Anthropology News

A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...