A bit of cultural anthropology news for you; a British TV company invited 5 men from a tribe called the Kastam, from the South Pacific island of Tanna, to come over to England but the catch is no Kastam person has ever visited England before.
The men, Yapa, [...]
September 12, 2007
Five Kastam Tribesmen from Tanna visit Britain
September 12, 2007
Dental Hygeine among Neandertals some 60,000 years ago
From Christine Kenneally and John Hawks comes this cool finding of two Neandertal molars from around 63,400 years old that show our relatives may have been dental hygiene fans,
The teeth have “grooves formed by the passage of a pointed object, which confirms the use of a small stick for cleaning the mouth,” Paleontology Professor [...]
