Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin ...

Study shows world spoke tens of thousands more languages in antiquity than today

WASHINGTON: Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic ...

Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative

Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists' understanding of one of ...
Field Museum

Societies around the world have buried their dead at home. Anthropologists want to understand why the practice started, and why it has largely disappeared.

“One theory about why some societies started to practice residential burials has to do with where people lived, and how long ...