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This is important but in my view not at all surprising. According to me (this is my area of research) evidence for “modern humans” is visible in both land use patterns and stone tool technology at least to 250,000 years ago, and possibly a “proto modern” behavior (or who knows, maybe fully modern behavior) […]

An accumulation of dead wildebeests in the Mara River, Kenya. Ten thousand gnus died in this single, odd, event.
I believe it was George Gaylord Simpson who said “Given enough time, even the most unlikely events may happen.” He was referring, of course, to the kinds of geological and evolutionary events […]

Bernarda:
I am having trouble getting this comment to stick to Pharyngula. Some kind of technical problem at scienceblogs.com. So, go read the blogpost about the NEA, note the comments on the history of education, ending with Bernarda’s,
… and then pick up the thread here:
There are a number of African “books of […]

The NYT is running a piece discussing the domestication of the cat.
I love watching wild cats. It is fairly easy to see them in the Kalahari, where the population of cats is almost certainly untouched by genetics of any domesticated form. Despite the kitty-osity shown in the photograph provided with the […]

In this case it is a French architect who gets in step behind a long line of people who claim to understand how the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built. (see this site)
I have as much faith in Egyptology as I have in Carl Rove stumping next election for Hillary Clinton.
Just a few […]

Why did evolution of a large brain happen only once (among mammals/primates?)
Larger brains have evolved a number of times. It seems that there has been a trend over several tens of millions of years of evolution of larger brains in various clades, such as carnivores and primates. There is probably a kind of arms […]

Scientists from Durham University and the University of Oxford, studying DNA and tooth shape in modern and ancient pigs, have revealed that, in direct contradiction to longstanding ideas, ancient human colonists may have originated in Vietnam and travelled between numerous islands before first reaching New Guinea, and later landing on Hawaii and French Polynesia.
This study […]

As you probably know, everyone should drink milk. Lots and lots and lots of milk. All your life. Or so says the American Dairy Industry, often using those sexy posters of famous people with milk smeared on their faces.
The truly amazing thing about those posters is that the people in them […]

The Discovery Channel will air a documentary later today that makes the claim that a particular tomb in the vicinity of Jerusalem (discovered almost 30 years ago) is the family burial plot of Jesus, Mary and Joseph and other members of the extended family.
One of the ossuary caskets bears the label “”Judah, son of Jesus.” […]

Over a century after disappearing, wild elk return to Ontario from PhysOrg.com
After disappearing from Ontario due to over hunting in the 19th century, wild elk have returned to the province thanks to the efforts of the Ontario elk restoration program. According to a report on the program’s success, published in the March issue of […]

How people bury their dead is of great interest to archaeologists.
This story reported on Yahoo News and elsewhere is an interesting example. (Thanks to Mark Laymon at aGlobalWarming for this.) This is a 5-6 thousand year old burial of two young individuals apparently hugging each other, found in Northern Italy, near Mantova. […]

There is a legend most people have heard of. In it, the twin brothers Romulus and Remus are the founders of Rome. In some versions of this story, they are the sons of Rhea Silvia, a priestess, and Mars (the Planet, but before he had that job). In other versions, the twins […]

ArchaeoBlog has posted info and comments on this report regarding the Walker archaeological finds about which I had previously posted.
The photo by Thor Olmanson shows a nice sealed deposit. What’s more, the layers above the sealed deposit show structure that tells me that it is not fill or something crazy. It’s water lain or […]

Walker, Minnesota is a town I’ve only recently been getting to know. Amanda’s extended family owns a small and diverse set of cabins on Woman Lake, near Walker. Last year when we were planning our wedding, we considered getting married “at the lake” (Minnesotan for “at the cabin on the lake..”) but realized […]