New genomic evidence traces how pastoralist life in an arid corridor shaped human biology over millennia — and how modernization could unsettle that adaptation.| Anthropology.net
New biomolecular evidence from central Sicily shows that horse meat entered ritual and diet more than a millennium earlier than previously believed.| Anthropology.net
Charred adzuki beans from a 9,000-year-old site in eastern China suggest a long, complex story of plant domestication and cross-regional exchange across Neolithic East Asia.| Anthropology.net
A 42,000-year-old workshop from France’s Atlantic fringe reveals how beads and pigments linked Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in a changing Europe.| Anthropology.net
A study of tooth marks on two fossils from Olduvai Gorge suggests that early members of our genus were still on the menu for big cats.| Anthropology.net
A fresh look at Altar Q suggests rulers embedded secret calendar dates in their hand gestures| Anthropology.net
Researchers use everyday technology to create a full 3D record of one of Europe’s richest Paleolithic cave art sites| Anthropology.net
New evidence from Turkey’s northwestern coast suggests a forgotten route for Paleolithic people crossing between Anatolia and Europe| Anthropology.net
Newly recovered mural fragments from a late Sogdian palace in Tajikistan reveal a rare glimpse of priests, ritual fire, and the cosmopolitan world of the Silk Road| Anthropology.net
Stone, Memory, and Movement on the Ice Age Plains| Anthropology.net
A new study argues that modern plastics are not only pollutants but also a global archaeological record of our time| Anthropology.net
New research argues that cultural inheritance, not genes, is increasingly defining who we are| Anthropology.net
New evidence from three iconic archaeological sites points to a cosmic airburst at the dawn of the Younger Dryas| Anthropology.net
Ancient DNA traces a 2,000-year story of food, migration, and cultural persistence| Anthropology.net
How Paleoenvironments Shaped the Immune Systems We Inherited| Anthropology.net
New evidence from southern China and Southeast Asia shows hunter-gatherers were smoking and preserving their dead millennia before the famous mummies of Egypt or Chile.| Anthropology.net
New research shows the people of Papua New Guinea share a deep ancestral bond with other Asians yet preserve a singular demographic history shaped by isolation, Denisovan ancestry, and survival bottle| Anthropology.net
New evidence from a Serbian cave shows early Neanderthals mastering risky terrain and complex subsistence strategies 300,000 years ago| Anthropology.net
How ancient shortages of minerals shaped human genes across the globe| Anthropology.net
New analysis of Latvia’s Zvejnieki cemetery reveals stone tools were not just for men—or even adults| www.anthropology.net
How Paleolithic humans worked a non-edible plant into daily life 34,000 years ago| www.anthropology.net
Isotope analysis of a single molar reveals a Welsh connection, seasonal movements, and even a hint of pregnancy during the age when Stonehenge was rising.| www.anthropology.net
New research suggests the first urban society emerged from a landscape in motion, not a static floodplain.| www.anthropology.net
A rapidly evolving enhancer, HAR123, may explain why the human brain took a different path from that of chimpanzees—and why our species developed the gift of cognitive flexibility.| www.anthropology.net
New evidence from Kenya’s Homa Peninsula suggests that by 2.6 million years ago, early hominins were carrying raw materials for stone tools over miles of open landscape| www.anthropology.net
A Speleothem’s Story Pushes the Great Maya Droughts into Sharper Focus| www.anthropology.net
Finger grooves on crystal-coated walls reveal rare gestures tied to ritual power in GunaiKurnai Country| www.anthropology.net
Neanderthals may have dined on putrid flesh and protein-packed larvae, not just mammoth steaks. A new study challenges the myth of the Ice Age “hypercarnivore.”| www.anthropology.net
A new archaeological study finds inequality is neither inevitable nor uniform, challenging centuries of assumptions about how societies grow—and what they value.| www.anthropology.net
Children's Vital Role in Prehistoric Cave Rituals.| www.anthropology.net
Humans, Not Nature, Drove the Dawn of Agriculture.| www.anthropology.net
The Puzzle of Human Language Origins| www.anthropology.net
Ancient tracks in White Sands, New Mexico, suggest early humans built and used primitive transport devices| www.anthropology.net
