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Woolly mammoths and other giant ice-age mammals faced extinction 2,000 years before deadly speartips were inventedWoolly mammoths and other large, lumbering beasts faced extinction long before early humans perfected their ski (Read More)
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Portrait of Chandra Jayawardena, founding professor of anthropology at Macquarie. Van Sommers 1979.We were very excited when the library here at Macquarie agreed to hand over a portrait of our department’s founding professor (Read More)
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Thousands of Mesolithic flint tools and flakes have been unearthed in Leicestershire, England. Charcoal, burned animal bones, postholes, and arcs of stones that may show the positions of dwellings were also found.The Argenti (Read More)
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Micro-blogging service's deletion of trending topic raises issues about racism and free speechTwitter can be used to discuss problems of the real world, and racism is one of them. Kyra Gaunt joined Twitter in July of 2008 as (Read More)
Museum Anthropology:
A news release: Anthropologist Mari Lyn Salvador, a scholar of Panama's native Kuna people and the textiles that they create and an experienced museum professional, has been named director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of An (Read More)
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CALL FOR PAPERS: A special issue of Museum AnthropologyLooking Back, Looking Forward: NAGPRA after Two DecadesIn 1990, the United States Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the (Read More)
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Although the linked paper doesn’t specifically address issues of anthropology, it’s nevertheless worth checking this to see how the researchers reached the conclusion that the amount of energy required for running meant that (Read More)
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Publishing Archaeology:
A chance comment from a colleague made me think again about the relevance of Nobel-winner Elinor Ostrom’s research for archaeology. (See my earlier post). I think her work has great potential to contribute to the archaeologic (Read More)
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Museum Anthropology:
A message from T. J. Ferguson (Anthropological Research, LLC.):In November and December 2009, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Wiley-Blackwell are offering free access to over ten years of Anthrosource conte (Read More)
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A Consumer Researcher position is available.Our client is looking for a consumer researcher for the Consumer and Product Insights Department (CPI) within Research & Development. We seek someone with expertise in consumer tes (Read More)
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Current Anthropology, December 2009, Volume 50 number 6 is now out, which as will be apparent from the headline, marks no less than 50 years in the field, and there are a number of essays contained therein which reflect on th (Read More)
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Museum Anthropology:
The Bard Graduate Center and the American Museum of Natural History announce a Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology. The fellowship provides support to a postdoctoral investigator to carry out a specific project over a (Read More)
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If it weren't for the great anthropologist, who has died aged 100, I would never have learned a radical new way of looking at art historyThe news that Claude Lévi-Strauss has died at the grand age of 100 brings back memories (Read More)
Anthropology.net:
The Journal of Experimental Biology has published an interesting paper about some unique features in sprinters: longer toes and shorter ankle joints. The only one flaw is that their sample size is limited, they only compared (Read More)
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As by necessity this edition is being put together quite hurriedly, let’s get straight to the posts – I received a grand total of 3 submissions, and two of those were from one contributor, namely Eric at The Primate Diaries, (Read More)
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Claude Lévi-Strauss died two days ago. He was 100 years old.I shouldn’t have to write about his impact to the field of anthropology, in summary it was profound. He authored many texts. He set forth structuralism, a mode of th (Read More)
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French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual forceThe fame of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died aged 100, extended well beyond his own subject of anthropology. He was (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Structuralist thinker is credited with revolutionising the study of anthropology for the 20th centuryFrance was paying tribute tonight to one of its greatest intellectuals, the social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who h (Read More)
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French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual forceThe fame of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died aged 100, extended well beyond his own subject of anthropology. He was (Read More)
Museum Anthropology:
This spring, the Council for Museum Anthropology's Board of Directors voted to approve funding for a complete design overhaul of Museum Anthropology. Below is a sneak peak at the near-completed re-design. Many thanks to the C (Read More)
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