Anthropology

This work reframes Neanderthal demise as multifactorial with ecological pressures and cryptic but insidious genetics and the work bridges evolution, physiology and obstetrics. It posits PIEZO1 as a “speciation gene,” with echoes in modern reproductive health and may explain the scarcity of Neanderthal alleles in fertility-related genes and the absence »

A new study by Tina Lüdecke and colleagues provides a critical analysis of the dietary habits of Australopithecus at Sterkfontein Cave, challenging long-held assumptions about the role of meat consumption in hominin evolution. The research is based on a novel approach that utilizes nitrogen and carbon isotope analysis of tooth »

In early writing, words were not separated by spaces, a format known as scriptura continua. Scribes wrote without breaks between words, reflecting the way language was originally spoken. Just as we don’t pause between every word when we speak, early writers didn’t think to insert spaces between words when writing. »

Authors Pearl Connelly & Lynley Wallis Purchase:  Mitakoodi Traditional Medicinal Plant Uses of the Cloncurry Region can be purchased on-line Most photos are the copyright of Pearly Connelly & Lynley Wallis The country around Cloncurry comprises the traditional lands of the Mitakoodi People. In this book, Mitakoodi Elder Pearl Connelly teams »

This post does NOT contains images of deceased Australian Aboriginals – some Australian Aboriginal people find seeing the images and or hearing names of the deceased disturbing as it may disturb that person’s spirit. Australian Aboriginals were hunter gatherers surviving on “Bush Tucker” and photographs of traditional tribal groups in »

WARNING: This post contains images of deceased Australian Aboriginals – some Australian Aboriginal people find seeing the images and or hearing names of the deceased disturbing as it may disturb that person’s spirit. Australian Aboriginals were hunter gatherers surviving on “Bush Tucker” and photographs of traditional tribal groups in the »

Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 – 1933), Saturday 1 December 1923, page 19 By A. MESTON. Few people have any knowledge of the vast amount of works, reports, and papers that have been written on the anthropology, ethnology, and geological history of the aboriginals of Australia and Tasmania. Many of »

Queensland’s Early DaysBY C. Duncan LaidleyBrisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 – 1933), Saturday 27 October 1923, page 19 I find it most interesting to read the Brisbane Courier from 100 years ago on a Saturday morning. It brings into stark relief the modern world, that which remains much the same »

I find it most interesting to read the Brisbane Courier from 100 years ago on a Saturday morning. It brings into stark relief the modern world, that which remains much the same and that which has evolved beyond belief in such a short period of time. Here is a transcription »

Steve Jobs was and remains a most enigmatic individual, driven by product excellence, focused  to an obsessive degree but with little empathy for those around him.  Below is a is an interesting paper on Jobs, by Bert McBrayer, within the framework of the Big 5 Personality traits.  Bert concludes that »

The Storyline The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan has settled nearby a creek. It is their leader Kelab’s responsibility to be the keeper of the group’s holy shrine Tineka. While Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked. The members of the tribe are brutally murdered, »