progscrape: anthropology

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

11 hours ago sciencealert.com 3d anthropology

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

4 days ago bbc.co.uk anthropology

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

14 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.

7 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

4 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.

8 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

6 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

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

11 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

18 days ago scimex.org anthropology

Human ancestors may not be responsible for Oldowan stone tools

32 days ago pnas.org anthropology

Inequality, decay of democratic institutions linked to accelerated ageing

21 days ago nature.com anthropology

An analysis of +671k works of fan fiction finds that attraction follows a U shaped curve with the highest peak at "familiarity", while enjoyment follows an inverse but increasing U curve toward novelty

18 days ago nature.com anthropology

First complete ancient Egyptian DNA genome reveals his occupation: « The analysis shows an 80 percent genetic link to North Africa. »

30 days ago popsci.com anthropology genetics

Rare wooden tools from Stone Age China reveal plant-based lifestyle of ancient lakeside humans

32 days ago theconversation.com anthropology china

Evidence of the permanent impact of smoking on people’s teeth has been uncovered by researchers for the first time

43 days ago northumbria.ac.uk anthropology

Geochronology supports LGM age for human tracks at White Sands, New Mexico

46 days ago science.org anthropology

Archaeologists Found a Lost Temple From a Civilization That Vanished 1,000 Years Ago

36 days ago psu.edu anthropology

Analysis of 10,000 archaeology articles finds the field aligns more closely with social sciences than natural sciences on bibliometric measures of scientific consensus

42 days ago authors.elsevier.com anthropology

First ever skull from ‘Denisovan’ is discovered

47 days ago nature.com anthropology paleontology

Researchers estimate that early humans began smoking meat to extend its shelf life as long as a million years ago.

2 months ago eurekalert.org 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

40 days ago doi.org anthropology

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

2 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

42 days ago pnas.org anthropology

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

2 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."

2 months ago pnas.org anthropology

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