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Anthropology

Understanding Humanity Through Time

Explore the origins, cultures, and behaviors of human societies across history. Discover how anthropology sheds light on our evolution, identities, and shared experiences.

How Africa’s Ecological Diversity Forged Humanity’s Global Success

New research reveals how mastering Africa’s toughest environments prepared early humans for global domination — long before the first step out of Africa.
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Following the Rivers of Deep Time

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Using powerful simulations, anthropologists have mapped how Neanderthals may have traversed 3,000 km across Eurasia in under 2,000 years.

Bronze Age Diet Shift Reveals a Hidden Social Upheaval

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Archaeologists uncover how a grain of millet—and a shift in protein access—quietly transformed Bronze Age society.

Whale Bones and the Dawn of Human Ingenuity

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Archaeologists have unearthed tools crafted from whale bones nearly 20,000 years ago, shedding light on early human ingenuity, ancient marine ecosystems, and a long-lost relationship between people and whales.

Ancient Smoke and Sacred Healing

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Chemical analysis of Iron Age vessels in Saudi Arabia has revealed the world’s earliest known use of the medicinal and psychoactive plant harmal, offering a rare window into ancient therapeutic rituals and the deep roots of Arabian healing practices.

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