Interpreting Paleolithic Funerary Rites from Broken Ochred Pebbles
Claudine Gravel-Miguel, archaeology doctoral student at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, research has taken …
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The Cardiac Health of the Tsimane
A lot of discussion is constantly had about what is the healthiest diet; low fat or low carb. An interesting …
A Nose In The Air: The Influence of Climate & Nose Morphology
British anthropologist Arthur Thomson, in the late 1800’s published his observations on nose size and shape. He noted that humans from …
The Resilience of The Awá Against Modernity
Over at the Washington Post, there’s an interesting article documenting how two Amazonian Awá tribeswomen have escaped the modern life …
Ritual Human Sacrifice Paved Way For Complex Societies
Anthropologists from New Zealand have collected evidence that suggests that ritualized human sacrifice was a formative rite that paved way …
Easter Island Wasn’t Destroyed By War
For centuries, there has been this belief that Rapa Nui suffered a catastrophic population crash, possibly due to war. But …
Race Is A Social Construct
One of our all time most popular posts here on Anthropology.net is a 2008 blog post, “Race as a Social …
The Role of Technology & Culture On Human Evolution
Blombos Cave is an important site discovered in the ’90’s. It is about 300 km east of Cape Town, South …
Between The Knots, Untying The Mystery Of Incan Khipus
Khipus are an ancient language system in the form of wool or cotton strings with knots. There is an intricate …
Neandertal Post-Mortem Modification
A study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology has for the first time analysed the fragments of three …
