Latest about anthropology
Humans were in South America at least 25,000 years ago, giant sloth bone pendants reveal
Humans were living in Brazil earlier than previously thought, prehistoric sloth-bone pendants suggest.
Mystery Stone Age holes in England have archaeologists asking, 'What were these pits for?'
Archaeologists in England have found up to 25 large pits dotting the countryside, but their purpose remains a mystery.
Lost Maya city discovered deep in the jungles of Mexico
Archaeologists discovered a lost Maya city hidden in the jungles of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
See the face of 'Ava,' a Bronze Age woman who lived in Scotland 3,800 years ago
Researchers created a 3D image of a Bronze Age woman who was likely part of Europe’s “Bell Beaker” culture.
Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrong
Scientists studying hunter-gatherer societies around the world discovered the stereotypes that men were hunters and women were gatherers was wrong.
See the face of the 'Hobbit,' an extinct human relative
A new facial approximation offers insight into one of humankind's extinct relatives, Homo floresiensis.
86,000-year-old human bone found in Laos cave hints at 'failed population' from prehistory
The discovery of a skull and shin bone fragment in a cave in Laos pushes back the earliest known date of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia.
Massive, 1.2 million-year-old tool workshop in Ethiopia made by 'clever' group of unknown human relatives
An unknown group of hominins crafted more than 500 obsidian hand axes more than 1.2 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
