Anthropology

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  1. Anthropology

    Humans have linked emotions to the same body parts for 3,000 years

    3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

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  2. Humans

    Dietary evidence bolsters Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers

    Mammoths made up as much as 40 percent of the ancient North Americans’ diet, a chemical analysis of human remains reveals.

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  3. Anthropology

    Footprints offer a rare look at ancient human relatives crossing paths

    The imprints put flat-footed and arched-foot walkers together at a prime spot in East Africa.

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  4. Anthropology

    Fossil teeth hint at a surprisingly early start to humans’ long childhoods

    Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

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  5. Anthropology

    How does a fossil become a superstar? Just ask Lucy.

    Geologic good fortune, skilled scientific scrutiny and a catchy name turned Lucy into an evolutionary icon.

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  6. Anthropology

    The ‘midlife crisis’ is too simple a story, scientists say

    Some scientists want to shift focus to the teen mental health crisis. But the course of happiness is too complex for simplistic theories, experts warn.

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  7. Psychology

    Navigation research often excludes the environment. That’s starting to change

    Participants “navigating” on a lab computer have shaped navigation knowledge. Studies that add in the environment challenge those findings.

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  8. Archaeology

    Ancient Scythians had cultural roots in Siberia

    A possible sacrificial ritual from around 2,800 years ago suggests mounted herders from Siberia shaped a Eurasian culture thousands of kilometers away.

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  9. Anthropology

    Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing

    Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

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