The leading U.S. psychological association pledged to embrace Indigenous approaches to healing, which requires rethinking how to address mental health.
Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil record have long focused on natural selection, but other processes play a big role too.
New studies reveal clues to how mobile rulers assembled a multiethnic empire of herders known as the Xiongnu more than 2,000 years ago.
To decipher marks on nearly 40,000-year-old stone tools and figure out what they were used for, researchers turned to the Philippines’ Pala’wan people.
Researchers disagree whether new evidence of stone tool marks on a hominid leg bone reflects ancient cannibalism or perhaps some other, undetected behavior.
Seven bird-bone flutes unearthed from a site in northern Israel are about 12,000 years old and may have been used as bird calls.
Proposed discoveries of humanlike activities by these ancient, small-brained hominids have elicited skepticism from some researchers.
Several paintings from the Danish Golden Age contain remnants of brewer’s yeast, barley and other grains commonly used to brew beer.
In The Equality of the Human Races, Haitian scholar Anténor Firmin showed that science did not support division among the races.
A punctured bone fragment was probably a leatherwork punch board. Perforated leather sewn together may have been seams in clothing.