Archive for January, 2009

Time to get busy!

My next graduate semester just started and I’ll probably post some articles related to this semester’s coursework, specifically bioanthropology. I’m looking forward to this class -the syllabus describes hands-on skeletal analysis.
New and upcoming with A Hot Cup of Joe
This blog has been added to Alltop’s Top Anthropology News page. Hopefully this will drive more traffic [...]

The Best of Anthro? Me?

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If you’ve never visited Neuroanthropology, you’re missing a great anthro-blog! The Wordpress theme they use is pleasant to the eye and the content is stimulating for the brain in a wonderful blend of neuroscience and anthropology.
Daniel and Greg, the bloggers there listed what they’ve titled the “Best of Anthro 2008” based on submissions [...]

The First Americans Were Immigrants of Two Populations

The most recent online issue of Current Biology has an article describing the research which reveals evidence that the first Americans immigrated via two distinct populations at around the same time. One population is comprised of haplogroup D4h3, which took the Pacific coastal route; the second is made up of haplogroup X2a and they migrated [...]

Four Stone Hearth

The first Four Stone Hearth of 2009 is up at Testimony of the Spade!
I’ve been negligent about submitting to it of late, but go check out some good anthropology and archaeology writing by anthro-bloggers who are actually writing on their blogs!