I try to keep politics from interfering with this site, but David Rohde’s excellent coverage in the New York Times on the Pentagon’s new experimental program, the Human Terrain Team, which enlists the help of cultural anthropologists to help tackle the tricky cultural nuances the military is confronting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is something I [...]
October 4, 2007
Concerns with Turkana Boy’s, aka Nariokotome Boy, Tour to the Windy City
KNM-WT 15000 was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 at the Nariokotome site near Lake Turkana in Kenya. It the most complete specimen of Homo erectus to date. All that’s missing from this 12 year old boy are the hands, feet, and left humerus. Its completeness and its 1.6 million years old age undoubtedly makes [...]
