Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of human cultural innovation. The original complete skull (without mandible) of a 1.8 million years old Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa -- Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Deborah Barsky The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning

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A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. Image via Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0, via...

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From grammar rules to everyday slang, debates over descriptivism and prescriptivism reveal how we balance authority with the way people...

A national human ecology curriculum that begins with food education could help address our most pressing crises—from climate change to...

Mammuthus primigenius -- Smithsonian Institution, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Brenna R. Hassett There is an incredible amount of...

Stonehenge from a distance -- Noushin Nabavi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Andrew Califf How humans moved large rocks to...

A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping...

By Marjorie Hecht The rapid growth of digital technologies in the last quarter-century has multiplied the number and types of possible...

By Gary M. Feinman Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very...

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Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically...

The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional...

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Frederick L. Coolidge explains the link between numerosity and language. morebyless, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Marjorie Hecht...