Anthropology News

Posted November 27, 2008:

• Researcher Sheds New Light On Witch-Hunting And Epidemics Of Fear
• Institute For Missing Persons Gives Hope For Peace In The Balkans

Posted November 26, 2008:

• Archeology Of Homelessness
• Jurassic Turtles Could Swim

Posted November 25, 2008:

• Using Water To Understand Human Society – From The Industrial Revolution To Global Trade

Posted November 20, 2008:

• Darwin Was Right About How Evolution Can Affect Whole Group

Posted November 19, 2008:

• Floppy-Footed Gibbons Help Us Understand How Early Humans May Have Walked
• Funerary Monument Reveals Iron Age Belief That The Soul Lived In The Stone

Posted November 18, 2008:

• World's Earliest Nuclear Family Found

Posted November 14, 2008:

• Pelvis Dated To 1.2 Million Years Ago Shows Ancestors May Have Been Born With Big Heads
• Small Islands Given Short Shrift In Assembling Archaeological Record

Posted November 11, 2008:

• Southern Wall Of Jerusalem That Dates To Time Of Hasmonean Dynasty Discovered On Mount Zion
• Gold Earring 2,000 Years Old Discovered In Excavations In Jerusalem

Posted November 7, 2008:

• Epic Voyage To Discover Origins And Migration Routes Of Ancestors Of Ancient Polynesians And Their Animals

Posted November 6, 2008:

• DNA Chunks, Chimps And Humans: Marks Of Differences Between Human And Chimp Genomes

Posted November 3, 2008:

• Earliest Known Hebrew Text In Proto-Canaanite Script Discovered In Area Where 'David Slew Goliath'
• Tools Give Earlier Date For ‘modern-Thinking’ Humans

Posted November 1, 2008:

• Last Of His Kind? Researchers Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of Ancient Mummy, The Tyrolean Iceman

Posted October 30, 2008:

• Significant Fossil Discovery In Utah Shows Land Plants Of 200 Million Years Ago

Posted October 28, 2008:

• Fire Out Of Africa: A Key To The Migration Of Prehistoric Humans
• King Solomon's Copper Mines?

Posted October 23, 2008:

• Archaeologists Find Unique, Early US Relic Of African Worship

Posted October 22, 2008:

• Out Of Mesopotamia: Evolutionary History Of Tuberculosis

Posted October 20, 2008:

• New Fossil Reveals Primates Lingered In Texas

Posted October 19, 2008:

• Genetic-Based Human Diseases Are An Ancient Evolutionary Legacy, Research Suggests

Posted October 15, 2008:

• Did Pirates Create The Credit Crunch?
• Why Do Women Get More Cavities Than Men?
• Earliest Known Human TB Found In 9,000 Year-Old Skeletons
• 2 Ears Struck Off: 12 Marks In Payment

Posted October 14, 2008:

• Archaeological Dig Uncovers Roman Mystery

Posted October 9, 2008:

• Deathways Open Doors To Unexpected Cultural Practices

Posted October 6, 2008:

• Egalitarian Revolution In The Pleistocene?

Posted October 1, 2008:

• New Life Found In Ancient Tombs

Posted September 24, 2008:

• New Life For Middle English: Norwegian Detective Work Gives New Knowledge Of The English Language

Posted September 23, 2008:

• 'Redesigned Hammer' That Forged Evolution Of Pregnancy In Mammals Found

Posted September 16, 2008:

• New Ant Species Discovered In The Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage Of Ants

Posted September 10, 2008:

• Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Childbirth Was Already Difficult For Neanderthals

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution

Posted September 7, 2008:

• Long-Held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research

Posted September 5, 2008:

• DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots

Posted September 4, 2008:

• Tutankhamen Fathered Twins, Mummified Fetuses Suggest
• Significance Of Milk In Development Of Culture To Be Studied

Posted September 2, 2008:

• Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life
• Person's Geographic Origins Located From DNA
• Prehistoric Funerary Precinct Excavated In Northern Israel: Grave Goods Include Phallic Figurines, Sea Shells

Posted August 29, 2008:

• 'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization

Posted August 27, 2008:

• Bone Parts Don't Add Up To Conclusion Of Hobbit-Like Palauan Dwarfs

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