June 23, 2008

More on Cultural Evolution

Cultural evolution has been a pretty active and heated topic in the anthropology blogosphere, especially between Martin, afarensis, and I. Afarensis continued the discussion today, returning to this topic but on the projectile point scope.
In some sort of weird coincidence, the professional press has also chimed in — not explicitly on projectile points, but on [...]

June 23, 2008

Sophisticated Tools Associated with Neandertals found in Beedings site, near Pulborough, West Sussex, UK

News of Neandertal tools from an Early Upper Palaeolithic site called Beedings, north east of Pulborough in West Sussex, United Kingdom is emerging. So far the BBC News is the only major news source running this, but smaller local news papers such as the West Sussex Gazette have also published news on this subject.
Team leader [...]