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“We have evidence of coca leaves being used thousands of years ago,” said Christine VanPool, an anthropologist at the ...

New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst reveals links between menopausal hot flashes, cold experienced ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

New findings provide quantitative criteria for classifying social organizations in human history, together with potential explanatory variables that can be empirically measured for anthropology, ...

Alshaatha Al Sharj, Nathan Harkey, August Lantz, Elise Merchak, Larkin Perler, Katlyn Rozovics and Liz Villamizar Caceres received the Sturgis International Fellowship to pursue education and research ...

A new way of looking at tooth enamel could give scientists a path to deeper understanding of the health of human populations, ...

The long-held narrative is that the original inhabitants of Easter Island grew so fascinated with stone statues they ...

Seraphina Halpern, AB’24, completed her thesis research in anthropology with field work on Prince Edward Island. She received ...