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Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx.
Mexican anthropologists have discovered some 5,000-year-old cave paintings predating the Maya civilisation on Yucatan peninsula, Spanish news agency EFE reported.
You can alter your attraction to the opposite sex simply by looking straight at them and smiling, research suggests. A study of hundreds of volunteers at Stirling and Aberdeen Universities found averting the eyes even a fraction can make you appear less attractive.
Other animals we can observe in the world kill for a few reasons. They kill other animals for food. They kill other animals to protect their young or their group--defending against predators.
Polish researchers study rock carvings in the dry Egyptian river beds, which they tentatively date to 5 to 8 thousand years ago. One of the wadi, named by archaeologists "Coloured Wadi" is being studied in detail. "The Wadi is over a dozen kilometres long.
When it comes to their social behavior, people sometimes act like monkeys, or more specifically, like rhesus macaques, a type of monkey that shares with humans strong tendencies for nepotism and political maneuvering, according to research by Dario Maestripieri, an expert on prim …
They are typically portrayed as primitive brutes capable only of grunting, but new research now suggests Neanderthals may have whiled away the hours in their caves in conversation.
A new study published online on October 18th in Current Biology reveals that adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language were shared by our closest extinct relatives, the Neandertals.
Idaho State University anthropologists are retracing American Indian trade routes by bombarding arrowheads and other stone tools with radiation that helps locate their origins.
The first time Lucy left Africa, she flew coach, snugly wrapped in tissue and foam inside a naugahyde bag at the feet of her finder, anthropologist Don Johanson. It was 1975, and she was Cleveland-bound for a few years of scientific scrutiny.
For 10 years, they fought, hid and prayed for freedom here by the river, those 750 fugitive slaves, free blacks and black Seminoles who drifted west from the middle of Florida to form the largest community of its kind in the early 19th century South.
Are grandmothers an evolutionary necessity? The contributions of older women to society have long been debated by anthropologists. In the animal world, females often don't live much past their reproductive years.
SHABAK VALLEY, Afghanistan: In this isolated Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, American paratroopers are fielding what they consider a crucial new weapon in counterinsurgency operations here: a soft-spoken civilian anthropologist named Tracy.
A new study by Norwegian researchers investigating how cancer influences divorce found that most types of cancer resulted in a slight decrease in the divorce rate in the first few years following the diagnosis - except cervical or testicular cancer.
A team of scientists working in Georgia has unearthed the remains of four human-like creatures dating to 1.8 million years ago. In the journal Nature, the researchers outline details of the partial skeletons uncovered in a Medieval town.
Artificial intelligence, in the form of simple computer agents, can mimic the actions of primates and help us understand why some groups are despotic whilst others are egalitarian - overturning previous theories developed by primatologists.
Abstract:The environmental backdrop to the evolution and spread of early Homo sapiens in East Africa is known mainly from isolated outcrops and distant marine sediment cores.
While the military pursuit of insurgents in Afghanistan may win battles, it will not win the war. In dealing with any insurgency, the local population constitutes the centre of gravity.
By fomenting dissent against genetic engineering, opponents are furthering the cause of democracy, says Dr. Franz Seifert, who did a recent study for the Austrian Science Fund FWF project.
A long-standing mystery over the way men's skulls changed from long to round in medieval Europe has been deepened by discoveries at a Yorkshire village.
Anthropology students engaged in service-learning projects this summer are conducting research into the human uses of Jetty Island, a manmade island in Everett, as part of their field work and earning AmeriCorps scholarships.
Chance, not natural selection, best explains why the modern human skull looks so different from that of its Neanderthal relative, according to a new study led by Tim Weaver, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Davis.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world's most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a U.S. tour that some experts say is a dangerous gamble with an irreplaceable relic.
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