Human Origins—Explorations and Discussions in Anthropology, Biology, Archaeology, and Geology discussion

This is a folder that I envision could be useful, of interest, and even entertaining to many readers. This is the place to post discussion topics, pose questions, and/or post interesting journal articles and news items associated with human origins, anthropology, and archaeology. For example, I am going to post a series of fairly recent papers discussing the various models associated with the origins and evolution of human species and their subsequent dispersal around the planet.

Personally, I think it will be interesting to highlight and discuss some of the current debate that that exists within the scientific community associated with some of these concepts and ideas.

Christopher -- As you read in my intro, I'm a non-academic with lots of time in study of origins and migration theories, etc. I'm also a fiction novelist. While I wouldn't be so crass as to fill up these folders with "buy my book spam" I'd like to recommend two of my books to members who have time for pleasure reading. They both involve issues that members would hopefully find interesting and thought-provoking. How would you recommend I do this, or should I not make these recommendations?

double header on many PBS stations this weekend - "Decoding Neanderthals" and "Caveman Cold Case" - see http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/t...

the second show looks at Neanderthals in northern Spain - right around where I situated my Neanderthal story in my 1999 novel, The Silk Code - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0091W43JW - which, coincidentally, also has the word "code" ...

Cool. I have Silk Code and its on the list. Looking forward to reading it since I was just in Northern Spain in caves where some of the oldest cave art has been found. It's possible that some of the artwork was created by Neanderthals (new finding). Congrats!

Thanks! Did you take any photos? (Are you allowed to do that?)

I took some, but the photographer on the project is the expert. When I get a chance I'm planning to sift through the images I have and share a few on my blog on my site. chipwalter.com. I'll post here and elsewhere about it.

Excellent!