Zeresenay Alemseged is no stranger to this blog. I mentioned his new position as the chairman of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences several weeks ago. John Hawks caught this profile of him in the San Francisco Chronicle which gives an overview of his accomplishments, accolades and his own outlook on his future fieldwork [...]
July 8, 2008
The Age of Omo I and Omo II from the Kibish Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Two articles in the Journal of Human Evolution reanalyze the geochronology of the Kibish Formation, in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia. One is titled, “Microstratigraphy of the Kibish hominin sites KHS and PHS, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia,” and the other is titled, “Sapropels and the age of hominins Omo I and II, Kibish, Ethiopia.”
Excavations of Kibish [...]
July 8, 2008
The Diversity of Languages in the Caucasus
The linguistic diversity of the Caucasus is a unique phenomenon, similar to that of New Guinea. There are approximately 6,000 languages spoken throughout the world currently and about 820 (~14%) of them are spoken in New Guinea. In the Caucasus, you can expect to find representative languages from the Kartvelian, Abkhaz-Adyghe, Lesgian, Nakh, Indo-European, Avar-Andi-Dido, [...]
