Tag: anthropology

What Happens When You Swap a Human Gene With a Neanderthal’s?

What are the key differences between modern humans and our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans? For the Neanderthals, there doesn't seem to be...

Dozens of Egyptian Tombs Will Be Unearthed at Saqqara Necropolis

Archaeologists in Egypt are preparing to open a 3,000-year-old burial shaft at the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, in the coming week. The unexplored...

High-Energy X-Rays Reveal the Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Ink

"By applying 21st-century, state-of-the-art technology to reveal the hidden secrets of ancient ink technology, we are contributing to the unveiling of the origin of...

Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Their Enduring Connection With People

After that domestication event, some things do seem to have stayed constant. According to the team’s results, after dogs split off from wolves over...

Your ‘Ethnicity Estimate’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does

Since a given region still contains some degree of genetic variation, it’s possible for a reference group to miss some of that diversity. To...

In India, Modern Construction Threatens Prehistoric Sites

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Every evening after archaeologist Shanti Pappu and her colleagues head...

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