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 …
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Göbekli Tepe Temple in Turkey Predates the Pyramids of Giza
Just caught news of this temple from Newsweek and thought I’d share. I don’t know much about it, in fact …
I’m Off To Turkey Until September 20th!
I don’t regularly make announcements about my life, but I wanted to let you that blogging here will be sparse …
New Results On The Domestication Of Barley In Iran & Cattle In Turkey
Two papers have come out this week that refine our understanding of the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic Near East. …
Ancient mtDNA sheds some light on gender roles in Ancient Greece
Historians have for a long time thought ancient women of Greece were treated as property. That’s because most of the …
Mutatons in VLDLR gene in the Quadrupeds from Turkey
Remember in 2005-06 when there was a whole lot of buzz about the quadrupedal siblings in Turkey? There first was …
500,000 year old Homo erectus from Turkey, and with Tuberculosis
EurekAlert is running a very interesting press release on the discovery of a 500,000 year old Homo erectus fossil recovered …
The “publicity blitz” of the Turkish quadrupeds
Considering there’s somewhat of a wildfire of discussion on the group of siblings from Turkey, who walk on all fours …
