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The Eccentric and the Asshole   A note on the Freeman / Mead controversy Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman One of the “joys” of ...

Kissing Cousins Kanzi, his Language Board and Susan One of the most interesting relationships that humans have with the world th...

New Guinea Growth within Limits Farms: Highlands New Guinea In the 1920’s when people began to explore the interior of the isla...

The Killer Ape Part II The Fossil Evidence     Australopithecines at Home In a previous posting I discussed the idea of man bei...

The Aztec Writing system Something New in Something Old Two generations ago a great many Archaeologists / Anthropologists and Histori...

Original Sin Redux The Killer Ape Theory Part 1 Scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey One of the most delicious of intellectual...

The End and the Maya Mayan Glyphs     Well midnight on December 20th happened, it is now December 21st, and the world has not ended...

Carlos Castaneda and Anthropological Fraud Carlos Castaneda Cover on Time Magazine Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) was the author of various ...