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Category Archives: Fossils
Upcoming AAA meetings
I apologize for my blog silence of late. It has been a busy few weeks of writing. Later this week I am headed to the AAA meetings in San Francisco, however, and I will try to provide some updates on … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012 AAA, AAA meetings, modern human origins
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Paleoanthropology Picture of the Day
I am going to try to post occasional (every week or so) pictures of paleoanthropological significance. Here is a photo looking at the Block 2 excavation area at the Lower Paleolithic site of Dmanisi, with the Dmanisi museum director, Gocha … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils
Tagged Dmanisi, fossil localities, Photography
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Thought of the day: “Modern” human origins
The first class I took that really hooked me on paleoanthropology was an undergraduate seminar on Modern Human Origins. The class was wonderful. We read a huge amount of primary literature and for whatever reason, the class, although we were … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged modern human origins
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More on the porotic hyperostosis at Olduvai Gorge
John Crandall and Deb Martin write a reply to Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. (which I commented on last week) that seems to broaden some of the points I raised. They like the diagnosis of porotic hyperostosis, but are skeptical of the … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Fossils
Tagged early Homo, meat, Olduvia, paleopathology, porotic hyperostosis
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Meat-eating, porotic hyperostosis and early Homo
A large group of researchers working at Olduvai Gorge, including Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo (IDEA, Madrid), Charles Musiba (UC-Denver) and Henry Bunn (U. Wisconsin), have a paper out in PLOS One this week on evidence of porotic hyperostosis in a 1.5 million … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Fossils
Tagged early Homo, meat, paleo diet, paleopathology, porotic hyperostosis
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The Dmanisi mandibles
My latest paper examining metric variation in the Lower Paleolithic Dmanisi mandibular sample, co-authored with David Lordkipanidze, is available today via Paleoanthropology’s website (open access). Synopsis: The Dmanisi mandibular sample is a well-preserved, age-stratified set of remains, that poses interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Fossils
Tagged Dmanisi, early Homo, Homo erectus, mandible
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Population level extinction in human prehistory readings, part 1
One of my current research projects is investigating the potential impact of population level extinction in human evolutionary history. I am focusing my efforts on Late Pleistocene Europe because it is a time and a place that we have a … Continue reading
Posted in Demography, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged Europe, extinction, human population size, Late Pleistocene, Neandertals
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Neandertal-human admixture and early Homo
Last week’s pre-publication of a paper addressing the alternative hypotheses of Neandertal-human admixture vs. ancient African population structure, with respect explaining the signal of Neandertal DNA in living humans, has generated a lot of great posts. First, John Hawks has … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged early Homo, modern human origins, Neandertals, speciation
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Links for the new week
Just passing along a number of links to things that, in a world made of more time, I might have written more about: Interested in climate change? Anthropology News is starting a listserv on the topic Sample size issues in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged links, peer review, pre-publication, publication
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Neandertal and modern human admixture
Sriram Sankararaman, Nick Patterson, Heng Li, Svante Pääbo and David Reich have a new paper (open access, via ArXiv here) that tests whether or not genetic similarities between recent humans and Neandertals is the result of recent admixture or ancient … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Genetics
Tagged introgression, modern human origins, Neandertals
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