Anthropology

Archaeologists may have found the forgotten capital of a lost civilization IFLScience14:12
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China announces top 10 archaeological discoveries for 2024 Macau Business02:02
Are these mysterious 400,000-year-old artifacts the oldest ivory objects made by humans? Smithsonian Magazine14:50
The fossil skull found by an Australian that rocked the world Cosmos04:03
Archaeologists found a 6,500-year-old hunting kit Popular Mechanics14:33
Love hormone turns mean girl lemurs nice Science Blog (Weblog)13:38

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Zsi study unravels hidden world of South Asian tree shrews, redefines conservation priorities The Times of India15:30

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Florida, once considered a swing state, is firmly Republican – a social anthropologist explains what caused this shift The Conversation (UK)14:18

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China announces top 10 archaeological discoveries for 2024 Macau Business02:02

Yesterday

These 400,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusks Carved by Early Humans May Be the Oldest Evidence of Prehistoric Intelligence ZME Science21:58 24-Apr-25

A Pit With 37 Headless Skeletons Raises Questions: Something Strange Went Down Here IFLScience19:17 24-Apr-25

Conference explores post-Covid-19 global health biopolitics Cornell Chronicle17:16 24-Apr-25

Lebanese students tackle illegal housing through creative anthropological writing L'Orient-Le Jour14:49 24-Apr-25

China Focus: China announces top 10 archaeological discoveries for 2024 Xinhua Agency14:13 24-Apr-25

The Mysterious Horsemen of Pir Panjal: Secrets of an Ancient Legacy in Jammu and Kashmir Arkeonews13:16 24-Apr-25

The Dangerous Illusion of Climate Resilience naked capitalism10:01 24-Apr-25

Irish researchers discover proof that Roman gladiators fought with large animals TheJournal.ie08:42 24-Apr-25

Race and caste capitalism: Who gets access to status and wealth? The UCSB Current08:04 24-Apr-25

Skeleton bites show first evidence of gladiator combat with beasts The Independent06:34 24-Apr-25

CUHK Faculty of Arts Earns Global Recognition as Top Asian Humanities Hub Vietnam Investment Review05:01 24-Apr-25

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Archaeologists Discover Nine Ancient Kneeling Skeletons in Vietnam Greek Reporter21:32 23-Apr-25

Roman Gladiator Remains Show First Proof of Human-Animal Combat Scientific American20:44 23-Apr-25

Scientists Discover First Probable Evidence of a Roman Fighter Mauled by a Lion ScienceAlert19:40 23-Apr-25

A lion’s bite marks a fatal fight with a possible Roman-era gladiator Science News Online19:12 23-Apr-25

Organic Landscape in Human Geography HowlRound15:16 23-Apr-25

Archaeologists Found a 6,500-Year-Old Hunting Kit Popular Mechanics14:33 23-Apr-25

Archaeologists May Have Found The Forgotten Capital Of A Lost Civilization IFLScience14:12 23-Apr-25

The weight of water: Srisailam Dam’s tale at Berlinale and MOMA The Hindu13:25 23-Apr-25

Opinion: The Flawed Focus on Climate Adaptation Undark11:26 23-Apr-25

Maya ritual offering found in Yucatán caves Heritage Daily21:24 22-Apr-25

Pope Francis was a force for conservation in life but his after-life decision is just as… Toronto Star18:47 22-Apr-25

How Earth’s Mantle Activity Drove Humans And Animals Into Asia And Africa Astrobiology Web17:21 22-Apr-25

Two FAS faculty receive 2025 ACLS Fellowships YaleNews17:06 22-Apr-25

The weight of ordinary existence: Ayşegül Savaş’s The Anthropologists Bianet14:55 22-Apr-25

In de spotlight: students cultural anthropology conduct research on Tiny Houses Leiden University13:59 22-Apr-25

Love Hormone Turns Mean Girl Lemurs Nice Science Blog (Weblog)13:38 22-Apr-25

Sunscreen and shelter strategies may have shielded early humans from solar radiation TerraDaily.com11:51 22-Apr-25

Conservative people in the US distrust science way more broadly than previously thought ZME Science09:54 22-Apr-25

The Internet as a Global Village: Connecting Cultures and Bridging Divides in the Digital Age Rock & Art07:38 22-Apr-25

Enter the world of Cave Bureau, and its architectural and geological explorations Wallpaper05:09 22-Apr-25

How activity in Earth's mantle led the ancient ancestors of elephants, giraffes, and humans… ScienceDaily22:38 21-Apr-25

Sunscreen, Clothing and Caves May Have Given Modern Humans an Edge Over Neanderthals When… Smithsonian Magazine22:01 21-Apr-25

Spirit Cave Man: How The World’s Oldest Mummy Rewrote 10,000 Years Of Native American History IFLScience19:17 21-Apr-25

How Changes in Lemur Brains Made Some Mean Girls Nice Duke Today18:44 21-Apr-25

MSU's MOSIAC project may transform how forensic anthropologists analyze skeletal remains News-Medical.Net18:13 21-Apr-25

