February 2012
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Free, Stanford Online Anatomy Course →
Hey guys, check out this free Anatomy course! Seems like it should be fun and interesting.
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Stonehenge Inspired By Sound Illusion,...
Theories about the purpose of Stonehenge range from a secular calendar to a place of spiritual worship. Now, an archaeologist suggests that the Stonehenge monument in southern England may have been an attempt to mimic a sound-based illusion.
If two pipers were to play in a field, observers walking around the musicians would hear a strange effect, said Steven Waller, a doctoral researcher...
January 2012
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Archaeological News: Stonehenge Precursor Found?... →
archaeologicalnews:
On an island off Britain’s northern tip, new discoveries suggest a huge Stone Age ritual complex is older thanStonehenge.
But age is only the half of it. Researchers say the site may have in fact been the original model for Stonehenge and other later, better-known British complexes to the…
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Open call to all undergrad archaeologists,... →
crossbeams:
The University of Michigan is having the Third Biennial Undergraduate Archaeology conference. The abstract is posted below.
I’m the Executive Secretary for the Archaeology Club, which is hosting this event at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the Michigan League.
I want to…
Check it out!
A Fine Mess: Mexico: Indigenous people commit... →
mermaidcomplex:univisionnews:
The Raramuri live in Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara, near Chihuahua city. Hundreds are said to be facing starvation. (photo: flickr Lon&Queta)
By MANUEL RUEDA
Channel: Latin American Affairs
At least 50 indigenous people are said to have…
darkoisdorko asked: i graduated from ucsc/anthro in '98 :)
jadziadaaaaax:
Result of studying forensic anthropology #1: Sometimes I wonder what peoples’ skulls look like under their faces.
December 2011
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WatchSilly Symphony - The skeleton dance (1929)
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Modern Mummies: 10 Surprising Personalities Who...
Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, mummified in his Moscow mausoleum. Picture by Donmatas1.
The ancient Egyptians weren’t the only ones that mummified their dead for the sake of posterity. In more modern times, there have been multiple examples of mummification, using a range of weird and wonderful techniques from simple embalming to submerging the cadaver in a chemical-filled...
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Hackers, Hippies, and the Techno-Spiritualities of...
I had the pleasure of hanging out with Dutch anthropologist Dorien Zandbergen (PhD, Anthropology, Leiden University) in Sweden in October at an ESF Research Conference and learning about her fascinating research into the convergence of new age spirituality and new media discourses in and around Silicon Valley. I loved the idea of a Dutch anthropologist studying me and my friends in the...
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all...”
– Edward Said (via cultureofresistance)
Always remember.
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Interactive Human Lineage Timeline →
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Sophisticated stone tools and piles of bones...
A collection of delicate stone tools discovered on California’s Channel Islands indicates that early humans in the Americas were hunting local waterfowl some 11,200 to 12,200 years ago.
“The points we are finding are extraordinary,” Jon Erlandson, director of the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, who has been working on the islands for decades, said...
