Anthropology

Photographer Sebastião Salgado has spent more than two decades documenting the complex lives of Indigenous Amazonian people as they stand strong in the face of unrelenting colonial forces

The model suggests that a shift in weather patterns in southern Africa might have contributed to the rise of Homo sapiens

Chemical analysis and CT scanning reveal the identity of an ancient Egyptian

For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history

A radical retelling of civilization’s origins leads to an expansive vision of human possibility

The famed paleoanthropologist explored humankind’s origins and worked to safeguard a future for humans and wildlife alike in Kenya and beyond

A federal designation could help yield 3-D models that are useful for finding, studying and conserving vessels on the bed of Lake Michigan

By dating the remnants of trees felled in Newfoundland, scientists have determined that the Norse people likely first set foot in the Americas in the year A.D. 1021.

A new study demonstrates “I ka wā mamua, ka wā ma hope,” or “the future is in the past”

A dig in the Nevada desert finds telltale seeds at the site of a late Paleolithic hearth

Archaeologists have found tiny pieces of ancient bread from hunter-gatherers that predate agriculture by about 4,000 years

Scientists are identifying the remains of undocumented migrants who died crossing the Mexican border—people whose names would otherwise have been lost forever