Tag Archives: anthropology

Could a tiny skull unearthed in Indonesia have come from a Hobbit-like race of ancient humans?

French-Canadian kids doing anthropology in the midst of our broken future, contending with the vague stirrings of paleotechnology. Video after the jump.

A new thesis puts the explanation for the sudden appearance of sophisticated late-prehistoric coastal settlements underwater�in the Persian Gulf, to be specific, which up to 7,500 years ago would have been a vast oasis in the midst of the arid ice ages.

Deadly cactus frond? Extinct creature of the deep? Answer after the jump.