The New York Times, BBC News, and Nature News have all published little articles reviewing an upcoming publication that shows Gibraltar may have been the last refuge of the Neanderthals. The paper is titled, “Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe,” and the abstract,
“The late survival of archaic hominin populations and their [...]
September 13, 2006
Neandertals’ Last Stand at Gibraltar
September 13, 2006
On the Origins of (Some) English Words and Names
I’ve always been interested in where words come from, such as door. To me, the word door seems like a word created from nothing — and maybe it is, I never took a class in linguistic anthropology nor do I fully understand the origins of words.
I do, however, continue to observe how some words transcend [...]
