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February 24, 2010
Latest Anthropology Carnival Now Up
Four Stone Hearth 87, the Cabin Fever Edition, is up at Anthropology in Practice. Krystal D'Costa brings together an abnormally interesting collection of recent anthropology posts. Take a look....Read all of "Latest Anthropology Carnival Now Up"
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January 31, 2010
Four Stone Hearth #85: Cold Wind Edition Is Up!
And I almost missed it. Check out the latest edition of the periodic anthropology blog carnival. Working from a cold shelter in Denver, Julien Riel-Salvatore at A Very Remote Period Indeed has produced a rather hot carnival for those of...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #85: Cold Wind Edition Is Up!"
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January 15, 2010
Four Stone Hearth #84 Is Up
Four Stone Hearth #84, the gratuitous Gelada edition, is up at A Primate of Modern Aspect. Take a look at this collection of comments on and links to recent anthropology posts. Also, enjoy gratuitous pictures of Gelada....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #84 Is Up"
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November 4, 2009
Four Stone Hearth 79 Is Up
The folks at Anthropology.com are hosting Four Stone Hearth 79. I think Tom Jones is the compiler. Give it a look. You're sure to find something of abnormal interest....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth 79 Is Up"
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September 23, 2009
The Latest Four Stone Hearth Is Up
The 76th edition of Four Stone Hearth is up at afarensis. Considering the excellent posts to which he links, that old Australopithecus seems to have his act together. Take a look. You're sure to find something of abnormal interest. I...Read all of "The Latest Four Stone Hearth Is Up"
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September 10, 2009
Four Stone Hearth #75 Is Up At Ad Hominin
If anthropology is one of your abnormal interests the head over to Ad Hominin and see the interesting posts Ciarán Brewster has assembled for our enlightenment....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #75 Is Up At Ad Hominin"
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August 13, 2009
Yet Another Four Stone Hearth
The latest edition of the Anthropology Blog Carnival is up at Greg Laden's Blog. As usual, there's lots of good stuff. But not so much that it can't be digested in a hour of so. Give it a look....Read all of "Yet Another Four Stone Hearth"
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July 29, 2009
The 72nd Anthropology Carnival
Four Stone Hearth #72 is up at A Hot Cup of Joe and it's a birthday party too. Go see the anthropological treats that Carl Feagans celebrates. And wish him a happy birthday while you're there....Read all of "The 72nd Anthropology Carnival"
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July 2, 2009
Four Stone Hearth 70 Is Up
It's that carnival time of month and now the seventieth edition of Four Stone Hearth is up at afarensis. That Australopithecus guy has done a wonderful job bringing together a host of things anthropological. It's amazing that someone over 2.9...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth 70 Is Up"
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June 18, 2009
Five Four Stone Hearth Is Up
The 69th edition of the anthropology carnival Four Stone Hearth is up at Wanna be an Anthropologist. Paul Wren, whose blog is new to me, offers the usual four categories plus a bonus category. Check it out. There's lots of...
