progscrape: anthropology

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

4 days ago popularmechanics.com anthropology

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

6 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

12 days ago fascinatingworld.org 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

11 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

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

12 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

34 hours ago doi.org anthropology

Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds

24 days ago royalsocietypublishing.org anthropology

Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals

22 days ago eurekalert.org anthropology

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

24 days ago arstechnica.com anthropology

Ancient DNA reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England

31 days ago lancashire.ac.uk anthropology

Ancient Europeans resisted inequality for 5000 years

36 days 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

31 days 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

13 days ago doi.org anthropology

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

31 days 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.

36 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

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

33 days ago doi.org anthropology

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

24 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.

30 days ago cam.ac.uk anthropology

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

39 days 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.

23 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

38 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

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

15 days ago nature.com anthropology

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

44 days ago bbc.co.uk anthropology

80,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Footprints on the Portuguese Coast Reveal Children Hunting in the Dunes

54 days ago labrujulaverde.com anthropology

New evidence suggests Stone Age people really did move massive Stonehenge boulders more than 200 kilometers to the inner ring of Stonehenge, without the help of any glaciers.

46 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans: Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record

44 days ago eurekalert.org anthropology

Mystery food in Neanderthal diet might be maggots - Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae.

47 days ago nature.com anthropology

A mysterious, orange substance found at an ancient shrine near Pompeii and dated to approximately 2,500 years ago has been identified as honey, new research shows

45 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

New research reveals scars of Gambia's witch hunts, carried out by former President Yahya Jammeh

51 days ago onlinelibrary.wiley.com anthropology

Neanderthals in northern Israel butchered their food in strikingly different ways, despite living close by and using similar tools and resources

57 days ago scimex.org anthropology

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