Anthropology

Genomes Reveal Humanity's Journey into the Americas Scientific American14:35
Modern science shines light on ancient humans China.org.cn01:52
Proof that Neanderthals also loved going on a Spanish holiday InsideHook19:01
Neanderthals weren’t just smart – they might have taught humans a thing or two BBC Science Focus00:08
An archaeology society hosted a talk against returning Indigenous remains. Some want a new society Science Magazine22:17
People have shaped Earth's ecology for at least 12,000 years, mostly sustainably EurekAlert!20:29
Prehistoric cave painters might have been ‘high’ on oxygen deprivation – new study The Conversation (UK)16:24

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In the last hour

Webinar urges common efforts to care for biodiversity Vatican News19:30

In the last 6 hours

Identity Of Cannibalized 800,000-Year-Old Murder Victim Clarified Using Their Teeth IFLScience14:45

Genomes Reveal Humanity's Journey into the Americas Scientific American14:35

In the last 8 hours

Shattered Ancient Alliance: New Mysterious Maya Pyramid Could Shed Light on Birth of an Empire Sputnik12:59

Earlier today

Exhibition presents Slovenian anthropologist and her work in Paraguay STA10:32

Modern science shines light on ancient humans China.org.cn01:52

UWO anthropology class helping with investigation of 1983 Neenah homicide case WBAY, Wisconsin00:00

Yesterday

An archaeology society hosted a talk against returning Indigenous remains. Some want a new society Science Magazine22:17 19-Apr-21

Museums Around the World Make Renewed Push to Repatriate Benin Bronzes Smithsonian Magazine21:23 19-Apr-21

Scientists suggest that trippy hallucinations influenced prehistoric cave art The Art Newspaper20:57 19-Apr-21

People have shaped Earth's ecology for at least 12,000 years, mostly sustainably EurekAlert!20:29 19-Apr-21

Archaeological data demand new approaches to biodiversity conservation EurekAlert!20:29 19-Apr-21

Proof That Neanderthals Also Loved Going on a Spanish Holiday InsideHook19:01 19-Apr-21

Prehistoric cave painters might have been ‘high’ on oxygen deprivation – new study The Conversation (UK)16:24 19-Apr-21

Welcome to the Broken Nature Podcast MoMA Magazine16:08 19-Apr-21

What does the study of domesticated birds tell us about the evolution of human language? EurekAlert!15:24 19-Apr-21

What can neuroscience tell us about the mind of a serial killer? OUPblog12:19 19-Apr-21

100,000-Year-Old Fossilized Footprints Track Neanderthals' Trip to Spanish Coast Smithsonian Magazine11:52 19-Apr-21

Neanderthals Were the Human Species Best Adapted to Cold. Here's Why RealClearScience03:37 19-Apr-21

Neanderthals weren’t just smart – they might have taught humans a thing or two BBC Science Focus00:08 19-Apr-21

In the last 7 days

Much of U.S. attitude toward Iran is irrational: American anthropologist Tehran Times14:54 18-Apr-21

Mohseen: Bringing about positive change Fiji Times09:32 18-Apr-21

Neanderthal nuclear DNA retrieved from sediments helps unlock ancient human history ScienceDaily23:03 17-Apr-21

Researchers extract Neanderthal DNA from dirt inside an ancient cave Slashgear17:18 17-Apr-21

‘The Belly Of The Mountain’: Visions du Reel Review ScreenDaily14:15 17-Apr-21

How new discoveries in west Africa could rewrite pre-history Quartz13:06 17-Apr-21

New Army Training Doc Outlines Ways To Give Soldiers Superhuman-Like Sensory Perception The Drive00:52 17-Apr-21

Exhibit sheds light on life and rituals of Jalisco’s ancients Mexico News Daily22:38 16-Apr-21

Engaging in Compassionate Action for Animals Psychology Today15:08 16-Apr-21

Dozens of Fossilized Neanderthal Footprints Found on a Beach in Spain Gizmodo15:04 16-Apr-21

Extreme Cinema – Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Flickering Myth14:57 16-Apr-21

Prehistoric cannibal victim found in death cave ID'ed as a young girl Live Science13:43 16-Apr-21

How A Museum’s Human Skull Collection Sparked A Racial Reckoning Forbes10:59 16-Apr-21

Undreamed Shores by Frances Larson review – the heroines of British anthropology The Guardian09:02 16-Apr-21

Neanderthal nuclear DNA unlocks ancient human history Cosmos00:44 16-Apr-21

Skull bone reveals human ancestor Home erectus lived 2 MILLION years ago Mail Online00:30 16-Apr-21

