On-Line Resources

[Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.)]

This is the place to post links to your favorite on-line resources with information and data associated with human origins, paleoanthropology, archaeology, and so forth. These on-line resources can include blogs, on-line journals, institutional websites, etc.

[Nate]

Christopher, thanks for creating this group. I'm extremely interested in human origins and have already added a book to read from your recommendations. While I don't always have as much time as I'd like to read, I spend some time online every week with my kids aged, 8,6, and 4 to share with them human origins information. I want them to understand the diversity and complexity of human history.
Here are some of our favorite sites: http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/h...

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/perma...

http://elucy.org/compant.html

[Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.)]

Nate wrote: "Christopher, thanks for creating this group. I'm extremely interested in human origins and have already added a book to read from your recommendations. While I don't always have as much time as I'd..."

Nate, it is delightful to have you on-board, and I look forward to getting to know you better. I am glad that you found the group and think that it might be fun and educational for you and your family. That was the intent.

Thanks for posting the links too. I am familiar with both Tattersal's AMNH webpage and the superb Smithsonian site, and meant to post both of those. The UT eLucy site is way cool and I look forward to spending some time looking at that more closely. I may post that link in the "Australopiths" folder here too. Again, thanks for posting these, and we'll see you soon. Cheers! Chris

[Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.)]

For those who are interested in the "peopling of the Americas", there is a terrific website maintained by the "Center for the Study of the First Americans" at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

From the Center's website, the mission is the following:

The Center for the Study of the First Americans explores the questions surrounding the peopling of the Americas. The Center pursues research, education, and public outreach.

Research: The Center develops new knowledge regarding PaleoAmerican origins, human dispersal, settlement, and cultural and biological development that occurred during the late Pleistocene.

Education: The Center trains students who will go on to continue First Americans research.

Outreach: The Center disseminates the results of academic research about the first Americans to the general public through our publications.

There's some really great information posted on the Center's webpage at http://www.centerfirstamericans.com/

I have posted some links to some fascinating technical papers by Center researchers about the First Americans in the "Specific Topics in Human Origins--Human Origins-The Peopling of the Americas" folder. Go have a look if you're interested.

[B.]

I write a blog that is focused on deep time and the totality of modern human experience, from the Aurignacian to the present and beyond.

I am especially interested in mythology and religion, and the changing relationship to ourselves, each other, society, and the planet.

I am heavily influenced by Joseph Campbell. Marija Gimbutas, and Robert Graves, as well as Colin Renfrew, Karen Armstrong, and David Lewis-Williams.

You can find my blog here: http://gravettiangoddess.com/

I would love to hear your feedback on the site. Thanks.