Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
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Promoting and practicing ethical research that includes the people who live in the area today is as important to the archaeological team as learning more about the lives of the ancient inhabitants.
A new study doubles the age of ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how people moved, mingled and had children together over the last 50,000 years.
New analysis of Anglo-Saxon skulls suggests that being an Anglo-Saxon was a matter of language and culture, and not genetics.
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.
People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Archaeologists decode the stories told by bones and what accompanies them.
People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in the middle ages. Could what scientists call cultural resistance be what kept the disease under control?
New research has rubbished perceptions of Roman Britain as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans.
Why was one gene mutation that affects hair, teeth, sweat glands and breasts ubiquitous among ice age Arctic people? New research points to the advantage it provided for ancestors of Native Americans.
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies, and Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Archaeology, Durham University
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Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach
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Honorary Research Associate, Durham University
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Research Professor, National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Spain, and in the United States, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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MPhil Candidate in Bioscience Enterprise, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Georgia
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Chair professor, Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Human Evolutionary Studies, Simon Fraser University
