Four Stone Hearth 40

Welcome one and all to Four Stone Hearth's fortieth edition, and rather than ponder on whether life begins at 40, or merely carries on from where it left off at 39, let's skip straight to the entries which comprise this issue...

John Hawks looks at a recent paper which discusses human population numbers, at 70 kya...

'Did humans face extinction 70,000 years ago?'

Some alarming news from Italy, via A Very Remote Period Indeed...

'Paglicci Cave in risk of collapse'

Whilst over at Afarensis we have...

Cichlids, Darwin's Finches and Paranthropus boisei


From Aardvarchaeology we have this...

The Strange Fate of the First Christian Burials at Gotland


No less than three essays from Neuroanthropology...

Face Recognition Training and Stereotyping

A Softer 'neo-Whorfianism'

Cease Fire: Violence Prevention and Why Gary Slutkin is an Anthropologist


Archaeoporn asks... Kfar HaHoresh, Mortuary Site?


Continuing in his series, 'Human Evolution on Trial', Terry Toohill has these two essays...

Human Star - Final Point

North to Alaska

The above were all submitted articles, and those that follow are a few I thought it worthwhile to include...

Archaeozoology...

Butchery of Fish


Over at Eternal Idol, one essay on Silbury Hill and another on Stonehenge...

Barbarians at the Gate

Merlin Has Risen From the Grave


Anthropology.net...

Applying Google Earth in Paleontological and Archaeological Research


Anthrosite...

Use-wear and Analysis of Auriganican Tools From South-west Germany: Hardy et al 2008


A Hot Cup of Joe...

Religion and the Imagination: Cue a John Lennon Song


North State Science...

Richard Colling: A Real Case of Being Expelled



The Archaeology Channel...

Preview of TAC Film Festival 2008


Kris Hirst has this...

Surviving: The Body of Evidence at Penn Museum


From Newark, Ohio comes this news...

The Great Circle Earthworks Museum in Heath Re-opens, (see also Newark Earthworks Day)


Which leads to a final one from me...


Newark Earthworks: A Brief Outline


Many thanks to everyone who kindly contributed to this 40th edition, and the next Four Stone Hearth will be two weeks from now, on May 21st over at Our Cultural World; there is still an ongoing need for prospective hosts after 4SH 42, which is slated for release on June 4th at Neuroanthropology.


All that remains for me to say is thanks for reading, and don't forget Pangea Day, this coming Saturday, May 10th.


image 'Urban Cave' by Daniel Dociu, who featured in this bldgblog article, 'Game/Space: an Interview with Daniel Dociu'