Although Svante Pääbo and John Hawks both agree that if even if the entire Neanderthal genome is successfully sequenced, we’re not likely to see these archaic people making a return to this world, as ‘intact cells’ would be needed to create a viable clone; however, sooner or later, someone will doubtless crack this problem, and [...]
Entries from June 2007
June 25, 2007
Rock Art And Dolmens Of Tamil Nadu
News from Tamil Nadu, courtesy of ‘Frontline‘ magazine, relating how rock art that has been dated to between 3,500 and 4,000 years ago, was found there as recently as May this year. The sites were found after the four man research team asked amongst others, students and local people in outlying villages, particularly pastoral workers, [...]
June 25, 2007
Did Homo erectus Settle Down 400,000 Years bp?
According to a theory proposed by Professor Helmut Ziegert, and reported in today’s ‘Times’ our ancient forebears, Homo erectus, constructed the first settlements known to mankind, at a time when such behaviour has popularly been considered too advanced for Acheulian equipped people, who lived 400,000 years ago.
Helmut Ziegert, of the Institute of Archaeology at [...]
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
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 [...]
June 20, 2007
Four Stone Hearth XVII
Many thanks to Jason over at Hominin Dental Anthropology for hosting what I’m pretty sure is issue number 17. It’s a busy time of year for many, so we don’t have a huge number of submissions this time round, though as I mentioned yesterday, this probably wasn’t helped by my very late call for contributions [...]
June 19, 2007
Four Stone Hearth 17 – submissions
I know this is very late, especially over here in Europe, to be posting a call for submissions, and apologies to Jason over at Hominin Dental Anthropology, but if there’s something you feel would be appropriate for this blog carnival event, either from your own or elsewhere, please mail links plus brief intro to JacenSolo_1 [...]
June 19, 2007
Egyptian Palaeolithic Rock Art Found At Qurta, Kom Ombo
Nice story from Al-Ahram Weekly, on the recent discovery of a stunning array of engraved rock art at Qurta in Upper Egypt, which may be 15,000 years old, making it contemporary with the Magdalenian era of north western Europe, whose most well known sites from this era are Lascaux and Altamira, amongst a host of [...]
