The Latest Breaking News from Anthropology

The resident donors at Texas' famed Body Ranch, operated by Texas State University, offer many lessons about life—and untimely death.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tristan Begg was an anthropology student at UC Santa Cruz and a Beethoven fanatic when he volunteered as a docent at San Jose State University’s Beethoven center in the summer of 2009.

Brightly-painted Zapotec murals invoking warfare recently unearthed from tombs in southern Mexico may date back nearly 2,000 years, officials said late on Wednesday of the find that sheds new light on the ancient civilization's funerary rites.

Educators and all with an interest in history are invited to view a livestream of "History Teaching In 21st Century Education". The seminar takes place at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Boromratchonnanee Road, today from 8am to 5.30pm and tomorrow from 9am to 3.30pm.

Prof. Elizabeth Weiss claims SJSU retaliated against her for her speech.

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