Anthropology

Three factors determine whether a society experiences disease outbreaks—and how we can fight them

Is China’s future population drop a crisis or an opportunity?

Fossils and stone tools show that a cave in Saudi Arabia has been used as shelter by humans for millennia, up to the present day

Ancient prophecies of worlds destroyed by fire are becoming realities. How will we respond?

Ancient Maya saw solar eclipses as a “broken sun” that was a sign of possible destruction

Ancient Egyptian mummies reveal what diseases afflicted people in the great civilization, as well as the protective role the Nile could play

Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where and when the first Indo-European languages were spoken and what kind of lives those first speakers led

Prehistoric artifacts used in jewelry, such as beads made from shells, amber and ivory, have shed light on the cultural groups that were present in Europe tens of thousands of years ago

From Papua New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, Indigenous languages are under threat. An Indian linguist helped preserve one language family.

Changes in the climate may have caused disruptions to Roman society that manifested as disease outbreaks, researchers have found

Researchers have found ancient watering holes that were long ago buried by rising seas. The watering holes may be ones referred to in an Indigenous Australian songline

Gifts play an important role in human relationships and are about more than consumerism