Anthropology News

Oct 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions of the brain. Language areas of the brain (James.mcd.nz / CC BY-SA 3.0) The team tested a group of volunteer recruits at the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy in Uppsala set with the task of learning Arabic, Russian, or Dari within only 13 months. From morning to evening, weekdays and weekends,...

Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a multinational team of scientists led by Dr Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo of Complutense University, Madrid, a fragment of a child’s skull...

Aug 21, 2012 by News Staff

According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...

Aug 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana in Kenya confirm that there were two additional species of our genus – Homo – living alongside...

Aug 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common...

Aug 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has reconstructed dietary preferences of three groups of early hominins from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. Reconstructions...

Jul 31, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...

Jul 19, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists have discovered the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but also understood its nutritional...

Jul 17, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of Spanish paleoanthropologists has reconstructed the diet of Australopithecus anamensis, a hominid that lived in the east of the African continent...

Jul 13, 2012 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution in Johannesburg, South Africa, have announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant...

Jul 13, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has found that Native American populations arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely...

Jun 6, 2012 by News Staff

The reconstruction of human limb bones found in Atapuerca, Spain, has helped scientists to determine the height of the human species Homo heidelbergensis. The...

May 30, 2012 by News Staff

Forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have found that heads of Americans are getting larger. Uncle Sam, a national personification...

May 14, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has found ambient background noise to be an important factor affecting creative cognition among consumers. The new...

Apr 24, 2012 by News Staff

Chinese researchers have revealed how surnames can act as a genetic stamp, allowing to trace lineage and understand the migrations and historical events. “When...

Mar 14, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of researchers has discovered fossils of a previously unknown Stone Age people in southwest China. An artist's reconstruction...

Dec 18, 2011 by James Freeman

British scientists have proved a hypothesis that said human fine body hair plays a defensive function against parasites such as bed bugs and fleas. The...

Dec 1, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers have found that parents of newborns show poorer adjustment to their new role if they believe society expects them to be perfect mothers and...

Nov 29, 2011 by News Staff

Norwegian researchers have found that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents, stated in a press...

Nov 23, 2011 by James Freeman

The study of the late Middle Pleistocene archaic human cranium found in Maba, China, brings new evidence of interhuman aggression occurred 129,000 years...