Many thanks to Amanda at Sherd Nerd for hosting this latest edition, and it’s good once again to see a good and impressive set of contributions from far and wide – my advice would be to head on over, and have yourself a good read.
The next edition of FSH, the twentieth, is being hosted by [...]
July 17, 2007
Four Stone Hearth XIV @ Sherd Nerd
July 17, 2007
Levallois Artifacts Found In Abu Dhabi
News from Abu Dhabi, where the recent find of some Levallois stone tools has pushed back the earliest known human occupation of the region from 7,500 years to somewhere between 35,000 and 150,000 years. I assume from these dates that the people responsible were either Neanderthals, or else early modern humans who were not part [...]
July 17, 2007
“10,000 BC” – New Film Due Out 2008
I just spotted this link to the trailer, 10,000 BC, over at Kris Hirst’s webpage at About.com: Archaeology, about which she comments as follows…
“A new movie is apparently due out in 2008 called 10,000 BC, which might be a kind of interesting movie to see,except that apparently humans were into iron metallurgy and sophisticated stone [...]
July 17, 2007
Bili Apes: The Giant Lion-Eating Chimps Of The Magic Forest
Nothing like a good lurid headline on which to end the day, and to give us with an apt example, the Guardian has conjured up this gem to furnish their report on the mysterious Bili apes. For many years the stuff of legend, the apes, named for the local area, were eventually observed in [...]
July 17, 2007
Study Identifies Energy Efficiency As Reason For Evolution Of Upright Walking
There are several reports out today, including this at Science Daily, discussing recent research by Professor David Raichlen et al, in a paper called “Chimpanzee locomotor energetics and the origin of human bipedalism”, published in the July 16th early edition of PNAS (abstract)…
Bipedal walking is evident in the earliest hominins [Zollikofer CPE, Ponce de Leon [...]
