Socio-political context A detailed examination of the socio-political context of the development and expansion of forensic anthropology and archaeology is outside the aim of this paper. For a more detailed consideration of this subject see Cox [I]. That paper considers why so many UK-based anthropologists and archaeologists seek to extend the traditional parameters of their subject beyond the a...

Paleoanthropology emerged as a science during the late nineteenth century. The discovery of prehistoric artifacts in Pleistocene deposits soon led to the excavation of fossilized human bones. The archaeologists and geologists who unearthed them were primarily concerned with determining whether the human fossils and the artifacts found with them actually dated from the Pleistocene, thus offering...

south indian language, culture and civilization, dravidian civilization, is important for many of linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists. so, they are trying to find the origins of it. today, the scholars of civilizations try, however, to find any connection between dravidians culture and their own language and culture. so, they attempt to study in this field. it is clear that the cultur...

metopism had been observed as a genetic trait. recent studies have brought to light that it can get as an indicator of cranial pathology. an example of this pathology has been studied by this author on an iranian skeletal sample. the purpose of this paper is to provide basic information on the subject and thereby to create awareness among iranian anthropologists and archaeologists of this new l...

Background: For anthropologists and archaeologists, studying and theorizing about what pre-agricultural peoples ate has been of interest for many decades. In 1985, a physician and an anthropologist from Emory University published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine entitled " Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of Its Nature and Current Implications, " which brought the issue m...

Between 1900 and 1970, American archaeologists perceived themselves as second-class anthropologists because the archaeological record suggested little not already known ethnographically, archaeology served anthropology by testing ethnologically derived models of cultural evolution, the archaeological record was ethnologically incomplete as a result of poor preservation, and archaeologists used ...

Anthropologists and archaeologists have paid little attention to the origin of music and musicality — far less than for either language or ‘art’. While art has been seen as an index of cognitive complexity and language as an essential tool of communication, music has suffered from our perception that it is an epiphenomenal ‘leisure activity’, and archaeologically inaccessible to boot. Nothing c...

Even today the remarkable culture of the Kotoko city-states, located south of Lake Chad, impresses visitors. According to oral traditions collected by anthropologists, the founders of the city-states were the Sao from whom the Kotoko claim to descend.1 Archaeologists discovered that the beginning of settlement in the southern Chad Basin was linked to Mega Chad’s desiccation and dated this retre...