progscrape: anthropology

Ancient DNA unveils a previously unknown line of Neandertals that evolved apart from other European Neandertals, researchers report

57 days ago sciencenews.org anthropology

DNA and genealogical evidence reveal, for the first time, the identity of cannibalised remains recovered from the Franklin expedition

43 days ago newscientist.com anthropology

Anthropologists mark 100 years since the jungle gym and monkey bars were patented, arguing that the playground equipment and other forms of risky play exercise a biological need passed on from apes and early humans that may be critical to childhood development.

57 days ago home.dartmouth.edu anthropology

Ancient remains of Egyptian army barracks and a bronze sword unearthed by archaeologists

51 days ago edition.cnn.com anthropology

The Decline of Uniqueness: A 20-Year Study Uncovers Surprising Trends in Human Behavior

2 months ago fikku.com anthropology

Ice Age Europeans: Climate Change Caused a Drastic Decline in Hunter-Gatherers

2 months ago senckenberg.de anthropology

Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant in Europe to the early 1600s

2 months ago sciencedirect.com anthropology europe

Troubling link between slavery and Congressional wealth uncovered

2 months ago journals.plos.org anthropology

The Neolithic farmers and herders who built a massive stone chamber in southern Spain nearly 6,000 years ago possessed a good rudimentary grasp of physics, geometry…

2 months ago nature.com anthropology

Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq

2 months ago euronews.com anthropology

Study found that, the more women there were in a field, the lower the overall grant-application success rate and evaluation of researcher quality

2 months ago nature.com anthropology

Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, study finds

2 months ago theguardian.com anthropology

Ancient Mexican Child Sacrifice Linked to Elite Inbreeding

2 months ago cambridge.org anthropology

A new Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has provided further evidence that men who frequently stare at women’s bodies, rather than their faces, are more likely to harbour harmful attitudes and show tendencies that may lead to sexual assault.

3 months ago scimex.org anthropology

Scientists find out how early humans survived cold when they moved out of Africa

3 months ago independent.co.uk anthropology

Premature infants who had more skin-to-skin contact with a parent received higher neurodevelopment scores at 12 months

3 months ago med.stanford.edu anthropology

‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

3 months ago theguardian.com anthropology

Stonehenge’s Altar Stone originated hundreds of kilometers away in Scotland, researchers report in Nature

2 months ago sciencenews.org anthropology

How bread dough gave rise to civilisation - A major international study explained how bread wheat transformed the ancient world, creating a new kind of agriculture, allowing humans to settle down and form societies 8,000 to 11,000 years ago when a weed crossed with pasta wheat in southern Caspian.

2 months ago jic.ac.uk anthropology

Ancient plant artefact reveals humans likely migrated from an island in eastern Indonesia to Australia through the northern route

2 months ago newscientist.com anthropology australia

Smallest arm bone in human fossil record sheds light on the dawn of Homo floresiensis

3 months ago scimex.org anthropology arm

The Wild Tale of the Cerutti Mastodon, a Fossil That Could Rewrite the Human Story

3 months ago atlasobscura.com anthropology

Globally, around 1 in 4 adolescent girls experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence

3 months ago thelancet.com anthropology

Son preference is positively correlated with patrilocality rates across states and districts of India

3 months ago link.springer.com anthropology

Climate change primarily affects child marriage through its impacts on access to resources and income, which in turn affect the main drivers of child marriage: extreme poverty and gender inequality.