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May 20, 2009
Four Stone Hearth 67 Is Up
The 67th edition of Four Stone Hearth is now up at Sorting Out Science and an abnormally interesting anthropology carnival it is. Drop by and enjoy. I must admit that this was my first visit to Sorting Out Science so...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth 67 Is Up"
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May 6, 2009
Four Stone Hearth Is Up
Four Stone Hearth is up on Martin Rundkvist's Aardvarchaeology. Despite a dearth of submissions, Martin has done a great job at bringing the last couple of weeks of anthropology posts together. He even links to one of my posts. But...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth Is Up"
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January 3, 2009
Four Stone Hearth Is Up
I'm a little late on this but the New Year edition of Four Stone Hearth is up at Testimony of the Spade. Go find something abnormally interesting....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth Is Up"
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September 25, 2008
Four Stone Hearth #50 Is Up
Yann Klimentidis has published Four Stone Hearth #50 on Yann Klimentidis' Weblog. Where else would he post it? While this anthropology carnival covers a wide range of topics, I found the roundup of posts on Neanderthals abnormally interesting. Go see...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #50 Is Up"
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September 13, 2008
Oops, Four Stone Hearth #49 Has Been Up A Couple of Days
I almost missed Four Stone Hearth #49. Anyway, it's up at A Hot Cup of Joe. The clan is a little depleted but those that did show up had some abnormally interesting tales to tell. My only excuse for being...Read all of "Oops, Four Stone Hearth #49 Has Been Up A Couple of Days"
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August 14, 2008
The Latest Four Stone Hearth Is Up
Four Stone Hearth #47 is up at Almost Diamonds. Stephanie Zvan's blog is new to me but I'll sure be adding it to my reading list. Those who share my abnormal interests will find several links worth perusing. Among them...Read all of "The Latest Four Stone Hearth Is Up"
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July 4, 2008
Four Stone Hearth 44 Is Up
Four Stone Hearth is up on Greg Laden's Blog. Well, I think it is number 44. It comes after number 43 but Greg calls it "Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival: The Fourth Of July Everything is Just Fine We've...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth 44 Is Up"
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June 11, 2008
Tool Making, Brains and Speech
One of my abnormal interests that I don't post on very often is the origin of speech. The number of areas of competence required (anatomy, neurology, genetics, history of early art and technology, linguistics, etc) are beyond my ability to...Read all of "Tool Making, Brains and Speech"
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June 7, 2008
Four Stone Hearth #42
Four Stone Hearth #42 is up at Neuroanthropology. Take a look; I'm sure you'll find several things of abnormal interest. I did....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #42"
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May 8, 2008
Four Stone Hearth at 40
Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology blog carnival, is up at Remote Central. Tim Jones has done a great job. There's something for everyone. Give it a look. I normally check out Hot Cup of Joe every day but somehow I...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth at 40"
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March 27, 2008
Four Stone Hearth #37 Is Up
The latest edition of the anthropology web carnival, Four Stone Hearth, is up at Hot Cup of Joe. Carl has done an amazing job. Go for the theme, Pulp Science Fiction, stay for the anthropology....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #37 Is Up"
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March 12, 2008
afarensis Presents Four Stone Hearth 36
Check out the 36th edition of Four Stone Hearth at my blog buddy afarensis' place. There's lots of good stuff there including special sections on Homo floresiensis and the recently announced Palau finds of more small folk....Read all of "afarensis Presents Four Stone Hearth 36"
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January 16, 2008
Four Stone Hearth 32 Is Up
The 32rd edition of Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology carnival, is up at Testimony of the Spade. As usual, there is a lot of good stuff, well presented....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth 32 Is Up"
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December 5, 2007
Four Stone Hearth is Up at Remote Central
Drop by Remote Central and take a tour of recent posts on anthropology. There's a lot of great stuff to be found there....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth is Up at Remote Central"
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August 10, 2007
The Ileret Skulls
I haven't written on paleoanthropology for a while. I've been too tightly focused on things that I am finally beginning to know something about again. But a recent paper is getting so much attention that I cannot just ignore it....Read all of "The Ileret Skulls"
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February 21, 2007
Climate Change and the Demise of the Neanderthals
afarensis beat me to this one. Below is the abstract of a Quaternary Science Reviews paper by Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, Francisca Martínez-Ruiz, Clive Finlayson, Adina Paytan, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto, Miguel Ortega-Huertas, Geraldine Finlayson, Koichi Iijima, David Gallego-Torres and Darren Fa (I...Read all of "Climate Change and the Demise of the Neanderthals"
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January 30, 2007
A Little News on Those Little People
It has been a while since I wrote on the Hobbit (Homo floresiensis?) and I really don't have much to say now that others haven't already said. But there is some news. afarensis (twice), Anthropology.net, and John Hawks have commented...Read all of "A Little News on Those Little People"
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October 31, 2006
Neandertals Again
The other day I told of a couple studies of Neandertal DNA, one of which suggests that "modern humans and Neandertals' most recent common ancestor probably perished about 400,000 years ago." Now National Geographic reports on another study "that suggests...Read all of "Neandertals Again"
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October 28, 2006
Our DNA, Their DNA and our Common DNA
National Geographic online has an update on the ongoing efforts to sequence the Neandertal (aka Neanderthal) genome. There are two ongoing projects. One, led by James Noonan at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, focuses on those sequences that can be compares...Read all of "Our DNA, Their DNA and our Common DNA"
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October 10, 2006
Homo floresiensis Update
Carl Zimmer at the Loom has a very good discussion of the waxing and waning of opinion in the Paleoanthropology community with regard to Homo floresiensis, the small hominid from the island of Flores in Indonesia. I say Homo floresiensis,...Read all of "Homo floresiensis Update"
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Titles Only From Here On
October 1, 2006
An Abundance of Evidence
September 30, 2006
A Neanderthal Slept Here
September 21, 2006
3.3-Million-year-old Child Found!
