By Ljilja Cvekic ( Read more... )

Hello Anthropologists! I am new to this community but am hoping you can help me! I am looking for any good documentaries about goddess based religions. I am working on a presentation about pre historic goddess worship and would like to incorporate a video component.

Thanks guys!

Roger Dobson ( Read more... )

Physical anthropologists of the board - listen up, this one is for you ( Read more... )

I do not live in the UK, so I will not be able to see the show, but I am interested to see the firestorm this may cause. I do wonder if the ‘floresiensis’ debate will turn into something the size of the Recent African Origin vs. Multiregional discussion. My other big concern is that this continued scientific debate would be utilized by ( Read more... )

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0920_050920_neanderthal.html

Among primates, modern humans take a long time to reach adulthood, and so did Neandertals, according to a new tooth study.

By PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer ( Read more... )

Humans were influencing the climate long before the Industrial Revolution, new research suggests.

Levels of methane rose steadily in the atmosphere in the first millennium, according to an analysis of gases trapped in ice beneath Antarctica.Much of the greenhouse gas came from huge fires lit by humans as they cleared land for settlements and ( Read more... )

The only chimpanzee fossils known to science have been unearthed in Kenya, the journal Nature reports ( Read more... )

"Aug. 25, 2005- The invention of spears and the increasing organization of ancient settlements led to an escalation of human group violence, according to a new theory that examines the evolution of warfare."Since gang killings occur among most apes, and humans seem to possess a "survival of the fittest" drive to compete with each other for ( Read more... )