The Donner Party and Cannibalism: The Research Continues

I haven’t forgot about Australopithecus sediba – I just got carried away on the osteology and am rewriting the post. In the meantime I wanted to mention some research on a subject that I have written about previously namely, cannibalism and the Donner Party.

Can’t Get Enough Australopithecus sediba

I’ll have something up tonight, but in the meantime Jim Kidder has a ton of articles on the subject. Check them out. Also Zimmer, Hawks, and Laelaps

Begging for an article

I hate to be a chronic beggar, but can someone send me a copy of the article below:

Some Random Thoughts About Australopithecus sediba

I am going to be very busy today so I won’t get an in depth post up on Australopithecus sediba until tomorrow. In the meantime three items jumped out at me so I thought I would, briefly, mention them.

Australopithecus sediba: Was the Embargo Broken

I will have more to say about the find itself this evening (hopefully), in the meantime time there have been more than a few accusations of someone breaking the embargo on the story. Ivan Oransky at Embargo Watch looks at the issue. Turns out it was a case of a reporter doing some interesting detective [...]

Blog Roll Update

I’m going to be working on my blog roll this weekend and if you know of any blogs I’m missing in the science/biology/anthropology area leave a link in comments. I should also mention that I am also responsible for the links at The Panda’s Thumb so if you see anything missing there as well leave [...]

Illinois Archaeology Video

This video from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency is pretty cool! Here is the description: This short, narrated video shows the discovery and investigation of a one-thousand-year-old Native American village in what is now East St. Louis, Illinois. The video graphically demonstrates why archaeological investigations are performed and what we can learn from these investigations [...]

New Hominins

Science is making the papers on the newly discovered hominins, named Australopithecus sediba open access. They can be found here. I’ll have more to say on them this evening.

Count The Wrong! Nelson and Ontogenetic Depth

Looks like we won’t have Paul Nelson to kick around anymore! He seems to be trying to make good on his promise to provide details on ontogenetic depth. I know, I’m shocked too, but, well, there it is. Says Paul: Rather, building animals de novo by known biological (evolutionary) processes is an evolutionary problem. Common [...]

Ling Bua? I Thought it was Taung.

I think the title of my post says it all

Interesting Science Picture: Part VII

While we wait for the Science article with the South African hominins, I thought I would mention that other interesting finds have come from Sterkfontein.

Works of Caroline Tennant-Kelly Rediscovered

PhysOrg.Com has an interesting item on the rediscovery of some of the anthropological works of Caroline Tennant-Kelly: Mrs Tennant-Kelly’s work as an anthropologist spans from 1932 to 1970. The collection details daily Aboriginal life at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland in 1934. In the late 1930s she also worked at Aboriginal settlements in New South [...]