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Anthropology

Tomb of Egyptian pharaoh is first found in Luxor since Tutankhamun – here’s how we know who lay inside

Maverick Life

Tomb of Egyptian pharaoh is first found in Luxor since Tutankhamun – here’s how we know who lay inside

By Claire Isabella Gilmour

Paleo myth clubbed on the head – ‘man the hunter, woman the gatherer’ is just not true

Sci-Tech

Paleo myth clubbed on the head – ‘man the hunter, woman the gatherer’ is just not true

By Elsabé Brits

What killed Ballito Boy some 2,000 years ago, and why this is relevant today

South Africa

What killed Ballito Boy some 2,000 years ago, and why this is relevant today

By Yves Vanderhaeghen

Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too

Magazine

Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too

By Sharon DeWitte

What does it mean to be a ‘person’? Different cultures have different answers

Magazine

What does it mean to be a ‘person’? Different cultures have different answers

By Robert Launay

Secrets in the genes – how ancient DNA sheds light on social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago

Africa

Secrets in the genes – how ancient DNA sheds light on social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago

By Elizabeth Sawchuk, Jessica Thompson and Mary Prendergast

The strange business of walking

Magazine

The strange business of walking

By Don Pinnock

The zama zama: Informal mining ‘unlike anything else in the world’

South Africa

The zama zama: Informal mining ‘unlike anything else in the world’

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar

Magazine

A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar

By Stephen Wooding

A long view sheds fresh light on the history of the Yoruba people in West Africa

Magazine

A long view sheds fresh light on the history of the Yoruba people in West Africa

By Akinwumi Ogundiran

Southern Cape's Blombos Cave artefact thought to be earliest evidence of human drawing

South Africa

Southern Cape's Blombos Cave artefact thought to be earliest evidence of human drawing

By Shaun Smillie

The Middle East and the Rise of Toxic Populism

World

The Middle East and the Rise of Toxic Populism

By J Brooks Spector