Notable: A mass grave and hunter-gatherer warfare in California
Notable paper: Eerkens J et al. 2016. Isotopic and genetic analyses of a mass grave in central California: Implications for precontact hunter-gatherer warfar...
All posts tagged with American Indians
Havasupai DNA consent case becomes a one-act play
The Scientist has a review of a one-act play, “Informed Consent”, by playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer: Review: Sacred Stories, Genetic Privacy Collide.
Nearly 20 years after Kennewick, a look at DNA and tribes
Rose Eveleth has a long story in The Atlantic about the landscape of DNA ancestry for American Indians: “Genetic Testing and Tribal Identity”. This is not a...
Aleut origins and relationships
Michael Balter last week had a news article in Science reviewing archaeological and genetic research into the origins and relationships of Aleut populations ...
Watch who you call "extinct"!
Sometimes people wonder why human genetics projects should bother to involve anthropologists.
Bone of the victim mastodon
Michael Waters and colleagues Waters:Manis:2011 report on the date of a mastodon kill site from Manis, Washington. At 13,800 years old, it’s not the earliest...
"First Americans" article
Scientific American’s November issue has a cover story on the peopling of the Americas, by Heather Pringle, and it has gone online for free: (UPDATE 2006-10-...
Charles Mann interview
Razib Khan posts an interview with author Charles C. Mann, whose new book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is an account of the social and eco...
"I would run screaming away"
This is such an incredible story about the “Clovis comet” hypothesis, I don’t know where to start: “Comet Theory Comes Crashing to Earth”.
Quote: Adovasio on Clovis
In John Noble Wilford’s article about the new pre-Clovis archaeological site, Buttermilk Creek, Texas, James Adovasio gets the last word about advocates of t...
Quote: Boyd on New World pigmentation clines
I’m using some statistics out of William Boyd’s 1956 printing of Genetics and the Races of ManBoyd:1956. It gives a good accounting of blood group data known...
Havasupai DNA case links
Amy Harmon returned to the NY Times last weekend with a story about the court settlement between Arizona State University and the Havasupai tribe (“Indian tr...
Steve Lekson profile
The NY Times profiles Southwest archaeologist Steve Lekson, “Scientist Tries to Connect Migration Dots of Ancient Southwest”: