Cuesta College Anthropology

06/25/2026

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06/24/2026

Here’s a better article on Homo naledi find.

Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site. The study, published in the journal Cell, raises the possibility that South Africa's famous Rising Star Cave system could represent the first known ex...

06/24/2026

Just when scientists thought the mystery of how two dozen ancient human skeletons came to rest in a pit deep inside a South African cave couldn’t get any stranger, an unexpected finding adds a new twist: All of the dead were apparently female.

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05/13/2026

Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise dental procedure.

04/01/2026

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another.

12/20/2025

A summary of 2025 primatology, archaeology, and paleoanthropology!

By Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner 2025 has been quite the wild year! With more exciting stories in human evolution than we…

12/12/2025

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found.

10/14/2025

10/01/2025

The world is weeping! Thank you Dr. Goodall. 💝

The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.

10/01/2025

Today on the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, we remember the children who were taken from their families, cultures, and homelands through the Indian boarding school system. We also remember those who never came home.

For more than a century, federal policy sought to assimilate Native children by removing them from their Tribal Nations. At these institutions, children were punished for speaking their languages, practicing their traditions, and expressing who they were. Many experienced physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse. Some died. Their stories were buried alongside unmarked graves.

The legacy of these schools is not only part of the past. It continues to affect Native families and communities across generations. Many still carry the weight of silence, grief, and displacement.

Honoring the children means more than remembrance. It means listening to survivors, supporting healing efforts, returning records to Tribal Nations, and protecting Native children through systems of care grounded in culture and sovereignty.

Every child matters.