Anthropology

Massive Neanderthal baby shows how different they were to modern human infants IFLScience12:18
Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans New Scientist12:39
The joys and wonders of never leaving your campsite, with Rolland tizuela Outside10:10
The beginning of the rise of the planet of the apes: The unprecedented civil war of the ngogo chimpanzees ZME Science06:53
Neanderthals from Spain to China hoarded rhino teeth – Turns out, they may have used them as tools IFLScience18:11
Baby found under floorboards could have lived 300 years ago, inquest told ITV08:12
Long misidentified, this seal tooth pendant was carefully crafted by a prehistoric human… Smithsonian Magazine14:41

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Massive Neanderthal Baby Shows How Different They Were To Modern Human Infants IFLScience12:18
Two Northwestern faculty named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows Northwestern Now11:38
Archaeologists exhume Soviet soldiers’ remains in Šiauliai under ‘desovietisation’ law Lithuanian National Radio and Television10:30
The Peoples of America Palladium Magazine10:02
Review | In the Mountains. He — a comedic ode to the Caucasus mountains Open Caucasus Media04:36
From hippos to Homo sapiens The University of Aberdeen04:28
Yesterday
A Hundred Thousand Years Ago, Humans and Neanderthals Built a Shared Culture in This Cave ZME Science14:40 15-Apr-26
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries reframe 6,000 years of history The Art Newspaper12:57 15-Apr-26
Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans New Scientist12:39 15-Apr-26
250-million-year-old fossil proves mammal ancestors laid eggs Scientific American11:11 15-Apr-26
Turtles May Have Been Tasty Snacks for Neanderthals 125,000 Years Ago. But Their Shells Were… Smithsonian Magazine11:02 15-Apr-26
Museum of Ethnography Launches an Interactive Traveling Exhibition Hungary Today10:11 15-Apr-26
The Joys and Wonders of Never Leaving Your Campsite, with Rolland Tizuela Outside10:10 15-Apr-26
Between Wild West and Far East The Paris Review10:01 15-Apr-26
Marble head from Smyrna returned to Türkiye from US museum Daily Sabah07:24 15-Apr-26
The Beginning of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes: The Unprecedented Civil War of the Ngogo Chimpanzees ZME Science06:53 15-Apr-26
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Neanderthals From Spain To China Hoarded Rhino Teeth – Turns Out, They May Have Used Them As Tools IFLScience18:11 14-Apr-26
Genetic analysis reveals secret of Otto I, Roman-German emperor euronews16:23 14-Apr-26
Long Misidentified, This Seal Tooth Pendant Was Carefully Crafted by a Prehistoric Human… Smithsonian Magazine14:41 14-Apr-26
Mystery of baby boy whose skeletal remains were found under floorboards in newspaper from 1910… MailOnline11:00 14-Apr-26
Newborn’s skeletal remains were found wrapped in newspaper under floorboards Metro.co.uk10:00 14-Apr-26
Body of baby found under floorboards in 1910 newspaper may be 300 years old Daily Star09:53 14-Apr-26
People Held Glacier Funerals in Iceland to Mourn Environmental Loss — a Ritual That Could Help Us Face Ecological Grief Discover Magazine09:06 14-Apr-26
Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI Massachusetts Institute of Technology09:03 14-Apr-26
Baby found under floorboards could have lived 300 years ago, inquest told ITV08:12 14-Apr-26
This Millennium-Old Sacrificial Altar in Mexico Belonged to a Civilization That Thrived Before… Smithsonian Magazine08:05 14-Apr-26
Milan Design Week 2026: Must-See Installations, Exhibitions, and Events ArchDaily07:08 14-Apr-26
Planet Earth is blue The Monthly23:09 13-Apr-26
Can nature outcompete war in Eastern Congo? Mongabay19:38 13-Apr-26
Prehistoric and Postclassic Rock Art Discovered in Mexico Near Ancient Tula Arkeonews18:12 13-Apr-26
Prehistoric Stone Altar with Human Remains Discovered in Central Mexico ARTnews Magazine15:51 13-Apr-26
An ancient genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy Nature.com11:26 13-Apr-26
Between Stops: Non-Places in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Senses of Cinema06:43 13-Apr-26
Is Engels’ The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Human still relevant today? Morning Star19:05 12-Apr-26
Who Is Bishop Emile Shimon Nouna, the Newly Elected Patriarch of the Chaldean Church Iraqi News Agency10:00 12-Apr-26
The oldest known evidence of stitched clothing Refractor20:09 11-Apr-26
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2,500-year-old infant mass grave cracks open enigma of biblical-era baby burials The Times of Israel04:48 11-Apr-26
Semo anthropologist discusses recovery efforts from disturbed cemetery investigation KFVS1220:59 10-Apr-26
1,000-year-old Toltec altar with four human skulls found in Mexico The Art Newspaper16:28 10-Apr-26
UNR’s Board of Anthropology Students host fundraiser at Lead Dog Brewing KOLO-TV14:10 10-Apr-26
After Nearly 80 Years of Doubt, Scientists Say a Spear Lodged Between Elephant Ribs Offers… Smithsonian Magazine12:21 10-Apr-26
A 2000-Year-Old ‘Lost Script’ Has Been Deciphered—Now It May Help Solve the Enduring Mystery of Ancient Teotihuacan The Debrief12:07 10-Apr-26
Uncover the mystery of Britain's first inhabitants: Follow the ancient footsteps from Neanderthals to the Stone Age BBC Countryfile Magazine02:57 10-Apr-26
Neanderthals In France Made Tools From Rhino Bones And Horse Teeth 200,000 Years Ago IFLScience00:18 10-Apr-26
Deep in a Ugandan forest, chimpanzees wage a lethal 'civil war' ABC Online22:09 9-Apr-26
Neanderthals in Prehistoric Germany Hunted Pond Turtles, Likely Turning Their Shells Into Convenient Tools Discover Magazine17:54 9-Apr-26
A Student Saw One Lonely Rock. He Suspected a Mystery—and Uncovered a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site. Popular Mechanics12:36 9-Apr-26
What Lies Beneath American Scientist12:15 9-Apr-26
