Anthropology

A Different Kind Of First Contact

In 1930, in the Highlands of New Guinea, a group of Australian brothers looking for gold stumbled across thousands of Stone Age people who had no concept of the outside world. They happened to bring a movie camera.   And that's probably all I need to ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2009 - 5:19pm

Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Society Lacks Western Endowment Effect

Hadza tribes traded close to the expected rate, while Hadza tribes who had more contact with tourists ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2013 - 5:30am

Chicken DNA Suggests Polynesians Introduced Them To South America

potato throughout the Pacific often used as evidence of early trading contacts. “Similarly, Polynesians ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2008 - 1:33pm

Climate Change Led To The Spread Of Uralic Languages

to metal, and contact with others and resulting diversity promoted the rapid westward spread of ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2022 - 8:22am

Blame Global Warming On Christopher Columbus? Not So Fast

Southwest, first contact between native people and Europeans occurred in 1539," Liebmann said. "We ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2016 - 5:00pm

Native Americans Were Siberians First

surprising presence of Yersinia pestis, the plague-causing pathogen, points to further wide-ranging contacts ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2020 - 3:04pm

Neanderthals More Adaptable Than Believed

conclusion is that if the Uluzzian is a Neanderthal culture it suggests that contacts with modern humans are ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2010 - 7:14pm

Sex Change Surgery Makes Patients Happier, Despite Complications

can include moving to a new area.” Despite this, the research team managed to contact 70 of the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2007 - 11:36am

Ancient Andeans Modified Wild Tubers Into Potatoes, Then The Potatoes Modified Them Back

Andean highlands 7000 years BP though European contact', Science Advances 08 Nov 2018: Vol. 4, no. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2018 - 12:05pm

Did Vikings Bring Native Americans Back To Europe?

of  pre‐columbian  contact?  American  Journal  of  Physical  Anthropology,  DOI: 10.1002/AJPA.21419 ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 17 2010 - 4:33pm