... Uhm, the article is not particularly clear, but as I read it it is about cannibalism in antecessor, not neandertals. Cannibalism in antecessor has been...
I thought of one possibility for the arrangements of hand prints and animals. Maybe the animals are totems or clan symbols of some sort, whoever painted them,...
Actually, it's antecessorcannibalism, and the case is pretty solid. I'm not sure about the full extend of Bermudez de Castro's speculations on inter-group...
All, the story is saying women were in the caves actually using the materials, meaning the male only part of the work has been disproven. That is the...
The hand prints may well have belonged to the artists. But they didn't have to belong to the artists. And if you're going to splatter pigment over a hand,...
Paul's reasoning, assuming he wasn't trying to make a dry joke, doesn't come to grips with the notion of self portraiture. Many famous artists did self...
Dave: Another possibility: It might have been the hands of those who had the same spirit animal as the one or ones pictured. Anne G I thought of one...
Torfinn: The problem with all of this, as I've stated elsewhere, is the conscious or unconscious attribution of "otherness" to the cannibals -- alleged or...
anthrosciguy: That was exactly my point! Anne G Paul's reasoning, assuming he wasn't trying to make a dry joke, doesn't come to grips with the notion of self...
All: In the latest H.erectus news, the China Daily has this to say about the state of Zhoukoudian. Apparently they're doing something about it, but there...
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All: The post might seem kind of strange,because it starts out dealing with a piece that purports to be about Sasquatches in the Pacific Northwest. *But* Hawks...
Kenneth Chang of the NY Times did a better job: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/science/07obsheep.html?ref=science Henry Fountain must be on vacation and...
Tim: Chang most definitely kept the story short, sweet, and informative. Unusual for a lot of so-called science writing. Anne G Kenneth Chang of the NY Times...
Who? That's the format of the Observer column. Henry Fountain usually does three a week, and they pretty much are a brief, straight report on new research, ...
Dave: Don't get me wrong. There are some science reporters who actually do a good job of reporting. Just not very many of them. Anne G Who? That's the format...
The Hoffecker paper cited in the article is freely available from PNAS. This Svoboda paper is also mentioned, but the main topic of the blog post is for the...
The exact reference for Svoboda's paper is in: T R A B A L H O S D E A R Q U E O L O G I A 3 3 (2003) J o ‹ o Z i l h ‹ o , F r a n c e s c o d’ E r r...
All: There is a nice article in Science by Michael Balter, on people who do hominin reconstructions. Some of the portraits are, well, quite interesting. I...
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