Anthropology
Turkey’s cultural ambitions: Of marbles and men
Turkey gets tough with foreign museums and launches a new culture war(249)
Animal rights: Whales are people, too
A declaration of the rights of cetaceans(142)
The nature of humanity: What’s a man?
Studies of brain genetics are starting to reveal what makes humans human(56)
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A biblical blockbuster
A theatrical show of ancient history in Times Square(16)
Treasure hunting: X marks the spot
The British approach to treasure hunting benefits both seekers and the nation(7)
Primate research: Monkey business
The strict rules that govern the use of primates in experiments should be tightened further(7)
The Neolithic: Boom-time machine
A new technique lets archaeologists reconstruct the past in greater detail(7)
Early religious archaeology: An Easter enigma
Whatever happened to the Hebrew Christians?(26)
Banyan: The finitude of forests
A scheme to save the world’s rainforests still seems too good to be true(16)
Human-rights investigations: Digging up the past
An interview with Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team(1)
Human evolution: The old man of the mountain returns
More evidence for a previously unknown species of human(17)
A new species of human: The old man of the mountain returns
A nice Christmas present for students of human evolution from a cave in the Altai mountains of Siberia(4)
The battle of Towton: Nasty, brutish and not that short
Medieval warfare was just as terrifying as you might imagine(24)
Peru's archaeological heritage: Homeward bound
An agreement to return Inca treasures(6)
Human communication: Gesture politics
People talk a lot, but their hand signals may convey more useful information(0)
Zoos and apes: Behind the curtain
Zoos are better places for animals than they used to be. But more still needs to be done(7)
Japanese cartoons: The professor to the rescue
A cartoon strip takes on the repatriation of treasures from the British Museum(7)
Bulgarian relics: A sainted discovery
The Bulgarian government recruits an unlikely ally(21)
King Tut at Times Square: Ancient Disneyland
An exhibition that mingles Disneyland theatrics with a flood of artefacts and prudently edited information(1)
Chimpanzee behaviour: Killer instincts
Like humans, chimpanzees can engage in guerrilla warfare with their neighbours. As with humans, the prize is more land(14)
The campaign against palm oil: The other oil spill
Palm oil is a popular, cheap commodity, which green activists are doing their best to turn into a commercial liability. Companies are finding them impossible to ignore(24)
The Neanderthal genome: A cave man blinking in the light
The DNA of modern humanity’s closest extinct relative is undergoing detailed analysis(50)
Another fossil human, this time from South Africa(2)
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