Anthropology

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old human relatives.

Analysis of a mummy kept for a century at the University of Turin in Italy has revealed rare face tattoos made with a special black ink.

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of important genetic diversity.

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the Black Sea around 7000 B.C.

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

The question of how the super-blue paint was made now has a second answer.

Archaeologists have found conclusive evidence of psychedelic drug use more than 2,500 years ago in Peru.

An 18th-century Austrian monk who died of tuberculosis was mummified in an extremely unusual way.