Blog Profile / Anthropology.net
| URL : | http://anthropology.net | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / Anthropology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 287 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.1 | |
| Archived Since: | August 7, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The BH-1 Hominin from Balanica (Serbia)
Last week, PLoS One published a paper re-dating the BH-1 specimen from Balanica. The new dates are 397 and 525 ka. … Continue reading »
Today’s Google Doodle: Mary Leakey’s 100th Birthday
The Google doodle represents one of Leakey’s most famous achievements – the discovery of 3.5 million-year-old fossilised hominid footprints, at … Continue reading »
Skeletons in the Closet
Photographer Klaus Pichler spent three years photographing the depots, cellars, and storage rooms of various museum departments for his Skeletons … Continue reading »
Anthropologists Are Lowest Paid & Least Respected Scientists In the United States
Ann Gibbons, has a piece in today’s Science where she writes of the troubles the field faces, “In the fall of 2011, … Continue reading »
There’s Always Next Year…
Thanks to the Maya Long Count calendar, the year 2012 has become something of a pop culture phenomenon. You’ve probably … Continue reading »
The Diversity of the African Genome & Traces of an Unknown Hominin
The most comprehensive look at the genome of Africans is published in the journal Cell today. The paper titled, “Evolutionary History and … Continue reading »
Moving The Moai
The July 2012 edition of the National Geographic magazine features a cover story on Easter Island’s statues and how these enormous 33 feet tall and 80 ton … Continue reading »
Google Supports The Endangered Languages Project
On this site, we’ve covered endangered languages before, and in doing so we discussed the challenges faced in trying to … Continue reading »
Were Paleolithic European Cave Paintings Made By Neanderthals?
A new paper in the journal Science questions if it were Neanderthals or humans who created the oldest known artworks found in … Continue reading »
The Role Of Endorphins In Long Distance Human Endurance & Evolution
One of the unique physical attributes of humans is the ability to travel for long distances. Special populations outline this … Continue reading »
The Uphill Climb of Time for the Yupno of Papua New Guinea
For many of us, the concept of time is linear. Whether French or Iraqi, the past is referred as behind oneself; … Continue reading »
Neolithic Class Divisions of Central Europe
This week PNAS published evidenceof social stratification and hereditary inequality from over 7,000 years ago in Central Europe. Lead author, R. Alexander Bentley and team took strontium 86/87 isotope ratios of the enamel of teeth of...Show More Summary
American Heads are Getting Larger
On the coat tails of Matt Ridley’s statement that humans are no longer evolving, comes news presented at last month’s annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists that the heads of white Americans are getting bigger. Lee Jantz, Richard Jantz and Joanne Devlin, took about 1,500 skulls dating all the way back to the mid-1800s [...]
What Should Human Evolution Be?
Two days ago, Matt Ridley published a rhetorical editorial in the Wall Street Journal‘s column Mind & Matter. Ridley addresses the decline in incidence of inheritable diseases, overcoming infertility with in vitro fertilization (IVF), and other topics such as the impact of culture and brain expansion. The piece has gained a lot of attention in social media [...]
Oldest Musical Instruments To Date Discovered
A couple weeks ago, proof of the oldest examples of human art made the rounds. I did not publish a post about that on here because I did not find the evidence compelling enough to warrant a discussion. Today, however, another archaeological story does deserve a nod. The Journal of Human Evolution published a paper [...]
A 16th Century Venetian Vampire
One of my favorite columns is the NCBI ROFL series from Discoblog. Yesterday’s post is a case in point example. The May 2012 issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences included an interpretation of the 2009 finding of a medieval plague burial site including a female individual with a brick in her mouth. The burial site dates [...]
Nina Jablonski at AMNH’s SciCafe & Independent Evolution of Blond Hair
Yesterday evening I attended the American Museum of Natural History’s SciCafe with guest speaker Nina Jablonski. She gave a talk about the evolution of skin. If you are a follower of this blog, you would know the genetics of skin color is one of my favorite topics. It has been a while since I have kept [...]
The Iranian Genome Project
Yesterday, my father emailed me a link to the Iranian Genome Project that caught my eye. Ironically, Razib over at Gene Expression also highlighted this project in a recent post. Much like the intentions Harappa & Dodecad ancestry projects, of which I’ve participated in by submitting my 23andme data, the Iranian Genome Project aims to enlighten Iranian heritage and health. [...]
Complete Denisova Genome Released
We’ve covered the mitochondrial genome of the Denisova individual 2 years ago, back in March 2010. For those not familiar with the Denisova hominin, this specimen represents an archaic human species present at least 41,000 years ago – coexisting with Neandertals and modern humans in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Show More Summary
Applying to Grad School in Anthropology- Where will we go?
My graduate applications–probably like many of yours– are almost completely submitted by now. I spent the fall traveling around the east coast and filling out the same information on similar looking websites for hours on end. I poured over my personal statement line by line until I could recite it by heart and my girlfriend [...]