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New year, New Projects, Back to Blogging!

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Adam Van Arsdale

I am not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, but I do welcome opportunities, arbitrary or not, to pause, reflect, and change direction. With the arrival of 2019, I am ready to jump back into the blogging world. This … Continue reading →

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Homo naledi, part 1

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Adam Van Arsdale

Paleoanthropology got front-page (above the fold!) coverage last week with the announcement and initial publication of Homo naledi, a new species of Homo, based on the large assemblage of hominin fossils recovered from the Rising Star Cave, South Africa, in … Continue reading →

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Talking about data access at the 2013 AAPAs

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

This week is the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), in Knoxville, Tennessee. My visit to this year’s meetings is going to be an abbreviated one, owing to the realities of leaving a 3-week old at … Continue reading →

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Meeting season

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

Spring conference season is underway, beginning with the Paleoanthropology Society meetings which are going on right now, concurrently with the Society for American Archaeology (SAAs) meetings, in beautiful Hawaii. Kate Wong (@katewong) is tweeting the meetings, using the hashtag #paleo13. … Continue reading →

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Biological Anthropology fieldwork experiences

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

I have linked previously to Kate Clancy’s discussion of sexual harassment and field work in anthropology. This is an important, though often unspoken, issue within anthropology. Particularly for those subfields that have group, field-site focused research, “the field” is a … Continue reading →

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Access in Paleoanthropology

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kate Wong, writing for Scientific American, gives proper journalistic treatment to the issue of access in paleoanthropology, something I was musing on back in March (here and here). That situation is apparently changing. According to Johanson, this past January Yonas … Continue reading →

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Fossil data, access and technology, part 2

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

This is the follow-up to a piece I posted earlier on what exactly do we mean by fossil data. In that piece, I suggested that at a primary level, fossil data is the fossil itself together with its associated context. … 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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