Findings of research on the Dronkvlei Cave System in South Africa, which was funded by the Claire Garber Goodman Fund for the Anthropological Study of Human Culture, have been published in the November/December Issue of the South African Journal of Science.

Paleoanthropologist, Jeremy DeSilva quoted in a "New York Times" story about his co-authored study that found that prints discovered in Tanzania in 1976 may have been made by an unidentified early human ancestor about 3.6 million years ago.

A study co-authored by Dartmouth anthropologist, Laura Ogden and environmental studies professor, Nicholas Reo, cited in a Vox story that...

Study shows that multiple species of hominins co-existed there 3.7 million years ago.

A study shows how the rulers transformed cities to reshape memories of the landscape.

In a story debating the oldest archeaological site, anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva argues for Kenya's Lomekwe 3 where stone artifacts were...

Sergei Kan has been invited to join the Scientific Committee of the 2022 Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and...

Desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria are threatening the food security of millions of people and devastating economies in eastern Africa and northern India. The ongoing outbreak is the largest in seven decades. These events give us cause to reflect on the natural history of locusts, our fraught relationship with them, and how they are represented in American popular culture and others.

Dartmouth alumna, Anjali M Prabhat and EEES PhD candidate, Kate Miller are lead authors of a newly published anthropology paper titled, "Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis."

In the early 19th century in North America, parasitic infections were quite common in urban areas due in part to population growth and...