In 1983, archaeologists exploring South Africa's Kruger Cave found a 7,000-year-old antelope femur which then sat in storage ...

The material begins with premodern ideas of magic, myth and metaphysics. The narrative that “Western” societies tell of the development of the modern world is that the Enlightenment cast off ...

The Max Planck Society of Evolutionary Anthropology announced the analysis of genome-wide DNA from skeletal samples of 722 ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Ancient genomes reveal the integration of genetically distinct groups within the early medieval Avar society in the Vienna ...

Researchers carried out an archeogenetic study of human remains from more than 700 individuals from the Early Middle Ages. Two large burial sites, Modling and Leobersdorf, have been genetically ...

CSI methods indicate that the skull from the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology's collection does not belong to Arsinoë ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

Archaeology involves the systematic study of human cultures through material remains, asking: Who did what? When? Where? How? And Why? Physical and biological Anthropology involves the study of ...

Anthropology is the study of humans, their close relatives and their cultural environment. Subfields of anthropology deal with hominin evolution and the comparative study of extant and past ...

Social anthropology is the subdiscipline of anthropology that investigates the cultural properties of human societies. Topics include cultural norms, morals, laws and customs, and there is a ...

Major sub-disciplinary areas of study in the program include: cultural anthropology/ comparative cultural studies; archaeology; social theory; medical anthropology; political economy, development, and ...