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'Two groups may have populated Australia' by A.Salleh [ABC Science Online, 30.11.06] & 'Mapping the Mungo lands' by C.Jones [Bendigo Times, 1.12.06] ...
First of all: be aware that what is being critiqued is an English translation of a Norwegian popularised research magazine article containing an interview an...
Dear all, I am going to be offering my online archaeology courses again over the course of the coming six months, starting in the middle of January 2007. The...
Torfinn: Hopefully, the Norwegian translator did the best s/he could, I'm sure. The real problem is with the science reporters themselves. I don't know about...
Not old enough to be paleoanthropology I know, but maybe you would like to see this? Carel Isle of Skye Early sketch of Stonehenge found Maev Kennedy Monday...
Carel: Well, it isn't paleoanthropology, though this sketch is definitely Stonehenge. And a good likeness, too. I don't run any medieval e-lists, or I would...
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All: A very nice gentleman who subscribes to Current Anthropology sent me this latest file, which I've placed in the Files section. It's about possible...
... I'm sure the translator did the best he could, but there are meanings that can go very subtly wrong when translating between closely related languages. ...
All: I'm partway through the latest paper by Kuhn and Stiner. This is the one I just uploaded to our files, which many of you might be interested in reading....
... ==================================================================== Anne, Mikey & all: These kinds of social changes are too slow, and always seem to...
I think that non-ritualistic cannibalism by humans in times of starvation subsistence has occured in many cultures, Neandertal and sapiens alike. Neandertals...
In his account of his voyage in the Beagle Darwin writes about the people of Terra del Fuego. They had very cold conditions to deal with and lived mostly on...
E. Lucas Bridges, who grew up among the Fuegians (Jemmy Button's people, the Yamana) in the late 19th century, says he saw no evidence of cannibalism there....
Admittedly OT but in the spirit of earlier animal anecdotes I'm sharing it as it's one of the most astonishing scenarios I've ever watched. Last night the...
Well, there are all sorts of legends about women and male seals, including one from Tierra del Fuego, where it might have been a leopard seal, if their range...
Very interesting indeed. I had simply taken Darwin's word for these things. But it was the unlikely nature of what he was saying that made these things stick...
Bloglines user AnneGilbert (avgilbert@...) has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: All: Afarensis has some interesting stuff...
Jack: I don't have a "problem" with the idea of Neandertal cannibalism per se, but what I do have a "problem" with is the lack of "context" here. Yeah,...
All: For those of you who don't know about it, John Hawks, a biological anthropology professor at the University of Wisconsin, has one of the best blogs on the...
Noting that the period of starvation occurred just after weaning suggests a social cause rather than a general population starvation situation. The preriod of...
From that Hawkes blog: "d. Upper Paleolithic camps were intrinsically more dangerous than Neandertal camps, requiring more women (and possibly men) to stay ...