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Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic
Judith C. Berman
In this somewhat lighthearted essay, anthropologist Judith Berman takes on the stereotype of the wild looking, unkempt “cave man” popularized in cartoons, movies, television shows, etc. ...
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Burial Mound at L’Anse Amour, Labrador, Canada
Anonymous
This mound marks the grave of an adolescent boy from the “Maritime Archaic” people of Labrador. Roughly 7,500 years ago, his body was wrapped in a shroud of bark or hide and placed face ...
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Deep History and Convergent Evolution
Daniel Lord Smail
In On Deep History and the Brain, historian Daniel Lord Smail postulates that “it is the similarities [between civilizations] that are the most startling,” more so than the differences. In ...
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Flax Fibers at the Dzudzuana Cave, Republic of Georgia, Caucasus Mountains
Anonymous
A 2009 paper in Science announced the identification of at least 488 fibers of flax attached to clay samples found in a cave in Georgia. Some of these fibers had been spun and dyed, and one ...
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Lapita Pot Shards, Found in Vanuatu, Western Pacific
Anonymous
Named for a site in the archipelago of New Caledonia, the Lapita culture was a system of kinship-based exchanges among the inhabitants of thousands of islands in the western Pacific. ...
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Not all Hominids are Human Beings
David Johanson and Maitland Edey
In 1973, in Ethiopia, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson stumbled across the skeleton of a hominin (or as he refers to it, a hominid) nearly 3.5 million years old. Nicknamed Lucy, it was ...
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Of Lice and Men
William J. Burroughs
William J. Burroughs, a scientist who specializes in physics and climate ponders the unwelcome relationship between people and lice, and what that reveals about evolution and migration of ...
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Paintings in the Cave of Altamira, Santillana Del Mar, Spain
Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola
Inspired by the excitement attending the discovery of prehistoric cave paintings in France, amateur Spanish archaeologist Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola (1831–1888) conducted work on a Spanish ...
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Python-Shaped Ornamented Rock Found in the Rhino Cave, Botswana
Anonymous
Archaeologists working in the Tsodilo Hills of Botswana in 2006 may have found the oldest evidence of a form of human ritual behavior. One cavern contains a large rock, roughly 20 feet long ...
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Shamans and Cave Painting
Jean Clottes and David Lewis-Williams
Historian Clottes and anthropologist Lewis-Williams theorize that the painted caves (such as those of Lascaux and Niaux in France) of Paleolithic people were used as a sacred space, in ...
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Theories of Race and the History of Africa
P. Diagne
One of the more tragic legacies of how evolutionary theories can be manipulated is how these theories were used to justify the suppression of one group (defined as a race) by another. ...
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