I wrote previously about mankind’s attempts to resurrect some faunal components of the Pleistocene, but here’s a story about mankind’s attempts to obliterate one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer societies that has survived (just about) to the present day. This from MSNBC…
…members of the dwindling Hadzabe tribe, who now number fewer than 1,500, say it [...]
June 10, 2007
Tanzania – Hadzabe Tribe Threatened
June 10, 2007
Solving the mystery of Ötzi’s death, the 5,000 year old iceman
Using fancy medical imaging techniques, like computed tomography (CT) scans, Frank Rühli from the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, reinvestigated the cause of the iceman, Ötzi’s death.
CT scans allow medical professionals, and in this case a multidisciplinary team of investigators, to analyze a body without invasive surgery. CT scans take [...]
June 10, 2007
Bringing Back Europe’s Prehistoric Beasts
This is a combination of two items in the news this week, and both are concerned with reconstructing the past – the first being an attempt to partially revive a past which can be shown to have existed, the second being an attempt to portray a past that never was, but nevertheless presented as a [...]
