2021 Ancestry Anthropology 
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 4, 2024
A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia , 2021. Blanco, G., & Rodríguez-Rodríguez, E.
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Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
Bridging Evolutionary Gaps in Asia Asia's evolutionary timeline during the Pleistocene is marked by a mosaic of hominin species, each contributing uniquely to human ancestry. Source: Quaternary International, 2021. Source: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2010. Source: Current Anthropology, 2017.
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
By checking “Patient’s Race,” we health care providers pretend to know something that we cannot possibly know: the patient’s ancestry and associated medical risk. I was struck by an alarming dichotomy: Genetics and anthropology scholarship have unanimously refuted a biological basis for race. Yet, the M.D.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 13, 2024
“Most non-Africans today carry 1-2% Neanderthal ancestry, underscoring the impact of these interactions on the settlement of regions outside Africa.” Dr. Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explained, “We show that the period of mixing was quite complex. Journal : Nature , 2021.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 16, 2024
The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans. Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy.
Sapiens
MARCH 4, 2025
The pandemic also took a toll on other historically marginalized groups: For example, the annual rate of death by suicide among elders over the age of 85 in Clark County, Nevada, increased by 14 percent across the pre- and post-pandemic periods, according to research in forensic anthropology. In fact, many of us rarely, if ever, testify.
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