September 9, 2007

5,800 year old mass graves from Tell Brak, Syria

More from Tell Brak, but this time evidence of a bloody massacre. As of right now the remains of 60 individuals have been unearthed at what is considered one of the oldest cities known to humanity. The they are all mostly dismembered young adults. Field director, Augusta McMahon comments,

“…hands and feet missing and their skulls [...]

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September 9, 2007

Humans Have Multiple Copies of AMY1, a Salivary Enzyme

Nate Dominy was hired into the anthropology department of my undergraduate university during my last year there, and while I was ecstatic that my department finally picked up a physical anthropologist that was into genetics and ecology, I was bummed that I wouldn’t have any classes with him… unless of course I purposefully flunked, dropped [...]

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