9,000 years ago, a community with modern urban problems
Çatalhöyük had overcrowding, violence, environmental troublesCredit: Scott Haddow COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some 9,000 years ago, residents of one of the ...
Tag: Anthropology
New time-banking system utilizes blockchain tech to measure one’s value to society
Credit: Koji Lum BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Citizens from the island of Aneityum in the Republic of Vanuatu are working with ...
Mountain-dwellers can adapt to melting glaciers without caring about climate change
A new study challenges the assumption that communities have to believe in climate change before they can take actionCredit: Ben ...
The Neolithic precedents of gender inequality
Researchers from the University of Seville have published an ambitious study of gender inequality in prehistoric Iberia Researchers from the ...
Dramatic change in ancient nomad diets coincides with expansion of networks across Eurasia
Credit: I. Reese and A. R. Ventresca Miller, 2017 A meta-analysis of dietary information recorded in the bones of ancient ...
Civility still matters to some in cyberspace
In the online world, where incivility is all too common, new research from the McCombs School of Business at The ...
What’s your attitude about body hair removal?
New study lays bare cultural reasons around the globe for bikini waxing and man-scaping As beachgoers scramble to trim their ...
Networking with ghosts in the machine… and speaking kettles
Researchers at Lancaster University have carried out several 'talking head' interviews with household objects as part of an experiment to ...
Using nature to adapt to climate change
As the effects of a changing climate are felt with growing intensity, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders are turning their attention ...
Chimpanzees catch and eat crabs
Credit: Kathelijne Koops Chimpanzees have a mainly vegetarian diet, but do occasionally eat meat. Researchers at the University of Zurich ...
Sound waves bypass visual limitations to recognize human activity
Privacy, environment restricts video camera use; sound can get around those concernsCredit: Xinhua Guo WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2019 -- ...
Exploring the origins of the apple
Apples originally evolved in the wild to entice ancient megafauna to disperse their seeds; more recently, humans began spreading the ...
Chimpanzees at the crossroads: adapt to living outside protected areas
Research carried out into the impact of changes to chimpanzee habitats found they have adapted to human developments -- including ...
Civil War plant medicines blast drug-resistant bacteria in lab tests
Confederate field hospitals turned to traditional remedies under Union blockadeCredit: Photo by Stephen Nowland, Emory University During the height of ...
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