Notable: The cranial injury of Qafzeh 11
Notable paper: Coqueugniot H, Dutour O, Arensburg B, Duday H, Vandermeersch B, Tillier, A-M. (2014) Earliest Cranio-Encephalic Trauma from the Levantine Midd...
All posts tagged with Qafzeh
Photo: Qafzeh 11 and Qafzeh 9
This week I’ve been at the Vienna Natural History Museum to do some work. It’s one of the great museums of the world, and they have a new human evolution exh...
Qafzeh teeth like Neandertals
Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg and Donald Reid report on the perikymata spacing of a sample of fourteen anterior teeth from Qafzeh. These are “early modern humans...
The two "out of Africas"
Another of the craniometric stories going around this week (Discovery News) proposes that early Levantine modern humans (Skhul-Qafzeh) and Pleistocene Austr...
At last, the death of the Toba bottleneck
It is no secret that I really don't like the hypothesis that the massive ancient eruption of Mt. Toba, Sumatra, wiped out much of the worldwide human popula...
Shell beads at three corners of Africa
Bouzouggar et al. (2007) report on a series of perforated Nassarius shell beads found in a layer dating to ca. 82,000 years ago in Grotte des Pigeons, Moroc...
Tianyuan
OK, NEWS FLASH: "Out of Africa dispersal was not as simple as once thought."
Mellars' modern human origins paper
Thank goodness for blogs. Thanks to GNXP and Dienekes, I've been looking at the new paper by Paul Mellars. Here's the title:
Lab teaching in anthropology
The AP reports that high school science labs are poor. The story comes out of a study by the National Research Council.
Playing games with dates
Two papers in the in the current (May 13, 2005) Science and an accompanying commentary focus on the mtDNA evidence relating to human dispersals into South a...