Prehistoric GPS? World's oldest Bronze Age stone map unearthed in Western France Syfy22:16 15-Apr-21

Our oldest ancestors who started to look human go way back ... like 2 million years back Syfy20:14 15-Apr-21

Moccasin Fragment Reveals Precolonial Connection Between Subarctic and Southwest Native News Online19:39 15-Apr-21

Prehistoric DNA Detected in Caves Reveals Secrets of Neanderthal History Haaretz19:37 15-Apr-21

Marshall D. Sahlins, groundbreaking anthropologist at University of Chicago, dies at 90 Chicago Tribune19:28 15-Apr-21

Neanderthal DNA Unearthed from Dirt Inside Science19:14 15-Apr-21

DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared Science Magazine19:06 15-Apr-21

This ancient shark fossil is exquisite. But some researchers wonder if they’ll be able to study it Science Magazine19:06 15-Apr-21

Neandertal DNA from cave mud shows two waves of migration across Eurasia Science News Online19:04 15-Apr-21

Nuclear DNA from sediments helps unlock ancient human history Max Planck Society19:03 15-Apr-21

New DNA analysis techniques reveal twists in Neanderthal history The Academic Times19:01 15-Apr-21

Pieter's Corner: The (non)sense of conspiracy theorists Leiden University15:37 15-Apr-21

Henry Glassie: Field Work: An ASMR-powered documentary portrait of the famed and eloquent ethnographer and folklorist. Little White Lies13:10 15-Apr-21

Thinking beyond the “vanishing coasts” On History11:03 15-Apr-21

Australian Neanderthals used boomerangs to carve stone tools Mail Online10:34 15-Apr-21

Whatever Works The Point Magazine09:04 15-Apr-21

Cultural Relativism as “Counter Enlightenment” Dissident Voice06:23 15-Apr-21

The Untold Truth Of Body Farms Grunge21:40 14-Apr-21

Biomechanical trade-offs in the pelvic floor constrain the evolution of the human birth canal [Anthropology] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences19:51 14-Apr-21

Repair works start at hall of Chisinau-based museum MOLDPRES19:33 14-Apr-21

To improve climate models, an international team turns to archaeological data EurekAlert!19:26 14-Apr-21

Anthropology students will help search for remains of victim Channel3000, Wisconsin15:48 14-Apr-21

A coronavirus epidemic may have hit East Asia about 25,000 years ago Science News Online15:08 14-Apr-21

Oldest modern human genome found in a fossilised skull LabOnline15:03 14-Apr-21

Two Romanian researchers sign article in Nature journal: Neanderthals passed genes to first modern humans Agerpres14:27 14-Apr-21

Bart Barendregt receives Vici grant for research on Artificial Intelligence in Muslim Southeast Asia Leiden University14:20 14-Apr-21

‘First Steps’ shows how bipedalism led humans down a strange evolutionary path Science News Online14:01 14-Apr-21

Ancient DNA hints at diverse Stone Age traditions of kinship University of Liverpool14:01 14-Apr-21

Leokadiya Drobizheva, Pioneering Russian Ethno-Sociologist, Dies at 88 Window on Eurasia (Weblog)11:06 14-Apr-21

On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature Literary Hub09:57 14-Apr-21

Escaping the Queen’s Megaron: Studying sex and gender in the Ancient World Neos Kosmos06:15 14-Apr-21

After Protests, Penn Museum Vows to Repatriate Stolen Remains of Enslaved People Hyperallergic21:15 13-Apr-21

At West Campus, new and improved access to Peabody Museum’s collections YaleNews20:12 13-Apr-21

Penn Museum announces recommendations for repatriation of human skulls The Art Newspaper18:52 13-Apr-21

Notes Towards a Philosophy of Proper Names, Adequate to the Complexity and Wonder of Its Subject 3 Quarks Daily18:30 13-Apr-21

Age of hotly debated skull from early human Homo erectus determined, new specimens discovered ScienceDaily17:34 13-Apr-21

Study cements age and location of hotly debated skull from early human Homo erectus EurekAlert!17:09 13-Apr-21

Age Newly Verified, One of Oldest Prehuman Fossils Leads to New Finds State of the Planet16:10 13-Apr-21

Childbirth versus pelvic floor stability EurekAlert!15:27 13-Apr-21

Human ancestors still had monkey brains when they ventured out of Africa Syfy15:00 13-Apr-21

