Anthropology News

Posted February 15, 2009:

• Inuit Trails Represent Complex Social Network Spanning Canadian Arctic

Posted February 13, 2009:

• High-Tech Tests Allow Anthropologists To Track Ancient Hominids Across The Landscape

Posted February 12, 2009:

• Pubic Hair Provides Evolutionary Home For Gorilla Lice

Posted February 11, 2009:

• Y Chromosome And Surname Study Challenges Infidelity 'Myth'
• Deducing Diet Of Prehistoric Hominid With Mathematical Models

Posted February 10, 2009:

• Stemming Decay Of World's Art And Cultural Heritage

Posted February 6, 2009:

• Origin Of Claws Seen In Fossil 390 Million Years Old
• Despite Their Diversity, Pygmies Of Western Central Africa Share Recent Common Ancestors

Posted February 5, 2009:

• Chocolate Drink Used In Rituals In New Mexico 1,000 Years Ago

Posted February 3, 2009:

• Early Humans Had 'Jaws Of Steel'
• New Evidence From Excavations In Arcadia, Greece, Supports Theory Of 'Birth Of Zeus'
• Mountain Caribou's Ancient Ancestry Revealed

Posted February 2, 2009:

• Research Will Help To Revive 'Dead' Manx Language

Posted January 31, 2009:

• Bird Song Discoveries May Lead To Refinement Of Darwinian Theory

Posted January 29, 2009:

• Hoard Of Hundreds Of Antique Gold Coins Uncovered In Walls Around Jerusalem National Park

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Natural Selection Not The Only Process That Drives Evolution?

Posted January 27, 2009:

• Pacific People Spread From Taiwan, Language Evolution Study Shows

Posted January 21, 2009:

• 'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human
• First Americans Arrived As Two Separate Migrations, According To New Genetic Evidence

Posted January 20, 2009:

• Earthquakes, El Ninos Fatal To Earliest Civilization In Americas

Posted January 19, 2009:

• Language Driven By Culture, Not Biology, Study Shows
• Origin Of Jawed Vertebrates: Prehistoric Fish Provides New Piece In Evolution's Jigsaw Puzzle

Posted January 17, 2009:

• DNA Testing May Unlock Secrets Of Medieval Manuscripts

Posted January 16, 2009:

• Evolutionary Keys To Common Birth Disorders Discovered

Posted January 15, 2009:

• Primate Culture Is Just A Stone's Throw Away From Human Evolution, Study Finds
• Medieval Walls In Spain Contain Bits Of Bone

Posted January 13, 2009:

• Giant Bird Feces Record Pre-Human New Zealand

Posted January 11, 2009:

• Andes' Formation Was A 'Species Pump' For South America

Posted January 10, 2009:

• Renaissance Capitalist: New Research Answers Mystery About Illegitimate Daughter Of Pope

Posted January 9, 2009:

• Understanding Extinct Microbes May Influence The State Of Modern Human Health

Posted January 6, 2009:

• Mystery Of South American Trophy Heads Solved
• Defensive Protein Killed Ancient Primate Retroviruses, Research Suggests

Posted January 5, 2009:

• African Thicket Rat Malaria Linked To Virulent Human Form

Posted January 2, 2009:

• Ancient African Exodus Mostly Involved Men, Geneticists Find

Posted December 30, 2008:

• Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows
• Multilingual Culture and Heritage Internet Search System Developed

Posted December 29, 2008:

• DNA Profiling For Tracing Parental Ancestry Becomes More Accurate And Reliable

Posted December 22, 2008:

• Snails And Humans Use Same Genes To Tell Right From Left

Posted December 19, 2008:

• Earth's Original Ancestor Was 'LUCA'
• 'Hobbit' Fossils Represent A New Species, Concludes Anthropologist

Posted December 17, 2008:

• Ancestral History Explains Roots Of Income Inequality

Posted December 16, 2008:

• Is Holiday Giving An Obligation?

Posted December 13, 2008:

• Historic Architecture: People, Not Just A Building, Make For 'Place'

Posted December 12, 2008:

• Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

Posted December 11, 2008:

• The Last Neandertals? Late Neandertals And Modern Human Contact In Southeastern Iberia

Posted December 10, 2008:

• Unique Archaeological Discovery In Balkan: World’s First Illyrian Trading Post Found

Posted December 3, 2008:

• Evidence From Dirty Teeth: Ancient Peruvians Ate Well

Posted December 1, 2008:

• Humanity May Hold Key For Next Earth Evolution

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