Here’s an article written by Freeman Dyson for The New York Review Of Books, in which he embarks on a fascinating discussion on a range of topics including how biology is now bigger business than physics, and how he believes that over the next 50 years, biotechnology will revolutionise our lives in much the same [...]
July 20, 2007
Current Anthropology – Volume 48, Number 4, August 2007
Just a quick post to announce that the latest edition of Current Anthropology is now online, and here’s a list of the articles included…
Cori Hayden
A Generic Solution? Pharmaceuticals and the Politics of the Similar in Mexico
Carlos Fausto
Feasting on People: Eating Animals and Humans In Amazonia
Maria Gropas
The Repatriotization of Revolutionary Ideology
and Mnemonic Landscape in [...]
July 20, 2007
Sailors May Have Cruised The Mediterranean 14,000 Years Ago
Here’s a story looking into the possibility that people were regularly putting to sea back in the Upper Palaeolithic, detailing research of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities, and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) in Nicosia; their discovery of lithic artefacts is described here…
The discovery at a coastal site on the island’s northwest has [...]
