Anthropology

Archaeologists have identified a 16th-century gallows structure and nearly a dozen mass burial pits in Grenoble, France.

Fingerprints on a Roman burial hold new clues to an unusual liquid gypsum funeral ritual.

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in contrast to previous assumptions.

Ancient genomes from southern Africa show that people evolved in isolation for upward of 100,000 years.

Researchers have revealed how adding a handful of live ants to warm milk can create yogurt.

Dame Jane Goodall, the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert, died of natural causes.

A new fossil find in the Republic of Georgia is expanding our understanding of the earliest humans to leave Africa.

The second century B.C. burial mound is the richest ever found in Bulgaria.

People with Indigenous American ancestry carry Denisovan genes that Neanderthals passed on when they mated with modern humans.