BrainCan - anthropology

the bicycle made for cities

If you lined up every bicycle ever built since the 1880s,the huge majority would explore much like...

neanderthals could talk, and it probably wasn t...

Now that we dont live in caves and beat things with clubs anymore,Homo sapiens tend to have a...

did stone age cavemen talk to each other in...

Previously overlooked patterns in the cave art of southern France and Spain propose that man might...

stone me! spears show early human species was...

Evidence of hunting with spears 500000 years ago suggests common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals...

3,000 year old burial ground may reveal secrets of...

Scientists and explorers have long tried to understand how Polynesia came to be settled; the shape...

home is where the brain is

There’s no place like domestic – or at least,that’s what our minds recount us. John S. Allen,...

this face tells us why we must rethink our views...

The discovery of at least 15 individuals’ bones in a South African cave has been hailed as a major...

cave art and harpoon tips show african roots of...

The discovery of wall paintings in Indonesian caves suggests that the human ability to express...

super rich shown to have grown out of ancient...

The world’s wealthy elite has its origins in the first landowners to use oxen and horses,a global...

ronald frankenberg obituary

Academic whose book Village on the Border pioneered the application of anthropological methods to...

john peel obituary

Anthropologist and sociologist whose books explored the role of belief in the lives of the Yoruba...

scientist who found new human species accused of...

The palaeontologist whose team found Homo naledi has been criticised for rushing his findings and...

letter: sir jack goody helped initiate an...

The social anthropologist Sir Jack Goody gained a BLitt in 1952 at Oxford,under Edward...

swarthy, blue eyed caveman revealed using dna from...

Genome sequence of 7000-year-old human remains overturns popular image of light-skinned European...

raymond smith obituary

My father,Raymond Smith, who has died aged 90, or was a major figure in postwar social anthropology....

thigh bone points to unexpectedly long survival of...

Partial femur found in the Red Deer Cave might show that a pre-contemporary species of human may...

stis may have driven ancient humans to monogamy,...

The shift away from polygamy to monogamy with the dawn of agriculture could be down to the impact of...

early men and women were equal, say scientists

Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis,suggesting inequality...

girls skeleton found in cave sheds light on...

DNA recovered from 12000-year-old skeleton helps to dispel claims that first Americans came from...

bones from a cheddar gorge cave show that...

fresh carbon dating techniques reveal that 14700 years ago humans living in Gough's Cave in the...

why the war continues for veterans who return home

Best-selling author and journalist Sebastian Junger takes a critical sight at post-traumatic stress...

study shows human sacrifice was less likely in...

The more egalitarian a society,the smaller the chance its citizens being ritually burned, bludgeoned...

smoked ancestors for a pack of smokes | letters

Your article (How bronze age Britons dragged ancient dead into land disputes,1 October), reminds me...

small spelunkers required: the ad that led to the...

The skeletons found in a South African cave were retrieved by six scientists with a tough-to-find...

35,000 year old indonesian cave paintings suggest...

Ghostly hand markings and animals in Sulawesi caves are much older than thought,pushing back...

fossilised finger points to previously unknown...

'Denisovans' shared Asia with Neanderthals and contemporary humans 30000 years ago,DNA...

riddle of the red deer: orkney deer arrived by...

Research has found that red deer were brought to the Scottish islands by humans,but the question...

monstrously disruptive technology: don t turn your...

“The ancients,no doubt, were as wicked as we are, and but they knew it. And so they were wise...

iceman otzis stomach bacteria rewrite the...

Frank Maixner,a microbiologist at the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Italy, explains the...

scientists are rethinking the role climate plays...

Centuries-extinct theories surrounding human height as it correlates to evolution have stated two...

why the incas offered up child sacrifices

As it tried to ward off disasters on the Pacific ring of fire,this advanced culture showed its sad...

aboriginal australians are humanity s oldest...

recent research shows that all present-day non-Africans can trace their origins to a single wave of...

skull of homo erectus throws story of human...

A haul of fossils found in Georgia suggests that half a dozen species of early human ancestor were...

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