Anthropology

Toddler's remains, found in a church crypt in Lithuania, challenge conventional wisdom about the history and spread of smallpox.

New research changes our understanding of how humidity influenced the evolution of the human nose.

Skeletons reveal medieval people ingested lead from fancy pottery.

Police in Ferguson have used an ancient tactic.

Appalachian cave art may explain Mound people's universe.

Finding may overturn previous notions about human ancestors' diets.

Doubt over claims that we descended from new species and disagreement about how close a cousin it was.