ANTHROPOLOGY

'Ma,' 'ba,' and 'pa' are among the first sounds that children around the world learn how to make, regardless of the language they later speak.

The order in which color words emerge in different languages follows a pattern.

With enough funding, they will analyze—and then reinter—the remains of people buried between 1707 and 1859 in a Baptist cemetery—and mental_floss will be in the lab with them.

Hint: It wasn't made by humans.

Neanderthals may have been craftier than we give them credit for.

Analysis of the “spear points” scattered across the island shows they may actually have been household tools.

Noblewoman Louise de Quengo was still fully clothed in a wool dress, cape, bonnet, and shoes.

Just 450 years after the fact.

If a beard signifies wisdom, Hans Langseth must've been the most enlightened man in history.

Science is constantly getting better at reconstructing what life was like in earlier eras. And now, new 3D imaging technology shows us what our fellow human may have looked like many millennia ago.

Scientists have cracked the genome of a man who died in the Pacific Northwest 8500 years ago—and his descendants still live nearby.