Archaeologists found a gold treasure in Spain in 1963. Sixty years later, tests showed two of its pieces were made of metal from space

The Treasure of Villena is one of the most spectacular Bronze Age gold hoards in Europe. Among the gold were two dull, ...

Long-standing Indigenous practice of adding shells to sand helps young clams withstand ocean acidification

New research from the University of California, Davis, reveals why adding crushed shells to beach sand helps protect ...
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Anthropologist Renee Hirschon dies, aged 82

Renee Hirschon Philippakis, a distinguished anthropologist whose academic career was intertwined with Greece, has died, the ...
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Virginia college student unexpectedly discovers 4,500-year-old spear crafted by Native Americans

A biology student found a Native American stone spearpoint when searching for shark teeth along the coast of Virginia.
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How shoes change our bones, and what that tells us about how our ancestors walked

CT scans of ankle bones from barefoot and shoe-wearing people reveal distinct internal structures, giving researchers a ...
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How Scientists Used A Zoo Elephant’s Bones To Recreate 30,000-Year-Old Ice Age Mammoth Tools

Following the death of a female Indian elephant named Molly at the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, a team of researchers hosted an ...
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Polynesian navigation and Indigenous “ways of knowing”

One of the most-cited empirical achievements of indigenous peoples is the ability of Polynesians, Melanesians, and Micronesians to navigate their way across vast, unmarked expanses of the Pacific ...
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Customs Outlive Buildings: How Yi Village Spaces Keep Tradition Alive in Yunnan

Fieldwork in a Yi village on the Yunnan Plateau shows that customary spaces persist through daily practice, memory, and ...

ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Atlanta's Fernbank focuses on more than natural history

Let me share a fact that should come as no surprise to those of you who have been reading my column for the last 36 years. I ...
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Hunter-gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality – but the reality is more complicated

Gender inequalities were commonplace. The Tanzanian Hadza keep certain cuts of meat exclusively for older men, and give more ...
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Four Brown faculty members inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The AAAS “honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor,” according to their website. Founded in ...
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DNA From a 30,000-Year-Old Woman in France’s Isturitz Cave Shows Eastern and Western Ice Age Europeans Were in Contact

A woman who lived about 30,000 years ago in what is now southwestern France carried ancestry from both western and central-eastern European populations, ...