Link: Symbolism, beads and modern human behavior
Christopher Henshilwood has written a short article for The Conversation describing the archaeological importance of the finds from Blombos and elsewhere in ...
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Chris Henshilwood profile
Nature News has an article written by Jeff Tollefson, which profiles archaeologist Chris Henshilwood and his work at Blombos, South Africa: “Human evolution:...
Blombos pigment workshop
I know that some readers are starting to wonder if I’ve forgotten about paleoanthropology lately. Let’s just say that the Neandertal and Denisova genomes hav...
Learning, population size, and "modern human behavior"
I’m a big booster of the idea that human demographic expansion helped drive our recent evolution. So you might expect me to like the new paper by Adam Powell...
From scratching to art
Science has a lot of stuff this week about evolution. One of the pieces is a news article by Michael Balter about “the origin of art and symbolism.” The arti...