This week in Anthropology, Forensics, Biological Anthropology, and Primatology

Shifting evolution into reverse promises cheaper, greener way to make new drugs

If humans used animal mating rituals

Peru has recovered over 8000 stolen cultural artifacts in the last seven years 

Spanish potsherds evidence of battle between Spanish and Native Americans on Great Plains 

Early Roman irrigation system uncovered in Britain 

10 oldest diseases like smallpox, cholera, and pneumonia 

Science compared every diet and the winner is no one 

UNESCO praises Peru’s work in combating illicit artifacts trade   

Tattoo discovered on ancient Egyptian mummy 

Scientists digitally unwrap mummy of Egyptian priest Neswaiu

Skull tower, a monument built along the road to Constantinople, served as a warning to anyone rising against the Ottoman Empire

Forensic anthropologist in El Salvador excavates and identifies victims of gang murders 

Shipwrecks archaeologists would love to find, from the Minoans to a shipwrecked Egyptian pharaoh 

Egyptian wine grape guard’s contract decoded   

Centuries-old grills of ancient BBQ lovers founding Turkey  

In Borneo, archaeologists are discovering vessels called “dragon jars” that sometimes contain bones of the dead 

Emperor Claudius dressed as pharaoh in newly uncovered carving 

The last taboo: what makes male humans and chimpanzees power hungry 

Quinnipiac students help investigate a possible Santeria ritual

Hey person in photo, that is not a right femur, why people need osteologists

Women in prehistory, who made this hand impression? 

Pre-Inca tomb discovered under the house of writer Mario Vargas Llosa  

Medical first: 3-D Printed skull successfully planted in woman 

Discoveries challenge beliefs on human arrival in the Americas 

Black death was airborne, not spread by fleas, research says 

Alaska’s real life “Bones” scientists puzzles out violence in ancient societies 

DNA sequencing of human remains paints a complicated picture of human evolution