progscrape: anthropology

Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem

20 hours ago news.exeter.ac.uk anthropology

A new analysis of 51 fossilized hominid teeth found lead has haunted us for almost 2 million years – but modern human brains seem better equipped to deal with it than Neanderthals.

21 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island nation, which has long been one of the world's mosquito-free places, a researcher told AFP Monday.

15 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

The ancient practice of tooth removal helps map early migration across Vietnam: Ancient communities pulled out healthy teeth to demonstrate collective identity

12 days ago pnas.org anthropology

Modeling the rise and demise of Classic Maya cities: Climate, conflict, and economies of scale

19 days ago pnas.org anthropology

About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell.

13 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

A strange gamma-ray glow emanating from the heart of the Milky Way could be the long-sought fingerprint of dark matter particles annihilating each other, evidence suggests.

14 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

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

28 days ago zmescience.com anthropology

For people with abnormally high blood sugar levels, losing weight is often proposed as the primary approach to preventing full-blown diabetes from developing

15 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology diabetes

Earth was a broiling mass of lava and rock before it took the form that it has today, and scientists have for the first time discovered traces of that very early 'proto Earth', hidden away in the deepest and oldest rocks on our planet.

15 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology earth

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

41 days ago theguardian.com anthropology

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

57 days ago popularmechanics.com anthropology

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

36 days ago sciencenews.org anthropology

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

59 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

2 months ago fascinatingworld.org anthropology

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

48 days ago nature.com anthropology

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

51 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

2 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology

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

2 months 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

55 days ago doi.org anthropology

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

44 days ago eurekalert.org anthropology europe

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

52 days ago nature.com anthropology china

Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds

2 months ago royalsocietypublishing.org anthropology

Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals

2 months ago eurekalert.org anthropology

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

2 months 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

3 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