Anthropology

Who are the British?

At the dinner held 10 days ago for those who had retired as our department finally closed the day before, my previous PI (until 2002) recommended me to read The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain by Stephen Oppenheimer  (ISBN 97818452948 ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 11 2010 - 11:37am

Cavemen Sharper Than Believed- Pressure Flaking Of Tools Pushed Back 50,000 Years

Sharpening tools is no easy task.  If you've ever tried to do it yourself you know that prehistoric man had to have developed real skill to sharpen stone tools- using pressure flaking, no less. Pressure flaking is a technique where implements shaped b ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2010 - 6:52pm

Epigenetics And Transhumanism: Bruce Lipton's Teleology

One of a three part series on epigenetics, transhumanism, and future human evolution. Dr. Bruce Lipton: The Biology of Belief ...

Article - Ken Myron - Nov 10 2010 - 3:54pm

Fear and Follow: A Narrative History of Cultural Evolution

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Blog Post - Ken Myron - Nov 10 2010 - 6:49pm

Cultural Anthropologist Erickson going after Pinker's "The Blank Slate," and biological explanations of culture in toto

From Neuroanthropology blog Review article Tunnel vision Pinker, Steven. 2002. The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature. London: Penguin. 509 pp. ...

Blog Post - Ken Myron - Nov 11 2010 - 10:45am

Did Vikings Bring Native Americans Back To Europe?

It's common belief that Vikings visited Newfoundland, therefore reaching the New World from Europe before Christopher Columbus, but a new genetic analysis claims not only did Vikings visit North America, they brought natives back to Europe with them. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 17 2010 - 4:33pm

Baby name entropy- Mary versus Apple

Ah, the good old days, where everyone in the neighborhood had kids named John and Mary (or Juan and Maria, or Jean and Marie, etc). But all of the warm fuzzy melting pot of same-name-ness started to disintegrate in the 1960s, when diversification of baby n ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Dec 1 2010 - 11:08pm

Between The Nazca Lines: What Is A Cargo Cult?

In preparing my series on Ancient Astronauts, I encountered a few problems I hadn’t anticipated, though maybe I should have looking back  now. Mainly the problem is a lack of understanding of the terms being  and ideas being used. Things like why a myth is ...

Article - Serra Head - Dec 13 2010 - 11:24pm

A Wine Goblet Timeline Of Social Status In Ancient Greece

2000 years from now, if future researchers find our Science 2.0 mug, what would it tell them?  Quite a bit, it turns out- at least regarding the social structure of the period in which we live.   Coffee is big in society.   But America is a young country c ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2011 - 11:50am

Humans Wore Clothes 170,000 Years Ago- Thanks, Lice!

A new study following the evolution of lice discovered something interesting- modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, and that was a key factor in successfully migrating out of Africa.  Principal investigator David Reed, associate cu ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2011 - 5:28pm