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Comment on The World until Yesterday vs The Foraging Spectrum by The Foraging Spectrum - and a spectrum of anthropology blogs | Anthropology Report

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:04:25 +0000

[...] The World until Yesterday vs The Foraging Spectrum, Megan M. McCullen Last night I pulled out my copy of The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways (1995), by Robert Kelly, and started re-reading it. I’m still in the first chapter, but as always, the book engages me. I’m wondering if others have read it, and what they think of it? What I love about this book is that it takes all of the assumptions you’ve heard about forager homogeneity and tests them, rather than accept them. By showing the variety of lifeways of hunter-gatherers around the world in the past 100 years, Kelly shows how extremely DIFFERENT they are from one another, leading the reader to recognize the problems with using modern hunter-gatherers as cultural correlates for the vast cultures of our human past. If we can have so many diverse lifeways today, think of all the potential variability in social organization, religion, economic systems, and family structure we may have had over the course of the history of our species. [...]

Comment on The World until Yesterday vs The Foraging Spectrum by Megan M.

Megan M. — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:55:00 +0000

Ah, thanks for the link! I’d missed this the first time around.

Comment on The World until Yesterday vs The Foraging Spectrum by John Taylor-Montoya, Ph.D.

John Taylor-Montoya, Ph.D. — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:57:48 +0000

Good discussion. I tried to direct Horgan and other Diamond champions to a similar post on my blog http://culturematerial.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/contemporary-hunter-gatherers-as-the-stone-age-other-1/

Comment on Plant domestication and my garden by Dawn W.

Dawn W. — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:15:43 +0000

I always get excited when volunteer plants pop up in the garden in odd places as a result of what’s been thrown in the compost. This year we have a random tomato plant, a few extra potatoes and one lonely stalk of corn. I told my daughter that plants growing in the compost was a possible origin of gardening and now she’s watching for suprises in the composter too.

Comment on Archaeology in Ontario by Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:44:43 +0000

I have enjoyed your blog immensely.
I have over the years done much research on the Petuns of 1650s an up to Wyandots.
It all started with my finding a stone with a drilled hole in it just inside the Meaford Ont. Canada line.We lived on a farm and i was gardening with my daughter an ching the tine brought up this stone it was found in 1993.the large hole was plugged with dirt an now i know sinew piece, which i threw away dumb! I asked allot of people what it was,no one knew so like all other strange shaped an color rocks i found there i kept.Few years passed an a little hole below the larger hole presented itself.So i really got intrigued so i google ,found a man by name of Ralph Salier.his credits all his life es on site.i told him of my finds an this large 2 holed stone sent pictures.his reply es its a Chiefs gorget.
I now know that the area had pre Crees years before the Petuns but the Petuns lived in my area the deer tribe,wolf tribe lived over a bit .
Ralph believes i have found a ( Petun) Wyandot Chiefs Gorget.
Ralph an i are are going to exchange where i found this an nearly 30 items i had found not realizing they were all native artifacts.
Reason i wrote you here is i have been trying to find Charlie Garrad email so as to tell him i think i stumbled on an old village or encampment just inside the Meaford area.Could u please help me.all other attempts tried i can never get to him.iI think Charlie would be interested in this an wait till he sees the area hell see why i say so.
thank you
vallencia58@yahoo.ca

Comment on More thoughts on X-men action figures and biological anthropology by Extending Anthropology - Anthropology Report | Anthropology Report

Extending Anthropology - Anthropology Report | Anthropology Report — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:30:58 +0000

[...] More thoughts on X-men action figures and biological anthropology, Megan M. McCullen Action figures can be used to help students understand the difference between a biological species and a fossil species. Great Lakes Ethnohistorian, 1 June 2012 [...]

Comment on More thoughts on X-men action figures and biological anthropology by Megan M.

Megan M. — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:27:37 +0000

er, LOCALES.

Comment on More thoughts on X-men action figures and biological anthropology by Megan M.

Megan M. — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:26:20 +0000

Will do. I’m assuming they address this, but my first thought on reading a summary that Euro-American head shape is changing was the fact that the locals that Euro-Americans are FROM has also changed over the last 100 + years. I would assume that English heads and Czech heads are shaped a little differently, so I want to see how much they took that type of sub-continental migration shift into account.

Comment on More thoughts on X-men action figures and biological anthropology by Jason Antrosio (@JasonAntrosio)

Jason Antrosio (@JasonAntrosio) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:27:42 +0000

Hi Megan,
Interesting post and thanks for the link! I have to update that page, and the new Jantz study on head size will certainly help. I hadn’t thought about comparing that back to Boas. Very helpful and please let me know what you end up thinking about it!
Best,
Jason

Comment on On the humanity (or lack thereof) of the X-Men by More thoughts on X-men action figures and biological anthropology | Great Lakes Ethnohistorian

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:39:22 +0000

[...] I made my post last week about using the X-Men to teach students about how we define humans AS humans, I was talking with [...]