Research into when and where modern humans originated and how they differ from, and interacted with, other now-extinct forms of human has so far been the realm of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists. However, over the past decade, molecular geneticists have begun to study genomes of extinct humans. Here, I discuss where we stand today with respect to understanding how modern humans came to ...

Archaeologists working on plantation sites have typically ignored the role that violence played in the lives of enslaved African-Americans. By drawing together examples from archaeological publications in which violence has been mentioned, the commentary illustrates not only both the types and scale of violence endured by African-Americans, but also how archaeologists have effectively sanitized...

Sexual dimorphism in a population varies over time due to temporal changes and data on this need be updated regularly. Further, each needs its own sex-discriminating anthropometric standards, which can used unknown skeletal remains of that population. Sex estimation fragmented, buried, or burnt morphological traits are often impossible discern presents huge problem for anthropologists, archaeol...