Anthropology

Using forensic technology, researchers reanimate medieval skulls.

A young woman buried in Patagonia up to 1,000 years ago was placed in a ceremonial canoe to represent her final journey into the land of the dead, according to a new study.

An anthropologist argues that stories of an "ape-man" in Indonesia reflect the continued survival of an ancient human ancestor.

Tiny marine algae lingered in the bones of a fisherman who lived 5,000 years ago, and they reveal that he drowned in salt water.

A new analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra found in Israel suggests that ancient human relatives dispersed out of Africa in multiple waves.

Here's 10 discoveries we made about human evolution over the last year.

People were raising cassowaries, the world's most dangerous bird, some 18,000 years ago, new research shows.

A new analysis of shoes that may have belonged to the Renaissance artist Michelangelo revealed his small stature.

Ancient DNA from a woman who lived 7,200 years ago reveal she belongs to a vanished human lineage.

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare instance of Neanderthal-created art in a German cave once famous for its "unicorn bones."

"The Boy of Gran Dolina," a young individual in the extinct Homo antecessor species found at a site in Spain, is actually female, according to new analysis of dental remains.

Early members of the genus Homo didn't have advanced brains.

Some human ancestors are known only as "ghost" populations.

Changes previously thought to be sex differences in a human relative are actually due to microevolution, a new study finds.

These are the most complete articulated Neanderthal remains to be found in more than 25 years.

Archaeologists found the upper body of a Neanderthal who lived about 70,000 years ago.

The ancient DNA from four children who lived thousands of years ago is rewriting what geneticists thought happened in sub-Saharan Africa.

The diminutive size of the extinct human relative called the Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, could come down to really fast evolution.

Going to the zoo can be a great adventure, especially if you find poop hurtling in your direction.