Tagged With Anthropology

A 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece is the oldest modern human discovered outside Africa. It changes our timeline of human migration.

Aylin Woodward

Humans are some of the only animals that don't have tails — here's why

Shira Polan, Uma Sharma

A 160,000-year-old jaw from a human ancestor was found in a Tibetan cave. It might explain why Tibetans are able to live at high altitudes today.

Aylin Woodward

Scientists have discovered the oldest human footprint ever seen in the Americas

Aylin Woodward

Scientists may have discovered a new human species. It lived on a tiny island in the Philippines at the same time as Homo sapiens.

Aylin Woodward

Scientists have found one of the world's oldest surviving tattooing kits — with needles made of human bone

Aylin Woodward

Humans once hunted and butchered giant ground sloths in South America, 12,600-year-old bones reveal

Aylin Woodward

Ancient graves hid the skeletons of more than 260 children who likely had their hearts removed. It is the largest known child sacrifice, and archaeologists still don’t know why.

Aylin Woodward

Ancient graves hid the skeletons of 269 children and 466 llamas who were ritually sacrificed, and archaeologists still don’t know why

Aylin Woodward

A handful of recent discoveries has transformed our entire understanding of human history

Kevin Loria

Ancient humans had sex and interbred with a mysterious group known as the Denisovans more than once, new research has found

Kevin Loria

Why we knock on wood, and the truth about 7 other common superstitions

Chris Snyder

Scientists have pinpointed when the first cave paintings were made -- and it means Neanderthals were more advanced than they thought

Kevin Loria

The science of why human breasts are so big

Nathaniel Lee, David Anderson, Jessica Orwig

Early human ancestors started migrating around the world far earlier than scientists thought

Kevin Loria

Inequality has been growing for thousands of years -- and it could hint at future societal collapse

Chris Weller

Researchers have found signs of ritual violence on skeletons from an ancient civilisation in the Andes

Kevin Loria

A newly discovered skull reveals what the common ancestor of humans and apes may have looked like

Kevin Loria

Ancient skulls that mirror ours are part of a handful of archaeological findings that rewrite human history

Erin Brodwin

Why IPA beers have 'India' in their names -- and how they fit into a key part of human history

Kevin Loria