The Conversation Tomb of Egyptian pharaoh is first found in Luxor since Tutankhamun – here’s how we know who lay inside 2 min 0 By Claire Isabella Gilmour
BONES TO PICK Paleo myth clubbed on the head – ‘man the hunter, woman the gatherer’ is just not true 6 min 4 By Elsabé Brits
ANCIENT MYSTERY SOLVED What killed Ballito Boy some 2,000 years ago, and why this is relevant today 8 min 0 By Yves Vanderhaeghen
THE CONVERSATION Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too 5 min 0 By Sharon DeWitte
THE CONVERSATION What does it mean to be a ‘person’? Different cultures have different answers 3 min 1 By Robert Launay
THE CONVERSATION Secrets in the genes – how ancient DNA sheds light on social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago 5 min 0 By Elizabeth Sawchuk, Jessica Thompson and Mary Prendergast
DAILY MAVERICK WEBINAR The zama zama: Informal mining ‘unlike anything else in the world’ 3 min 1 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
THE CONVERSATION A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar 4 min 0 By Stephen Wooding
THE CONVERSATION A long view sheds fresh light on the history of the Yoruba people in West Africa 4 min 0 By Akinwumi Ogundiran
Human Evolution Southern Cape's Blombos Cave artefact thought to be earliest evidence of human drawing 4 min 0 By Shaun Smillie
ANALYSIS Why counting service delivery protests is more complicated than it seems 4 min 0 By Rebecca Davis
South Africa Letter to the Editor: Mr President, here is my guide on land expropriation without compensation 4 min 0 By Daily Maverick
South Africa Open Letter to the next South African president: Get an urgent plan to eradicate illiteracy 3 min 0 By Nic Spaull & David Carel
