News tagged with anthropologists
Studying ancient man to learn to prevent disease
Health care as we know it didn't exist 3,000 years ago. But along the Georgia coast, the Pacific Northwest, and coastal Brazil, people grew tall and strong and lived relatively free of disease. They ate game, fish, shellfish ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Fishing boat lands World's oldest underwater human bone
A fishing boat trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast has instead landed a 40,000 year-old human bone, German scientists said on Sunday after examining the find.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Prehistoric Cold Case Hints of Interspecies Homicide
(PhysOrg.com) -- The wound that ultimately killed a Neandertal man between 50,000 and 75,000 years was most likely caused by a thrown spear, the kind modern humans used but Neandertals did not, according to ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Chinese pottery may be earliest discovered
(AP) -- Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Going for broke
(PhysOrg.com) -- Natasha Schull recalls how in the late 1990s she began observing people in Las Vegas transfixed for hours at video poker and slot machines. What, she wondered, kept them glued to machines ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 20, 2009 |
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Warriors do not always get the girl
Aggressive, vengeful behavior of individuals in some South American groups has been considered the means for men to obtain more wives and more children, but an international team of anthropologists working in Ecuador among ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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Uncovering secrets from beyond the grave
The tools of his trade range from earthmovers and shovels to the finest brushes, surgical tweezers and dentists' mirrors -- and his job is to uncover secrets from beyond the grave.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 05, 2009 |
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Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge: Skeletal Remains Tell the Story
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 16, 2009 |
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Discovery helps solve mystery of South American trophy heads
The mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may have been used in fertility ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 05, 2009 |
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