Monthly Archives: April 2012

Russian cuisine as innovation loss

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Spending 14 hours in airports and planes yesterday offered me the rare opportunity to read an issue of the New Yorker cover to cover. Reading one of the stories, “The Borscht Belt” by Julia Ioffe, I could not help but … Continue reading →

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Weekend wag the dog: 4/20/2012

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Clifford’s sabbatical from Weekend Wag the Dog continues for another week, as I am in Arizona with the family visiting my parents. So today I’ll pass along a picture of my son posing with newly signed Cleveland Indian and major-league … Continue reading →

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Thinking about fire in the fossil record

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

One of the items in my backlog of “want to blog about” topics is a recent paper by Francesco Berna and colleagues on evidence for fire dating to one million years ago from the South African cave site of Wonderwerk. … Continue reading →

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AAPA highlights

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

As I said previously, most of my time in sessions at this year’s AAPA meetings were at talks focused on hominid evolution. So while I am sure there were great presentations on bioarchaeology, primate behavior, human biology, genetics and other … Continue reading →

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Weekend wag the dog: 4/14/12

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Clifford is taking a break from this week’s edition since I am in Portland for the AAPA meetings. Here is the view from my floor: I am leaving the meetings early today, but they have been nice meetings. I wanted … Continue reading →

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Dmanisi Field School students at the meetings

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

One of the things I am definitely excited for during the upcoming AAPA meetings is the large number of Dmanisi Field School alums who are contribution posters and/or podium presentations to the event. We have had wonderful students on the … Continue reading →

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PortlandiAAPA

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

This week is the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, hosted this year by the University of Oregon and taking place in Portland. Running concurrent with the AAPA meetings are the annual meetings of the Human Biology … Continue reading →

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Weekend wag the dog: 4/7/12

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

In this week’s episode, Clifford lays claim to his piece of the evolutionary tree.

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Motherhood and Academia

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

There are a lot of interesting stories and articles that have come out this week that I hope to get to at some point but am too busy at the moment to address. But in honor of the conclusion of … Continue reading →

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The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Current Anthropology has a special supplemental issue available (for free) titled “The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations.” I will not have a chance to go through it in detail till later, but it looks to be a great collection … Continue reading →

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