This is the Blog Carnival Four Stone Hearth for May 23rd, 2007.

This installation of Four Stone Hearth includes numerous and very diverse entries. So I will forgo my natural tendency to make extensive comments on everything that comes across my screen or keyboard, and let the entries speak for themselves. More or less.
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As you surely know, Anthropologist Mary Douglas passed away recently. Several blogs assemble commemorative material on this very significant anthropologist. Please visit these sites, pay your respects, and if you are not familiar with Mary’s work, investigate! Savage Minds, antropologi.info
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Science Notes writes about a Left-Handed Mousterian Hand Axe. That’s right, a left-handed hand axe. How cool is that? Interested? Left Click Here.
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Laelaps provides an extensive and intensive must read piece on Countering Creationism. Be sure to read both Part I and Part II. He ties this into anthropology in interesting ways.
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Are Humans Polygamous?

“The nature vs. nurture debate will always be with us poor cultured apes. Only very rarely can we lay the blame for our behaviour on genetic programming. A typical issue is that of monogamy.”

Martin Rundkvist explores conjectures from the world of evolutionary psychology. He is not pleased with what he finds. But you will be pleased with his post.
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The Work-Place, or, Catching a Catfish Online

“I was born and grew up in a big, dirty city and I am not going back … I spent the first 25 years of my life in Belgrade, population 2 million. … I knew every nook and cranny of the city. I walked around town most of the time, even if that meant two hours at a brisk pace in the middle of the night from the northernmost part of Zemun all the way home south of center. … And I still think that it is a great city - a wild mosaic of architecture from Roman and Ottoman times, through the Austro-Hungarian time, the pre-WWII Serbian and early Yugoslav kingdom era and the Tito communist period, to the Milosevic decade and Wes Clark’s enriched uranium.”

Wow, with a lead-in like that, how could you NOT read this remarkable and thoughtful piece by the one and only, science blogger extraordinary, Coturnix.
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A new issue of a key publication in Museum Anthropology is reported at Museum Angthropology. Gradhiva. The journal is looking for translators, so s’il vous plaît, give them a hand.
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Please visit Open Access Anthropology. We do not have a post recommended from this site, but open access is so critically important that you must go there.
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“The timing and evidence of domestication of the modern day cat is a tricky thing to pin down.” If, indeed, it has actually ever happened. Check out K. K. Hirst’s latest post, on this topic.
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Speaking of cats, the best yet preserved Egyptian Tomb is reported on Hot Cup of Joe.
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And in The Riddle Of The Stones Revealed At Whitby Museum, on Anthropology.net, “describes an exhibition featuring a replica of a 5,000 year-old Neolithic engraved rock” and lots of other cool stuff.
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And finally, John Hawkes is always good for a good blog post.
Dobzhansky on Weidenreich’s species concept.
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For my own part, I humbly submit Ultimate Causes, Proximate Mechanisms, an exploration of guys jumping on hand grenades, burning babies, and gay flamingos.
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The next (June 6) installment of Four Stone Hearth will be at Testimony of the spade:Archaeology is taxes well spent!

I love the name of that blog.

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