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Discrepancy Between Cranial & mtDNA Data Of Early Americans Or Sample Size?3 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: There’s an interesting discussion brewing about on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog about the … more →

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Genetics, bioarchaeology, Argentina, craniometrics

More Older, Maybe Even The Earliest, Dates For The Occupation Of South America1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 8 months ago: Dienekes briefly introduced a new paper which attempted to reassess the age of the earliest human se … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Argentina, carbon-14, Chile, radiocarbon dating

Peopling Of The Americas: Eva de Naharon, A 13,600 Year Old Skeleton Found Near Tulum, Mexico1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 10 months ago: National Geographic News is running some press about the oldest skeleton found in the Americas, Eva … more →

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Paleoanthropology, México, Tulum, eva de naharon

Evaluating the linguistic evidence for an Out of America hypothesis12 comments

Lev Michael wrote 1 year ago: A lively debate has been going on over at anthropology.net regarding a proposal by German Dziebel, e … more →

Tags: historical linguistics

On Mexican Toloquilla Footprints and the "Peopling of the Americas"34 comments

dziebelg wrote 1 year ago: This post is intended as a follow-up to Kambiz’s review of the new dates for Toloquilla footpr … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Physical Anthropology, México, toloquilla, valsequillo basin

Redating Mexico's Toloquilla Footprints with optically stimulated luminescence4 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: The peopling of the Americas is one of my favorite subjects in anthropology. Lately, we’ve see … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Dating, Footprint, México, optically stimulated luminescence, toloquilla, valsequillo basin

4,000-year-old frozen hair mtDNA sequenced from a Greenlandic Saqqaq settlement. Pt. II1 comment

dziebelg wrote 1 year ago: A bit belatedly due to my relocation to Boston, I’d like to contribute a few observations rega … more →

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, mtDNA, SNP, ancient dna, Adna, greenland, saqqaq, populatin genetics

4,000-year-old frozen hair mtDNA sequenced from a Greenlandic Saqqaq settlement16 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: A couple days ago Science published a peopling of the Americas paper. The paper is based on ancient … more →

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, mtDNA, SNP, ancient dna, Adna, greenland, saqqaq, populatin genetics

The Genius of Kinship: Human Kinship Systems and the Search for Human Origins127 comments

dziebelg wrote 1 year ago: Thank you, Kambiz, for letting me introduce my new book to the Anthropology.net community. The story … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Cultural Anthropology, Culture, Genetics, german dziebel, Kinship

Earliest known archaeological evidence of Americans found in Monte Verde, Chile 8 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: Monte Verde, Chile is a very interesting archaeological site. First discovered in 1976, the site is … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blog, radiocarbon dating, Monte Verde, Chile

An analysis of 14,000 year old DNA from crap found in Oregon's Paisely Caves 1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: Perhaps the biggest anthropology news of this week has been the analysis of ancient DNA from fossili … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Physical Anthropology, ancient dna, Oregon, paisely caves, phyiscal anthropology, population genetics

More on Vajda's Siberian-Na-Dene Language Link21 comments

Alex Greengaard wrote 1 year ago: National Geographic News has just published an article about the recent symposium in Alaska regardin … more →

Tags: Blog, Linguistic Anthropology, language, Linguistics, Siberia, Pleistocene, migrations, yeniseic, na-dene

Nearly all of today's Native Americans can trace their ancestry to six women3 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: According to this open access PLoS One paper, 95% of Native Americans share their heritage to six wo … more →

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Genetics, population genetics, mtDNA, Native Americans, mitchondrial DNA

My thoughts on History Channel's "Journey to 10,000 BC" 30 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: Last night I caught some of the new History Channel show, “Journey to 10,000 BC.” I real … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Europe, Clovis, History Channel, journey to 10000 bc, soluteran, natufian, dennis stanford

Peopling of the Americas: Three Step Model for Colonizing the Americas19 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: To supplement last September’s conclusion that the peopling of the Americas was initiated by a … more →

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, population genetics, mtDNA, Native Americans, coalescence theory

1,000 year old Lice on Peruvian Mummies tell us of early human migrations

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: John Hawks shared an interesting news bit the other day. The study basically sampled head lice off o … more →

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, Genetics, Human Evolution, human migration, Lice, migration, Parasitology, Phylogenetics

Genetics meets Voodoo Historical Linguistics: Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Native Americans15 comments

Lev Michael wrote 1 year ago: The process of the settlement of the Americas is one of those long-standing and fascinating research … more →

Tags: Amazonian Languages, historical linguistics, Genetics and Linguistics

Peopling of the Americas: mtDNA tells us of the Beringian Standstill5 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: A new study of over 600 mtDNAs from 20 American and 26 Asian populations is shedding some unique ins … more →

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, DNA, Genetics, population genetics, migration, mtDNA, Asia, bering straight


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