This post is intended as a follow-up to Kambiz’s review of the new dates for Toloquilla footprints. Frankly, it’s been very tiring to read and watch all the current and past powwows about the validity and veracity of pre-Clovis sites. Science is currently making a huge methodological mistake by assuming that the early presence of [...]
June 4, 2008
4,000-year-old frozen hair mtDNA sequenced from a Greenlandic Saqqaq settlement. Pt. II
A bit belatedly due to my relocation to Boston, I’d like to contribute a few observations regarding the phylogenetic position of the mtDNA sequence uncovered from a 4,000 year-old lump of hair in Greenland. Kambiz has already reviewed this Science article, hence the readers should have a good idea of what it took to obtain [...]
May 12, 2008
The Genius of Kinship: Human Kinship Systems and the Search for Human Origins
Thank you, Kambiz, for letting me introduce my new book to the Anthropology.net community.
The story behind The Genius of Kinship is an interesting one. In 1991, then a student of history at the St. Petersburg State University, I wrote a course paper on the traditional social organization of the Shoshone Indians as could be gleaned [...]
