Anthropology News

Posted January 5, 2008:

• New Report On First Death By Spearing In Australia

Posted January 3, 2008:

• Evolution Education Is A 'Must' Says Coalition Of Scientific And Teaching Organizations

Posted January 2, 2008:

• Riddle Of The Jade Jewels Reveals Vast Trade Arena

Posted December 26, 2007:

• Will Beetles Inherit The Earth? Evolutionary Study Reveals Their Long-term Success

Posted December 25, 2007:

• Unknown Monumental Building Of Herod The Great (73-4 BC) Unearthed

Posted December 17, 2007:

• Ape To Human: Walking Upright May Have Protected Heavy Human Babies

Posted December 15, 2007:

• Losses Of Long-established Genes Contribute To Human Evolution

Posted December 14, 2007:

• Captain Kidd's Shipwreck Of 1699 Discovered

Posted December 13, 2007:

• Adapting To Pregnancy Played Key Role In Human Evolution, Study Shows

Posted December 11, 2007:

• Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More Different, Not Alike
• Genome Study Places Modern Humans In Evolutionary Fast Lane

Posted December 10, 2007:

• Ancient Maya Marketplace Located, Challenges Views On Goods Distribution

Posted December 8, 2007:

• Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues

Posted December 5, 2007:

• Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast

Posted November 30, 2007:

• How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas

Posted November 28, 2007:

• Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait

Posted November 27, 2007:

• Remains Of Ancient Synagogue With Unique Mosaic Floor Found In Galilee

Posted November 20, 2007:

• Earliest Chocolate Drink Of The New World
• Maya Politics Likely Played Role In Ancient Large-game Decline

Posted November 19, 2007:

• 'Noah's Flood' Kick-started European Farming?

Posted November 15, 2007:

• Ancient Retroviruses Spurred Evolution Of Gene Regulatory Networks In Humans And Other Primates

Posted November 13, 2007:

• Tool-wielding Chimps Provide A Glimpse Of Early Human Behavior

Posted November 6, 2007:

• Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common Cuckoos

Posted November 5, 2007:

• Cultic City And Fortress Unearthed In Southern Turkey

Posted October 31, 2007:

• Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange Burial Positions Show Pacific Island Life

Posted October 29, 2007:

• New Ideas About Human Migration From Asia To Americas

Posted October 26, 2007:

• Ancient DNA Reveals That Some Neanderthals Were Redheads
• Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory

Posted October 21, 2007:

• Neandertals, Humans Share Key Changes To 'Language Gene'

Posted October 20, 2007:

• Genetic Ancestral Testing Cannot Deliver On Its Promise, Study Warns

Posted October 18, 2007:

• Dawn Of Animal Vision Discovered

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans Detected

Posted October 16, 2007:

• Brain Imaging Shows Similarities & Differences In Thoughts Of Chimps And Humans

Posted October 14, 2007:

• Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences
• Human Cost Of Colombian Coal Revealed

Posted October 11, 2007:

• Environmental Setting Of Human Migrations In The Circum-Pacific Region

Posted October 10, 2007:

• Early Apes Walked Upright 15 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Evolutionary Biologist Argues

Posted October 9, 2007:

• New Insights Into The Evolution Of The Human Genome
• Ancient African Megadroughts May Have Driven Human Evolution -- Out Of Africa

Posted October 5, 2007:

• Census Of Protein Architectures Offers New View Of History Of Life

Posted October 4, 2007:

• New Scanning System Identifies Illegible Names On Old Gravestones

Posted September 26, 2007:

• Human Ancestors More Primitive That Once Thought

Posted September 25, 2007:

• New Light Shed On The 'Hobbit'
• Smithsonian Experts Put A Name To A Face In Pre-Civil War Era Forensic Case

Posted September 18, 2007:

• Who Went There? Matching Fossil Tracks With Their Makers

Posted September 14, 2007:

• Extra Gene Copies Were Enough To Make Early Humans' Mouths Water

Posted September 13, 2007:

• New Evidence On The Role Of Climate In Neanderthal Extinction

Posted September 12, 2007:

• Was Ability To Run Early Man's Achilles Heel?

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