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Neolithic Class Divisions of Central Europe
This week PNAS published evidence of social stratification and hereditary inequality from over 7,000 years ago in Central Europe. Lead author, R. Alexander Bentley and team took strontium 86/87 isotop… more →
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Neolithic Class Divisions of Central Europe
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wrote 2 days ago: This week PNAS published evidence of social stratification and hereditary inequality from over 7,000 … more →
American Heads are Getting Larger
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wrote 2 days ago: On the coat tails of Matt Ridley’s statement that humans are no longer evolving, comes news pr … more →
Prolegomenon for A Treatise on the Unity of Anthropological Inquiry, Part 1
wrote 2 days ago: My field, Anthropology, is divided into four subdisciplines: Biological/Physical, Cultural, Linguist … more →
Fisher on the Cro-Magnons
wrote 3 days ago: A prehistoric race settled in the Vezere district of France, which may be taken as the primitive typ … more →
Petrie on the six "races" of prehistoric Egypt
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wrote 4 days ago: Petrie (1915:243-244): These slate carvings not only show the art of the time, but they present the … more →
An old description of Homo erectus (1915)
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wrote 4 days ago: The intermediate position of these primitive types has received extraordinary confirmation by the di … more →
G. Archdall Reid on racial differences
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wrote 4 days ago: Doubtless, races of men differ innately in mind as they do in body, but these differences can occur … more →
Viscount Bryce on the origin of human races
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wrote 4 days ago: A man of his time, Bryce emphasizes racial differences (1915:19-20): It has long been recognised tha … more →
Viscount Bryce on environmental influence in the physical characteristics of man
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wrote 5 days ago: An illustration accompanying Bryce (1915:23) has the following explanation: The remarkable influence … more →
Koko: The Gorilla That Speaks to Humans and Paints
wrote 6 days ago: Koko painting (Photo courtesy of koko.org) Thanks to my sister Sally, a fellow anthropology major wh … more →
What Should Human Evolution Be?
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wrote 1 week ago: Two days ago, Matt Ridley published a rhetorical editorial in the Wall Street Journal‘s column … more →
The Bad Witness
wrote 1 month ago: It's hard enough keeping myself on the right path... I do not know how to write this without it comi … more →
Titanic's Graveyard?
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wrote 1 month ago: Possible human remains discovered at the Titanic site. Image from NY Daily News, April 15th 2012. Wi … more →
BU team cites clues humans used fire 1 million years ago
wrote 1 month ago: The “cooking hypothesis,” Richard Wrangham’s theory on how early man’s devel … more →
Zróżnicowanie antropologiczne populacji ludzkich z dorzecza Odry i Wisły w okresie wpływów rzymskich w świetle problemów etnogenezy Słowian
wrote 2 months ago: Interesing paper by Rafał Dąbrowski. Here’s link to download a pdf file. … more →
Cave Fossil Find: New Human Species or "Nothing Extraordinary"?
wrote 2 months ago: Cave Fossil Find: New Human Species or “Nothing Extraordinary”?. … more →
CT Scan Unlocks the Secrets of Roman Burial Urns
wrote 2 months ago: © BBC News Archaeologists from St. Alban’s are using CT Scanners to examine the contents of fi … more →
Mass Grave Found in Mexico Identified as Ancient Victims
wrote 2 months ago: A mass grave recently uncovered in Mexico has, fortunately, been identified as more than 1,000 years … more →
More notes on news and events from February 2012
wrote 3 months ago: Although a new month started yesterday, we wish hereby to make some comments on a couple of events t … more →
