Anthropology

From Papua New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, Indigenous languages are under threat. An Indian linguist helped preserve one language family.

Changes in the climate may have caused disruptions to Roman society that manifested as disease outbreaks, researchers have found

Researchers have found ancient watering holes that were long ago buried by rising seas. The watering holes may be ones referred to in an Indigenous Australian songline

Gifts play an important role in human relationships and are about more than consumerism

For the first time, a machine learning technique has revealed Greek words in CT scans of fragile rolled-up papyrus

A new study suggests humans arrived in the Americas before the height of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago

Researchers say the discovery of the earliest known wooden construction expands their knowledge of the woodworking skills of early humans that existed before Homo sapiens

A jawbone from eastern China that displays both modern and archaic features could represent a new branch of the human family tree

The decision to send hominin bones on a commercial spaceflight has raised eyebrows among paleontologists

A new technique for analyzing modern genetic data suggests that prehumans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals

Archaeologists found evidence of spices such as turmeric and cloves from ancient Vietnam, suggesting South Asians shared their culinary traditions via an ancient maritime trade route

A fossilized hominin leg shows gashes that were probably made by stone tools