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...
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Repatriation in Torres Strait
The Guardian:
A Sterkfontein visit
After this week’s description of the new public accessibility of the Dmanisi site, a reader sends a link to a tour of Sterkfontein by The Guardian’s David Sm...
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...
The fingerprints of fossilization
It’s a sign of the success of “DNA fingerprinting” that any kind of identification technique is immediatly cast in those terms (“DNA-like technique may help ...
Quote: Cuvier on fossil destruction
Georges Cuvier is generally remembered for the idea of “catastrophism” – but I ran across this quote (in translation) from his description of the famous opos...
Paying the price for rare fossils
Primate paleontologist Elwyn Simons and (many) colleagues cosigned a letter in the current Nature protesting the high price paid for the “Ida” fossil, Darwin...
Zhoukoudian cave site in danger of collapse
From China Daily:
Lascaux update
According to New Scientist, human activity and prior attempts to kill the fungus have made the ecology of Lascaux similar to a hospital cooling tower.
Burrup rock art to be relocated
Paul Ham reports on developments which may force the relocation of rock art in northwestern Australia:
Shanidar photo
I stumbled across a beautiful photo of Shanidar Cave on Flickr, by James Gordon (Creative Commons license).
Washington Post covers mold at Lascaux
Molly Moore of the Washington Post turns in a nice report on the problems facing Lascaux, about which I wrote earlier this year:
When golf threatens the archaeological record
This seems bad:
Numbers, Amazon-style
In last week’s Science, Stanislas Dehaene and colleagues describe the relation of cultural invention to “universal intuition” about mathematical logic:
What to do with the Laetoli footprints?
Rex Dalton reports on Charles Musiba's efforts to preserve the Laetoli footprints with a new museum:
Lascaux struggling with fungal invasion
Julien Riel-Salvatore has been following the fungus problems at Lascaux. His earlier post discusses a December NY Times article on the problem. That article...