The Origins of the Evil Eye and Horticultural Fertility Cults?
Are certain ancient artifacts from West Asia evidence of the earliest horticulture related fertility rituals, and belief in the Evil Eye?Posted on July 13, 2008 1:14 PM • 8 Comments •
Greg Laden's Blog
Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff
Search this blog
Profile
My name is Greg Laden. You can find out about me here, contact me here, and for all the gory details, have a look at this...
Recent Posts
- Is McCain Even with Obama and Coleman Killing Franken in Minnesota?
- PZ Myers vs. The Cracker
- Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
- Ding Dong
- The New World Order
- Is the grass is greener on the other Knol?
- Carnivals
- First Test Tube Baby Born
- On line surveillance of emerging infectious disease?
- Blog Roll
Recent Comments
- Todd on Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
- Greg Laden on Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
- Dean on Ding Dong
- Mike Widner on Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
- Hotus on PZ Myers vs. The Cracker
- laurisa on PZ Myers vs. The Cracker
- Jeff Darcy. on Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
- laurisa on 24 hours of silence
- BJN on Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
- Mike Haubrich, FCD on Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
Archives
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
Blogroll
Archaeology:
Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival: The Fourth Of July Everything is Just Fine We've Got It Under Control In America Edition
(... makes me laugh .. ) The previous Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival was Four Stone Hearth Number 43, here, at Swedish Extravagaza. It was the Lard Edition. Go check it out. The home page for Four Stone Hearth is here. The next...Posted on July 4, 2008 12:58 PM • 0 Comments •
Pile On
Join Zuska and her commenters in a pile on regarding the Smithsonian Magazine's recent article on the archaeology of southern Africa. It's racist, it's sexist, and it's even anti-Neanderthal. (The article, not Zuska's post) Regarding the writing about the use of stone tool technology in...Posted on June 26, 2008 8:52 PM • 5 Comments •
Cursus, this cursus may be cursed!
A team led by University of Manchester archaeologist Professor Julian Thomas has dated the Greater Stonehenge Cursus at about 3,500 years BC - 500 years older than the circle itself. They were able to pinpoint its age after discovering an antler pick used to dig...Posted on June 14, 2008 6:04 PM • 1 Comments •
New Hominid Fossil from Tanzania
One of the most important evolutionary transitions in human prehistory was the rise of modern humans (Homo sapiens) from earlier hominids. A newly reported fossil from Tanzania provides an important new data point necessary to understand this transition....Posted on April 26, 2008 12:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Did sexist white males cause the extinction of the woolly mammoth, or was it climate change?
Ever since 3,599 years ago humans have been asking the question "Why did our furry elephant go extinct?" What caused the woolly mammoth's (not to be confused with the also-woolly mastodon) extinction? Climate warming in the Holocene might have driven the extinction of this cold-adapted...Posted on April 7, 2008 7:58 PM • 14 Comments •
Tower of London Lions
Two lion skulls found during excavations at the Tower of London originated in north-west Africa, genetic research suggests. The big cats, which were kept by royals during medieval times, have the same genetic make-up as the north African Barbary lion, a DNA study shows. Experts...Posted on March 25, 2008 5:33 PM • 0 Comments •
pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods
Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried tradegoods for thousands of miles all the way from modern-day Chile to western Mexico, according to new findings by MIT researchers in the Department of Materials...Posted on March 21, 2008 5:31 PM • 8 Comments •
Squat Toilets, Sexy People, and The Nature of the Internet
Coturnix, of A Blog Around The Clock, was puzzled to find that one of his blog posts ... How to use a Squat Toilet ... was receiving a record amount of attention from the internet, after languishing for nearly a year on his blog. His...Posted on March 19, 2008 6:51 PM • 16 Comments •
Colonization of the New World
There is a fairly new paper in PLoS on the colonization of the New World. It is the latest in a series of attempts to synthesize biogeography, climate change related paleoenvironmental reconstruction, genetics, and archaeology....Posted on March 6, 2008 3:09 PM • 9 Comments •
Previous
Next
