Anthropology

ON THE ROAD

Thurston Moore performs live to Street

Steel Yourself for Leviathan, A Watery Knockout

Sea legs

A Tribe Called Red+DJ Ayres

Alberta Cross

AMERICAN IDOL

The quest for gold 
never gets old

Chimpanzee

Scientists Decode the Complete Genome of Extinct Human Race, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Jurassic Park

The Leipzig team of genetic scientists has announced that it was able to completely decode the genome of an extinct species of humans, the Denisova, using DNA extracted from a single 10-milligram bone fragment of a 50,000-year-old skeleton. The skeleton was found in Southern Siberia in 2010, and cam ... More >>

LAMA VS. YETI

Visit Tibet on the comics page

Forest of Bliss

Deep Hearts

On the Road with Jane Goodall, Planet Saver, in Jane's Journey

Traces of a 19th-Century Village Have Been Excavated in Central Park

​Think about this when you're relaxing in Central Park over the weekend: An entire community once lived there, with homes and several churches and at least one school, right in the park (before it was the park). We're talking about Seneca Village, a largely African-American community of some 2 ... More >>

Dennis Pogue Gives Us a History Lesson That Involves Making George Washington's Whiskey

(This is not Dennis Pogue.)​Whiskey is as American as apple pie. At least that's what Dennis Pogue, chief archaeologist at Mount Vernon, would have you believe. Over the last several years, he's spent much of his time making George Washington's whiskey (our first president was a distiller, in ... More >>

Easter Island Statue Mystery Solved?

via Alex Grechman​A new book challenges the previously accepted theory about how the giant stone statues on Easter Island, or "moai," came to be. The inhabitants of the island when Dutch explorers visited in 1722 were thought to be too impoverished and meek to carve and move the moai. An advan ... More >>

Study Abroad, At Home

For New York archaeology students, a planned semester studying ruins in Egypt turned into a round trip back to Manhattan

Human Penises Used to Have Spikes, Wait, Used to Have?

One of them has a spine-covered penis​Researchers have discovered the molecular workings that caused human penises to evolve and shed their prickly spines, which chimps and some other animals still have to this day. Scientific American describes how Stanford scientists went through the DNA seq ... More >>

Okonomiyaki, Your Osakan Flapjacks at Otafuku

Victoria BekiempisNo longer for the damn Buddhist elite!​ The simple pancake, according to archeologists (and random web pages), has a lengthy history. The ubiquitous quickbread can supposedly be traced far back in the human fossil record, owing to the dish's simplicity and high nutrient cont ... More >>

Walking Gorilla Heralds Imminent Human Obsolescence

We're through.

Today in Ice Age News: New Woolly Mammoths in the Works, Neanderthals Ugly

He's back!​The Telegraph has your pressing, timely Ice Age news covered this week. Not only could new woolly mammoths be cloned in four to five years, but new research shows that Neanderthals were not ugly because of the cold, but just because they were ugly.

Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish

HISTORY LESSON

Jerry Seinfeld directs Colin Quinn's solo show

Visiting the Nostalgia King: Joe Franklin, I Love You

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 9, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 28 Visiting the Nostalgia King: Joe Franklin, I Love You By Jonathan Black I am a Joe Franklin fan. Oh, I know what you're thinking. Joe is no star. Joe is nobody's plum. Maybe you've never even heard of Joe ... More >>

THIS SHIP HAS SAILED

And it still has life more than 200 years later

Rite of Spring

Sherlock Jr.

'Numero's Eccentric Soul Revue'

"Monkeys in Mourning" Photo Lifts Our Spirits

​The New York Post tells us this lovely Monica Szczupide photo shows "more than a dozen grief-stricken chimpanzees joined in an extraordinary expression of mourning as an elder in their family was laid to rest at a West African animal sanctuary." Yes, very touching, circle of life and all that ... More >>

Harvard Professor Finds That Barbecue Is to Thank for Human Evolution

TheBusyBrain/flickr​Bloomberg today has a fun interview with Richard Wrangham, a Harvard primatologist whose new book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, posits that it was learning to cook, not tools or agriculture, that sped up human evolution. Cooking, Wrangham explains, made food so ... More >>

Damp Yankees of Artifacts of Consequence

A flooded civilization's survivors try to plug on

What's Happening This Week

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! This week, we bring you an ancient feast and a good ol' fashioned crawdad boil. Capitale Executive Chef Jason Munger has teamed up with the Archaeological Inst ... More >>

Why the Mormons Hate the Gays

Tuya's Marriage

More clinical than poetic

Recommendations

Taryn Simon's Hymenoplasty, John Bradford, and Joseph Cornell

Lucky King Kong Is Digital

Activists say all Hollywood apes should be

Close-Up

Theater

The Abominable Snowman

Plus housing in Warsaw and the thump thump of oral history's heart

The Whistle-Blower at the Art Party

A Curator Takes on His Museum

Vinyl Mania

Dario Robleto's Witty Substance Abuse

Rumble in the Jungle

The Strange Case of the Gentle Tasaday

The High Cost of Loving

Chimp Change

Misguided Tour

Only Connect

Renée Green Sparks the New Global Conversation

Fossils in the Blood

Scientists Find Ancient DNA in Living Africans

Are We The World?

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

Letters

Part 4: The Virus, Past and Future

There Are Two AIDS Epidemics—and More May Be Coming

Global Village People

Dutch Treat

After Decades of Controversy, a Brooklyn Farmhouse Is Readied for Restoration