Discovery of 1.4 million-year-old fossil closes human evolution gap
Humans have a distinctive hand anatomy that allows them to make and use tools.
Gender Roles and the Mass-kill Event: A Cross-cultural Analysis
Gender assumptions’ when interpreting past human behaviour
One of the oldest cases of tuberculosis is discovered
Scientists verify the presence of tuberculosis from 7,000 years ago
Sinking teeth into the evolutionary origin of our skeleton
Did our skeletons evolve for protection or for violence? The earliest vestiges of our skeleton are encountered in 500million-year-old fossil fishes, some of which were armour-plated filter feeders, while others were naked predators with a face full of gruesome, vicious teeth.
Why did anatomically modern humans replace European Neandertals 40,000 years ago?
One hypothesis suggests that Neandertals were rigid in their dietary choice, targeting large herbivorous mammals, such as horse, bison and mammoths, while modern humans also exploited a wider diversity of dietary resources, including fish.
Uros people of Peru and Bolivia have distinctive genetic ancestries
New genetic research led by the Genographic Project consortium shows a distinctive ancestry for the Uros populations of Peru and Bolivia that predates the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores and may date back to the earliest settlement of the Altiplano, or high plain, of the central Andes some 3,700 years ago.
Unraveling the genetic mystery of medieval leprosy
Scientists reconstruct the genome of medieval strains of the pathogen responsible for leprosy by exhuming centuries-old human graves.
Over 120,000-year-old bone tumor in Neandertal specimen found
Croatian rib of a Neandertal reveals ancient example of now-common bone tumor
Iceman Ötzi had bad teeth
For the first time, researchers from the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich together with colleagues abroad have been able to provide evidence of periodontitis, tooth decay and accident-related dental damage in the ice mummy ‘Ötzi’.
Team reports on abuse of students doing anthropological fieldwork
College athletes are not the only ones who sometimes suffer at the hands of higher ups. A new report brings to light a more hidden and pernicious problem – the psychological, physical and sexual abuse of students in the field of biological anthropology working in field studies far from home.
7,000BC: The dawn of cinema brought to life at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life by the latest digital technology at Cambridge Unviersity’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
A new scientific study proves that there is not any association between facial shape and aggression
There is not significant evidence to support the association between facial shape and aggression in men, according to a study published by the journal PLOS ONE.
Early Human Burials Varied Widely but Most Were Simple
A new study from the University of Colorado Denver shows that the earliest human burial practices in Eurasia varied widely, with some graves lavish and ornate while the vast majority were fairly plain.
Aztec Conquest Altered Genetics among Early Mexico Inhabitants, New DNA Study Shows
For centuries, the fate of the original Otomí inhabitants of Xaltocan, the capital of a pre-Aztec Mexican city-state, has remained unknown. Researchers have long wondered whether they assimilated with the Aztecs or abandoned the town altogether.
A relative from the Tianyuan Cave
Ancient DNA has revealed that humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native Americans