Are These Mysterious 400,000-Year-Old Artifacts the Oldest Ivory Objects Made by Humans? Smithsonian Magazine14:50 21-Apr-25

The Last Reefnetters: Lummi Nation researcher collaborates on final thesis Cascade PBS13:05 21-Apr-25

New publication from the Museum of Anthropology explores the history of the galley Monaco Daily News09:12 21-Apr-25

Towards a Counter Anthropology CounterPunch06:58 21-Apr-25

Paris exhibition explores visionary Japanese Avant-Garde artist Taro Okamoto ArtDaily00:53 21-Apr-25

How do hominin fossils get their numbers? John Hawks Weblog00:03 21-Apr-25

Opinion: How social media can negatively impact our mental well-being Bowen Island Undercurrent22:02 20-Apr-25

Opposing Kinmen trade proposal Taipei Times16:42 20-Apr-25

British researcher claims he's found tomb of Jesus below Great Pyramids of Giza LADbible13:51 20-Apr-25

'Only man to sneak into Area 51' says what he witnessed will stay with him forever LADbible09:36 20-Apr-25

[Time Trowel] How Indonesian nutmeg built New York and reshaped the Philippines Rappler04:06 20-Apr-25

The fossil skull found by an Australian that rocked the world Cosmos04:03 20-Apr-25

Mexico recovers over 2,000 cultural heritage pieces from abroad in first six months of new… ArtDaily01:00 20-Apr-25

Incredible tale of the only man to sneak into Area 51 and get out alive... here's what he saw MailOnline21:27 19-Apr-25

Lucy spacecraft to fly by asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday. Expect to be surprised. EarthSky11:32 19-Apr-25

Come-Gimme! Why Do We Shrug When Apes Cross the Language Barrier? naked capitalism05:30 19-Apr-25

Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled And Challenged Economic Inequality Across… Eurasia Review01:05 19-Apr-25

First Human Figurine of the Mesolithic Era (Circa 9000 Years Old) Discovered in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave Arkeonews22:10 18-Apr-25

Archaeologists make 'once in a lifetime discovery' as capital city of ancient European… LADbible20:13 18-Apr-25

Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey Talks Turkana Basin Discoveries at Peabody Museum The Harvard Crimson18:42 18-Apr-25

There Are Many Threats to Humanity. A Low Birth Rate Isn’t One of Them. Current Affairs18:31 18-Apr-25

Tomb filled with skulls, bones of 24 battle victims discovered in Peru CBS News16:24 18-Apr-25

Thorin the Neanderthal Was One of the Last of These Ancient Humans Discover Magazine16:01 18-Apr-25

Ancient horse hunts challenge ideas of ‘modern’ human behavior Science News Online14:08 18-Apr-25

“What is Remembered… Is a Political Act that Can Be Weaponized”: Vicky Du on Light of the… Filmmaker Magazine14:04 18-Apr-25

Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave unveils first Mesolithic human figurine Caliber.AZ13:51 18-Apr-25

Sun shields that date back 41,000 years; survival of Homo sapiens during solar radiation The Telegraph, Calcutta02:00 18-Apr-25

In the last month

Modified Human Bones Reveal Cultural Practices in Prehistoric America Greek Reporter23:51 17-Apr-25

Ancient jawbone could have come our Denisovan ancestors CBBC Newsround13:00 17-Apr-25

BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty left speechless over Charlie Stayt's remark live on air Daily Star08:30 17-Apr-25

UM scholar makes history as first Southeast Asian to lead prestigious Asia council Malay Mail08:23 17-Apr-25

Is Trump a Neanderthal? CounterPunch07:08 17-Apr-25

Our Ancestors Knew To Wear Sunscreen – It May Be How They Survived IFLScience05:13 17-Apr-25

New documentary to explore iconography and history of Teotihuacan mural painting ArtDaily02:56 17-Apr-25

Ancient humans may have faced radiation risk 41,000 years ago New Scientist23:12 16-Apr-25

Primate mothers display different bereavement response to humans ScienceDaily20:04 16-Apr-25

Sunburnt cavemen saved by using 'prehistoric sunscreen' more than 40,000 years ago Daily Star19:19 16-Apr-25

Sunscreen might have helped early humans outlive Neanderthals BBC Science Focus19:19 16-Apr-25

Prehistoric Sunscreen and Clothing May Have Given Homo sapiens an Evolutionary Advantage Discover Magazine19:06 16-Apr-25

Sunscreen, clothes and caves may have helped Homo sapiens survive 41,000 years ago University of Michigan19:03 16-Apr-25

Amplifying delusions: How social media can negatively impact our mental well-being The Conversation (Canada)16:42 16-Apr-25

Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist of religion and ‘intellectual giant,’ dies at 95 Princeton University16:31 16-Apr-25

