Category Archives: Archaeology

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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Paleoanthropology Society Meetings

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

The Paleoanthropology Society has released its finalized schedule of talks for the upcoming annual meetings. My spring conference travel money will be taking me to the AAPA annual meetings in Portland this year rather than the Paleo meetings, but looking … Continue reading →

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Forensic Anthropology at work

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

The BBC has a news blurb on a mass burial found in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. When the remains were discovered last week, there were questions as to whether or not these remains, approximately 167 individuals, were a … Continue reading →

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Sexual misconduct in the field

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kate Clancy, continuing a series on sexual harassment and anthropological fieldwork has an important post up on her Scientific American site. Exploitation of power is very common in grad school settings, where graduate students often have no positive options available … Continue reading →

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