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Most of us haven’t read both the Bible and the Koran cover to cover, let alone dissected each word of text. Now, with a new online program called bibleQuran, users can compare the number of times key words appear in each of the holy books, with surprising results.
Egypt’s antiquities authority closed the largest of the Giza pyramids Friday following rumors that groups would try to hold spiritual ceremonies on the site at 11:11 A.M. on Nov. 11, 2011.
Enough said….
A recent geology field trip from the university field class.
1. We get a little dirty.
2. We’re not afraid of getting sweaty.
3. We’re used to working on our knees.
4. We’re good with our hands.
5. We pay attention to detail.
6. We have the tools and know how to use them.
7. We’re willing to explore different dating methods.
8. We do our research and plan accordingly.
9. We lick things in the field.
10. We handle delicate objects with care!
The Lovers of Valdaro.
Believed to be no older than twenty years of age when their deaths occurred,they are over 5,000 years old; forever locked in an eternal embrace.
Tragically, their story is unknown. Ironically, they were found in the city of Mantua, Italy. The city Shakespeare chose to set the story of Romeo & Juliet.
An excavation has revealed a fortified early medieval settlement and unearthed significant artefacts which position a tiny Scottish village as a seat of major political power and influence.
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The Food At Our Feet: Why is Foraging All the Rage?
I spent the summer foraging, like an early hominid with clothes. It didn’t matter that the first thing I learned about that daunting pastime of hunter-gatherers and visionary chefs was that nature’s bounty is a thorny gift. Thorny, or, if you prefer, spiny, prickly, buggy, sticky, slimy, muddy, and, occasionally, so toxic that one of the books I consulted for my summer forays carried a disclaimer absolving the publisher of responsibility should I happen to end up in the hospital or, worse, in the ground, moldering next to the Amanita phalloides that I’d mistaken for a porcini. I was not deterred.
- Jane Kramer examines the pursuit of wild food w/ René Redzepi, of Copenhagen’s Noma, “the best restaurant in the world”: http://nyr.kr/rNPHY0
To me, anthropology is more than the systematic study of human behavior and material culture as it pertains to past, present and future cultures. To elaborate, for me, anthropology is a way of life; always seeking to learn, exposing the unknown, enlightenment, insight, and the tolerance of all people.
BLUFFTON, Texas — Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later.
Now, the cracked marble tombstone engraved with the date Oct. 15, 1882, which is normally covered by 20 to 30 feet of water, has been eerily exposed as a yearlong drought shrinks one of Texas’ largest lakes.
Across the state, receding lakes have revealed a prehistoric skull, ancient tools, fossils and a small cemetery that appears to contain the graves of freed slaves. Some of the discoveries have attracted interest from local historians, and looters also have scavenged for pieces of history. More than two dozen looters have been arrested at one site
To read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/texas-drought-ghost-towns-graves_n_1104563.html
Sami Herder, Scandinavia
Photo: Erika LarsenCone-shaped tents called lavut provide temporary shelter for Sami herders while following the reindeer. Nils Peder Gaup, resting here on the tundra, feels most at home in the mountains. “The Sami spirit follows you,” he says.
This submission is made as part of my open letter to anthropology students from the business world
PUT ‘EM IN ANTHRO! AMEN!
Oh, you clever fox, how you slay me.
“SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED”-Ba’hahaha
Southern Discomfort: Fighting an HIV/AIDS epidemic that’s raging across the southern United States.
Can AIDS Be Cured?: Discussion of an endgame has been creeping back over the past few years.
Things That Went Bump in the Night: A grieving mother hangs on for a haunting from her child born with AIDS.
At least that’s according to a German expert who says his decoding of a Mayan tablet with a reference to a 2012 date denotes a transition to a new era and not a possible end of the world as others have read it.
The interpretation of the hieroglyphs by Sven Gronemeyer of La Trobe University in Australia was presented for the first time Wednesday at the archaeological site of Palenque in southern Mexico.
His comments came less than a week after Mexico’s archaeology institute acknowledged there was a second reference to the 2012 date in Mayan inscriptions, touching of another round of talk about whether it predicts the end of the world.
