The anthropomorphic T-shaped pillars of Göbekli Tepe are among the most mysterious artifacts in human history, featuring ...

As co-editors of Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism (Columbia University Press), Ms. Daston, director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in Berlin ...

Across Eastern Europe and into parts of Central Asia, anthropomorphic stone stelae have dotted the landscape for centuries. These flat, plank-like monuments with human features were being ...

Anthropomorphism became regarded as lazy; today, researchers such as Clive Wynne, a behavioral scientist at Arizona State University, contend that it amounts to “short-circuiting the real work ...

A small, anthropomorphic figurine carved from the bones of the foot of a Asiatic wild ass has been discovered at the ancient site of Çatalhöyük, often dubbed one of the world's first cities.