Anthropology
- Clovis Culture Not Wiped Out By Comet
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Comet explosions did not end the prehistoric human culture, known as Clovis, in North America 13,000 years ago, according to a new paper. Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, Royal Holloway and 13 other universities across the United States and ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2013 - 1:00pm
- Anthropologists Delighted By The Concept Of Twitter 'Tribes'
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Do people form into tribe-like communities on social network sites such as Twitter? ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2013 - 11:50am
- Pre-Agriculture, Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers Used Ceramic Pots To Cook
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Hunter-gatherers living in ice age conditions cooked fish, according to the findings of a team from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Japan, who carried out chemical analysis of food residues in pottery up to 15,000 years old from the late glacial perio ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2013 - 10:30am
- The Diet Of The First New Zealanders
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What was the diet and movements of the first New Zealanders like? Isotopes from their bones and teeth can tell us. Researchers say they have been able to identify what is likely to be the first group of people to colonize Marlborough's Wairau Bar, po ...
Article - News Staff - May 16 2013 - 10:34am
- Neanderthals Were Breastfeeding Older Kids Too
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Modern human mothers wean their babies earlier than our closest primate relatives- well, not all human mothers. As a TIME magazine cover made famous, some mothers never stop. But what about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals? Teeth tell the tale. ...
Article - News Staff - May 26 2013 - 2:13pm
- Diet Was A 'Game Changer' For Hominids Of 3.5 Million Years Ago
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Some Paleo Diet believers think neither food nor humanity has evolved but anthropologists disagree. They have found that diets were a 'game changer' in ancient African hominid evolution, even 3.5 million years ago. Tests on tooth enamel indicate ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2013 - 1:04pm
- 'Spiritual But Not Religous'? Don't Trust Them
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In the last two generations, the designation 'spiritual but not religious' has become popular. It's hard to know what it means- atheists and religious people are at least taking some sort of stand- but one thing sociologists say they do kno ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2013 - 5:30pm
- Thank Climate Change For Early Human Technological Innovation
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For the past the 1,000,000 years the global climate has cycled every 100,000 years, between long glacial periods (with great masses of ice covering the continents in the northern hemisphere) and shorter interglacial periods, lasting around 10,000 years. I ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2013 - 3:04pm
- Twitter Culture: Atheist Tweets More Analytical, Christian Tweets Less Negative
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A computer analysis of nearly 2 million Tweets on the Twitter online social network revealed another divide in the religious culture war- while atheists engage in more analytical thinking, Christians use more positive words and fewer negative words. To id ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2013 - 1:16pm
- The Language Of Neanderthals
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Our prehistoric close cousins, the Neandertals, were more similar than science used to think in a variety of ways. And according to a new paper, they had something resembling modern speech and language, which can be traced back to the last common ancestor ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2013 - 5:49pm
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