Anthropology

Exclusive data for 5.2 million couples shows nearly one in five marriages are between people of different religions – double the proportion recorded in 1986.

It was on a sweltering morning in 2018 in a cave in northern Vietnam when Chris Stimpson and his team uncovered what may be the oldest cold case murder in South-East Asia. 

Hundreds of traditional artworks, connecting generations of remote First Nations communities for almost a century, are now part of a public showcase in Sydney.

Archaeologists have discovered a large collection of ancient tools crafted out of hippopotamus and elephant bones, pushing back the age of bone tool kits made by ancient humans a million years.

Australian scientists have developed an AI tool to quickly classify human skulls with more accuracy than human assessors.

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found inter-species breeding took place from around 50,000 years ago.

Newly discovered fossil footprints indicate two different ancient human relatives walked upright around a muddy lake in Kenya.

Rebecca Richards's PhD in anthropology is taking her back to the regional community she grew up in to help explore photographic archives and preserve Ngarrindjeri stories.  

We've crunched the numbers for more than 43,000 job combinations and 2.8 million couples (including 31,600 same-sex couples). Turns out it's not just lawyers, doctors or teachers who stick to their own when it comes to love. 

The discovery of a 700,000-year-old arm bone fossil and two teeth on the Indonesian island of Flores is shedding light on how the tiny, now-extinct human Homo floresiensis evolved.

The discovery of red pigment paintings daubed on the walls of a secluded Sulawesi cave about 51,000 years ago also provides the oldest evidence of our species, Homo sapiens, in the region, according to a new study.

For three decades, hundreds of notebooks filled with detailed descriptions of sacred Indigenous practices were locked away in a museum's archives. Now, Ngadjuri man Vincent Copley Junior hopes to finally have access to his great-grandfather's history.

Experts estimate there are hundreds of real human skeletons in Australian homes, with no clear pathway to hand them into authorities. One medical doctor is calling on universities to lead the solution.

Academic Myra Hamilton explains how class divide plays out in Australian society, and how it presents itself in private schools and the sporting world.

A Melbourne woman found a real human skeleton in her garage and was left wondering what to do. It has led experts to call for clearer guidelines around how to relinquish them.

Our ancestors left Africa some 70,000 years ago, but it took them thousands of years to expand across all of Europe or Asia. A DNA study may shed light on where they ended up during this 'long pause'.

It's been 50 years since geologist Jim Bowler found Mungo Man, the skeleton that rewrote Australia's history.

Andy Munro has garnered a social media following of millions off the back of his reels documenting abandoned country footy grounds in Victoria and South Australia.

New age spiritualism is not new, but it morphed during the COVID pandemic and appears more popular than ever. The first detailed Australian study examines what happens when spirituality and wellness intersect with conspiracy theories.

Humans have a long-standing tradition of eating themselves into a "food coma". So what's the science behind this post-meal slump?