January 2011
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Stone Pages →
I’ve been on the Stone Pages mailing list for a long time. Basically, what they do is collect as much archaeology/anthropology related news as possible and run it up in a weekly mail report. They do a lot of great work and put a lot of effort into it, so they’re worth checking out.
Science Tarot →
Got me a pack of these babies for secular solstice holiday from my astrophysicist. They are exactly what you think they are, and they work the exact same way(with no presuppositions about magic). My favourite card definitely has to be Carl Sagan: He’s the Queen of Wands/Storyteller. “A charismatic storyteller unites many such diverse qualities-warmth and criticism, strength and...
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Denisovians?
As per an article in the Economist reporting on a paper recently published in Nature, apparently Svante Pääbo et al, have discovered a possible subspecies of Pleistocene human in Siberia. There’s a pinky finger and a tooth. They’re being labelled Denisovians and the bones are roughly 30,000 years old. The interesting thing is that genetic data tells us they are as distinct from...
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Blog Banner Art
Here is my attempt at making a logo/banner for the blog. I got the font from Free Font.skinz and the animal is one of Chauvet’s bisons.
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Prehistoric Pets
Recently some graves were discovered which contained the remains of a man, woman and fox. Some of the bones of the man and the fox had been moved to another adjacent grave. These graves are about 16,000 years old and located in Uyun-al-Hammam, Jordan. This is one of the earliest cases of possible proof of human’s keeping pets. Researchers from the University of Cambridge suspect this could...
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Possibilities in Early Human Migration
This could be big news. Katherine Harmon reports: “After finding a trove of Paleolithic stone tools in what is today the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), a team of researchers now proposes that just such a pivotal journey across what is now the Red Sea occurred at least 125,000 years ago—about 75,000 years after Homo sapiens are thought to have evolved and tens of thousands of years earlier...
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under archaeology,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #archaeology, #science, #art
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Science Art
Should be non-brewtonian. I am well aware. There was no alliteration. It’s the logo header for a mock diner-menu I’m doing up for a science themed birthday party.
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Land of the Painted Caves?
So, Jean M. Auel’s final book in the Earth’s Children series is finally coming out in March. Her books are known for impeccable and in depth research into the upper palaeolithic period, but uhh, not so much for her wonderful narrating skills. I absolutely love prehistoric fiction(historic fiction is a close second), so I am looking forward to this. The excerpt, however, has me less...
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Of Hobbits and Baby-eating Storks
“When the discovery of those stork bones was reported last month, the British tabloids went carnivore-crazy. The headline writers assumed (why not?) these birds ate people. “Giant Stork ‘preyed on Flores hobbits,’” cried The Telegraph. “Stork that ate babies,” said The Independent “rather than delivering them.” The headlines suggested that...
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Map of scientific collaboration between... →
In the spirit of the well-circulated Facebook friendship map by Paul Butler, research analyst Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrix examines scientific collaboration around the world from 2005 to 2009
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26,000 Year Old Cave of "Madness" Rediscovered →
whilehighblog:
Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave
“There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground.
The trip is such that some archeologists think that it had a ritual nature, with people transcending into a new state as they descended into the final...
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“I think in the best case, religion gives people bad reasons to be good where...”
– Sam Harris - American author of the bestselling 2005 book “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason,” the second best book on religion on the market today. The threat the world faces, it argues, is not religious extremism - it is religion. (via helvetebrann)
Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use | OpenMedia.ca →
This means we’re looking at a future where ISPs will charge per byte, the way they do with smart phones. If we allow this to happen Canadians will have no choice but to pay MUCH more for less Internet. Big Telecom companies are obviously trying to gouge consumers, control the Internet market, and ensure that consumers continue to subscribe to their television services
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Public Outreach and Scientists
Just finished reading and doing a write up on an article entitled Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology: Communication and the Future of American Archaeology by Jeremy A. Sabloff. Basically the gist of the article is that archaeologists(well, scientists in general) need to expand on their public outreach in order to keep their relevance in the public conscious. We have an issue these days where the...
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Libor Balak
This is a reconstruction of the Sunghir Man done by Libor Bálák. A great artist By the way. From Don’s Maps: “The two adolescents and the adult male were buried in two shallow graves three metres apart, dug into the permafrost beneath the living surface of the site. All three of the corpses were laid on their backs with their hands folded across their pelvises. The fourth individual...
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Glenn Beck's Archaeological Conspiracies →
I suppose Glenn Beck forgot to tell you, he’s actually a trained archaeologist. He mixes in a lot of conspiracy theory with made up “facts” and baseless claims. I can’t tell if he is serious and actually has a personality disorder or if he is just a proponent of purposeful misinformation and a lack of intellectual integrity. He seems to be playing the part of the 19th...
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“The deluded, ignorant followers of Darwin believe that man is actually a type of...”
– Edward Current: http://www.youtube.com/user/EdwardCurrent
Rare Discovery of Intact Tomb: German... →
“German archeologists have unearthed a 2,600-year-old Celtic tomb containing a treasure of jewellery made of gold, amber and bronze.” I’m interested in what inferences they could possibly make about the culture this aristocratic woman came from. Really though, I’d ideally like to see some more peasant graves.
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What is the solutrean toolkit?
What is this blog even for? To put it simply, it’s my sharing of the experience of utter awe and wonder one can get from just one peak into the scale of our universe and species. I want others to find it. The more complex answer comes from the title of the blog, The Solutrean Toolkit. Essentially, I plan to build myself an upper palaeolithic “toolkit” if you will, using the same...
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Art in Awe of Science, Glendon Mellow →
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Onwards blitzen by *stressedjenny →
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Amelia Earhart's Finger →
The riddle of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance has only grown more complex in the 73 years since the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic went missing attempting to fly around the equator. […] But now an array of artefacts from the 1930s and bones found on the uninhabited Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro suggest that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, endured lingering deaths as...
Seventy boxes of broken pottery →
An article by Dr. Lynne Sebastian on how pop culture views archaeologists. Get wit it.
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Wonder
In my hands, I’ve held the volcanic stone of incomprehensible ages. A stone delicately carved by ancient human hands, carved with loving care and well hewn and perfected prowess. A stone that tells many stories about who we are, where we are from. This story has chronicled the moment of its birth from the primordial eruption of a volcano, to the hands of ancient man, to the years and dirt...
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face to face with the eyes of another kind of man
“Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway,...”
– Wolfgang Pauli
(via scienceisbeauty)
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“…trying to discredit evolutionary biology by discrediting Darwin,...”
– From Rzinz TL;DR Tumblr: http://rzinz.tumblr.com/
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The Humanities →
I’m very interested in the humanities, particularly archaeology, which is my profession. But I have no interest in TV game shows, even though I know that they’re extremely popular. Why is that?
A cultural idealist will reply that it’s because I have good taste: historical humanities are inherently and objectively more interesting and worthwhile than TV game shows. But...
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Flickr Set →
scienceissexy:
Here’s a Flickr set of a bunch of very handsome scientists and engineers. Head over to Flickr and give them some love.
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Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2010 | NCSE →
Those crafty creationists just won’t let up. Since they can’t get their way in the courts or state legislatures, their new tactic is to attack the curriculum itself, from science standards to textbooks, forcing teachers to teach science the creationist way. I’m really tired of this whole deal. Why can’t they just shut the eff up already?
Emperor of These United States →
A relatively modern-day tyrant. This man proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States.
“Why, it’s turtles all the way down!”
– popularized by Stephen Hawking
Moved from blogspot
Well. Moved from Blogspot. Sup dudes?