Nature has put up a little teaser book review of Amos Nur & Dawn Burgess’ new book, “Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God.” The book investigates the possibility that earthquakes are a cause for the collapse of many ancient civilizations. Nur is a geophysics professor, and my understanding is that he advised Dawn [...]
Christine Kenneally, author of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, is actually no stranger to me. She has linked up Anthropology.net before, and ever seen then I’ve subscribed to her site’s RSS feeds.
When I caught news that the New York Times is running a book review of her new title, I [...]
Peter Andrews, a research scientist at the Natural History Museum in London and a professor in the department of anthropology at University College London, has reviewed the book, “A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the “Hobbits” of Flores, Indonesia,” by Mike Morwood and [...]
Considering the scope of anthropology is broader and more inclusive than other sciences, it rarely focuses on the impact of one person on the course of humanity throughout all time and place. In doing so, certain key figures throughout the course of human evolution and development and the process of people, are neglected. One such [...]
