Rex of Savage Minds shares with us sobering news that famous cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz has passed away. There was some skepticism that it maybe a bad joke, but unfortunately Dr. Geertz’s death has been officially anounced by Institute for Advanced Study. Here’s an excerpt from the post,
“Clifford Geertz, an eminent scholar in the [...]
Thanks to Paul Wren’s post which he submitted to our first blog carnival, I’ve kept my eye out for PLoS Medicine publications on medical anthropology. It hasn’t been even a week, and my patience has paid off.
I haven’t had much time to read each abstract, let alone each paper but they seem very strong and [...]
Six human bones found in 1952 from the Pestera Muierii cave in Romania have been reassessed to be 30,000 years old. This comes by way of BBC News, reporting about a PNAS publication that I can’t find! Here’s what has been published in the news article,
“Only a handful of modern human remains older than 28,000 [...]
In my ignorance, I eagerly advocated Lucy’s travels over here to the States, earlier this week. I did so because I thought it would be important to see, even despite the ulterior motives of the tour.
Several institutes are rallying up and agreeing that Lucy should actually not travel. This because the fossils are too fragile [...]
Today, October 25th, 2006 is the one-year anniversary of Anthropology.net. For those of you reading this site regularly, I thank you for doing so. This is the longest running project that I have ever led, and I wouldn rsquo;t be keeping this running if I didn rsquo;t see the growth in traffic, comments, and interaction [...]
Again, from Afarensis (he is on fire this week), there is outstanding news that beginning in September 2007, Lucy will enjoy top billing among 200 other Ethiopian exhibits that will tour museums in 10 US cities for four years.
If you don’t know about Lucy, she is an australopithecine found by paleoanthropologists Donald Johanson and Tom [...]
Although the dust has settled in regards to my post about the quality of research done on the now famous Dikika fossil, I feel vindicated to some degree to have read that Desmond Morris has some words of reason about this matter. I found about this news article, which features Morris, along with an exclusive [...]
