A newly discovered Gravettian statuette suggests that Ice Age art carried fashion, identity, and cultural nuance| Anthropology.net
New excavations in Portugal reveal how the last hunter-gatherers of Iberia honored their youngest dead| Anthropology.net
New faunal evidence from Abrigo de la Malia suggests that early modern humans settled central Iberia far earlier, and with greater skill, than once believed.| Anthropology.net
Deep within a South African cave, a pile of ancient bones challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of ritual and grief.| Anthropology.net
Capturing language change through the genes| Anthropology.net
A 9,000-year-old quartz workshop from Senegal reframes the story of Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers| Anthropology.net
A copper ingot from Sweden and its Polish counterparts reveal far-reaching exchange networks that connected the Baltic to the Atlantic during the Nordic pre-Roman Iron Age.| Anthropology.net
What Dogs, Pigs, and Marmosets Reveal About the Evolution of Human Speech| Anthropology.net
A new study suggests that some genetic changes may emerge where and when they’re needed, forcing a rethink of how evolution works| Anthropology.net
A New Window into the Slavic Past| Anthropology.net
What 8,000 years of bones from Mediterranean France reveal about how humans reshaped animal bodies| Anthropology.net
How Paleolithic humans worked a non-edible plant into daily life 34,000 years ago| www.anthropology.net
How ancient DNA from a forgotten Roman arena is rewriting the story of humanity’s first pandemic—and why its lessons still echo today.| Anthropology.net
Archaeology reveals how a short-lived Yucatán mission town clung to old gods in the shadow of Spanish rule.| Anthropology.net
Three jade-inlaid teeth suggest that the Maya may have marked childhood transitions with a ritual once thought reserved for adults.| Anthropology.net
A lost enzyme from deep in our evolutionary past might hold the key to treating gout and modern metabolic disorders.| Anthropology.net
New research traces the pelvic transformation that let humans rise from the trees| Anthropology.net
A 12,000-year-old skeleton from northern Vietnam reveals one of the earliest signs of interpersonal conflict in the region—and the long shadow of injury and infection.| Anthropology.net
A new study finds that dexterous hands and large brains co-evolved across millions of years, reshaping what it means to be human.| Anthropology.net
Evidence from Uzbekistan pushes the roots of cereal exploitation deeper into Asia—and challenges what we thought we knew about the origins of farming.| 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
Archaeologists uncover evidence of vast exchange networks linking the mountains of Papua New Guinea with distant seas, challenging old assumptions about isolation and stasis in Oceania’s ancient past.| Anthropology.net
In Peru’s Colca Valley, skulls became living landscapes, reshaped to mirror sacred peaks and social ambitions.| Anthropology.net
A 140,000-year-old skull from Mount Carmel reveals the first physical trace of ancient encounters between two human lineages.| Anthropology.net
How Isotope Analysis Unmasked a Brutal Prehistoric War| Anthropology.net
A Faint Genetic Echo, a Lasting Evolutionary Legacy| Anthropology.net
From Paleolithic rock art to Mesopotamian gods, the ibex carried the weight of life, rain, and the stars.| Anthropology.net
New genetic evidence reveals that the Neolithic revolution in Europe was less a sudden takeover and more a long coexistence marked by gradual intermarriage.| Anthropology.net
New research suggests the first urban society emerged from a landscape in motion, not a static floodplain.| www.anthropology.net
A fresh look at a 286,000-year-old cranium—and what it means for our tangled ancestry| Anthropology.net
A new study traces the hidden history of maize roots in the Tehuacán Valley, revealing how human hands and climate change together sculpted one of the world’s most important crops.| Anthropology.net
New evidence from Uzbekistan’s Obi-Rakhmat cave suggests early hominins may have used lightweight projectile weapons long before the Upper Paleolithic| 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
Culinary Resistance at the Dawn of Agriculture| www.anthropology.net
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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