Anthropology

Archaeologists excavating in Iroungou, a cave in Ngounié Province of Gaban have discovered thousands of pre-colonial human remains, consisting of at least 28 identified individuals.

Newspapers regularly carry stories of terrifying shark attacks, but in a paper published today, Oxford-led researchers reveal their discovery of a 3,000-year-old victim - attacked by a shark in the Seto Inland Sea of the Japanese archipelago.

Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Jebel Sahaba cemetery in the Nile Valley of the Sudan was considered to be one of the oldest testimonies to prehistoric warfare.

Forensic archaeologists and anthropologists from Cranfield University have started to recover the bodies of victims executed by the Franco regime at the end of the Spanish Civil War during an excavation in the Ciudad Real region of Spain.

Despite being home to the earliest signs of modern human behaviour, early evidence of burials in Africa are scarce and often ambiguous.

The first known case of a pregnant Ancient Egyptian mummy has been revealed by researchers from the Warsaw Mummy Project.

The lifestyle and eating habits of human groups that have lived for thousands of years can be examined by tooth.

An important Maya man buried nearly 1,300 years ago led a privileged yet difficult life. The man, a diplomat named Ajpach' Waal, suffered malnutrition or illness as a child, but as an adult he helped negotiate an alliance between two powerful dynasties that ultimately failed.

As far back as the Greek historian Herodotus, a group of people called the Scythians were considered highly mobile warrior nomads.

In previous research, ancient massacre sites found men who died while pitted in battle or discovered executions of targeted families.

Modern medical technology is helping scholars tell a more nuanced story about the fate of an ancient king whose violent death indirectly led to the reunification of Egypt in the 16th century BC. 

New analysis of a 20th Dynasty mummified individual reveals her rare mud carapace, according to a study by Karin Sowada from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues.