4,000-year-old frozen hair mtDNA sequenced from a Greenlandic Saqqaq settlement
A couple days ago Science published a peopling of the Americas paper. The paper is based on ancient mtDNA analysis …
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Did early hominins shuffle before they walked upright?
I don’t know how I missed this paper, “Stand and shuffle: When does it make energetic sense?” It was published …
Aerial Photos of Uncontacted People at the Brazilian-Peruvian Border
Survival International, the non-profit organization that helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures …
Michael Tomasello on How Humans Are Unique
Michael Tomasello, a well known comparative psychologist, has a column in today’s New York Times where he writes on, “How …
Recovering 1,000 Year Old Viking mtDNA
Today’s big anthropological headline is based upon this brand new open access PLoS One paper, “Evidence of Authentic DNA from …
David Harrison speaks about “When Languages Die”
About 9 months ago, I shared some news of language extinction and the conservation efforts of K. David Harrison and …
New hominin remains from Uzbekistan are kinda-sorta Neandertal-like
An new article in press, to be published in the Journal of Human Evolution will announce new hominin remains from …
How was the world peopled?
PLoS Genetics has published a new population genetics paper. It summarizes the order by which the world was peopled through …
Anthropology.net’s One Year Anniversary on WordPress.com
Today is Anthropology.net’s one year anniversary on WordPress.com. I’ve been running this blog for more than one year but I …
Just how old are ‘the Crystal Skulls’?
Tomorrow, the next installment in the Indiana Jones series of films is set to come out. The film is subtitled, …
