A new paper in the journal Antiquity interprets the remains of 34 found buried in the village of Talheim, in south-west of Germany as evidence that Neolithic men fought to secure women. The paper is titled, “Isotopic signatures and hereditary traits: snapshot of a Neolithic community in Germany.”
The remains were excavated in the 1980s and [...]
June 5, 2008
Neolithic Men from Talheim, Germany fought for Women
June 5, 2008
Cultural Evolution: Can natural selection explain cultural rates of change?
PNAS has just published a back and forth discussion between John Skoyles and Deborah Rogers and Paul Ehrlich. John Skoyles expressed beef with the paper Deborah Rogers and Paul Ehrlich recently put out. The jog your memories, Roger and Ehrlich wrote, “Natural selection and cultural rates of change.” I covered that paper in a February [...]
June 5, 2008
Rat bones tell us of the prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to to New Zealand
Afarensis has just blogged on this new PNAS paper, “Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat.” The goal of this paper is to clarify when New Zealand was peopled. There are several hypotheses floating out there, two of which indicate New Zealand was either peopled 1,200 years [...]
