Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
These European burials included individuals with "eastern-type" traits—characteristics often associated with nomadic steppe traditions. The researchers found no widespread East Asian ancestry among the European populations of the Carpathian Basin following the Huns' arrival.
Anthropology.net
MARCH 7, 2025
A Child Buried in Ochre, A Legacy Written in Bone Buried deep within a Portuguese rock shelter some 28,000 years ago, a small child’s ochre-stained bones whisper a tale of interwoven ancestries, ritual significance, and a culture lost to time.
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Anthropology.net
MARCH 11, 2025
Instead, it points to the possibility of shared traditions, passed between groups over time. It challenges the notion that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens existed in opposition, instead painting a picture of cooperation and shared traditions. Tinshemet Cave during the excavations. Credit: Yossi Zaidner. Did they hunt together?
Anthropology.net
JUNE 13, 2024
Credit: Pat Doak) Challenging the Traditional Narrative Previously, European accounts from the 1700s and 1800s suggested that horses spread into North America in significant numbers only after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, when Pueblo people temporarily expelled Spanish settlers from New Mexico. 1 Taylor, W. Librado, P., Shield Chief Gover, C.,
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
A population of hybrid ancestry? Without knowing whether these artifacts were part of larger symbolic traditions—such as burial practices, ritual behavior, or social markers—it remains speculative to interpret them as evidence of fully developed symbolic cognition. Did Neanderthals create them? Early modern humans?
Sapiens
MARCH 5, 2024
Both positions allow for the occasional interbreeding that has resulted in a little bit of Neanderthal being present in many of us, especially those of European and East Asian ancestry. However, there are many challenges to exploring this distant time.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The most-reported cases involved single-bias incidents about race, ethnicity and ancestry (nearly 60 percent), religion (about 20 percent), and sexual orientation (just over 15 percent). Intolerance is often reflected by an absence of diverse voices and perspectives, including within curricula, in student life and college traditions.
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