Anthropology

Renaissance Feminism: Women Fought Men Plenty – And Won

Modern feminists pooh-pooh their ancestors and assume because they didn't dress in bulky pantsuits, women were somehow meek and timid. Not at all.  A three-year study of the manuscripts compiled and written by one of Britain’s earliest known feminist ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2012 - 9:36pm

British Women Stand Head And Shoulders Above The French- Literally

British women no longer feel inferior next to sassy siren Spaniards or chic French women. They are taller- in heels, anyway. Brits sport a towering 3.3 inch heel on average.  3,792 women across five European countries (France, Germany, Spain, Denmark and ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2012 - 2:30am

Gender And Alcohol: Men Drink More After Divorce, Women While Married

In a long-term marriage,  men tend to drink less than they did while single. That's good.  But women drink more, say sociologists.  ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2012 - 4:34pm

Neolithic Dentistry In 4,500 B.C.

Dentistry has been around for almost long as people have had teeth go bad but evidence for dentistry is another matter entirely. We don't pull off an arm when it is sore so the first human to figure out that pulling something attached to the skull wou ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2012 - 12:00pm

Children's Television Has A Lot Of 'Social' Bullying, Says Journal

Children's television is 'problematic', according to a new paper in  the Journal of Communication. While there is no physical bullying in these shows, what the authors consider an 'alarming' amount contain  behaviors like cruel gos ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2012 - 9:00am

Like Being Human? Thank Meat

A skull fragment unearthed in Tanzania verifies that our ancient ancestors were eating meat at least 1,500,000 years ago and that can tell us something about the evolution of human physiology and brain development and why we wouldn't be where we are i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 4 2012 - 10:11am

Compassion Meditation Boosts Empathy, Say Anthropologists

Serial killers and recidivist criminals of all kinds lack empathy.  So do some people with poor social skills.  A compassion-based meditation program called  Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) was recently used to try and improve the ability to r ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 4 2012 - 11:30am

Aztec Imperialism's Impact On Mexico's Mitochondrial DNA

In 1428 AD, while  King Alfonso V was ordering Sicilian Jews into conversion sermons and  the Ottomans were consolidating in Europe, the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan formed the Triple Alliance, which became the Aztec empire and ruled ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2012 - 11:27am

Genocide, The Next Generation: The Redemptive Power Of 'Bearing Witness'

A universal approach to helping people who witnessed or experience genocide may be misguided, says an anthropologist. The experience of genocide as transmitted trauma may not be universal but in the fields of human rights and memory studies, giving testim ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2012 - 6:30am

Male Bias In Anthropology Conferences

Women scientists in primatology are poorly represented at symposia organized by men, but receive equal representation when symposia organizers are women or mixed groups, according to an analysis published in PLOS ONE.   The authors examined female partici ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2012 - 4:01am