The Latest Breaking News from Anthropology

She was labeled New Jersey Skeleton 1972, but everyone called her "Sandy"

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.

Ismail bin Muhammad al-Salamat, a history, sociology, and anthropology researcher, has monitored the sayings and writings of several European orientalists, historians and visitors - Arabs and Muslims - who met the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman, or worked with him. According to Salamat, who also researches…

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History says a prehistoric human skeleton found recently in a flooded cave system along the country’s Caribbean coast was actually discovered and registered by the institute in 2019 and will not be threatened by a nearby tourist train project

The eccentric adventures, academic insights and many prejudices of 12 pioneering scholars

In the heart of Mexico City's bustling historic center, Mexican archaeologists have discovered the burial site of four Aztec children laid to rest some five centuries ago.

Panel had been conducting review of anthropology museum’s collection

History. Sociology. Geography. Civics. Political Science. Economics. Anthropology. These disciplines — often grouped together under the heading of “social studies” — were developed to foster a deeper understanding of the world we all inhabit. The best educators work hard to take their students outside of boundaries on a map, lists…

From Judge Beth Labson Freeman (N.D. Cal.) in Weiss v. Perez, decided Tuesday: In this case, Elizabeth Weiss, a tenured professor of physical anthropology at San Jose State University, alleges that the University enacted Interim Presidential Directive PD 2021-03, which restricted access to and use of Native American remains housed…

The oldest known Neanderthals are about 400,000 years old.

Freddie Bitsoie never expected his anthropology degree to lay the foundations for a career in Native American cuisine. Now, as his new book brings it to a wider audience than ever before, he’s not looking back