Beyond bones & stones
Straight outta BBC News and National Geographic News comes word that Dean Falk is definitively saying Homo floresiensis was a completely new species. You can have a read at each article here, "'Hobbit' human 'is a new species'" and ""Hobbit" Was Own Species, Not Diseased Human, Brain Study Says." Falk and crew published their findings... Continue Reading →
Right on the heals of the awesome announcement of the unearthing of a Olmec-inspired city in Mexico, is concerning news that pollution is damaging these archaeological sites within the country. Specifically, Stefan Lovgren reports in National Geographic News' "Ancient Mexican Carvings Being Erased by Acid Rain, Experts Say" that the pre-Aztec city of El Tajin,... Continue Reading →
The AP is running a press release of an outstanding find from a site near the town of Xochitepec, Mexico. It is titled, "Olmec-Influenced City Found in Mexico." Archaeologists have unearth a 2,500 year old city that once influenced heavily by the Olmec culture. The site is about 200 miles away from the known Olmec... Continue Reading →
Did you know the cat fight between the paleoanthropologists that found the Hobbit specimens, aka Flores man, Homo floresiensis and the ones who took the fossils off to cast them, was so bad that the Indonesian government actually closed down access to the Liang Bua cave where they were found? Well, that's the story the... Continue Reading →
There's an awesome story over at National Geographic News on how some isolated tribes in the Amazon are using high tech gadgets to help conserve their rainforest from loggers and such. These are the very same people that we assume are confined to a prehistoric age of technology, which goes to show how malleable our... Continue Reading →
