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Move Over Lucy, Ari Is the New Star of Bones

Revolutionary new information about the ancestry of humans has the iconic Lucy (Australopithcus afarensis) moved from centre stage with a more ancient skeleton named Ari(Ardipithecus ramidus)as the new star in the search for human origins. "The centerpiece of a treasure trove...

Monkeys Recognize Bad Grammar

Cotton-top tamarin monkeys are a step ahead of most web users, and can recognize bad grammar when they see it.  When subjected to repeated series of syllables, the monkeys could recognize when those syllables...

Is this Level 6?

" Remember the story of Felipe Solis? On April 16, “President Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported.” link Well,...

Horses Have Been Helping People for Over 5 000 Years

New evidence coming from Kazakhstan leads to the conclusion that the Botai culture in Northern Kazakhstan had domesticated horses for milking.  Less conclusive is evidence that the horses were ridden as well....

Extraterrestrials, UFOs, and the manipulation of Human History

Apparently, the German Nazi scientists were experimenting with time travel and they opened a "door" [to regressive aliens identified by pagan Gnostics as "artificial man"]. They put a "crack" in time, and with our "luck", there were a bunch of regressives right there. I...

Demand Drops, Airlines Slash Prices (in Australia)...And Brits Most Promiscuous

The Age reports that Australian air fares hit record lows (December 8, 2008) even though this month is usually when fares are at their highest.As demand drops, airlines slash prices for local flights.For example Jetstar offers Sales Fares (until Tuesday, December 9, all...

The Aztec's Mighty Empire Exhibition in Chicago's Field Museum

To be exposed to the grandiosity of this empire is an unforgettable experience, so rich, it's vestiges are numerous and extraordinary works of arts. Some of them available to view in Chicago from October 31,2008...

Elementary Social Studies Should Include More Cultural Anthropology

First I'd like to share a quote from the first lecture in Edward Fischer's Teaching Company course Peoples and Cultures of the World. He defines cultural anthropology by describing how it differs from other...

Source: Trace of human remains detected in Florida mom's car

"(CNN) -- Investigators have found chemical evidence of human decomposition in the trunk of the car connected to Florida mother Casey Anthony, a law enforcement source said Wednesday. ...

Last Missing Bill Reid Artworks Recovered

As NowPublic previously reported, several artworks produced by the late Haida carver Bill Reid were stolen from the UBC Museum of Anthropology in May. Thankfully, the last of the missing pieces has now been...

Police recover some artwork stolen from UBC museum

Some of the artwork stolen from UBC last month has been recovered, though police are releasing few details at this time. No word on whether any of the recovered art is that of artist Bill Reid.The original story can be found here."Police in B.C. say some of the artwork stolen...

Cossetanos, to the overdraft.

Darró's deposit, archaeological jewel of the Iberian period, opened the public. Near to the city of Barcelona there is located one of the archaeological vestiges of undoubted importance. The population...

Body Farm Finds Home in Texas

The Emmy Award winning CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series is the closest many viewers get in following close up to the activities of forensic anthropologists. In real life, these scientists perfect...

Columbia professors plan to visit Iran to apologize to Ahmadinejad

"NEW YORK (MNA) – An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting remarks Columbia University...

Great-great-granny earns masters degree at 94

    Proof that the phrase lifelong learning truly means what it says. 94 year old Phyliss Turner recently graduated with her masters degree in medical science from the University of Adelaide in...

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