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Nate Dominy receives the Packard Fellowship
Still playin’ catch-up with all the anthropology news. There’s an interesting paper that just got published in PLoS One that I’ll be focusing on, but I wanted to really briefly congratulate an...
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Again on Ancient African Megadroughts
PNAS finally published one of the two sets of ecological explanations for the Out-of-Africa theory in “East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human...
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Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotopes in Human Hair can tell us where we’re from
Couple weeks ago we saw how stable isotope analysis was used in a paleoanthropological context, with a Neandertal tooth. A new study published in this week’s issue of PNAS, extends stable isotope...
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What was the cause of the woolly mammoth extinction? Climate change or hunting?
The following post doesn’t directly have much to do with anthropology. Indirectly, it sure does, especially to those out there that study human population expansions and the Pleistocene-Holocene...
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