progscrape: anthropology

2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy buried with “Iliad” fragment reveals that literary work played a functional, spiritual role in the mummification process

2 months ago nytimes.com anthropology

DNA matches identify four more sailors from the doomed Franklin expedition including one found 80 miles away from his ship

3 months ago uwaterloo.ca anthropology

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research

2 months ago cnn.com anthropology

Evolutionary Anthropology: "Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution." A new study argues that over a million years of domestic fire use exposed humans to recurring fire burn injury, driving accelerated genetic evolution in our wound-healing and inflammatory pathways.

2 months ago pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov anthropology genetics

Modern European family predates fall of Rome, DNA analysis reveals

3 months ago science.org anthropology

New PNAS Analysis (5/4/2026) 1.6 mil year old butchery site in Kenya shows early Homo had primary access to fleshed carcasses and systematically extracted marrow…

3 months ago doi.org anthropology

Reconstructing the west-east genetic division in Indonesia using ancient genomes

2 months ago sciencedirect.com anthropology genetics

The oldest known evidence of stitched clothing

3 months ago refractor.io anthropology

Humans Have Been Playing With Dice for Longer Than We Thought

4 months ago wsj.com anthropology

Microbiome and skin health: a systematic review of nutraceutical interventions, disease severity, inflammation, and gut microbiota

3 months ago semanticscholar.org anthropology disease

The human rewilding movement: Iterative application of hunter-gatherer studies at Rewild Portland

4 months ago liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk anthropology

Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis – from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications

4 months ago doi.org anthropology

Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age

4 months ago scientificamerican.com anthropology

Men have eaten more meat than women for 10,000 years in Europe

3 months ago eurekalert.org anthropology europe

Genetic evidence of a population collapse in France 5,000 years ago

4 months ago nature.com anthropology genetics

In China’s Yellow River Basin, mercury in human bones spiked during the period from 200 BCE to about 900 CE, dating from the Han dynasty to the Sui–Tang dynasties

3 months ago pnas.org anthropology china

“You Belong to Gutters, Not Facebook or Twitter”: Recovering Dalit Histories From the Shadows of Social Media

3 months ago journals.sagepub.com anthropology facebook media twitter

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output…

4 months ago nature.com anthropology

Dogs were man's best friend far earlier than thought

4 months ago bbc.com anthropology

Archaeological discovery at Monte Verde puts north-to-south expansion theory back at centre of debate on continent’s human history

4 months ago theguardian.com anthropology

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

5 months ago arstechnica.com anthropology

The bubonic plague, which swept across Europe between 1347 and 1353, is estimated to have killed up to one half of the continent’s population

5 months ago york.ac.uk anthropology europe

Neanderthal Men and Human Women Were Most Likely to Hook Up, Study Finds

5 months ago gizmodo.com anthropology

Mathematical thinking may have developed long before writing

5 months ago newatlas.com anthropology

Why reproduction has probably been very problematic in Neanderthals

5 months ago sciencedirect.com anthropology

A 67,000-Year-Old Handprint Found on an Indonesian Island Is Officially the Oldest Piece of Art Ever Dated

5 months ago zmescience.com anthropology art

This wild potato may change the agricultural story in the American Southwest – Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest

6 months ago attheu.utah.edu anthropology

Three jawbones, including one from a child, teeth, vertebrae and a femur were unearthed from a cave in Morocco, dating back 773,000 years

7 months ago cnn.com anthropology

Research has verified the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s earliest recorded pandemic, providing stark new details about the plague of Justinian that killed millions of people in the Byzantine empire between the sixth and eighth centuries.

6 months ago theguardian.com anthropology

Archaeological findings in Malawi reveal the earliest known intentional cremation in Africa, dating back 9,500 years.

7 months ago news.yale.edu anthropology

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