Tag: Anthropology

Discovering that your new designer handbag or gold watch is a fake is costly and annoying, and counterfeit medical devices ...

DURHAM, N.H.--Nearly 35 percent of rural counties in the United States are experiencing protracted and significant population loss, according to ...

Chimpanzees learn nut-cracking technique and reach expert efficiency relatively faster than humansCredit: © Christophe Boesch Humans consider themselves as the ...

Peasant farmers began transforming diets across the Old World 7,000 years ago, study findsCredit: Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by ...

Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop ...

Genetic studies of ancient populations in the Caucasus region testify to the complex interaction of populations from the Eurasian steppe ...

Narrow searcher spacing and double passes increases chances (Boston)--In an effort to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of law enforcement ...

Forensic anthropologist to study how opioids impact the microscopic bone structures used to estimate age-at-deathCredit: The University of Akron Bones ...

New review compares the regional adaptations of humans and those of other hominin species to add support to the argument ...

Credit: Photos courtesy Illinois Archaeological Society: 'Revealing Greater Cahokia.' CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With a population between 10,000 and 30,000 in ...

Moods expressed on social media tend to decline when air pollution gets worse, study finds For many years, China has ...

Credit: Courtesy of Sawyer Broadley, Amey Zhang and Jeremy DeSilva. The fossil site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind, ...

A major study at the University of Copenhagen study reports that food quality is affected when people's food budgets are ...

First ever endocast reconstruction of the nearly complete brain of the hominin known as Little Foot reveals a small brain ...