Anthropology at Chicago’ pairs faculty conversations with archival research for College students as department approaches its ...

A new analysis of mineral grains has refuted the "glacial transport theory" that suggests Stonehenge's bluestones and Altar ...

A team of international researchers has discovered that the diet of Scythians, groups of people living in what is now Ukraine during the Ice Age, drank milk from various ruminants, including horses.

A surprising new study has found that blocking reproduction in some mammals may increase their life expectancy by an average ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Researchers from several European institutions, led by scientists from the University of Barcelona and the University of ...

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's bloodstream and tissues. They can settle in maternal organs such as the ...

ASTANA – The ethnic history of the Kazakh people is complex, shaped by centuries of migration, cultural interaction and ...

Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest, ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...