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I want to congratulate Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy on being elected membership to the National Academy of Sciences because of his excellence in original scientific research.
Membership into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a pretty prestigious honor, because other NAS members include, “Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and Thomas Edison, [and] more than 170 [...]

I first got word of Mary Douglas’ death from Rex’s post over at Savage Minds. It seems like a lot of good anthropologists have passed away this year, such as F. Clark Howell. Douglas was a cultural anthropologist, and from Wikipedia, she was,
“well known for her writings on human culture and symbolism. She was also [...]

Courtesy of Wired through InstaPundit, is this remarkable photo of a Mursi tribesman in Southern Ethiopia with an iPod as well as his trusty AK-47 and ethnic getup.

I’m not sharing this to make a freak show out of this site, but rather to document an interesting phenomenon — where high technology meets traditional life in [...]

As an undergraduate, I was one of the lucky ones. I was part of some ground breaking archaeological research. Between 2002-2004 I spent roughly the last years of time as a student in anthropology working with Dr. Diane Gifford-Gonzalez on a zooarchaeology project. She was my mentor then, and kinda still is now.
I was employed [...]

Any egyptologists out there? In case there are one or two of you, or in case archaeology is your thing, you’ll hopefully be excited to hear that,
“Archaeologists got a royal surprise last week when they stumbled upon the tomb of a powerful official of the Egyptian court from 4,000 years ago.
Scientists from Belgium’s Leuven Catholic [...]

Welcome to the new Anthropology.net.
After almost two years running Anthropology.net on Drupal, I got sick of all the time and energy I spent in administering the site. I got sick of maintaining databases and regular backups, and frustrated with upgrades and patches. Worrying about keeping spammers at bay with Drupal’s less than adequate spam protection [...]

In the recent past, I have blogged thrice about Genghis Khan. I consider him an important man in anthropology. Some may vilify him, some may consider him a hero, but without a doubt I hope we can agree that he contributed a lot modern cultures — most notably a mail system and unified currency to [...]

I have two shameless plugs to share with you, both from my other project Primatology.net. They are both primate related, so there are some applications to anthropology.
The first is a link to infanticide, which may appease you evolutionary psychologists out there. There’s new evidence and discussion on female led infanticide among a chimpanzee group in [...]

The results of an international genetic research effort has come out from two Australian universties, and is being reported as a confirmation of the ‘Out of Africa’ hypothesis. This study isn’t as cool in concept as the microbiotic comparison between human populations, but it is an important supplement. The researchers analyzed,
“the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and [...]

From my alma mater comes a research study where African mole rats are used as a point of reference to understand the diets of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. I caught this new yesterday off of Nature but Yann has also shared it with us.
The basic method, isotopic analysis, is a tried and true method [...]