anthropology links 07.31.17
Throwing some links here until the blog goes back up. I let the blog die out a couple of weeks ago out mostly out of brokeness, partly out of depression. I've since deactivated Facebook as well. Only Twitter is running for the moment, but I've wrecked my timeline's algorithm thoroughly with liking too many anti-capitalist tweets. It's nearly impossible to spot anything else of interest outside that topic now. However, links to fun stories still keep accumulating. The absence of Orbis Quintus is eating at me. That searchable database has been far too useful. It's almost certain it'll go back up next payday.
In saliva, clues to a 'ghost' species of ancient human. Archaic humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Mucin protein called MUC7. The split would have happened 1.5 to 2 million years ago and the introgression as recently 150,000 thousand years ago.
Dog domestication happened just once. Split would have happened after domesitcation. Domestication could have occurred early, 20,000 to 40,000 years.
Archaeology shows there's more to millet than birdseed. The best bit is how Chinese farmers gave insight on how domestication of crops happened, with more thought to adapting to changing environmental conditions than to producing the greatest yields.
Archaeologists find key to tracking ancient wheat in frozen Bronze Age box. Swiss Alps. Alkylresorcinols.
Ancient DNA offers clues to the Canaanites’ fate. They're the modern Lebanese. DNA from 3,700-year-old remains of five Canaanites unearthed from Sidon.
