A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

Jennifer Lawrence, Hilary Duff, and more stars wear breezy skirts in spring and summer, and this similar style is on sale at ...

Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and transferred to emeritus status in 2000. He chaired the anthropology ...

Dr Matthew Taylor from Augusta University set out to analyze and classify a series of relics made from human bone that had ...

College of STEM (CoSTEM) has revived its Lecture Series and will welcome Dr. Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, director of the Forensic Anthropology Center and professor of anthropology at the University of ...

This year’s faculty and arts fellow recipients are Maria Chudnovsky, Thomas Conlan, yuniya edi kwon, Rhodri Lewis, Carolyn ...

The emergence of bipedalism in humans affected more aspects of our life than known before, including rhythm, music, and also ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

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