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Anthropology

June 2024

  • An illustration of several Neanderthal women of different ages in a cave, one with her arms round two children.

    Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome hints at early humans’ compassion

    Skull anatomy shows the boy or girl would have been severely disabled, yet survived until the age of six
  • Paul Daley

    One exclusive Australian institution is facing up to its deeply racist past while another backs away from it

    Paul Daley
    The University of Melbourne and the South Australian Museum are taking starkly different approaches to addressing their toxic histories

    • Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

    • Maya twins myth may have influenced child sacrifices, study suggests

    • Notes and queries
      Readers reply: why do neanderthals have such a bad reputation?

May 2024

  • James Waghorne, Ross Jones and Marcia Langton at the University of Melbourne

    ‘Denying history is simply lying’: how the University of Melbourne honoured racists, thieves and body snatchers

    An unflinching examination of its own history has revealed shocking stories in the sandstone foundations of a revered institution
  • A photographer takes pictures of a reconstruction of a neanderthal man at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany, in 2004

    Notes and queries
    Why do neanderthals have such a bad reputation?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
  • Alex Hooper

    Other lives
    Alex Hooper obituary

    Other lives: Film-maker, curator and archaeologist with an expertise in Palaeolithic cave art

March 2024

  • A preliminary portrait of a young woman from the Denisovans

    Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’

  • A typical native village of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea in 1972

    Kuru: unravelling the mystery disease that left entire Papua New Guinean villages without women

February 2024

  • The wall discovered under on the seabed

    Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’

    Structure stretches for almost a kilometre off coast of Germany and may have once stood by a lake

January 2024

  • A double-hulled, twin-masted Polynesian sailing canoe about 19 metres long

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Off the charts: how a Polynesian canoe inspired a renaissance in traditional seafaring

  • Hainbuchenblatt, Hainbuche, Carpinus, betulus<br>Hornbeam, Carpinus, betulus, is a deciduous tree that is often found in our forests. It is a mighty tree and its wood is an important source of timber

    Under the Hornbeams by Emma Tarlo review – epiphanies in the park

December 2023

  • The beach at Skerries in County Dublin

    Plato, pilates and pubs: has an Irish town found the secret to the good life?

    Book claims it is ‘hard to find another currently existing society’ better than that in Skerries, near Dublin

November 2023

  • The people of Yuendemu welcome their ancestor home.

    Ancestor whose remains sat in dental school box for decades returned to Northern Territory community

    Yuendumu celebrates as remains of Warlpiri man repatriated from Adelaide after more than 50 years
  • A model of the skull of Homo floresiensis

    Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left

    At least nine hominin species once roamed the Earth, so what became of our vanished ancestors?
  • Warren Japanangka Williams of the Warlpiri Project men’s group

    ‘It’s Warlpiri identity’: Indigenous photos, drawings and sacred objects come home after 60 years

    Anthropologist Nancy Munn studied the Warlpiri people from 1956 to 1958. Now, with the repatriation of her collection to Australia, a younger generation is reunited with its ancestral heritage

October 2023

  • Lee Berger, in a boiler suit and helmet, leaning against a moss-covered rock near ferns and gesturing with both hands

    ‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into space

  • Jungian analyst Anthony Stevens

    Anthony Stevens obituary

September 2023

  • The Shibuya pedestrian crossing in Tokyo.

    A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna review – the laws of life

    Is it possible – or even desirable – to study people with the scientific detachment of a physicist studying matter?
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