The team associated with the study played the sound of 'Aztec Death Whistle' for a group of people. During the process, the ...

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where people use wrapped fabric to permanently reshape the skull in infancy and ...

Today, science has brought Zosia’s story back to life. Researchers from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, along with ...

Archaeologists in Iran have uncovered a 6,200-year-old cone-headed skull, revealing early cranial modification and signs of a ...

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

There exists a rich literature on transferring deformations based on Euclidean representations. However, a 3D human shape and pose live on a manifold and have a Riemannian structure. The proposed ...

A striking discovery in northern Argentina has reignited curiosity about the origins and cultural practices of ancient civilizations. Construction workers laying a drinking water system in San ...

If true, it's a type of artificial cranial deformation process where the skull of a child is deliberately flattened to elongate the shape ... urns containing human remains, one containing the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The fragmented Maba 1 skull, which had previously been described as belonging to a Neanderthal, is not so Neanderthal after all. Researchers ...

This paper examines how geometric regularities in abstract shapes (e.g., parallelograms, kites) are perceived and processed in the human brain. The manuscript contains multimodal data (behavior, fMRI, ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.