June 21, 2007

The Hobbit On Darwin Day

Just a very quick post to let everyone know there’s a 7 part update on Homo floresiensis available at YouTube, as mentioned over at The Panda’s Thumb; this from Jim Foley…

A few months ago I attended a talk by Professor Colin Groves of the Australian National University: ‘An update on Homo floresiensis, a.k.a. the “Hobbit”’ [...]

June 21, 2007

Bakhtiari Nomads, Khuzestan, Iran

June 21, 2007

On-line Iranian Anthropological and Documentary Film Archive and Database

On-line Iranian Anthropological and Documentary Film Archive and Database

Society for Iranian Anthropology, SIRA (www.anthropology-iran.org) with the collaboration of Ethnodoc create jointly a new online database and archive for Iranian anthropological and documentary films.

We accept anthropological and documentary films (regarding Iran) made by academic scholars and independent filmmakers who trained in anthropology and cinematography. But [...]

June 21, 2007

Ivory Sculptures Dating From Aurignacian Germany At 35,000 bp

News of a notable find from a remarkable cave, comprising no less than five pieces of portable art, dating as far back as the Aurignaican, which have recently been unearthed from the Swabia region of Germany, home of the famous Vogelherd Cave, wherein finds have been made in the past…
Archaeologists at the University of [...]