Four Stone Hearth #36 at Afarensis

The 36th edition of the Four Stone Hearth anthropology blog carnival is up at Afarensis, so to read up on a number of anthropology and archaeology topics.

Here’s their mission:

The Fourth Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word. Here, anthropology is the study of humankind, throughout all times and places, focussing primarily on four lines of research:

• archaeology
• socio-cultural anthropology
• bio-physical anthropology
• linguistic anthropology

Zygote Games for children

Zygote Games has two entertaining and educational board games built around scientific facts:

• Bone Wars is based on the competition for fossils in the U.S. and the hijinks that ensued.

• Parasites Unleashed is a race based on the life cycle of parasites.

Total solar eclipse, 2006 in Turkey

This video clip of a total solar eclipse is popular on YouTube this week.

The evolution of grandmothering

Inkling is an online science magazine. One of their recent articles explains Kristen Hawkes’ grandmother hypothesis: “On the Origin of Grandmas.”