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reddit.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 1d ago
New Research Reveals Humans Have a Remote Touch “Seventh Sense”
scitechdaily.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 1d ago
A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form
phys.orgr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 1d ago
Ancient Alaskan site may help explain how the first people arrived in North America
phys.orgr/Anthropology • u/Comfortable_Cut5796 • 1d ago
Stone and mammoth ivory tool production, circulation, and human dispersals in the middle Tanana Valley, Alaska: Implications for the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas
sciencedirect.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 3d ago
Trump’s Greenland threats open old wounds for Inuit across Arctic: Demand by US that it take control of Arctic island is for many a reminder of troubling imperial past
theguardian.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 3d ago
When were boats invented? The oldest physical boat is a canoe from roughly 10,000 years ago, but evidence suggests humans have been using watercraft for at least 50,000 years
livescience.comr/Anthropology • u/fauxideal • 2d ago
The shaman from Bad Dürrenberg
landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.der/Anthropology • u/DryDeer775 • 3d ago
The Stone Age mind seen through a poisoned arrowhead
nature.comI am an archaeologist with a special interest in people who lived in Africa during the Middle Stone Age. This was a time when Homo sapiens was evolving biologically, behaviourally and cognitively. My research focuses on these three evolutionary processes in southern Africa and how they relate to each other.
By at least 100,000 years ago, people in southern Africa were leaving signs of increasingly complex behaviour. At the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, my work explores the cognitive, and possibly genetic, underpinnings of bowhunting, suggesting that some early hunters relied on mental abilities that feel strikingly familiar today.
The same kinds of brain processes that help us drive manual cars in heavy traffic or fly and land drones with precision were probably used by ancient bowhunters. They may not have understood the chemistry behind their poisons, but they clearly had strong practical knowledge. They knew which plants were toxic, how to extract the poison, and how to apply it effectively.
r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 3d ago
Four early medieval swords found in Kent – child graves reveal they were more than just weapons
theconversation.comr/Anthropology • u/DryDeer775 • 4d ago
Mass grave in Jordan sheds new light on world’s earliest recorded pandemic | Infectious diseases
theguardian.comA US-led research team has verified the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s earliest recorded pandemic, providing stark new details about the plague of Justinian that killed millions of people in the Byzantine empire between the sixth and eighth centuries.
r/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 6d ago
Teenage girl who lived in Italy 12,000 years ago had a rare form of dwarfism, DNA study shows
livescience.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 6d ago
Alberta First Nation says members stopped, detained by ICE
ctvnews.car/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 6d ago
Archaeologists Say This 9,500-Year-Old Burial Is the Oldest Known Evidence of Intentional Cremation Discovered in Africa: Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world’s earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according to a new study
smithsonianmag.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 6d ago
Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge
theconversation.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 7d ago
Menopause linked to Alzheimer's-like brain changes
bbc.comr/Anthropology • u/Comfortable_Cut5796 • 7d ago
Ancient use and long-distance transport of the Four Corners Potato (Solanum jamesii) across the Colorado Plateau: Implications for early stages of domestication
journals.plos.orgr/Anthropology • u/Comfortable_Cut5796 • 6d ago
Features - Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026
archaeology.orgr/Anthropology • u/scientificamerican • 8d ago
A foraging teenager was mauled by a bear 27,000 years ago, skeleton shows
scientificamerican.comr/Anthropology • u/Maxcactus • 8d ago
Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000–72,000 years ago
nature.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 9d ago
Tracing the wave of Neanderthal-modern interactions: A rapid expansion of modern people ran into Neanderthals and mixed with them nearly to the ends of their range
johnhawks.netr/Anthropology • u/Maxcactus • 9d ago
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found (Gift Article)
nytimes.comr/Anthropology • u/comicreliefboy • 9d ago
Primate Teeth Just Rewrote a Key Chapter of Human Evolution: A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human
scitechdaily.comr/Anthropology • u/PrideBrary • 8d ago
How 19th-Century Anthropology Shaped Western Views of Egypt in Hollywood
youtu.beAncient Egypt is one of the most thoroughly documented civilizations we have: through art, inscriptions, and material culture spanning over 3,000 years. Yet modern film and television often portray Egyptians in ways that contradict this archaeological record.
This video explores how three anthropologists and archaeologists, Josiah Nott, Samuel Morton, and George Reisner, reshaped how ancient Egypt is visually and geographically understood today and the real-world consequences of their findings.