U.S. Treasure Hunters Find $200M Shipwreck
• slatest.slate.comThe British cargo ship was carrying 200 metric tons of silver when it was sunk by a German U-boat.
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Anthropology
Australian Aboriginal Migrations
• arclein“Aboriginal Australians likely have one of the oldest continuous population histories outside sub-Saharan Africa today,” say the researchers who analyzed the hair, a group led by Eske Willerslev of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
DNA Evidence Reveals A New Breed Of Proto-Humans
• www.businessinsider.comRecent DNA evidence reveals that Denisovans, a mysterious humanlike offshoot of Neandertals, interbred with early homo sapiens in what was likely the first of two Stone Age migrations into southern Asia, ScienceNews reports.
Neanderthal Human Genetic Mixing
•We know currently that Europeans and Asians have about two percent of their genomic DNA that originated with Neanderthals and entered the modern human lineage in a process called introgression. But this could have come about several ways. For example
Human Origins
• arcleinIt tells Science magazine that features seen in the brain, feet, hands and pelvis of A. sediba all suggest this species was on the direct evolutionary line to us - Homo sapiens. "We have examined the critical areas of anatomy that have been used
Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution
• LiveScienceFossils of the extinct hominid known as Australopithecus sediba were accidentally discovered by the 9-year-old son of a scientist in the remains of a cave in South Africa in 2008, findings detailed by researchers last year. The fossils' mix of human
Descended From Apes, Acting As Slime Molds: Nathan Myhrvold
• BloombergSociety as a whole isn’t rational. In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world,
Franz Oppenheimer Vindicated: War and the Origins of the State
• Lew RockwellI thought Charles Burris' comments and NY Times article pretty interesting to the origins and evolution of war, civilization and cooperation/altruism. A new wave of archaeological research on the origins of the state is vindicating the pioneer socio
Giants in the Americas
• arcleinReports of large, hairy hominids--true giants, in some cases, exceeding the height of most Sasquatch or Bigfoot reports--are common in the desolate areas of the north. Cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson noted that these cases stretched from Alaska to
PayPal founder’s next project: Libertarian island nations
• www.rawstory.comThe bizarre experiment would be a way to test alternative theories of governance, he and associates told reporter Jonathan Miles. The micro-countries would be something like city-states floating the ocean on massive platforms, like oil rigs.
Human Evolution Grassland Based
• arcleinFossil soils can yield information about the vegetation that once grew in the regions and can provide clues to the type of ecosystem that existed in different time periods, a university release said Wednesday. "
Ghost towns on the increase as rural America accounts for just 16% of population
• dailymail.co.uk/news'Many rural areas can't attract workers because there aren't any jobs, and businesses won't relocate there because there aren't enough qualified workers. So they are caught in a downward spiral.'
Chris Hedges: Fundamentalism Kills
• TruthDig.comThere are tens of millions of Americans who in their desperation and insecurity yearn for the assurance and empowerment offered by a clearly defined war against an external evil. They are taught in our fundamentalist culture that this evil...
20 Signs That The Fabric Of American Society Is Coming Apart At The Seams
• BlackListedNews.com#5 In the United States today, if you don’t show cops “proper respect” there is a good chance that you are going to get tazed.
James Howard Kunstler: Man Down
• Kunstler.comOn the whole, American men present themselves as savages. I think they do it because they feel very insecure about themselves - similar to the insecurity that prompts a politician to wear a flag lapel pin. Should there be any doubt that an elected...
Pacific Colonization Single Pulse Eight Centuries Ago
• arcleinPublished in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, the findings came from analysis of 1400 radiocarbon dates from 47 islands – more than 10 times the number of radiocarbon dates of previous studies. They show Po
Mother Africa For Language
• arcleinthe journal "Language" showing that small populations tend to have fewer phonemes, which is what is required to generate a serial founder effect. He also was influenced by work done by other researchers who examined computer models of cultural evol
PreColumbian Landscape Modification
• arcleinA new study by Baylor University geology researchers shows that Native Americans' land use nearly a century ago produced a widespread impact on the eastern North American landscape and floodplain development several hundred years prior to the arriva
Texas find suggests earlier settlers in N. America
• APThe discovery of ancient stone tools at an archaeological dig in Texas could push back the presence of humans in North America, perhaps by as much as 2,500 years. Thousands of artifacts dating to between 13,200 and 15,500 years ago were uncovered
Where Have the Giants Gone?
• arcleinModern accounts and possible traces of true giants have come from Tajikistan , Malaysia (where the creature is known as Orang Dalam or Orang Mawas), and the Solomon Islands. Barring some four-toed footprints, much of this evidence is anecdotal. As
Meme Theory and Markets
• OfTwoMinds.com/blogGreenspan had to hold the chair well beyond retirement to the age of 75, but he finally got his chance. In 2001, he used every policy measure in the Fed’s arsenal to prevent Kondratiev's winter.
Ancient Cannibals Crafted Cups from Human Skulls
• LiveScienceIt seems as though ancient cannibals had a "waste not, want not" attitude, suggests the discovery of Ice Age cups made from human skulls — what may be the earliest ones known, scientists say. Human skulls have been made into macabre cups and bowl
3D Film On The 32,000 Year Old Cave Paintings of Chauvet, France
• Spiegel.de/internationalWerner Herzog's new film "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is a stunning 3D documentary about a cave in France that is home to the world's oldest known human art.
Prehistoric Cemetery Reveals Man and Fox Were Pals
• LiveScienceThis discovery, made in a prehistoric cemetery in the Middle East, could shed light on the nature and timing of newly developing relationships between people and beasts before animals were first domesticated. It also hints that key aspects of ancient
Humans may have left Africa earlier than thought
• APModern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit. Stone tools discovered in the United Arab Emirates indi
Clothing Usage 170,000 BCE
• arcleinThe study, in this month's print edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that the one louse species began to diverge into two about 170,000 years ago, 70,000 years before humans started migrating to colder climates, which began about 100,0
Jim Quinn: The Fourth American Revolution
• ZeroHedge.comThe risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words...
Neanderthal Diet Much More Varied.
• arcleinNeandertals are often portrayed as very backwards or primitive,” said Amanda Henry, lead researcher and a post-doctoral researcher at GW. “Now we are beginning to understand that they had some quite advanced technologies and behaviors.” Dr. Hen
Paul Craig Roberts: A Brief for Animals
• CounterPunch.orgHumans who fire-bomb civilian cities, drop nuclear bombs on civilian populations, act out ideological hatreds taught to them by sociopaths posing as pundits and journalists, and decimate their own kind out of...
Humans Got Lice When We Clothed Our Naked, Hairless Bodies
• LiveScienceOur ancestors started wearing clothing about 170,000 years ago, a date pinpointed with the aid of another creature that lives with clothes — skin-crawling body lice. This advance helped our species migrate out of Africa to spread across the world.
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