#anthropology

#anthropology

Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion.Bergeron made the announcement Friday morning, writing in a statement that she would formally step down "at the end of the current semester."

Archaeologists found the skeletons of two brothers buried under a house in the ancient city of Megiddo, accompanied by fine Cypriot pottery and prime cuts of meat, either from sheep or goats.(Courtesy Rachel Kalisher)Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Megiddo in modern-day Israel have discovered a window into medicine's ancient past: the 3,500-year-old bones of two brothers, both bearing signs of an infectious disease, and one scarred from cranial surgery that may have been an attempt to treat the illness.

Chimpanzee teens may not be so different from the ones living in our homes, a new study says.Except that your teen might be more impulsive.Researchers worked with 40 chimpanzees born in the wild while they were at a sanctuary in the Republic of Congo, playing games that tested the adolescent animals' orientation toward risk-taking and impulsivity, according to the study published January 23 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General by the American Psychological Association.

Thousands of bone fragments, which may include the remains of victims of Nazi crimes, were buried Thursday after they were found on a Berlin university campus where an institute for anthropology and eugenics was once located.Some 16,000 fragments were found on the campus of the Free University in excavations that started in 2015 after human and animal bones were discovered during restoration work.

A number of cities vie for the unofficial title of seafood capital of the world, and Lisbon has a good claim.The city, Portugal's coastal capital, is famous for its salted cod, sardines and stuffed brown crab.A study published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology reveals that these brown crabs have been on the menu for a long time.

By John Flesher and Joey Cappelletti | Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich.One student was a fraternity chapter president.Another was a science student with fond memories of her days as a high-school athlete and the third was a frequent volunteer who wanted to become a surgeon.Family and friends mourned the deaths of three Michigan State University students killed in a Monday night shooting that critically wounded five others.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich.The first funerals were held Saturday for students who were killed in this week's mass shooting at Michigan State University.Mourners in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms filed into St.Paul on the Lake Catholic Church to remember sophomore Brian Fraser, who was one of three students killed in Monday's attack.

A travel operator offering young people the life-changing chance to volunteer in developing countries has relaunched after it went into liquidation last year.Raleigh International, which previously traded as Raleigh International Trust, was badly hit by the impact on global travel during the Covid-19 pandemic and went into voluntary liquidation in May.

As part of a new $560,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, humanities scholars at Wheaton College in Massachusetts are developing 10 curricular modules on the role of race, cultural backgrounds and global perspectives in health and medicine-and professors beyond Wheaton will be able to incorporate them into existing courses.

A woman who survived a rare, deadly liver cancer shortly after birth has graduated twenty years later, as her parents hailed the amazing NHS workers who treated her.Scarlett Whitford Webb, 21, was diagnosed with Stage 3 hepatoblastoma in April 2002 aged 16 months.The tumour was the size of a mango by the time of diagnosis after initially being missed by multiple GPs, according to her parents.

In Maya culture, an aluxe is believed to be a mischievous elflike being that lives in the woods, a creature of folklore similar to leprechauns, unicorns, mermaids and the Loch Ness Monster.So it was a surprise on Saturday when President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico shared a picture on Twitter of what he claimed was an aluxe.

The University of Cambridge will return looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria.The 116 artefacts, which are mainly made of brass but also include some ivory and wooden objects, were taken by British armed forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897.During the attack, the British burned the city's palace and exiled Benin's Oba, or king, with thousands of brasses and other works  collectively known as the Benin bronzes'  taken and later sold off in London to recoup the costs of the military mission.