Anthropology

  1. Anthropology

    Tools for Prey: Female chimps move to fore in hunting

    For the first time, researchers have observed wild chimpanzees making and using tools to hunt other animals, a practice adopted mainly by adult females and youngsters.

    By
  2. Anthropology

    New age for ancient Americans

    New radiocarbon dates indicate that the Clovis people, long considered the first well-documented settlers of the New World, inhabited North America considerably later and for a much shorter time than previously thought.

    By
  3. Anthropology

    Chimpanzee Stone Age: Finds in Africa rock prehistory of tools

    Researchers have uncovered evidence of a chimpanzee stone age that started at least 4,300 years ago in West Africa.

    By
  4. Anthropology

    Neandertals’ tough Stone Age lives

    Neandertals that 43,000 years ago inhabited what's now northern Spain faced periodic food shortages and possibly resorted to cannibalism to survive.

    By
  5. Anthropology

    South African find gets younger

    The partial skeleton of a human ancestor previously found in South Africa dates to about 2.2 million years ago, roughly 1 million years younger than the original estimates.

    By
  6. Anthropology

    Stone Age Role Revolution: Modern humans may have divided labor to conquer

    A new analysis of Stone Age sites indicates that a division of labor first emerged in modern-human groups living in the African tropics around 40,000 years ago, providing our ancestors with a social advantage over Neandertals.

    By
  7. Anthropology

    Ancient Gene Yield: New methods retrieve Neandertals’ DNA

    Researchers have retrieved and analyzed a huge chunk of Neandertal DNA.

    By
  8. Anthropology

    Evolution’s Mystery Woman

    A heated debate has broken out among anthropologists over whether a highly publicized partial skeleton initially attributed to a new, tiny species of human cousins actually comes from a pygmy Homo sapiens with a developmental disorder.

    By
  9. Anthropology

    Evolution’s Child: Fossil puts youthful twist on Lucy’s kind

    Researchers have announced the discovery of the oldest and most complete fossil child in our evolutionary family yet found.

    By
  10. Anthropology

    Neandertal debate goes south

    A controversial report concludes that Neandertals lived on southwestern Europe's Iberian coast until 24,000 years ago, sharing the area for several thousand years with modern humans before dying out.

    By
  11. Anthropology

    Scripted Stone: Ancient block may bear Americas’ oldest writing

    A slab of stone found by road builders in southern Mexico may contain the oldest known writing in the Americas, although some scientists regard the nearly 3,000-year-old inscriptions cautiously.

    By
  12. Anthropology

    Chimps spread out their tools

    Chimpanzees use stones to crack nuts in an African region far from where that behavior was thought to be relegated.

    By