progscrape: anthropology

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6 months ago science.org anthropology

Ancient Central Americans built a massive fish-trapping system | The fish-trapping network fed the growth of early Maya centers

5 months ago sciencenews.org anthropology

Research suggests that English-speaking children start producing novel determiner-noun combinations, such as using "a" or "the" with a noun they haven't heard before, around the age of 30 months

5 months ago news.uchicago.edu anthropology

A New Study Shows Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago

6 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology

An anthropologist introduces an innovative idea about why humans dominate the world over other animals: we excel and are unique due to "open-endedness"—our ability to communicate and understand an infinite number of possibilities in life

6 months ago news.asu.edu anthropology

X-ray imaging reveals that early members of the Homo genus may have had extended childhoods

6 months ago sciencenews.org anthropology

A new Australian study reveals a 37 per cent increase in deliberate self-poisonings among female children and adolescents over the last four years

5 months ago scimex.org anthropology australia

A new study challenges the theory that early fertility primarily benefits women from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds

5 months ago psypost.org anthropology

Beliefs around traditional religion and witchcraft linked to elevated distress and reduced feelings of being able to cope with stress, due to anxiety about uncontrollable external forces

6 months ago scimex.org anthropology psychology

Children aged 2 and 3 might be too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable," but they understand how possibility works

6 months ago hub.jhu.edu anthropology