Still flush from the news that modern humans are, in fact, partly descended from Neanderthals (SAME SPECIES, W00T!), I've been revisiting some of my favorite topics in paleoarchaeology (ostensibly because I still have that epic Master story to write where the Doctor's nemesis gets stranded in the Paleolithic whilst trying to fix his broke-ass ( Read more... )

Or, bookish post!  Where I blog about books!  Books I've actually read!

In order to recover from the woe-riffic emotional BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) I suffered this week, I lost myself in a couple of books that I had started reading eons ago and forgot to finish.  The first is called Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer.

( An epic mashup of Neanderthals and Causality! )

　I realize I've been liberally peppering my lj with posts about my various archaeology jobs. What can I say? They've been kind of consuming my life lately, what with all the state-hopping, people-meeting and hotel-living. It's a rather itinerant lifestyle to have, and it's played havoc with my free time and hobbies. So since it's kind of the ( Read more... )

"This is what the LORD says: "A cry of anguish is heard in Ramah--mourning and weeping unrestrained. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted--for her children are dead."  --Jeremiah 31:15

How else to put into words something like this?  If you don't want to click the link, this AP article reports on a seven-year-old Afghan girl who ( Read more... )