Anthropology

Anthropology

Native Americans corralled Spanish horses decades before Europeans arrived

Great Plains groups incorporated domestic horses into their cultures by the early 1600s, before Europeans moved north from Mexico.

Anthropology

A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat

The realization that people have long eaten putrid foods has archaeologists rethinking what Neandertals and other ancient hominids ate.

Anthropology

Two scientists’ trek showed how people of Chaco Canyon may have hauled logs

By carrying a log with the aid of head straps called tumplines, the duo demoed how people may have hauled timbers to Chaco about 1,000 years ago.

Archaeology

The Yamnaya may have been the world’s earliest known horseback riders

5,000-year-old Yamnaya skeletons show physical signs of horseback riding, hinting that they may be the earliest known humans to do so.

Anthropology

Hominids used stone tool kits to butcher animals earlier than once thought

Finds in Kenya push Oldowan tool use back to around 2.9 million years ago, roughly 300,000 years earlier than previous evidence.

Archaeology

Vikings brought animals to England as early as the year 873

A chemical analysis of cremated remains offers physical evidence of the arrival of Norse animals to England in the ninth century.

Archaeology

Mysterious marks on Ice Age cave art may have been a form of record keeping

Hunter-gatherers during the Ice Age may have recorded when prey mated and gave birth, suggesting that these people possessed complex cognitive skills

Life

These science discoveries from 2022 could be game changers

Gophers that farm, the earliest known hominid, a strange hybrid monkey and the W boson's mass are among the findings awaiting more evidence.

Anthropology

Homo naledi may have lit fires in underground caves at least 236,000 years ago

Homo naledi may have joined the group of ancient hominids who built controlled fires, presumably for light or warmth, new finds hint.

Anthropology

Carvings on Australia’s boab trees reveal a generation’s lost history

Archaeologists and an Aboriginal family are working together to rediscover a First Nations group’s lost connections to the land.

Archaeology

King Tut’s tomb still has secrets to reveal 100 years after its discovery

More of Tut’s story is poised to come to light in the coming years. Here are four things to know on the 100th anniversary of his tomb’s discovery.

Genetics

Ancient DNA unveils Siberian Neandertals’ small-scale social lives

Females often moved into their mate’s communities, which totaled about 20 individuals, researchers say.