Iran war puts focus on petrochemicals used in numerous products and a driver of climate change MailOnline09:57 9-Apr-26
Medieval Karelian Warrior Burial Discovered in Russia Reveals Rare Christian Cross with Gotland Links Arkeonews06:22 9-Apr-26
Serbia Keeps Easter Egg Tradition for Good Friday Bulgarian News Agency05:29 9-Apr-26
From Greenland to the Gulf: Trump’s strategic doctrine and the reconfiguration of global order The Times of India05:12 9-Apr-26
Could flooding Lough Neagh get rid of blue-green algae? BBC01:47 9-Apr-26
Listening to the desert: Reclaiming time through literature at the UAE's prehistoric heritage sites The National01:35 9-Apr-26
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Lost in Transit, Found in Time: DU team spots possible prehistoric rock art site in Mirzapur The Times of India13:48 8-Apr-26
Mummified early Permian reptile reveals ancient amniote breathing apparatus Nature.com12:02 8-Apr-26
Planet of the Apes Screen Slate10:12 8-Apr-26
Gossip Isn’t As Bad As You Think TIME09:09 8-Apr-26
The Disappearance Of Neanderthals May Have Been A Lot Sexier Than Previously Thought IFLScience06:11 8-Apr-26
A project of love: The Australian-led research on Kythera Neos Kosmos23:25 7-Apr-26
Mexico recovers 160 cultural treasures in first repatriation of 2026 ArtDaily20:23 7-Apr-26
Nani Boronat: The more I learn about Azerbaijani culture, the more I find in common with Spanish culture - INTERVIEW Azerbaijan State News Agency13:03 7-Apr-26
Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples receive artifacts from University of Denver Museum of Anthropology KUNC08:02 7-Apr-26
Forest, dharma, and the ecological imagination: Lessons from India’s epics The Times of India06:46 7-Apr-26
Fear, Patriarchy and the Politics of Scapegoating EVN Report06:44 7-Apr-26
Writing and Reading the Border: Ethnographic Fiction Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research06:18 7-Apr-26
12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice Colossal14:08 6-Apr-26
This Exceptionally Preserved Neanderthal Appears To Have Been Buried On Purpose In France 40,000 Years Ago IFLScience10:44 6-Apr-26
How to eat an elephant: fossil find in Tanzania shows oldest signs of butchering these giant mammals The Conversation (UK)09:42 6-Apr-26
Race, Fertility, and the Science of Slavery in Antebellum America JSTOR Daily09:38 6-Apr-26
Tantra, Religiosity, Archaeology: The Cinema Of Ashish Avikunthak Outlook India10:46 5-Apr-26
Neanderthals Used Ancient Gloop as Antibacterial Medicine, Study Suggests ScienceAlert09:07 5-Apr-26
Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution 404 Media09:01 4-Apr-26
Homo Erectus Made Handaxes With Fossils And Crystals As “Mediators Between Humans And The Cosmos” IFLScience14:13 3-Apr-26
A matter of taste: did Neanderthals really like Sapiens women? The Conversation (UK)09:48 3-Apr-26
A New DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The Neanderthals in Europe ScienceAlert08:04 3-Apr-26
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Lung evolution shaped body size limits in early land vertebrates News-Medical.Net22:20 2-Apr-26
What Is Behind the Enduring Appeal of Fascism? Psychology Today17:42 2-Apr-26
Building in Our Value(s) American Scientist12:43 2-Apr-26
The Peril Beneath the Glow American Scientist12:40 2-Apr-26
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Shipwreck graveyard dating back 2,600 years discovered off ancient island Metro.co.uk10:00 2-Apr-26
Ancient Native American Dice Predate Any Previously Known Examples By Over 6,000 Years Study Finds09:07 2-Apr-26
Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age Scientific American00:28 2-Apr-26
The false dawn of the post-literate society UnHerd19:06 1-Apr-26
The ascent of us Harvard Gazette17:23 1-Apr-26
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Scientists discover 2,400-year-old iron workshop in Africa Tech Explorist09:48 1-Apr-26
I Traced an Anthropologist’s Deadly Obsession with the Dark World of Kanaima Outside05:17 1-Apr-26
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INAH recovers ancient human fossils from underground river Heritage Daily17:16 30-Mar-26
Did Neanderthals Use Birch Bark Tar as an Antibiotic to Treat Wounds and Infections? Smithsonian Magazine17:11 30-Mar-26
Scientists Find the Likeliest Place Where Neanderthals and Modern Humans Interbred ZME Science12:45 30-Mar-26
These 17-Million-Year-Old Fossils Could Rewrite the Evolutionary Tree of Apes—Including Humans Smithsonian Magazine12:27 30-Mar-26
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Chinese scientists discover new species of ancient fish in Yunnan, dating back around 244 million years Global Times10:52 30-Mar-26
Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter The Conversation (US)09:23 30-Mar-26
Humans came to the Americas later than we thought Popular Mechanics09:11 30-Mar-26
India doesn’t need new climate wisdom—It needs to remember Narmada Parikrama The Times of India06:25 30-Mar-26
Alexey Morosov's 'BELEK' transforms a 14th-century Venetian church ArtDaily21:29 29-Mar-26
[Time Trowel] The precolonial Filipino you’re looking for never existed Rappler01:24 29-Mar-26
Partnership in Steppe: How Kazakh Families Shared Work of Survival The Astana Times01:04 29-Mar-26
History: The Almost Rise Of Gwadar Dawn22:28 28-Mar-26
Atomic houses and space hoppers: International researchers join local artist Jack Dunnett to map Caithness’… John O'Groat Journal, Scotland07:22 28-Mar-26
Jürgen Habermas and ‘the unfinished project of enlightenment’ America Magazine17:08 27-Mar-26
Neanderthals hunted giant elephants in Europe Popular Science11:54 27-Mar-26
Dogs Have Been 'Man's Best Friend' For 14,000 Years Science 2.011:35 27-Mar-26
Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter The Conversation (US)08:41 27-Mar-26
Ancient ceremonial plaza discovered in Atlixco Heritage Daily07:43 27-Mar-26

