In late May, Paul Sereno was in town to talk at the 2008 conference titled, ‘Integrating Evolution, Development, & Genomics.’ He was invited to also give a talk titled, “Living Lakeside in the Sahara: A Chronicle of Holocene Adaptation,” to the Primate Biology Group. I eagerly attended. Paul Sereno, if you don’t know, is primarily [...]
August 14, 2008
The Kiffian & Tenerean Occupation Of Gobero, Niger: Perhaps The Largest Collection Of Early-Mid Holocene People In Africa
August 14, 2008
Extending The Domestication Of Sheep & Goats In Mediterranean By 1,000 Years
Last week, I shared with you all some research on the Neolithic/agricultural revolution in Iran and Turkey, specifically on barley and cattle domestication. Since then, PNAS has published a related paper, “Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact,” by Melinda Zeder. Zeder believes that the domestication of sheep and goat [...]
