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Origin of Agriculture:

A word or two about tobacco, and some neat and new research

Category: Archaeology

Over the last few weeks I've run into a few misconceptions about tobacco, as well as some interesting news, so I thought I'd share. If you already know some of this, forgive me, not everyone else does. First, tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum, is a member of...

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The Origin of Wine

Category: Origin of Agriculture

With Julia spending the summer and most of the fall in The Republic of Georgia, I've been thinking about various political and historical aspects of that country, and one of the things that is claimed to be true is that wine was first invented there....

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Falsehood: "If this was the Stone Age, I'd be dead by now"

Category: Falsehoods II

It is generally thought that life expectancy in the past was less that it is today for our species as a whole and in the case of industrialized countries in particular. However, this belief counts as a falsehood not because it is untrue (it is,...

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Why do women shop and men hunt?

Category: Behavioral Biology

Or, when the hunting season is closed, watch teh game (the guys), or when there are no sales, admire each other's shoes (the gals)? This is, of course, a parody of the sociobiological, or in modern parlance, the "evolutionary psychology" argument linking behaviors that evolved...

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Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) III

Category: Falsehoods

This is the third of three parts of this particular falsehood. (Here is the previous part)...

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Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I

Category: Falsehoods

I'd like to offer a way of thinking about the difference between what we call "civilization" and what some people call "primitive cultures" that will be more useful and less falsehood-prone

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Explaining the Spread of Agriculture into Europe

Category: Archaeology

The practice of growing food and keeping livestock was invented numerous times throughout the world. One 'center' of agriculture is said to be the Middle East. Despite the fact that calling the Middle East a "center" in this context is a gross oversimplification, it is...

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Reading Human Nature

Category: Anthropology

A short list of foundational readings in ethnography for the Evolutionary Anthropologist.

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Unhealthy Diet in Ancient Near East

Category: Origin of Agriculture

This is an old story being resurrected wiht new data: Biblical diet 'unhealthy' A new study into the diet of ancient Israel has revealed that far from being 'the land of milk and honey', its inhabitants suffered from the lack of a balanced diet....

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The Fantastic Mystery of the Younger Dryas

Category: Anthropology

One of the most interesting and exciting stories in science is that of the Younger Dryas. The Younger Dryas was a climate event that had important effects on human history, and that has been reasonably linked to some of our most important cultural changes, and...

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