Celebrated 19th-century biologist Ernst Haeckel pushed race science as his little-known protégé Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay defended Indigenous rights. A biological anthropologist…
Archaeologists can help communities retake what colonialism and racism tried to erase through a new goal of “archaeological reclamation.” IN…
Excavations at the site of 'Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions…
Experts continue to debate whether Neanderthals were painters and jewelry-makers. A paleoanthropologist explores the evidence for Neanderthal art and the…
An anthropologist describes the multiple ice ages of the Earth’s past and how our species survived the most recent one.…
The new excavation of a fossil tooth places an enigmatic group of ancient humans in Southeast Asia more than 130,000 years…
Grave goods—items buried with the dead—are probably the most obvious artifacts that don’t seem to be “garbage.” They are ubiquitous…
n a searing hot summer day at ‘Ubeidiya, an ancient site in northern Israel, an undulating expanse of dry grasses…
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official…
Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is…