UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...pological Association (AAA) is the world's largest anthropological organization. A Bangor, Maine resident, Acheson has a joint appointment in the Anthropology Department and the School of Marine Sciences. He is also cooperating research professor with the university's Lobster Institute.He is an internationally recog...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2004
...sity of Tennessee researchers determine the age of anthropological finds. A Dosimetry Applications Research Calibration Laboratory team is using radiation testing equipment to date finds such as a bovid (horse or cow) tooth found near an ancient human tooth on the island of Java, Indonesia. By testing the bovid toot...Four tourist destinations named best worldwide
...perform on-site verification visits by scientific, anthropological and tourism professionals. "These winners are perfect examples of the way the travel and tourism industry should operate," said Her Majesty Queen Noor, the 2004 World Legacy Award Honorary Awards Committee Chair. "I am heartened by their example...Stanford study questions identity of alleged Romanov bones
... Knight, a senior scientist in the Stanford lab of anthropological sciences Assistant Professor Joanna Mountain, argues that previous DNA analyses of the purported Romanov remains - nine skeletons unearthed near Ekaterinburg in central Russia - are invalid. Knight and his colleagues base their claim on molecular and...54th Annual Arctic Science Conference highlights extreme events
...al warming. Crises will also be considered from an anthropological perspective, and science education outreach will be discussed. A concluding technical session will discuss how science and public policy work together in mitigating disasters. Special events include a public lecture by Dan O'Neill entitled "Nuclear E...Widespread cannibalism may have caused prehistoric prion disease epidemics, Science study suggests
...sis of fossilized human feces. "There is extensive anthropological evidence that cannibalism is not just some rarity that happened in New Guinea," Collinge said....Genetics may help solve mysteries of human evolution
...e years ago and why. Richard Klein, a professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford, has an explanation, albeit a controversial one: ''I think there was a biological change - a genetic mutation of some kind that promoted the fully modern ability to create and innovate.'' Klein will present his perspective Feb. 1...Three tourist experiences named best worldwide for environmental, social responsibility
...-site verification visits by a team of scientific, anthropological and tourism professionals. One winner was named in each category: Nature Travel, Heritage Tourism and Destination Stewardship. Applicants from more than 40 countries on six continents were considered for the Awards. "Tourism is like fire out of co...Ethiopian fossil skull indicates Homo erectus was single, widespread species 1 million years ago
...an." "What we are saying in this paper is that the anthropological splitting common today is giving the wrong impression about the biology of these early human ancestors," he said. "The different names indicate an apparent diversity that is not real. Homo erectus is a biologically successful organism, not a whole se...Cave men diets offer insights to today's health problems, study shows
...e proper mix of foods for modern man. Cordain says anthropological nutritionists such as himself have studied the few isolated hunter-gatherer societies such as the Nanamiut of Alaska, the Aborigines of Australia and the !Kung of Africa that remained into the 20th century and found that modern maladies, such as he...Monogamy appears to be unnatural in the natural world
...- Barash and Lipton point to numerous 20th Century anthropological and sociological studies of hunter-gatherer societies where monogamy is the overwhelming exception, not the rule. In the western world, they said, monogamy only ascended in the late Middle Ages and the Industrial Age. The rich and powerful gained th...Big bang theory of human evolution?
... remain unclear, but one certain finding from both anthropological and genetic data is that there was no later time when the size of the human species became small again," says Hawks. "So the 'Eve theory' of modern human origins, which states that modern human populations very recently arose as a new African specie......ptsfor the individual, society and humanity at the anthropological turning point in the lateAge of Enlightenment will look into the late phase of the Age of Enlightenment. By drawingon historical sources, historians, philosophers, political scientists as well as scholars ofRomance and Germanic languages and literatu...