Anthropology News

A construction project has prompted the excavation of a Mikwok Indian food-processing site near the waters of San Pablo Bay.

Humans today eat gorillas and chimpanzees, so why would our prehistoric ancestors flinch at sitting down to a nicely roasted Neanderthal? That's the shocking new hypothesis being raised by anthropologists in Spain who wonder if our closest extinct relative was exterminated in the same way as 178 other large mammals, so called megafauna, which are ... (more)

Set in underground chambers, Revealing York Minster is the latest stage of a A 20 million, five-year restoration and conservation project part funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, creating the largest visitor attraction within a UK cathedral.

Who manages a cultural landscape that has global importance? Does the United Nations have final say or the local community? It turns out a complex web of interests shape these evolving cultural landscapes, particularly if people still live there and they aren't just outdoor museums.

Dr. Kate Clancy is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois.

Pub chain Marston's have applied for planning permission to build a two storey public house and accommodation on the site of the former Lookers garage, in Priory crescent.

The site in Bahrain, thought to be the location of the enigmatic Dilmun civilisation, was recently discussed at a conference in Manama, the Gulf nation's capital, organised by the UN's educational, scientific and cultural body .

Join us for eight terrific events in our speaker series this May and June. These public presentations and discussions focus on the cultural creativity, history, and heritage of the societies and pottery enterprises that flourished in the landscape of the Edgefield District of South Carolina.

Only within 2,5 months, the winged seahorse brooch from the Lydian Hoard, has attracted 50,000 viewers to Anadolu Civilisations Museum in Ankara.

"Who invented clothes?" It's one of those brilliant questions that children ask, before they learn that the big things we wonder about rarely have simple answers.

But Gibney ended up following his story into other, even weirder areas. He comes to view the whistle-blowers, the cyberguerrillas in the war against all forms of secrecy, from a sort of psycho-anthropological perspective: Here, he says, is how the culture created them.

Kids are invited to learn about Florida's past through archaeology and the clues left behind by ancient societies Monday, May 20 at 6 p.m. at the North Tampa Branch Library, 8916 N. Boulevard, Tampa.

In Europe, the arrival of the farmers who replaced Mesolithic hunter-gatherers happened in force 9,000 years ago but it was happening elsewhere prior to that.

Although a major road project remains in limbo, it will be a bit longer before anyone knows for sure whether there are tribal and/or pioneer burial sites along a rustic stretch of 253rd Avenue in Hillsboro.

Thousands of unmarked graves are buried beneath a local park, and one group wants to make sure they aren't forgotten.

Today we go to Indiana, Pa., to catch up with Victor Garcia. The professor has gained international recognition for his research into migrant farm workers.

Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an "X" might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia's history.

Trina Lindig displays the National Geographic magazine that featured her mother posing with an ancestral Puebloan pot from the Mesa Verde exhibit.

Jamestown's own Civil War training camp, Camp Brown, will be held the week of July 15-19 from 1-4 p.m. Gen.

The remains, unearthed at a brownfield development site in London Road, are thought to be those of adolescent to mature males and females.