progscrape: anthropology

The Moai Statues Were Really “Walked” to Their Platforms | This ancient puzzle solved not with brute force, but with clever physics.

5 days ago zmescience.com anthropology

Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

18 days ago theguardian.com anthropology

Archaeologists Discovered the Skull of a Bear Once Used in Roman Gladiator Fights

34 days ago popularmechanics.com anthropology

12,000-year-old Camel engravings reveal an early human presence in a once-verdant Nefud landscape

13 days ago sciencenews.org anthropology

The 12000 Year Old Skeleton That Reveals Humanity’s First Known Act of Violence in Southeast Asia

36 days ago nhm.ac.uk anthropology

For over 1,500 years, the cause of the Justinianic Plague, the world’s first plague pandemic, remained a mystery

42 days ago fascinatingworld.org anthropology

Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples.

24 days ago nature.com anthropology

The world's oldest known mummies date back to 12,000 years ago in Southeast Asia, new research shows

28 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Severed arms and brutalized skeletal remains recovered from pits at two 6,000-year-old archaeological sites in northeastern France suggest the region's inhabitants turned torture into a public spectacle to celebrate their victories

42 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal

42 days ago archaeologymag.com anthropology

Over 1,000 Maya inscriptions show how a word change spread across the Lowlands between AD 200–900, carried by scribes and political alliances

31 days ago doi.org anthropology

Early humans may have walked from Türkiye to mainland Europe, new research suggests

21 days ago eurekalert.org anthropology europe

Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China

28 days ago nature.com anthropology china

Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds

54 days ago royalsocietypublishing.org anthropology

Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals

52 days ago eurekalert.org anthropology

Ancient teeth reveal that betel nuts have been used as stimulants since the Bronze Age

54 days ago arstechnica.com anthropology

Ancient DNA reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England

2 months ago lancashire.ac.uk anthropology

Ancient Europeans resisted inequality for 5000 years

2 months ago science.org anthropology

Fossilized teeth from 2.6 million years ago reveal the existence of an ancient human species that's never been found before

2 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Speakers of different languages describe the same picture in surprisingly different ways — yet these differences point to a few basic ideas all humans share about space

43 days ago doi.org anthropology

Researchers working in Ethiopia have discovered remains of a previously unknown branch of humanity

2 months ago scientificamerican.com anthropology

Humans living on the Iberian Peninsula during the late Neolithic period may have eaten their neighbors in one grim and grisly act of social violence, new evidence reveals.

2 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Liberalisation Processes in Oman lead to English becoming a domineering language in the sultanate

2 months ago doi.org anthropology

Arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils."

54 days ago cambridge.org anthropology game

A drought lasting 13 years and several others that each lasted over three years may have contributed to the collapse of the Classic Maya civilisation, chemical fingerprints from a stalagmite in a Mexican cave have revealed.

2 months ago cam.ac.uk anthropology

Image on The Shroud of Turin May Not Belong to a Real Human, According to New 3D Study

2 months ago sciencealert.com 3d anthropology

In the 1850s, hundreds of Deaf Americans organized two reunions that sustained their community, forged a shared identity, and helped spread ASL across the USA.

53 days ago doi.org anthropology usa

Ancient stone tools dating to 1.04 million years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi provide the oldest evidence of extinct hominins in the island region, suggesting the ‘Hobbit’ species (Homo floresiensis) may have been predated by an unknown hominin population

2 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Two developmental shifts in the human ilium—growth plate reorientation and delayed ossification—underlie evolution of upright walking

45 days ago nature.com anthropology

'Like a sci-fi movie': US baby born from 30-year-old frozen embryo breaks record

2 months ago bbc.co.uk anthropology

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The Moai Statues Were Really “Walked” to Their Platforms | This ancient puzzle solved not with brute force, but with clever physics.

Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Archaeologists Discovered the Skull of a Bear Once Used in Roman Gladiator Fights

12,000-year-old Camel engravings reveal an early human presence in a once-verdant Nefud landscape

The 12000 Year Old Skeleton That Reveals Humanity’s First Known Act of Violence in Southeast Asia

For over 1,500 years, the cause of the Justinianic Plague, the world’s first plague pandemic, remained a mystery

Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples.

The world's oldest known mummies date back to 12,000 years ago in Southeast Asia, new research shows

Severed arms and brutalized skeletal remains recovered from pits at two 6,000-year-old archaeological sites in northeastern France suggest the region's inhabitants turned torture into a public spectacle to celebrate their victories

Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal

Over 1,000 Maya inscriptions show how a word change spread across the Lowlands between AD 200–900, carried by scribes and political alliances

Early humans may have walked from Türkiye to mainland Europe, new research suggests

Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China

Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds

Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals

Ancient teeth reveal that betel nuts have been used as stimulants since the Bronze Age

Ancient DNA reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England

Ancient Europeans resisted inequality for 5000 years

Fossilized teeth from 2.6 million years ago reveal the existence of an ancient human species that's never been found before

Speakers of different languages describe the same picture in surprisingly different ways — yet these differences point to a few basic ideas all humans share about space

Researchers working in Ethiopia have discovered remains of a previously unknown branch of humanity

Humans living on the Iberian Peninsula during the late Neolithic period may have eaten their neighbors in one grim and grisly act of social violence, new evidence reveals.

Liberalisation Processes in Oman lead to English becoming a domineering language in the sultanate

Arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils."

A drought lasting 13 years and several others that each lasted over three years may have contributed to the collapse of the Classic Maya civilisation, chemical fingerprints from a stalagmite in a Mexican cave have revealed.

Image on The Shroud of Turin May Not Belong to a Real Human, According to New 3D Study

In the 1850s, hundreds of Deaf Americans organized two reunions that sustained their community, forged a shared identity, and helped spread ASL across the USA.

Ancient stone tools dating to 1.04 million years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi provide the oldest evidence of extinct hominins in the island region, suggesting the ‘Hobbit’ species (Homo floresiensis) may have been predated by an unknown hominin population

Two developmental shifts in the human ilium—growth plate reorientation and delayed ossification—underlie evolution of upright walking

'Like a sci-fi movie': US baby born from 30-year-old frozen embryo breaks record