      
            
      
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Latest news on Anthropology, covering cultural studies, archaeology, ethnography, biological anthropology and human science research.

Anthropology, the comprehensive study of humanity across time and space, continues to offer crucial insights into our origins, cultures, and social structures. With four main branches—cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeology—the discipline explores everything from ancient civilisations to contemporary social issues.

Recent developments in the field have seen increased focus on climate change impacts on human communities, with researchers documenting traditional ecological knowledge as potential solutions. Technological innovations in DNA analysis have revolutionised our understanding of human migration patterns, with recent findings suggesting more complex interbreeding between early human species than previously thought.

Community-based participatory research has gained prominence, with indigenous groups increasingly leading anthropological studies of their own cultures. The return of cultural artefacts from Western museums to their countries of origin continues to spark important conversations about ethical practices in the discipline, with several high-profile repatriations occurring over the past year.

Anthropology's roots trace back to the 19th century, though its methodologies have evolved significantly from early colonial approaches to today's more collaborative and reflexive practices. The field's historical emphasis on participant observation and deep cultural immersion continues to inform contemporary research, even as digital ethnography expands our understanding of online communities and virtual worlds.

Our NewsNow feed on Anthropology brings together the latest research findings, theoretical developments, and fieldwork reports from around the globe. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply curious about human diversity and cultural practices, this feed provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of all aspects of this fascinating field.

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