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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

anthropology

Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal assisting with DNA extraction and amplification at the National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir), November 2023. (Courtesy)
December 11, 2023, 2:32 am
Expert in ancient DNA and wildlife forensics helps identify Oct. 7 massacre victims
Hebrew University Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal uses her knowledge of difficult DNA extraction and physical anthropology as she volunteers at Abu Kabir
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Philanthropist Dan David, for whom the Dan David Prize is named, and which now is considered the largest history prize in the world (Courtesy Dan David Foundation)
September 15, 2021, 10:46 am
Dan David prize becomes largest history award in world
Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, endowment will give 9 scholars $300,000 apiece for achievements in study of human history
By Jessica Steinberg
Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist, visits with friends on a field trip to Bali, Indonesia, in 1957. (AP Photo)
February 21, 2020, 4:29 pm
How a 19th century progressive Jewish scientist’s ideas beat out racist eugenics
National Jewish Book Award-winner Charles King’s ‘Gods of the Upper Air’ tells how a cohort of women scholars helped Franz Boaz give birth to the field of anthropology
By Rich Tenorio
Liran Carmel of the Hebrew University reveals a 3D printed model of the face of prehistoric human species Denisovan during a press conference at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
December 8, 2019, 3:18 pm
Israeli reconstruction of ancient human face finalist for ‘Breakthrough of Year’
Hebrew University researchers’ genetic analysis of Denisovans, cousins to Neanderthals, one of four ‘people’s choice’ finalists for recognition by prestigious Science magazine
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and ToI Staff
A fossilized cranium of Australopithecus anamensis. (Undated, Dale Omori/Cleveland Museum of Natural History via AP)
August 29, 2019, 2:39 pm
Skull find of humans’ oldest-known ancestor may alter understanding of evolution
Discovery in Ethiopia of 3.8-million-year-old skull indicates some ancient hominid species may have coexisted
By Robbie COREY-BOULET
A 9,000-year-old stone mask discovered in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank in early 2018. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)
November 28, 2018, 1:15 pm
9,000-year-old mask from Hebron Hills sheds light on the dawn of agriculture
Archaeologists say rare stone artifact uncovered in southern West Bank was used in ancestor worship during a pivotal period in Neolithic culture
By ToI Staff
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany. (Neanderthal Museum)
August 23, 2018, 6:05 am
Mom was Neanderthal: Fossil shows mix of humankind’s cousins
Skeletal fragment from half-Neanderthal, half-Denisovan young girl suggests interbreeding between human species may have been more common than previously believed
By Frank Jordans
In this image made from video, the remains of the 42,000-year-old "Mungo Man" are unloaded and placed on the ground during a traditional ceremony in Lake Mungo, Australia, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)
November 17, 2017, 10:48 am
Oldest Australian human returned to 42,000-year-old grave
Mungo Man, found in 1974 under a dune alongside Lake Mungo in the Outback, lived to ripe old age of 50 and was mourned when he died
By AP
German-born American physicist Albert Einstein, 1946. (Central Press/Getty Images via JTA)
July 1, 2016, 5:54 am
German museum voters pass on Albert Einstein’s brain
Visitors pick soccer player’s noggin over famed scientist’s for giant walkthrough at Frankfurt science museum
By JTA
This undated picture provided by the Paliambela Excavation Project Archive, shows a human burial from the archaeological site of Paliambela in northern Greece. (K. Kotsakis, P. Halstead/Paliambela Excavation Project Archive via AP)
June 7, 2016, 2:59 am
Stone Age Aegean migrants brought farming to Europe
Genetic studies suggest agriculture was introduced to Europe by invaders, not by example, some 8,000 years ago
By Frank Jordans
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany. (Neanderthal Museum)
May 27, 2016, 7:06 am
Neanderthals explored deep caves, built stalagmite circles
Early hominids made underground structures by firelight, possibly for rituals, 176,500 years ago, according to finds in southwest France
By Pascale MOLLARD and Mariëtte Le Roux
And adult male leopard tortoise. (Wikipedia/Charlesjsharp/CC BY 3.0)
From the WebFebruary 2, 2016, 5:38 am
Some hunter-gatherers had a taste for tortoises, Israeli study says
Over 400,000 years ago, people living in what is now Israel enjoyed an unusual side dish: tortoises, The New York Times reports
Food anthropologist Sidney Mintz talks at Duke University in 2013 (screen capture: YouTube)
December 31, 2015, 8:30 pm
Sidney Mintz, father of ‘food anthropology,’ dies at 93
Yale and John Hopkins professor said his work was ‘aimed at understanding how world food habits are changing’
By AFP
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