300,000 Year Old Archaic Humans in China
Recently found 300,000 year old human remains said to “”foreshadow changes evident with modern human emergence.”
Human evolution
9.7 MYA Teeth from the Miocene Force Archaeologists to Rewrite Human History! Or not.
In the last week, the interwebs have been all abuzz for me about the 9.7 million year old teeth that were recovered in Eppelsheim, Germany. […]
Application of Cognitive Archaeology
Patterns of thought can be effectively inferred from the material remains of the past. Nicholas Toth ((Toth, Nicholas (1985). Archaeological Evidence for Preferential Right-Handedness in […]
Getting there is half the fun: Early Homo
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 […]
The Effect of Ardipithecus ramidus on Agnopithecus creationus
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 […]
I Love Lucy!
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 […]
What is pseudoscience?
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. […]
The ‘Ancient Underwater Ruins’ of Yonaguni, Japan
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 […]