Anthropology News

Posted November 23, 2009:

• Supervolcano Eruption In Sumatra Deforested India 73,000 Years Ago

Posted November 19, 2009:

• 'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils

Posted November 17, 2009:

• Slowing Evolution to Stop Drug Resistance
• Ancient Weapons Dug Up by Archaeologists in England

Posted November 10, 2009:

• Words, Gestures Are Translated By Same Brain Regions

Posted November 9, 2009:

• Greening Of The Sahara Desert Triggered Early Human Migrations Out Of Africa
• Remains Of Minoan-Style Painting Discovered During Excavations Of Canaanite Palace

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Portable 3-D Laser Technology Preserves Texas Dinosaur's Rare Footprint
• Scientists Launch Effort To Sequence The DNA Of 10,000 Vertebrates

Posted November 2, 2009:

• Snail Fossils Suggest Semiarid Eastern Canary Islands Were Wetter 50,000 Years Ago
• 'Dutch' Batavians More Roman Than Thought

Posted October 26, 2009:

• First Inhabitants Of Canary Islands Were Berbers, Genetic Analysis Reveals
• Evolutionary Past May Determine How We Choose Leaders

Posted October 23, 2009:

• Ancient Bison Genetic Treasure Trove For Farmers

Posted October 22, 2009:

• World's Oldest Known Granaries Predate Agriculture
• New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees

Posted October 21, 2009:

• Tool-Making Human Ancestors Inhabited Grassland Environments Two Million Years Ago

Posted October 20, 2009:

• Bedrock Of A Holy City: The Historical Importance Of Jerusalem's Geology
• You Say Po-TAY-To, And I Say Pot-AAH-To! Language Evolves Through Our Own Use Of It

Posted October 18, 2009:

• Norwegian Wood For The Ages: 'Mummified' Pine Trees Found

Posted October 15, 2009:

• 200,000-Year-Old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen

Posted October 8, 2009:

• Early Hominid First Walked On Two Legs In The Woods

Posted October 1, 2009:

• Before 'Lucy,' There Was 'Ardi': First Major Analysis Of Early Hominid Published In Science
• Rediscovering The Dragon's Paradise Lost: Komodo Dragons Most Likely Evolved In Australia, Dispersed To Indonesia

Posted September 25, 2009:

• Scandinavians Are Descended From Stone Age Immigrants, Ancient DNA Reveals
• Jewish Priesthood Has Multiple Lineages, New Genetic Research Indicates

Posted September 24, 2009:

• Mutations Make Evolution Irreversible: By Resurrecting Ancient Proteins, Researchers Find That Evolution Can Only Go Forward

Posted September 22, 2009:

• Archaeologists Find Burial Cellar In Ancient Syrian City Containing Spectacular Artifacts

Posted September 17, 2009:

• African Origin Of Anthropoid Primates Called Into Question With New Fossil Discovery

Posted September 15, 2009:

• Largest-Ever Collection Of Coins From Period Of Revolt Against Romans Found In Judean Hills

Posted September 14, 2009:

• Giant Stone-Age Axes Found In African Lake Basin

Posted September 7, 2009:

• Why Cry? Evolutionary Biologists Show Crying Can Strengthen Relationships

Posted September 4, 2009:

• Europe's First Farmers Were Immigrants: Replaced Their Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Forerunners
• Shawnee Lookout May Be Largest Continuously Occupied Hilltop Native American Site In United States

Posted September 2, 2009:

• Discovery Of Novel Genes Could Unlock Mystery Of What Makes Us Uniquely Human

Posted September 1, 2009:

• We Are All Mutants: Measurement Of Mutation Rate In Humans By Direct Sequencing
• No Such Thing As Ethnic Groups, Genetically Speaking, Researchers Say

Posted August 27, 2009:

• Tiny Ancient Shells 80,000 Years Old Point To Earliest Fashion Trend
• Animal Sacrifice In Brazilian Folk Religion

Posted August 24, 2009:

• Chinese Culture At The Crossroads: Prehistoric Archaeological Findings Highlighted In New Research

Posted August 22, 2009:

• Key Feature Of Immune System Survived In Humans, Other Primates For 60 Million Years

Posted August 21, 2009:

• Evolution Of The Human Appendix: A Biological 'Remnant' No More

Posted August 19, 2009:

• Stone Tools, Rare Animal Bones: Clues To Caribbean's Earliest Inhabitants Discovered

Posted August 18, 2009:

• Early Human Hunters Had Fewer Meat-Sharing Rituals
• Agricultural Methods Of Early Civilizations May Have Altered Global Climate

Posted August 17, 2009:

• Visual Time Machine Offers Tourists A Glimpse Of The Past

Posted August 16, 2009:

• The Peopling Of The Americas: Genetic Ancestry Influences Health, Anthropologist Says

Posted August 14, 2009:

• Early Modern Humans Used Fire To Engineer Tools From Stone; Complex Cognition Older Than 72,000 Years?

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