Redux: Let Sleeping Neanderthals Lie

This post was originally posted on 8/12/2010, so probably not everybody’s already read it and it’s  really nice.   I (Ann speaking) love Heather’s first story here, and I love her second one.  I love the idea of people saying, “Come warm yourself by our fire.” Last summer, while roaming around Ecuador on a magazine […]

The Secrets in a Neanderthal’s Smile

Every time I see a new scientific paper bearing the name of Dolores Piperno, I sit up and pay very close attention. Piperno is a force to contend with in the world of archaeology, a researcher whose work is so unconventional and yet so rigorous that she has won over a small legion of skeptics […]