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Scientists find cannibalism at American settlement in Jamestown
Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism. On Wednesday, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and...
Tags: Archaeology, Research, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Culture, Arts and Culture
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Pro-migrant caravan leaves Calexico for cross country trip
Staff Writer, Copy EditorHOLTVILLE – Blamed for everything from high rates of unemployment to crime, illegal immigration has increasingly been a concern for the public as well as public officials. Yet it isn’t exclusively an American or Mexican problem. “To...Tags: Washington, DC, Career and Workplace, Christianity, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights
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Guest column: Anthropologists should do a better job of promoting their field
Anthropology has been in the news quite a bit lately. The New York Times recently profiled Napoleon Chagnon on the eve of the publication of his memoir, "Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists."...Tags: Sports Illustrated, Archaeology, Culture, Arts and Culture, World Bank Group
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Going for a spin of Cal State
Almost before he had taken his last spin, there was a video posted on YouTube of Cal State University Chancellor Timothy P. White break dancing in front of hundreds of appreciative students at the Dominguez Hills campus. It follows the video of him...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Students, University of California, Riverside, University of California, Berkeley
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Pedro Ramirez Vazquez dies at 94; architect changed the face of Mexico City
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by designing a number of landmark modernist structures, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday. The cause was pneumonia, according to Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Architecture, Human Rights, Mexico City, Pneumonia
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Jonathan Gold quiz: Dead meat on a stick
Did civilization begin at the moment when the first human impaled a bit of meat on a twig and charred it over a lightning fire? Claude Lévi-Strauss had a theory about it, we are sure, but we haven't taken an anthropology class for a long, long time. At...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture
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Field Museum again offers its curators early retirement
The Field Museum is offering scientists early retirement packages for the third time in five years as the institution struggles to cope with flat revenues and a high debt burden. The offer was distributed Friday to 16 of the museum's 27 curators —...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Finance, Science, Field Museum of Natural History, Unemployment
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Archaeologists seek help finding Shawnee village in Clark County
A Shawnee village once located in Clark County remains all but lost to time, but state anthropologists hope landowners in the Indian Old Fields area will join in the hunt. The University of Kentucky’s Department of Anthropology and the Kentucky...
Tags: Archaeology, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Exhibit at Field Museum sheds light on Lascaux caves
“It's almost too beautiful,” said the first scientist to descend into the Lascaux caves, according to “Scenes From the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux,” an important and highly engaging new exhibit at the Field Museum....
Tags: Field Museum of Natural History, France, Tour Operations Industry, Landforms, Caves and Caverns
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Alex Karpovsky balances TV's 'Girls' with filmmaking
Alex Karpovsky plays one of the boys of "Girls," which will gear up for Season 3 shooting a couple of weeks after Season 2 ends March 17. Karpovsky is also an independent filmmaker, and his two latest films, the comedy "Red Flag" and thriller "Rubberneck,...
Tags: Celebrities, Movies, Film Festivals, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Ethan Coen
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Bondi seeks exhumation of bodies at Dozier school campus
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelAttorney General Pam Bondi has sought a court order that would allow Jackson County's medical examiner to search for and exhume human remains on the grounds of the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. Anthropologists from the... -
'Speedboat' By Renata Adler still flat-out races
Renata Adler's first novel, "Speedboat," published in 1976, is that kind of book. The kind you buy multiple copies of to push on friends, the kind you dog-ear and mark up until it could line a hamster cage. A talisman, a weapon, a touchstone. For me, this...
Tags: Authors, Culture, Paleontology, Arts and Culture, Chicago Tribune
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