Although only the abstract to this paper is free to access, this story has received extensive coverage elsewhere over the past few days, and is of particular interest because there is apparently a strong case for suggesting that Neanderthals may have been consigned to extinction from around 40,000 bp when their numbers dwindled at first [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 22, 2009
Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes – Adrian W. Briggs et al
July 21, 2009
Ötzi: Iceman’s Tattoos Were Born In Fire
There has been a revelation this week concerning the tattoos that were found on the preserved flesh of Ötzi, whose mummified body was found lying high in an Alpine pass back in 1991. Although these 57 tattoos caught the attention of researchers many years ago, with suggestions that many of the chosen locations on his [...]
July 18, 2009
The Open Laboratory 2009 – Call for Submissions
Over the past three years, a book comprising what are considered the best science posts of the year is published, and the selection process for this year’s edition is already in progress, with 210 entries already submitted, as we see from Coturnix at A Blog Around the Clock:
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to [...]
July 17, 2009
Top Ten Ways for Anthropologists to Make A Difference – Daniel Lende
Here’s a post from Neuroanthropology, from where Greg Downey recently hosted the outstanding Australiana edition of Four Stone Hearth, and today I want to point readers to another post from the same site, where Daniel Lende is the other main contributor.
He has compiled a list of 10 ways in which anthropologists can interact with and [...]
July 16, 2009
The Early Lateglacial Re-colonization of Britain: New Radiocarbon Evidence From Gough’s Cave, Southwest England
News from Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, where Britain’s earliest inhabitants following the Last Glacial Maximum are rumoured to have holed up; the paper is in press, (behind a paywall) via Quaternary Science Reviews.
Abstract:
Gough’s Cave is still Britain’s most significant Later Upper Palaeolithic site. New ultrafiltered radiocarbon determinations on bone change our understanding of its [...]
July 16, 2009
Save America’s Wolves – and Wild Mustangs
Here are a couple of stories that concern endangered wildlife in North America, with one detailing the extermination of wolves, which is due to begin in earnest, and the other about the round-up of thousands of wild mustang, a situation that seems to be threatening their continued existence, or at the very least, their well-being [...]
July 15, 2009
Four Stone Hearth #71: Australiana edition @ Neuroanthropology
Although this current and 71st edition of Four Stone Hearth looks a fine and mighty beast to behold, I’m not going to have time tonight to read through it, and thus it is with apologies to readers here and Greg Downey at Neuroanthropology.net who put this massive Australiana edition together, that I’ll leave commenting on [...]
July 15, 2009
‘Desert Days’ An Interview with Dr. Fred Wendorf – The Archaeology Channel
In something of a break from recent video tradition, The Archaeology Channel have produced an audio interview, Desert Days with Dr. Fred Wendorf, Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory Emeritus, Southern Methodist University (SMU), hosted by Rick Pettigrew, founder and President of Archaeological Legacy Institute. Here’s the show description:
Dr. Fred Wendorf came of age and began his [...]
July 14, 2009
Anthropology: Societies in Transition: Podcasts from the University of Oxford/iTunes U
Podcasts from the University of Oxford
Over the past few days I’ve been listening to a few new podcasts, and this series of eight lectures from Linacre College, Oxford, was one of the best I found, so here’s a quick round up – for the sake of brevity, I won’t write up each episode in detail, [...]
July 14, 2009
New Discovery Channel Program Honours Moon Landing Anniversary by Asking: Are We Alone? (In Our Universe) Thurs (7/16) 9 p.m. ET
This is a quick heads-up for US television viewers with access to the Discovery Channel – airing tomorrow night, Thursday July 16th at 9 pm ET/PT is a programme in honour of the Apollo Moon landings, the first of which took place no less than 40 years ago this week. The focus of this programme [...]