August 25, 2006
The Final Word on the Hobbit?
August 20, 2006
My Ancestor Was an Ape. But In What Ape Line?
August 12, 2006
Quick Hide the Evidence
July 18, 2006
The Evolution of Brain Volume
June 21, 2006
Homo floresiensis(?): Another Take
June 12, 2006
Not Just a Cranium: Homo floresiensis
May 19, 2006
The Hobbit is Back in the News
May 18, 2006
Our Life Together - With Our Primate Ancestors
March 25, 2006
Another Homo Cranium Found
March 23, 2006
Still More from Wong on the Hobbit
March 16, 2006
Hobbit Update
February 22, 2006
The Demise of the Neanderthal
February 11, 2006
Even You and I Can Now Read PaleoAnthropology for Free
January 21, 2006
Modern Humans May Have Introduced a New Social Order
January 14, 2006
Walk Like a Hominid
January 9, 2006
Neanderthals: Thoughtful, Well Trained and Perhaps Unable to Speak
December 17, 2005
Homo erectus in Britain?
December 14, 2005
Britain Occupied by 680,000 BP
November 30, 2005
Be Even More Cautious About 1.3 Million Year Old "Footprints" from Mexico
October 27, 2005
More on the Recent Study of Genetic Diversity in Human Populations
October 11, 2005
Hobbit (Homo floresiensis) Update
September 29, 2005
Wild Gorillas Seen Using Tools
September 20, 2005
Tooth Perikymata and The Length of a Neanderthal's Childhood
September 19, 2005
Fossil DNA and Crystal Aggregates
September 6, 2005
New Clues in Search for Original Peking Man Fossils?
September 2, 2005
Neanderthals and Early Moderns in the Grotte des Fées de Châtelperron
August 25, 2005
Feet Hurt? What Shoes May Have Done to Our Feet Over 26,000 Years Ago
August 4, 2005
What Did Our Hominin Relatives Eat?
July 25, 2005
Life-sized and 28,000 Years Old
July 5, 2005
Be Cautious about the 40,000-Year-Old "Footprints" for Mexico
June 15, 2005
The Homo floresiensis Story with a Bad Opening
June 9, 2005
400,000 Year Old Tools from Iran?
May 30, 2005
Where One Finds Island Dwarfism One Should Not Be Surprised to Find Island Dwarfism
March 27, 2005
The Economics of Neanderthal Extinction
March 25, 2005
Did Free Trade Help Drive Neanderthal Extinction?
March 16, 2005
Neanderthals May Have Sung Like Sopranos; But Could They Dance?
March 9, 2005
70,000 Year Old Neanderthal Protein Sequenced
March 5, 2005
More on the Hobbit's Femur
March 3, 2005
The Hobbit's Brain Revealed but Don't Forget the Hobbit's Femur
February 20, 2005
Scientists Discover Frauds by Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten
February 16, 2005
Just How Old Are We?
February 15, 2005
No Neanderthal in Our Blood, But Did Our Ancestors Try?
February 11, 2005
Be Careful Not to Say Too Much
February 6, 2005
Thoughts on Homo floresiensis