Science/AAAS
Updated – please see end of this post.
The archaeological site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov has been in the news again recently, following the publication of a paper in Science, namely Spatial Organization of Hominin Activities at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel, authored by Nira Alperson-Afil et al, in which they reflect upon the organisational abilities of [...]
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January 26, 2010
Spatial Organization of Fisher-hunter-gatherers at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel, 790 kya
January 22, 2010
Neanderthal Notes for the Weekend
I recently posted a brief article regarding the latest themed edition of Current Anthropology, but at the time of writing I hadn’t noticed another paper in the same issue, namely Sleeping Activity Area within the Site Structure of Archaic Human Groups – Evidence from Abric Romaní Level N Combustion Activity Areas, which begins with this:
Abstract:
The [...]
January 21, 2010
MESO 2010 – The Eighth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Santander, Spain
A quick heads-up to anyone planning to be in vicinity of Santander, Cantabria this autumn, where a very interesting conference, MESO 2010, (programme) is due to be held this coming September 13th-17th, plus post-Conference excursions the following weekend, September 18th and 19th, in addition to the field trip slated for Wednesday 15th.
I would strongly recommend [...]
January 21, 2010
Current Anthropology – Volume 51, Number 1, Feb 2010 – Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and Inequality in Premodern Societies Edition
The latest edition of Current Anthropology has just been published, and included within is a special section referred to in the headline above – I haven’t had time to read it yet, so for now here’s a table of contents and a snippet from the introduction by editor Mark Aldenderfer, commenting on the themed papers, [...]
January 20, 2010
Going Agricultural – Farming Notes, Past, Present and Future
This is a quick note to point readers in the direction of several posts that have appeared online in recent days, on the origins and spread of agriculture, and the part language may have played in the process, in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Although I’ve recently concentrated on writing about our Palaeolithic origins, if [...]
January 20, 2010
The Revolution That Wasn’t: A New Interpretation of the Origin of Modern Human Behavior – Mcbrearty & Brooks, 1999
I’ve recently commented on the PBS documentary series opener of The Human Spark – Becoming Us, the majority of which struck me as being out of date and out of touch, with far too much emphasis being placed on looking for specious differences between anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals co-habiting in Late Middle – Early [...]
January 19, 2010
Palaeolithic Radiocarbon Legerdemain, and Radiocarbon Dating Upgraded
A Very Remote Period Indeed: Paleolithic radiocarbon legerdemain
Science Now: Radiocarbon Daters Tune Up Their Time Machine
Two articles of note on the subject of carbon dating have appeared over the past week, the first of which looks at the way in which in which some online writers – myself included, I’m afraid – don’t always give [...]
January 14, 2010
SHARE Opens Fund for Haiti Quake – Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have just announced the following, regarding the catastrophic earthquake that has wrought untold devastation on the population of Haiti, where tens of thousands are estimated to have died, with another 3 million people said to be adversely affected.
The Center for Inquiry is accepting disaster-relief donations through its S.H.A.R.E. program to [...]
January 14, 2010
Chimpanzee and Human Y Chromosomes Are Remarkably Divergent in Structure and Gene Content – Nature Letters
Here’s the abstract of some news which John Hawks describes as “really, really weird”:
The human Y chromosome began to evolve from an autosome hundreds of millions of years ago, acquiring a sex-determining function and undergoing a series of inversions that suppressed crossing over with the X chromosome1, 2. Little is known about the recent evolution [...]
January 13, 2010
Four Stone Hearth #84 at A Primate of Modern Aspect
Previously on 4SH…
The Avatar Edition, aka number 83, was published by Eric Michael Johnson, on December 30, 2009, at 8:00 AM. Although I’ve thus far omitted to post something on this edition, I’ll add a brief word here. The first few posts deal with James Cameron’s latest project to hit the cinemas in the guise [...]
