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

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 ...

This might explain why anthropologists often end up in heated debates with economists, who instead understand the world through numeric aggregates and abstract models. Mainstream economists take a ...

A pilot program to embed anthropologists on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan has sparked major controversy in the anthropological community. The program, known as the Human Terrain System ...

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 ...

"Often statistics about glacier loss can feel abstract and distant. But glaciers have literally shaped the ground we walk on, and they provide crucial water resources to about 2 billion people ...

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.

Inspired by her 2021 New Yorker short story, “Future Selves,” The Anthropologists follows Asya and Manu, a documentarian and a nonprofit worker, as they look to put down roots in an unnamed ...

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.