotopithecus bishopi vertically climbing with infant on b...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Ancient DNA reveals entwined African and Asian ancestry along the Swahili coast of eastern Africa

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Rice researchers Mary Prendergast and Jeffrey Fleisher. Photo Credit: Brandon Martin. A new genetic study of medieval people who lived along...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

23,000-year-old human genome from southern Spain decoded

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Human tooth recovered Cueva de Malalmuerzo Photo Credit: Pedro Cantalejo A new study reports on genomic data from a 23,000-year-old individu...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

New Study Shows Archery Appeared in Europe Thousands of Years Earlier than Previously Thought

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Laure Metz making experimental bow and arrow shots with arrows armed with Neronian light points.  Photo Credit: Ludovic Slimak The use of bo...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Early humans: Annual cycles in tooth enamel provide insights into life histories

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Jülide Kubat and Wolfgang Müller load the LA-ICPMS with a thin section of tooth for analysis. Photo Credit: Jülide Kubat An interdisciplinar...
Friday, January 6, 2023

New study suggests Mayas utilized market-based economics

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Obsidian collections from the site of Q'umarkaj and the surrounding region. Photo Credit: Rachel Horowitz More than 500 years ago in the...