Anthropology

It would be madness today to think of farmers as wimpy- watching a 160 lb. kid throw a giant hay bale around does not make people think of weakness- but skeletally the invention of agriculture made us weak compared to foraging ancestors. As we shifted from ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2015 - 12:38pm

Migration To America: Canine Genetics Tell The Story

Dogs successfully migrated to the Americas about 10,000 years ago, according to a new study. That's a long time ago but still thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed the land bridge from Siberia to North America. Dogs have been asso ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 11:01am

Music Is Cross-Cultural, From Montreal To The Mbenzélé

Whether you are a a hipster in Montreal or a Pygmy in the Congolese rainforest, certain aspects of music will touch you the same way. That applies to scores we associates with very different films, and therefore tones, like Psycho, Star Wars, and Schindle ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 10:51am

Conform To The Norm And Video Games Might End Racism

Conformity is a bad thing, in media portrayals like Apple advertisements- yet then they have a lot of people who look a lot alike all standing in line to buy the latest iPhone. In reality, despite the claims of creative people who insist that only one bran ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2015 - 2:00pm

Ideological Claims Debunked: Poor Parents Are Not Less Involved With Kids Than Rich Ones

Some cultural pundits contend that income inequality is linked to parenting inequality but new findings dispute that. You don't have to be wealthy to be involved in your child's life, despite modern thinking, according to a new paper which finds ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2015 - 11:25am

Canine Cooperation Hypothesis: Thank The Social Skills Of Wolves For Dog-Human Cooperation

Most dogs and most humans get along well now and anthropological explanations are that selective selection is the reason; wolves that were not a threat were not killed and over time the agreeable ones got shelter and food. That cooperation has led to thous ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2015 - 11:43am

3 Million Years Ago, Pre-Humans May Have Used Hands Just Like Modern Humans

Social scientists believe that pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought. The authors say they have the first archaeological evidence for stone tool use amon ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2015 - 5:34pm

Good Health Is Part Of Native Culture- So Is Bad

Diabetes has been described as an epidemic of modern times so why does it affect aboriginal people more? Over the past several decades diabetes has become a prevalent health concern among Canada's First Nations communities, but it wasn't always ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2015 - 12:00pm

Modern Humans Colonized Europe And Asia 70,000 Years Ago

Modern humans date back only about 200,000 years. How did that turn into the population of the planet and the extinction of Neanderthals? We have to leave the world of science to speculate on that but physical evidence does provide some guideposts. Fossil ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2015 - 11:34am

Bowhunting As Neolithic Status Symbol

Bowhunting has made a big comeback in the 21st century. Suddenly women love it- and their inclination to shoot something up close and personal without getting their hands messy is reason enough not to provoke American women. But it won't be for food, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 11:54am