A Mysterious Fossil from an Unknown Humanlike Species Once Baffled Scientists. Now We Know What It Is. The Debrief15:44 16-Apr-25

This Land Is Our Land: New Books About Public Lands, the Threats They Face, and Their Ecological Importance The Revelator15:30 16-Apr-25

A messed-up body clock could be a bigger problem than lack of sleep Science News Online14:01 16-Apr-25

Major Archaeological Discovery at the BYD Factory Site in Szeged Hungary Today12:13 16-Apr-25

Primate mothers react differently to infant loss than humans TerraDaily.com11:50 16-Apr-25

A Piece of Chalk, with Luke Donnellan – what can humble chalk teach us about the humanist… British Humanist Association10:59 16-Apr-25

Lustrous Surfaces: Easy on the Eyes, Easy on the Nervous System CounterPunch07:03 16-Apr-25

Six Princeton faculty members and arts fellows, 9 alumni receive Guggenheim Fellowships Princeton University20:00 15-Apr-25

Primates: Facts about the group that includes humans, apes, monkeys and other close relatives Live Science18:38 15-Apr-25

Tiny detail on animal bone changes what we know about human ancestors The Independent10:46 15-Apr-25

Inequality isn’t inevitable, according to ‘unprecedented’ archeology study Popular Science20:01 14-Apr-25

Archaeologists Unearth Intricately Decorated Altar That May Have Been Used for Ancient… Smithsonian Magazine19:09 14-Apr-25

How Homo naledi got into the Dinaledi Chamber John Hawks Weblog18:10 14-Apr-25

The Evolution of a Curator: Navigating My Master’s Project London School of Fashion, UAL15:47 14-Apr-25

Chew on this: The 10,000-year history of gum Popular Science13:04 14-Apr-25

Long-lost capital of ancient civilization may have finally been uncovered, archaeologists say:… Fox News13:00 14-Apr-25

In “Soldiers and Kings,” Jason De León Embeds Himself with Human Smugglers on the Way to the US Border Chicago Review of Books10:56 14-Apr-25

Early human species lived across more of the world than was thought The Irish Times06:03 14-Apr-25

Think like an Egyptian Dawn01:57 14-Apr-25

Cretaceous theropod fossils reveal ecological differentiation, geological change Global Times15:33 13-Apr-25

Mystery of sacrificial alter found with people buried inside – including sitting child Daily Star19:29 12-Apr-25

Seven good – and not-so-good – signs you may be a bit Neanderthal Metro.co.uk07:16 12-Apr-25

Archaeology breakthrough as unknown human lineage discovered in 'green Sahara desert' Daily and Sunday Express05:08 12-Apr-25

Russia Lacks Enough Ethnic Specialists To Address Nationality Issues – OpEd Eurasia Review01:23 12-Apr-25

In The Age Of AI, Don’t Underestimate The Human JD Supra21:59 11-Apr-25

Russia Lacks Enough Ethnic Specialists to Address Nationality Issues, Duma Told Window on Eurasia (Weblog)21:18 11-Apr-25

Mysterious Jawbone Found at an Antique Shop in Taiwan Belonged to a Male Denisovan, Scientists… Smithsonian Magazine20:05 11-Apr-25

Denisovan Jaw Found in Taiwan Strait Changes the Human Migration Map ZME Science19:45 11-Apr-25

Rare Denisovan Jawbone Confirms Human Relatives Spread Across Asia Greek Reporter19:31 11-Apr-25

Denisovan jawbone helps to reveal appearance of ancient human species Natural History Museum16:51 11-Apr-25

Dicovery: scientists believe mystery fossil is Denisovan, early human ancestor AfricaNews16:12 11-Apr-25

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Latest news on Anthropology, covering cultural studies, archaeology, ethnography, biological anthropology and human science research.

Anthropology, the comprehensive study of humanity across time and space, continues to offer crucial insights into our origins, cultures, and social structures. With four main branches—cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeology—the discipline explores everything from ancient civilisations to contemporary social issues.

Recent developments in the field have seen increased focus on climate change impacts on human communities, with researchers documenting traditional ecological knowledge as potential solutions. Technological innovations in DNA analysis have revolutionised our understanding of human migration patterns, with recent findings suggesting more complex interbreeding between early human species than previously thought.

Community-based participatory research has gained prominence, with indigenous groups increasingly leading anthropological studies of their own cultures. The return of cultural artefacts from Western museums to their countries of origin continues to spark important conversations about ethical practices in the discipline, with several high-profile repatriations occurring over the past year.

Anthropology's roots trace back to the 19th century, though its methodologies have evolved significantly from early colonial approaches to today's more collaborative and reflexive practices. The field's historical emphasis on participant observation and deep cultural immersion continues to inform contemporary research, even as digital ethnography expands our understanding of online communities and virtual worlds.

Our NewsNow feed on Anthropology brings together the latest research findings, theoretical developments, and fieldwork reports from around the globe. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply curious about human diversity and cultural practices, this feed provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of all aspects of this fascinating field.

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