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Walt Whitman
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Tag Archives: anthropology
Thurman’s Five Favorite Science Stories From 2011
Here are five of my favorite science news items from the past year, as reported on the website, io9. 100,000-year-old art kit found in South Africa Researchers investigating Blombos Cave in Cape Town, South Africa uncovered the oldest known evidence of painting by early humans. Archaeologists discovered two “kits,” for mixing and forming ocher — a reddish pigment believed to be used as a dye. The find pushes back the date by which humans were practicing complex art approximately 40,000 years, … Continue reading
DNA Proves Native Die-Off After European Contact
(SOURCE: Anthropologist in the Attic) Genetic evidence now backs up Spanish documents from the 16th century describing smallpox epidemics that decimated Native American populations. Native American numbers briefly plummeted by about 50 percent around the time European explorers arrived, before rebounding within 200 to 300 years, say geneticist Brendan O’Fallon of ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City and anthropologist Lars Fehren-Schmitz of the University of Göttingen in Germany. Population declines occurred throughout North and South America around 500 years ago, … Continue reading
Of Hobbits & Humans
One of my favorite subjects is anthropology and human origins and I recently found this fascinating article on the science blog at Wired.com. Another interesting article on this subject is linked to the image below.— Hobbits May Belong on New Branch of Our Family Tree By Brandon Keim, May 6, 2009 Evidence continues to mount that Homo floresiensis, the controversial hominids better known as hobbits, were a distinct member of our ancestral family, rather than pathologically shrunken misfits. According to … Continue reading
