Link: Long-read on Cayo Santiago
The New York Times Magazine today has a long-read article about Cayo Santiago, the island just off Puerto Rico where a large colony of rhesus macaques was in...
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BRICS leaders meet Homo naledi
Last week, the leaders of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) met in a joint summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, along with ...
Link: A visit to La Grotte de Cotencher
The SwissInfo news site has a nice article about a Neandertal site in Switzerland: “Meet a Neanderthal woman from one of Europe’s oldest cave sites”.
Link: A new field season of the Deep Roots project at Victoria Falls
Larry Barham of the University of Liverpool and international collaborators have a field project in Zambia examining the “Deep Roots of Human Behavior”, inve...
Link: Following fieldwork in Malawi
Emory University has done a nice story about Jessica Thompson’s archaeological fieldwork in Malawi: “Bonding over bones, stones and beads”.
Link: Expedition journal from Niah Caves
I was really pleased to see a post by Darren Curnoe recounting his team’s recent field season in Niah Caves in Borneo: “We Found Evidence of Early Humans in ...
Reviewing the September excavation in the Rising Star cave system
In September, the team was underground in the Rising Star cave system, working at new excavations in the Lesedi Chamber and Dinaledi Chamber. I posted update...
Link: Graeme Barker on work at Shanidar
Nature’s Ewen Callaway interviewed Cambridge archaeologist Graeme Barker about his recent resumption of fieldwork at Shanidar, Iraq: “Archaeologists ousted b...
Link: Underwater lemur trove
NSF has released a great short video outlining a new discovery of hundreds of subfossil lemur remains from underwater caves in Madagascar: “Enormous underwat...
Investigating Neandertal behavior with Geraldine and Clive Finlayson
A week ago I was in Gibraltar for the 2014 Calpe Conference. The conference this year is focused on issues of world heritage, as the Neandertal sites of Gorh...
Malapa protective structure opens
The Gauteng Tourism Authority has a nice article about the opening of the protective structure over the paleoanthropological site of Malapa: “Malapa Structur...
Meg Conkey: “People created memories and, in doing so, created a home”
Nautilus interviewed archaeologist Meg Conkey about her work, including the “Between the Caves” survey project in France, to establish the pattern of open-ai...
New Gibraltar blog by Clive Finlayson
Clive Finlayson has started a new blog featuring some of the day-to-day story of ongoing fieldwork at Gorham’s and Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar: “Clive Finlayso...
AAPA hears about ongoing abuse of students at field sites
I’m sitting in a packed room this morning at the meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, in a session on ethics in the field. The m...
A Taung tour
The South African Palaeocave Survey has a new post reporting on a visit to the Taung site: “Taung Heritage Site: 17 June 2012”
A look at Little Foot
Along with the papers on the Malapa hominins, Science this week published a news story by Michael Balter that is a profile of Ron Clarke and his work on the ...
Announcing the Malapa Soft Tissue Project
I am pleased to announce a new open science initiative, focused on a discovery that is unique in paleoanthropology. Together we are going to find out if the ...
Ascending the Altai
On July 3, around 20 scientists left Novosibirsk by van to drive out to the permanent field camp at Denisova Cave in the low Altai mountains. The place is 52...
A visit to Malapa
I’m visiting at the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand this week. Lee Berger has been a really wonderful host and among other t...
Tweeting from Denisova
By the miracle of Amazon, I have been using my Kindle 3G to tweet from the Altai. It is far from an ideal blogging tool, so I will keep this to a short updat...
Goodall record digitization
Jason Goldman covers the acquisition of Gombe chimpanzee records from the Jane Goodall Institute by Duke University (“Digitizing Jane Goodall’s legacy at Duk...
Quote: John Shea on the perils of interpretation
John Shea, quoted in an article about the Jebel Faya tools by writer Katherine Harmon:
Spider monkey followers
Anthony Di Fiore writes in the NY Times “Notes from the field” feature about his work with spider monkeys in Ecuador: “Spider monkey fathers and sons”.
Field notes
The NY Times’ “Notes from the field” feature is following paleobotanist Bonnie Jacobs, working a fossil field locality in the Mush Valley of Ethiopia:
Lascaux anniversaire
Bing today has made their image a beautiful photo of Lascaux, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the cave’s discovery.
Permit problems circa 1928
While reading the history of paleontological excavations in the Fayum, I found many articles dealing with the area’s classical archaeology. One article, by G...
Liang Bua cave
Another Flickr find, Liang Bua cave, by Rosino (Creative Commons Share-alike license)
Shanidar photo
I stumbled across a beautiful photo of Shanidar Cave on Flickr, by James Gordon (Creative Commons license).
Round the year fieldwork to begin at Lake Turkana
A nice article in the May Scientific American by writer Fredric Heeren reviews the new Turkana Basin Institute:
Olduvai overlap
Rex Dalton reports in this week's Nature on permit problems in Olduvai Gorge: