Anthropology News

Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold them to scholars and institutions is now quietly marketing the leftovers - fragments the family says it has kept in a Swiss safe deposit box all these years.

Another finalist seeking a position as curator at the University of Alaska Museum of the North is set to speak at a free public seminar at the University of Alaska Fairbanks next week.

The writer LUC SANTE approaches the surrounding culture with an anthropologist's distance and a detective's intuition.

They were not clad in skins and they did not have to paddle for six hours at a stretch, but the experience of taking a replica Bronze Age boat out to sea was enough to convince archaeologists and boatbuilders of the value of their work.

British scientists announced Monday they are convinced "beyond reasonable doubt" that a skeleton found during an archaeological dig in Leicester, central England, last August is that of the former king, who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

The researchers say our upright gait may have its origins in the rugged landscape of East and South Africa which was shaped during the Pliocene epoch by volcanoes and shifting tectonic plates.

"Fox & Friends" reports a giant circular structure has been found by scientists at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee! Archaeologists are trying to raise money for an excavation.

AN OXFORD college has recreated its historic dining hall in a marquee while A 7m improvements are being carried out.

Related stories this week: Nadiah's way Many years ago former surfer girl Nadiah Beekun converted to Islam, convinced it was the best religion for women - a view that hasn't changed a whit since then.

The cities of Jerusalem and Petra may not seem the timeless twins they truly are at first glance.

The remains of King Richard III, which were discovered under a city car park, were found in a hastily dug, untidy grave, researchers have revealed.

Image Caption: Specialists of the NIAH located the cave paintings in the Sierra de San Carlos, Tamaulipas.

Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture.

Have you ever seen what Florida and the Native American culture might have been like in ancient times? There are more places than you might think nestled in and around Florida's west coast that depict through ancient artifacts, mounds, and other archeological finds what it might have been like well over 1500 years ago.

A film that documented the recovery of an unmarked graveyard in Middle Georgia has won two awards in an international film festival focused on human culture.

TIBERIAS, Israel - The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.

By The Associated Press The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease... By The Associated Press The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a ... (more)

By The Associated Press The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease... By The Associated Press The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a ... (more)

Eager local primary students are helping experts unearth a part of the Gold Coast's buried history; the Southport seawall.

Recalling a time when wolves roamed Long Island and the East End wilderness was unhindered by share houses and golf clubs, the gardens, fire pits and wigwams of Wikun Village aims at offering visitors a historically accurate portrait of the South Fork.