A new study finds more than one early human species lived on the landscape in Northern Tanzania 3.66 million years ago. But there are reasons to be cautious about the findings.
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It’s about developing a community of practice: people who can work alongside scientists, taking science out of the laboratory and into the field.
Laws and rituals surrounding disease have been part of everyday life for millennia. Here’s why that’s important.
Walking has taken a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa roughly 4.4 million years ago.
Human beings evolved to nurture – and that drive can extend to children who aren’t your own and even to members of other species.
Did ancient technological advancements drive social innovation, or vice versa? Studying cause and effect in the ancient world may seem like a fool’s errand, but researchers built a database to do just that.
De nouvelles preuves confirment que des différences culturelles intergroupes, notables et anciennes, ont façonné les dernières étapes de l'évolution humaine en Afrique.
The characterisation of Aboriginal worlds at 1788 is the central debate between Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and Peter Sutton and Kerryn Walshe’s Farmers or Hunter-gatherers.
By providing insights from different disciplines, a new book uncovers new themes in the history of Yoruba people of West Africa
A wider understanding of cultural values will be crucial to the successful implementation of contact-tracing technology across the world.
Around the globe, 823,000 child deaths could be prevented annually with appropriate breastfeeding. Formula makers continue to defy a 40-year-old international code on marketing their product.
Endurance is a surprisingly progressive way of creating a better future.
Are the descriptions of war passed down by ancient historians accurate? A site in Sicily provided a rare chance to fact-check stories told about two battles from more than 2,400 years ago.
Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.
It’s possible that low oxygen levels in caves produced hallucinations – but that doesn’t explain the majority of prehistoric art.
Proposed legislation would identify and protect African American cemeteries. But it wouldn’t cover the remains of thousands of Black people in museum collections.
Anthropologists believed that before the implementation of agriculture, men hunted and women gathered, but new evidence suggests that this might not have been the case.
These medical volunteers have been closely associated with several kinds of non-human actors, whose behaviour is worth examining in more detail.
Some fans even said they would be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, giving their own lives to save other supporters of their team.
Did Neanderthal military superiority delay our migration out of Africa?
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Professor of Anthropology, UCL
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Anthropology, UCL
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Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies and Anthropology , NYU Abu Dhabi, chercheuse associée LESC, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
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Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide
