Anthropology

Mayans Recorded History By Burying It- In Their Homes

Anthropologists writing in the Journal of Social Archaeology say they have found evidence indicating that Mayan citizens recorded their family history by burying it within their homes. Maya in the Classic period (A.D. 250-900) regularly "terminated&qu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2010 - 12:14pm

No Evidence For Donner Party Cannibalism, Anthropologists Say

The 84 members of the Donner Party, trapped by a Sierra Nevada snowstorm on their way to California, did not resort to cannibalism, according to a new analysis of bones found at their Alder Creek campsite. Instead of each other, anthropologists say the Don ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2010 - 5:47pm

Game Theory And The Evolution Of Fairness

In a classic experiment known as the Ultimatum Game, person A is given 10 coins to split between himself and person B. If person B accepts the distribution, they both keep the coins; if not, no one gets paid. According to Game Theory, the optimal solution ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jul 31 2010 - 9:33am

Clothing for thoughts: is it proportional to dress code

What one wants to say what one really says and what one wants to hear and what other person really says? With civilization covering our bodies with clothes in different parts of the world our ideas also got a covering of shyness, crookedness, wickedness de ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 6 2010 - 2:52pm

War, Violence, And Technological Change

Rather than hijack Eric Diaz' excellent recent post with lengthy and tangential comments, I'll post my thoughts about the roots of war here. Machines, Organizations&Us is a column on human-machine interactions, so after laying some anthropolo ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jun 21 2010 - 12:36pm

Kadanuumuu: 3.6 Million-Year-Old Relative Of 'Lucy' Found

Meet Lucy's 'great-grandfather'.   Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, Addis Ababa University and Berkeley Geochronology Center were part of an international team ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2010 - 4:44pm

Cinema In 2500 BC

True or false: The cinema was invented in the late 19th century. It's only true if you consider the cinema to be artificial projection.   It turns out that the original idea behind the cinematic experience, the use of visual and audio means to tell a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2010 - 12:21pm

The Male-Female Condition, Biological Insecurity and Patriarchies

I have a theory (not like a science theory… more like a personal theory) about patriarchies (male led cultures) – they don’t exist. I suppose, on the face of it, many human cultures appear to be patriarchies. They operate in patriarchical ways. For instanc ...

Blog Post - Mark Berman - Jun 30 2010 - 3:40pm

George Boxley, The Underground Railroad And The Discussion Of Race.

There have been a lot of good articles lately in the dealing with the Underground Railroad. Recently, Timbuctoo was recovered in New Jersey by Temple U. and is currently under extensive survey. It’s a great find because of what Timbuctoo was, and what it c ...

Article - Serra Head - Jul 27 2010 - 10:12am

Hey Vegetarians, Man's Very Early Ancestor Was A Carnivore Too

If you want to really get back to nature, it still involves meat.  A team of researchers has discovered evidence that human ancestors were using stone tools and consuming the meat and marrow of large mammals 1 million years earlier than previously document ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2010 - 12:02pm