The latest archaeology and anthropology research
By João Teixeira, University of Adelaide Around 55,000-50,000 years ago, a population of modern humans left Africa and started on the long trek that would lead them around the world. After rapidly crossing Eurasia...
Sometimes it is impossible to establish the identity of a victim because their sex cannot be recognised. In her PhD research, Mandan has developed a way to accurately identify the sex of someone by...
By Adam Taylor, Lancaster University and Rebecca Shepherd, Lancaster University Bones are amazing. People are often surprised to learn that bone is a living tissue. It is widely understood that our bones have the...
Researchers have described a new species of fossil ape dating back 11.6 million years and suggest a new form of locomotion they call “extended limb clambering”. The research is published in the journal Nature....
Who exactly were the Aurignacians, who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? Researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Ben-Gurion University now report that these culturally sophisticated, yet mysterious, humans...
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown how the distal humerus (elbow) can be used to determining sex in skeletal remains, whilst also highlighting population differences. Forensic anthropologists estimate the biological...
By Joshua Allan Lindal, University of Manitoba Sparse trees cast long shadows as the morning sun rises over the grassy woodland clearing. Elephants and rhinos gather around a quiet watering hole. A troop of...
By José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Universidade Federal de Goias and Pasquale Raia, University of Naples Federico II It’s not every day that scientists discover a new human species. But that’s just what happened back...
Research carried out by the University of Kent has found differences between the knuckle joints of primates that will enable a better understanding of extinct hominin hand use. Using samples from the Powell-Cotton Museum...
Physicists and mathematicians use the classical Stefan problem to explain the principles of crystal formation, such as snowflakes . Researchers in the University of Helsinki and Aalto University have now adapted the same principles...
