The largest study to date of the genetic history of ancient populations of Sicily, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands shows a complex pattern of migration…
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The researchers simulated the complex cultural creation of a plant-based medicinal product. Credit: UZH Humans began developing a complex culture as early as the Stone…
Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. His…
The shared brain asymmetry pattern is visualized on a human endocast (cast of the internal bony braincase) in lateral view (left) and from the lower…
Study has implications for evolution of technology and culture in humans. Teach a chimpanzee to fish for insects to eat, and you feed her for…
Natalie Mueller grew and calculated yield estimates for two annual plants that were cultivated in eastern North America for thousands of years — and then…
A string of modern ostrich eggshell beads from eastern Africa. Credit: Hans Sell New archeological analysis challenges long-standing hypotheses about ostrich eggshell beads and the…
This is McMaser anthropologist Megan Brickley with a tooth specimen. Credit: McMaster University Researchers at McMaster University have found that a person’s first permanent molars…
Complex disease transmission patterns could explain why it took tens of thousands of years after first contact for our ancestors to replace Neanderthals throughout Europe…
New study on early human fire acquisition squelches debate. Fire starting is a skill that many modern humans struggle with in the absence of a…
This is an end view of one of the two Herculaneum scrolls from L’Institut de France being scanned at Diamond Light Source by the University…
High-resolution mapping of the distribution of elements in a sample from the 2000-year-old Temple Scroll, as shown by the colors at the right of this…
Professor Philip Piper from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology inspects the cast of a hominin third metatarsal discovered in 2007. The bone is…