Anthropology News

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss passed away on October 30 at the age of 100.

East Berlin citizens crowd the new passage at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin on Saturday, Nov.

ICA, Peru - A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city's edge.

The circus is still in town. A big tent. They like him. Or at least they like him enough.

COKER CREEK, Tenn. - The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house migrating Cherokee along the Trail of Tears more than 170 years ago.

Maria Teresa Tersigni-Tarrant donned a harness, clipped it to a rope and made her way down Lookout Mountain to the spot where someone found human skeletal remains last April.

Long-hidden art and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean are on display for the first time in years at the University of Michigan's newly expanded Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

Sick of being portrayed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are now picking up the camera themselves.

Appletorte is the perfect way to finish off a dinner that might have been eaten by Temperance Brennan, the detective in mysteries by author Kathy Reichs.

A sewer plant expansion project has turned up some unlikely things in Hartford -- including artifacts that could be thousands of years old.

London, November 7 : A bust of Julius Caesar, recovered from the Rhone riverbed, is now on display as part of an exhibition of artefacts discovered in the bed of the Rhone river over the last 20 years, at a museum in southern France.

London, November 7 : An archaeology professor has discovered the missing legs of a 900-year-old Buddhist statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process.

A Travis County murder trial ended in a hung jury Thursday after a defense lawyer argued that his client shot a man in defense of his home, according to lawyers in the case.

The beginning of chocolate is the cacao tree, known by ethnobotanists as "theobroma cacao." According to the article, " Introduction: Chocolate's History at a Glance ," chocolate in its raw state grows in a pod like a pea, but on trees 40-60 feet tall.

Three men, including the board member of an auction house, have been arrested on Gotland in connection with the plunder of hundreds of Viking -era silver artifacts from the Baltic Sea island, Sveriges Radio reports.

CHRIS CAROLA Archaeologists digging at proposed NY-Vt. ferry site, home to 18th-century military ruins ALBANY, N.Y. - ALBANY, N.Y. a ' A New York archaeological team began work Friday on a state-owned campground at an 18th-century military site where a temporary ferry service is being considered to replace the closed Champlain Bridge, officials ...

PEOPLE are being invited to have a dig at Crawley as a man who thinks the town's not so famous history still rocks plans to open its first ever archaeology course.

State Police are still unsure what killed a man who's decomposed body was found along Rt.

Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years.

When Degi, a 24-year-old web designer in Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, hit a pedestrian in July 2008 with his Daewoo sedan, his luck took a turn for the worse.