progscrape: anthropology

A new study tested if a canoe made with Stone Age tools could cross a 110 km strait against one of the world’s strongest currents

7 months ago doi.org anthropology

6,000-Year-Old DNA Analysis Reveals Colombia’s First Hunter-Gatherers Completely Disappeared

8 months ago ancientist.com anthropology

Archaeological evidence shows widespread habitual fire use by humans began around 50,000 years ago, reshaping cultural and environmental behaviors

7 months ago pnas.org anthropology

Despite the harsh cold, precolonial farmers thrived in what is now northern Michigan, lidar surveys reveal

8 months ago sciencenews.org anthropology

A study identified evidence of "use of psychoactive plants in institutionalized ritual in the first millennium BCE, demonstrating that even in their early stages, sociopolitically complex societies incorporated psychoactive plants into ritual activity."

8 months ago pnas.org anthropology

Males of a distant human cousin, Paranthropus robustus, weren’t always bigger than females, researchers report in Science

8 months ago sciencenews.org anthropology

Unusual Face Tattoos Discovered on 800-Year-Old South American Mummy

8 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology

A new analysis provides some of the earliest evidence of intergroup conflict between humans to date

8 months ago yahoo.com anthropology

Longest migration of early humans was from Asia to America more than 100,000 years ago, covering over 20,000km on foot

8 months ago cosmosmagazine.com anthropology

Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration

8 months ago ntu.edu.sg anthropology