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On Mexican Toloquilla Footprints and the "Peopling of the Americas"34 comments

dziebelg wrote 1 month ago: This post is intended as a follow-up to Kambiz’s review of the new dates for Toloquilla footpr … more »

Tags: archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Blog, México, toloquilla, valsequillo basin

Redating Mexico's Toloquilla Footprints with optically stimulated luminescence3 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: The peopling of the Americas is one of my favorite subjects in anthropology. Lately, we’ve see … more »

Tags: archaeology, Blog, toloquilla, valsequillo basin, México, Dating, optically stimulated luminescence, Footprint

4,000-year-old frozen hair mtDNA sequenced from a Greenlandic Saqqaq settlement. Pt. II1 comment

dziebelg wrote 1 month ago: A bit belatedly due to my relocation to Boston, I’d like to contribute a few observations rega … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, Adna, ancient dna, greenland, mtDNA, populatin genetics, saqqaq, SNP

4,000-year-old frozen hair mtDNA sequenced from a Greenlandic Saqqaq settlement16 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: A couple days ago Science published a peopling of the Americas paper. The paper is based on ancient … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, Adna, ancient dna, greenland, mtDNA, populatin genetics, saqqaq, SNP

The Genius of Kinship: Human Kinship Systems and the Search for Human Origins113 comments

dziebelg wrote 2 months ago: Thank you, Kambiz, for letting me introduce my new book to the Anthropology.net community. The story … more »

Tags: archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Blog, Culture, Genetics, german dziebel, Kinship

Earliest known archaeological evidence of Americans found in Monte Verde, Chile 5 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 months ago: Monte Verde, Chile is a very interesting archaeological site. First discovered in 1976, the site is … more »

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Chile, Monte Verde, radiocarbon dating

An analysis of 14,000 year old DNA from crap found in Oregon's Paisely Caves 1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 months ago: Perhaps the biggest anthropology news of this week has been the analysis of ancient DNA from fossili … more »

Tags: archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Blog, population genetics, ancient dna, Oregon, paisely caves, phyiscal anthropology

More on Vajda's Siberian-Na-Dene Language Link17 comments

Alex Greengaard wrote 3 months ago: National Geographic News has just published an article about the recent symposium in Alaska regardin … more »

Tags: Blog, Linguistic Anthropology, historical linguistics, language, Linguistics, migrations, na-dene, Pleistocene, Settlement

Nearly all of today's Native Americans can trace their ancestry to six women1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 4 months ago: According to this open access PLoS One paper, 95% of Native Americans share their heritage to six wo … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, Genetics, mitchondrial DNA, mtDNA, Native Americans, population genetics

My thoughts on History Channel's "Journey to 10,000 BC" 28 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 4 months ago: Last night I caught some of the new History Channel show, “Journey to 10,000 BC.” I real … more »

Tags: archaeology, Blog, Europe, Clovis, History Channel, journey to 10000 bc, soluteran, natufian, dennis stanford

Peopling of the Americas: Three Step Model for Colonizing the Americas14 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 5 months ago: To supplement last September’s conclusion that the peopling of the Americas was initiated by a … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, population genetics, mtDNA, Native Americans, coalescence theory

1,000 year old Lice on Peruvian Mummies tell us of early human migrations

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 5 months ago: John Hawks shared an interesting news bit the other day. The study basically sampled head lice off o … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Human Evolution, Genetics, population genetics, migration, Phylogenetics, Parasitology, human migration

Peopling of the Americas: mtDNA tells us of the Beringian Standstill5 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 8 months ago: A new study of over 600 mtDNAs from 20 American and 26 Asian populations is shedding some unique ins … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, Asia, bering straight, beringia, DNA, Genetics, migration, mtDNA

Evaluating the linguistic evidence for an Out of America hypothesis9 comments

Lev Michael wrote 1 month ago: A lively debate has been going on over at anthropology.net regarding a proposal by German Dziebel, e … more »

Tags: historical linguistics

Genetics meets Voodoo Historical Linguistics: Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Native Americans15 comments

Lev Michael wrote 7 months ago: The process of the settlement of the Americas is one of those long-standing and fascinating research … more »

Tags: Amazonian Languages, historical linguistics, Genetics and Linguistics


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