Craniometric Data Supports Demic Diffusion Model for the Spread of Agriculture into Europe – PLoS ONE
Greg Laden points to a paper by Ron Pinhasi and Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, courtesy of PLoS ONE and which is …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
KIAA0319 – A New Candidate Gene For Language
The current issue of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders has published an open access paper announcing the discovery of a …
Four Stone Hearth 74 @ natures/cultures
The latest edition of the anthropology blog carnival is hosted this time round at a blog with which I was …
Hobbit in the Haystack: Homo floresiensis and Human Evolution – Watch it Online!
Speaking of the Johansons and fossils … Earlier this year, I’ve blogged about the 2009 Human Evolution Leakey Symposium at …
Climate Shaped the Worldwide Distribution of Human Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variation – Proc. R. Soc. B
Here’s the abstract to a newly published paper, the contents of which are free to access: There is an ongoing …
Science Suffers From The Idiots At Scientific American
Scientific American recently published a spineless attack on the state of access to paleoanthropological specimens. They titled it, “Fossils for …
Coastal Exploitation of Ancient Foragers
Here’s the abstract of a recent paper by Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson: The development and spread of …
Earliest Known Human Figurine in Scotland Found at Westray, Orkney
News from Orkneyjar, which reports on a remarkable find by archaeologist Jakob Kainz, who recently discovered a carved sandstone representation …
Isotopic Evidence for the Diets of European Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans – PNAS
Here’s a link to a recent paper published by Michael Richards and Erik Trinkaus, in which they propose that isotopic …
The Human Family Tree – National Geographic Channel
Link I’ll be away from my desk for another week or so yet, but in the meantime here’s a quick …
