Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine ...

Their simulations mapped out possible routes Neanderthals could have followed to reach Asia, and suggest that by traveling ...

Boas charged that four American anthropologists, whom he did not name, had abused their professional research positions by conducting espionage in Central America during the First World War.

The first code of ethics by the American Anthropological Association, adopted in 1971, was forged during the Vietnam War, years after revelations that anthropologists had engaged in ...

So do anthropologists. Understanding local customs — and fears — can go a long way in getting communities to cooperate with international health care workers, says Barry Hewlett, a medical ...

Anthropologists also refer to the skeleton as AL 288-1. It’s the first known partial skeleton representing one of our early relatives, Australopithecus afarensis. Between 3.9 million and 2.9 ...

This moment is featured in El Equipo, the documentary that follows a team of forensic anthropologists as they work toward bringing justice in cases of human rights abuses in Latin America.

In “The Anthropologists,” Aysegul Savas celebrates the “unremarkable grace” of a couple’s ordinary days. It’s enchanting. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book Review.

Skeletal remains would be examined by forensic pathologists and anthropologists for clues. DNA samples have become a crucial tool; Sebastian said the Maui team has partnered with a company that ...