Anthropology

More than 240 skeletons have been unearthed from a former medieval friary cemetery, revealing a "snapshot of the community."

If humans had tails, what would they be like, and how would we use them?

A new genetic analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal remains found in a Siberian cave reveals that these humans traveled in small, family-oriented groups.

Why does marriage at a young age bother us so much in Western culture?

Erosion along a beach in England has revealed ancient human and animal footprints.

Using forensic technology, researchers reanimate medieval skulls.

The Neanderthals and Denisovans — both relatives of modern humans — were roommates, literally, for thousands of years in a remote Siberian cave, two new studies find.

Researchers in Laos have uncovered an ancient molar that may have belonged to a Denisovan girl who lived up to 164,000 years ago.

A young woman buried in Patagonia up to 1,000 years ago was placed in a ceremonial canoe to represent her final journey into the land of the dead, according to a new study.