Anthropology

Hunters Versus Farmers In The Neolithic Period

Between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago, the first farmers from Asia were already cultivating land in what is now Greece, according to archaeological remains, but in places like the United Kingdom, Denmark and Northern Germany farming did not happen until around ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2011 - 1:30pm

'Vikings' From California? Evidence Of A Sea-Faring American Culture 12,000 Years Ago

Thousands of artifacts made from chert, a flint-like rock used to make projectile points and other stone tools, are in some cases so delicate that their only practical use would have been on the water, says Jon Erlandson, professor of anthropology and dire ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2011 - 5:59pm

New Website To Trace Origins Of Enslaved Africans

Little is known of the ancestry of Africans captured and transported by Europeans and Arabs during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.   A new website launched at Emory University this week,   African-Origins, provides some of the identities of Africans aboar ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 30 2011 - 3:29pm

Did Shakespeare Smoke Pot?

Francis Thackeray, a South African anthropologist and the director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, has asked permission from the Church of England to exhume the remains of William Shakespeare. This ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jun 30 2011 - 4:34pm

Cavemen Cooked 2 Million Years Ago- And It Was Due To Efficiency

Cooking is not a modern invention, concludes new research.   It likely originated 1.9 million years ago, according to results they determined using statistical analysis and evolutionary trees. How so? They estimated,  in their analysis, how long we should ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2011 - 2:02pm

Weekend Science: Haute Couture Through History

Haute couture through history?  It is when St. Pölten takes the Catwalk! If your only knowledge of Stone Age fashion is stricly limited to old Flintstones cartoons, you are in luck.  On September 23rd the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) in St. Pölten, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 2 2011 - 7:26pm

Bursts And The Rhythm Of Communication

People communicate in bursts. In communication, our behavior does not happen in a homogenous way over time, but rather there is universal behavior in which there is no communication, followed by short intervals, says a new study. A new study analyzed aroun ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2011 - 12:29pm

Were Australian Aborigines The First Explorers To Leave Africa?

Researchers have sequenced the genome of a man who was an Aboriginal Australian and used that to show that modern day Aboriginal Australians are the direct descendants of the first people who arrived on the continent some 50,000 years ago and that those a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2011 - 1:37pm

Sexism- Another Thing To Blame Your Mother For

In claims about math performance among females, and the sociological implication that unknown  cultural pressure in schools made the mentally malleable fairer sex believe they couldn't do math even if they could, there was always one inconvenient tru ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2011 - 9:19am

How They Networked In The 1600s

Networking and prompt sharing of knowledge are aspects commonly associated with the development of the Internet but intense intellectual exchange and joint work on projects over large distances happened as early as Habsburg times. The manuscripts of Court ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2011 - 12:12pm