Monday, February 13, 2023

Art, resistance, and culture change

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Petitions, boycotts, strikes, emigration, terrorism, assassination. People have used a wide variety of violent and non-violent means to resi...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Another look at the "deliberate body disposal" hypothesis in Rising Star Cave

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The recovery of over a thousand human fossils from  Rising Star Cave in South Africa has ignited debate among paleoanthropologists over the...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Sabertooth cats and early humans

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It's been over two years (!) since I travelled down with my colleagues Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, and Enrique Baqueda...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Social networks at the end of the Ice Age

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Humans are in many ways defined by their social interactions with others. Think about it: much of what we do hinges on peoples’ use of socia...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Cut marks, saw marks, and forensic anthropology

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Human skeletal remains are not a common occurrence at forensic scenes but, when present, they can preserve a great deal of information about...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Peccaries and sabertooths

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I spent my spring break down in Florida--not at the beach, but at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. The draw? Sabertoo...
Friday, December 27, 2019

Bodies, race, and the history of anthropology

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Another overdue post from our visit to Spain this past spring... The  Museo Nacional de Antropología  in Madrid has a fascinating history...