What does our Iceman Ötzi sound like?
The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …
Category Archives: Linguistic Anthropology
Using Technology to Save Endangered Languages
There are many endangered languages in our collective linguistic radar. Some of them have been covered here before and some haven’t. In 2007, Joshua …
Marie’s Dictionary
This short documentary tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary …
Light Warlpiri, A Newly Discovered Australian Mixed Language
Linguist Carmel O’Shannessy wrote to the journal Language of a newly discovered language, Light Warlpiri. Her correspondence, “The role of …
What’s Wrong With Anthropology?
In December, I linked up Ann Gibbons’ article in Science about anthropology’s poor reception in the scientific community. I forgot …
Anthropologists Are Lowest Paid & Least Respected Scientists In the United States
Ann Gibbons has a piece in today’s Science where she writes of the troubles the field faces, “In the fall of 2011, …
Google Supports The Endangered Languages Project
On this site, we’ve covered endangered languages before, and in doing so we discussed the challenges faced in trying to …
The Uphill Climb of Time for the Yupno of Papua New Guinea
For many of us, the concept of time is linear. Whether French or Iraqi, the past is referred as behind oneself; …
Anthropocene Now?
By Jay Fancher To paraphrase Carl Sagan, science has a way of deflating human conceits. Anthropology reveals that humans are …
Ancient Greek Dialect Discovered in Northeastern Turkey
A quick bit of linguistic anthropology to round off your Wednesday afternoon. Greek linguist, Ioanna Sitaridou, located a population of …
