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November 30, 2011

Echoes from the Past (Nov 30) - The oldest rock art and other stuff

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Again, in short notice, a lot of interesting stuff. Most notably the portrait of the largest bird ever but also a lot of new info on Neander...
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November 27, 2011

Neolithic Basque (and Catalan, and Aragonese) mtDNA

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Important correction (Nov 29): the two papers mentioned did test for coding region markers , unlike what I mentioned earlier. The correspond...
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Y-DNA of Basque diaspora in Western USA

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Hat tip to Jean for this finding. Laura Valverde et al., Y-STR variation in the Basque diaspora in the Western USA: evolutionary and forens...
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November 25, 2011

Open sea fishing in Timor 42,000 years ago

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Ancient Timorese fishing hooks A serious attention call today for all those who doubt that boating (or even mariner) skills of Paleolithi...
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November 24, 2011

Echoes from the Past (Nov 24)

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Another long list of interesting news and stuff that I will probably have to neglect dealing with more in depth: Archaic hominins Mundo ...
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Dog domesticated in SE Asia (claims new study)

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random SE Asian pariah dog ( source ) The authors describe this region as "Asia South of the Yangtze" (ASY) but I usually cal...
November 20, 2011

An Iberian criticism to 'Westward Ho!'

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The paper of Peter Rowley-Conwy, Westward Ho! , ( Current Anthropology 2011 , open access ) has become somewhat of a reference when discussi...
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