100,000-year-old Neanderthal footprints show children playing in the sand Live Science13:47 13-Apr-21

‘Love, Simon’ Writer Becky Albertalli’s ‘The Upside of Unrequited’ to Be Adapted for Film (EXCLUSIVE) Variety12:10 13-Apr-21

At West Campus, new and improved access to Peabody Museum’s bounty YaleNews01:02 13-Apr-21

In the last month

The US' lost, ancient megacity BBC21:16 12-Apr-21

Earliest evidence of kosher diet in UK found in 800-year-old animal bones from Oxford Arutz Sheva21:01 12-Apr-21

Marshall D. Sahlins, titan of anthropology, 1930–2021 University of Chicago News18:58 12-Apr-21

Marshall D. Sahlins, Groundbreaking Anthropologist, Dies at 90 University of Chicago News18:38 12-Apr-21

Earliest evidence of kosher diet in UK found in 800-year-old Oxford animal bones The Times of Israel17:40 12-Apr-21

Earliest evidence of kosher diet found in 800-year-old animal bones from Oxford Jewish News16:39 12-Apr-21

Prehistoric Pacific Coast diets had salmon limits EurekAlert!14:10 12-Apr-21

Pompeii's new director Gabriel Zuchtriegel: how archaeology moves beyond the 'elitist male gaze' of history The Art Newspaper12:32 12-Apr-21

Michael Spitzer – ‘The Musical Human’ London Jazz News11:11 12-Apr-21

How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language? The New Yorker11:00 12-Apr-21

Prince Charles Might Be Worshipped By Vanuatu Tribe Following Prince Philip's Death Latin Times10:50 12-Apr-21

How Humanity Can Realistically Prevent New Wars: an Interview With Anthropologist Douglas P. Fry CounterPunch10:00 12-Apr-21

Thinking About the Ways Other People Think and Live: the Legacy of Marshall Sahlins CounterPunch08:39 12-Apr-21

Who Hears the Voice of God? Psychology Today03:58 12-Apr-21

Dominican Republic Mourns Intellectual Figure Marcio Veloz teleSUR03:46 12-Apr-21

Archaeology in West Africa could rewrite the textbooks on human evolution The Conversation (UK)09:29 11-Apr-21

Early humans in Europe found to have close lineage with Neanderthals Jerusalem Post17:39 10-Apr-21

Necropolis found in Corsica offers rare glimpse into lives of ancient population RFI15:56 10-Apr-21

Remote island tribe that worshipped Prince Philip as a 'god' will mourn him by ritually wailing INSIDER11:43 10-Apr-21

Remembering Hamza Alavi (1921 – 2003): Interpreting Pakistan, Changing the World Outlook India03:23 10-Apr-21

Tribe that saw Prince Philip as a god now expected to worship Charles The Independent22:31 9-Apr-21

The Carnivore Paradise That Keeps Changing the Story of Human Evolution Atlas Obscura21:32 9-Apr-21

The Human Brain: Where And When It Evolved Science 2.021:31 9-Apr-21

Spiritual succession Islanders who worshipped Prince Philip as a god will now deify Charles The Telegraph19:31 9-Apr-21

Our ancestors left Africa both with and without modern brains Ars Technica18:11 9-Apr-21

Modern brains evolved 1.7m years ago in Africa, study finds, after examining skulls of mankind’s ancient ancestors RT16:20 9-Apr-21

Sex with Neanderthals was common for early Eurasian Homo sapiens, DNA says Ars Technica15:46 9-Apr-21

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Awaken’ on VOD, Anthropology As Wallpaper Art Decider15:37 9-Apr-21

Why it feels like mushrooms are everywhere Vox14:04 9-Apr-21

Brain study debunks an assumption about ancient humans Inverse13:34 9-Apr-21

Daily briefing: Thrilling muon result shakes up physics Nature.com13:31 9-Apr-21

From our very first step, humans have been slaves to the rhythm Big Issue12:00 9-Apr-21

DNA analysis solves curious case of the stillborn fetus in the bishop’s coffin Ars Technica11:48 9-Apr-21

Bulgarian-GermaTeam Reveals Surprising Discoveries about Earliest Homo Sapiens in Bacho Kiro Cave Bulgarian News Agency11:48 9-Apr-21

Chimpanzee named Mogli from Sydney Zoo may have been murdered by another primate, expert claims Mail Online11:37 9-Apr-21

A Great Tree Has Fallen: The Passing of Marshall Sahlins CounterPunch10:08 9-Apr-21

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