The amazing fossil of 'Lucy's little sister'

She could walk, but not talk (Image: ZeresenayAlemseged/ARCCH)

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Archaeologists Unearth Headless Sphinx

Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx.

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Dell H. Hymes, a prominent anthropologist, linguist and folklorist whose work mined the rich, often overlooked territory where language and culture intersect, died on Nov. 13 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 82.

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IN the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion.

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Down the Rabbit Hole

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called "primitive man" and who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and '70s, has died at 100.

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Renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100. One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.

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The Evolution Of Evolution?

From Dr. Eamonn F. Healy ( Link: ) St. Edwards University Motto: Learn to Think. On Human Evolution....

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Archaeologists were stunned to discover a prehistoric city when a reservoir was drained -- the Tottiford Reservoir, near Moretonhampstead. So far it has yielded ten burial cairns and artifacts dating from 4,000 to 8,000 years ago.

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Modern humans and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to a leading geneticist who is overseeing a project to compare their genomes.

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The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show.

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"Delving into a wide range of source material (Australian anthropologist Peter) McAllister finds evidence he believes proves that modern man is inferior to his predecessors in, among other fields, the basic Olympic athletics disciplines of running and jumping."

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In her latest book, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink, she writes, "There are surely plants and animals living in the remote places beyond our current knowledge. There are discoveries yet to be made."

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It happens every month: Millions of American pony up for the gas bill, mortgage or rent payment and real estate taxes--and subsequently watch their bank balances dwindle. That's because housing expenses are the biggest monthly expense most families face.

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Facebook is even more omniscient than you thought: it can now chart the world's collective hopes and dreams and highs and lows--sort of, at least.

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In a series of studies published in the Oct.

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Nearly 17 years after plucking the fossilized tooth of a new human ancestor from a pebbly desert in Ethiopia, an international team of scientists today (Thursday, Oct.

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A 4.4 million year old skeleton of a female "ground ape" shows signs of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date, according to research out Thursday in the journal Science.

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Figuring out the story of human origins is like assembling a huge, complicated jigsaw puzzle that has lost most of its pieces. Many will never be found, and those that do turn up are sometimes hard to place.

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AFTER five years of arguments over the so-called hobbits, the University of New England paleoanthropologist who formally described the tiny new hominin species from the Indonesian island of Flores is facing another wave of controversy.

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Archaeologists have uncovered an extraordinary haul of pink, turquoise and black fibres that were used to make thread more than 34,000 years ago.

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Archaeologists have discovered fibers used by prehistoric man a record 34,000 years ago to make clothes and rope, according to research published Thursday in the United States. The flax fibers, found during the excavation of a cave in Georgia, are the earliest known to have been …

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They have been told as bedtime stories by generations of parents, but fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood may be even older than was previously thought.

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The Emu in the Sky has featured in Aboriginal storytelling for thousands of years. At different times of the year the Emu in the Sky is oriented so it appears to be either running or sitting down.

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Deliberate cut marks on a 9,000-year-old human bone excavated in a west country cave more than a century ago suggest that prehistoric Devonians may have been cannibals.

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Interesting photo in this article

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Neanderthals are of course extinct. But there never were very many of them, new research concludes.

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