Blogs about: Paleoanthropology

Featured Blog

A 3D Computed Tomography Scan Of The Liujiang Cranium

A couple days ago, press release agencies like EurekAlert! and ScienceDaily ran some anthropology blips that was not picked up by major news sources. So if you don’t follow them you would have m… more »

Anthropology.net

A 3D Computed Tomography Scan Of The Liujiang Cranium — 3 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 days ago: A couple days ago, press release agencies like EurekAlert! and ScienceDaily ran some anthropology bl … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Human Evolution, Anatomy, China, brain, liujiang, 3D computed tomography, Morphology

Big Rad Cave!

saij wrote 3 days ago: Liang Bua Cave, actually. … more »

Tags: Science, Art, Evolution, Culture

Neanderthal in Spanish

saij wrote 3 days ago: If you speak Spanish, this Neanderthal blog looks cool … I don’t, so I must drool from t … more »

Tags: Evolution, Science, Neanderthal, spanish

Cool Sites for Paleoanthropology

saij wrote 3 days ago: Want a good Paleoanthropology site, but don’t know where to look?  Never fear, Afarensis has … more »

Tags: Science, Evolution, DNA, Afarensis, archaeology, Skeleton, Morphology

The 28,000 Year Old Paglicci 23 Cro-Magnon mtDNA Ain't Neandertal -- It Is More Modern Than Anything Else — 7 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 days ago: The open access journal PLoS One has published a new ancient DNA paper, “A 28,000 Years Old Cr … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, Adna, ancient dna, Cro-Magnon, Genetics, Italy, paglicci

Charles Lockwood In Memoriam — 25 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 4 days ago: From John Lynch, of Stranger Fruit, comes the upsetting news of Charles Lockwood’s untimely de … more »

Tags: Announcement, Blog, Physical Anthropology, charles lockwood, In Memoriam

Homo heidelbergensis Ear Anatomy Indicates They Could Have Heard The Same Frequency of Sounds As Modern Humans — 5 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 6 days ago: Pinpointing when language became a prevalent trait during human evolution has been tricky. Last fall … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, comparative anatomy, homo heidelbergensis, Human Evolution, language

Rachel Mackelprang & Edward Rubin Summarize Recent Neandertal Genomic Research

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 week ago: Rachel Mackelprang and Edward Rubin have written up a short review of current state of paleo-DNA in … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, ancient dna, Human Evolution, neandertal

Should English Class include More Science Reading?

saij wrote 1 week ago: John Hawks points out that the majority of High School English Classes are devoid of any serious se … more »

Tags: History, Philosophy, Science, Evolution, Education, Darwin, high, School, Shakespeare

A Profile of California Academy of Sciences' Zeresenay Alemseged

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 week ago: Zeresenay Alemseged is no stranger to this blog. I mentioned his new position as the chairman of ant … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Zeresenay Alemseged

The Age of Omo I and Omo II from the Kibish Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia — 11 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 week ago: Two articles in the Journal of Human Evolution reanalyze the geochronology of the Kibish Formation, … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, Ethiopia, geochronology, Geology, Human Evolution, omo, omo valley

Erik Trinkhaus, Tianyuan 1 and Sunghir 1, and the Earliest 'Evidence' of Footwear — 22 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 weeks ago: Erik Trinkhaus published a study, along with Hong Shang, in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeo … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Human Evolution, bipedalism, Anatomy, Osteology, comparative anatomy, China, foot

Guy Gugliotta's Review of Modern Human Evolution in the Smithsonian — 1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 weeks ago: I caught this Smithsonian review of the evolution of modern humans from Peter Frost’s blog pos … more »

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Physical Anthropology, Africa, fossil record, guy gugliotta, Human Evolution, Out of Africa, Smithsonian

A New Homo erectus Mandible from Thomas I Quarry in Casablanca, Morocco — 5 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 weeks ago: John Hawks shares with us news of a new hominid discovery. Similar to the post from a couple days ag … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, Casablanca, Homo Erectus, Human Evolution, Morocco, thomas 1

A possible Homo erectus jaw from Sicevo Gorge, Serbia — 1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 weeks ago: John Hawks just pointed out a press release announcing a new hominid from Serbia. The site is a cave … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, dusan mihailovic, Homo Erectus, Human Evolution, middle pleistocene, Serbia, sicevo gorge

Emerging news of Debbie Argue's cladistic analysis of Homo floresiensis — 1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 4 weeks ago: According to these press reports, Debbie Argue, of the Australian National University’s School … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Human Evolution, Flores, Homo floresiensis, Indonesia, Cladistics, Flores Island

Heard of the East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology (EAAPP)? — 1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: Evolutionary Anthropology has just published a news bit introducing a brand new paleonanthropology g … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Paleontology, East Africa, eaapp, east african association fro paleoanthropology and pale

Pinnacle Point Caves are threatened by runoff and no one is doing anything about it! — 2 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: John Hawks blogged about a very real threat to the rich caves at Pinnacle Point near Mossel Bay, So … more »

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Conservation, South Africa, Pinnacle Point, pp13b, Mossel Bay

Wisdom Teeth, Intelligent Design, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer — 3 comments

saij wrote 1 month ago: Last week I got my wisdom teeth torn out of my head. I had gotten my bottom right tooth taken out … more »

Tags: Fun, Philosophy, Personal, Science, Religion, Evolution, health, Creationism, Wisdom