Anthropology Department

Survey research in the southwestern province of Denizli has unearthed the fossils of eight animal species including mammoth and rhinoceros that lived 1.2 million to 9 million years ago.

Archaeologists in Taiwan have found a 4,800-year-old human fossil of a mother holding an infant child in her arms, museum officials said on April 26.

With a collection of around 10,000 human skeletons from the earliest sands of time to the Middle Ages, the Hacettepe University Anthropology Laboratory is continuing to draw researchers from around the world thanks to the insights the remains offer about the ancient world.

The fossil of a sea otter has been found in the Central Anatolian province of Çankırı, revealing 8 million years of animal life in the area.

The excavations, headed by Professor Ayla Sevim Erol of the Anthropology Department at Ankara University, have been ongoing in the area for the last 17 years.