Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Human Evolution category.
Art on the Walls?
Filed in Archaeology, Human Evolution, March 15, 2009, 1:35 pmThe blog’s new banner is of a scene in Lascaux Cave, a complex of caverns painted with some of the most beautiful animal imagery of the Upper Paleolithic, as well as enigmatic geometric figures and a single possible human. The caves and their imagery were considered so important they were declared a UNESCO World Heritage [...]
Hawks on Humanity
Filed in Human Evolution, July 15, 2008, 3:36 pmI should really blog on other blogs more, because I read some things that I immediately admire a lot in some of the ones I frequent and that I think would benefit my two or three readers and the random people that find this site through a Google Images search for one of the pictures [...]
Review: Lucy’s Child, Don Johanson and James Shreeve
Filed in Archaeology, Book Reviews, Human Evolution, July 8, 2008, 5:36 pmThe Anthropoid Origins series is taking longer than I anticipated, largely because I’m lazy and rediscovered Civilization IV there briefly (ironically, while taking a break from working on my paper on Adapoid Theory), which destroyed a few days of my life. I’ve also made a few false starts at blog posts that never ended up [...]
Research Project?
Filed in Human Evolution, Rambling, April 25, 2008, 4:29 pmYet again, I’m contemplating embarking forth on a research project. Who knows how far this one will go, as my last… several… have died after I got overwhelmed by the preliminary reading. I do think this project has some distinct advantages, however: A) I now have access to the UT database at home on my [...]
Reaction Range
Filed in Human Evolution, Sociocultural Anthropology, April 4, 2008, 10:01 pmThis is a concept that reading Dennison’s Nash A Little Anthropology, 3rd ed has acquainted me with, and its extremely interesting. I don’t believe I’ve ever specifically considered it before.
Such a stoic.