anthropology

Why Uncontacted Tribes Should Be Left Alone

By Jonathan Mazower

Prehistoric Women Had Stronger Arms Than Competitive Rowers Today

By Amanda MacMillan

The Scientific Reason You Can’t Stop Watching Baby Animal Videos

By Jeffrey Kluger

Why Did Cannibals Eat Other People? (Hint: It's Not For the Calories)

By Jeffrey Kluger
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Scientists Solve Mystery of 5,300-Year-Old Ice Man's Clothes

Studies of mitochondrial DNA reveal what 25 years of speculation couldn't

By Jeffrey Kluger

Humans First Used Tools to Eat Meat 250,000 Years Ago. Here’s What the Discovery Means

A dig in the desert reveals crude technology dating back a quarter of a million years

By Jeffrey Kluger

Neanderthals, Humans Hooked Up Earlier Than Thought

They don't have any descendants still living

By Justin Worland

New Google Doodle Honors Lucy the Australopithecus

She belonged to a species that shared both human and ape characteristics

By Joanna Plucinska

Here's Proof That the First Modern Humans Were Chinese

Never mind what you've heard, Europe and the Middle East were nowhere near the first places modern humans settled

By Jeffrey Kluger

Native Americans Came to America in One Single Migratory Wave

The question at hand: Did Native Americans come to the Americas in one migratory wave or two?

By Tanya Basu

Is It Ethical to Leave Uncontacted Tribes Alone?

Contact means dangers for both sides‚ but lack of contact does too

By Jeffrey Kluger

Here's Why You Have a Chin

Hint: You could do perfectly well without it

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Lost Hobbits of the Eastern Arctic

Scientists never understood what became of the Paleo-Eskimos who once peopled the north. Now they know—and there's new reason to miss them

By Michael D. Lemonick

Study: Society Flourished When Humans Got Less Manly

Does lower T lead to higher tech? Research links decrease in manly traits to an increase in sophisticated toolmaking in early humans

By Charlotte Alter

The Bodies in the Bogs: An Eerie Gift From the Iron Age

There are cold cases and there are cold cases, but it’s hard to beat the one that came to light on May 6, 1950, in Silkeborg, Denmark. The local folks were already on edge after...

By Jeffrey Kluger

Women Unveiled: Marc Garanger's Contested Portraits of 1960s Algeria

Marc Garanger’s portraits of Algerian women in 1960s regroupment villages are strong reminders of the power of the photograph as historical record.

By Carole Naggar
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