Bloglines user AnneGilbert (avgilbert@...) has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: All: Somebody is going to be "all over the...
All: He's weighed in on the newest paper regarding whether Neandertals had anything to do with the Aurignacian(this paper finds a negative contribution)....
... Mikey: thanx for that. Please keep us updated if you come across news of a skeptic's critique of VanLandingham's latest writing. ... Paul: Yes, it surely...
Playing Devil's Advocate, but could they have crossed even earlier, in the last interglacial? But then they'd need boats wouldn't they? Which is more...
Daryl and all: Well, if true, this report does raise the possibility that Neandertals or some other "archaic" humans made their way to the Americas. And...
Paul: All I claim to know about this is, that RGB claims H.erectus had some kind of boats. . . Anne G Playing Devil's Advocate, but could they have crossed...
All: It seems to have gotten a bit quiet around here lately, for which I'm sure there are very good reasons(lol!). But while it's quiet, I just thought I'd...
I think that another effect of high population density is increased competition and conflict, and this usally results in some sort of stratification. Â Paul ...
... Hiliary Deacon promoted this hypothesis two and a half decades ago. -- Mike W.N.P. Barbellion, 22 July 1910, "I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry....
Jean, There is fascinating research eminating on the Capsian industry but there is a pacity of sites in the Central Sahara around the time of the Terminal ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3Wc2FLpdcWY&refer=muse Ancient Art, Music Flowered as Communities, Not Brains, Grew by Ryan Flinn June 4...
Yes Mike, I read your paper in the Sahara revue number 18,for the mid holocene period for north east and central Sahara and it seems to me that the pictorial...
Hi Jean, I am honoured you read my paper. I would not disagree with your view in regards particularly to the Late Pastoral and Kiffian periods. A future...
  I might point out another aspect of high densities, or at least one which has not been explicitly made.  As the poem says, talents differ, and so do...
I am in sympathy and agreement with the underlying premise of the article about the influence of demography on cultural transmission to explain the emergence...
http://www.paleoanthro.org/dissertations.htm which many of you will be aware of already. -- Mike W.N.P. Barbellion, 22 July 1910, "I take a jealous pride in my...
One of the problems I have with relating the 45ka "flowering" to some change in human brains is a modern analogy. Â The burst of technological and creative...
Paul: IMO, this is one of the problems I have with this argument. For one thing, nobody has ever been able, so far, to find the "brain mutation" in question,...
My problem with the 45KYA "flowering" being genetic is that Australian aborigines were here earlier than that date, and yet their art and culture is no less...
Dear all, The June 2009 issue of AAR is now available online: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j7881m0h4r88/?p=d69811832e76406aa59c706ca5976543&pi=0 -- Mike...
Ross: The original people of Australia are one of the reasons I think there is absolutely no proof, other than wishful thinking, for this "flowering" being...