Tag Archives: Human evolution

Application of Cognitive Archaeology

Posted on May 15, 2010 by cfeagans

Patterns of thought can be effectively inferred from the material remains of the past. Nicholas Toth[1]Â Â conducted experiments in flintknapping in which he discovered patterns he proposed as evidence of right-handedness in hominids reaching into the archaeological record as … Continue reading →

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Getting there is half the fun: Early Homo

Posted on March 17, 2010 by cfeagans

The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary presents a period of transformation in human evolution. This is a period after which it is clear that early humans are using subsistence strategies that can be characterized as hunting and gathering, assisted with the advent of … Continue reading →

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The Effect of Ardipithecus ramidus on Agnopithecus creationus

Posted on October 6, 2009 by cfeagans

Image by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr There were a stream of posts on the anthropology blogs about Ardipithecus ramidus, the 4.4 million year old fossil hominid originally discovered by a team led by Tim White in Ethiopia between 1992-1993. … Continue reading →

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I Love Lucy!

Posted on August 18, 2009 by cfeagans

Australopithecus Afarensis skeleton was discovered in 1974 near Hadar in Ethiopia, and she was nicknamed “Lucy” by the paleoanthropologists who found her. As the story goes, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by the Beatles was playing during their celebration … Continue reading →

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What is pseudoscience?

Posted on August 17, 2009 by cfeagans

Image by mot the hoople via Flickr At its most basic, pseudoscience is fake science. The prefix pseudo- meaning “fake”- followed by the word science. But it’s more than that. Or, I should say, it’s not just that. Pseudoscience involves … Continue reading →

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The ‘Ancient Underwater Ruins’ of Yonaguni, Japan

Posted on March 9, 2009 by cfeagans

One of the pseudo-archaeological claims that I see from time to time on the intertubes is the speculation that there are underwater ruins of an ancient civilization off the coast of Yonagumi. This by itself isn’t such a fantastic claim. … Continue reading →

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