Via ScienceDaily: A new and astonishing chapter has been added to North American prehistory in regards to the first hunters and their hunt for the now extinct giant mammoth-like creatures -- the mastodons. [...] This new study concludes that the first-known hunters in North America can now be dated back at least 14,000 years.
This Friday the PUCP Humanities department will pay homage to linguist Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino, with a round table and the presentation of the book Estudios sobre lenguas andinas y amazónicas. Homenaje a Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino. Cerrón-Palomino's colleague Willem Adelaar has been appointed by the same university to an honorary professorship for his work on Andean linguistics.
Wednesday, 30 November, 2011 to Thursday, 1 December, 2011
The third Conference of the European Network for the Study of Andean Languages (Red Europea para el Estudio de las Lenguas Andinas, REELA) will be held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
There is no particular theme other than any research on Andean languages. The opening morning, though, will provide a general survey of Andean linguistics, as presented by a number of leading specialists in the field. For further details, please see the call for papers and other sections of this website.
This Friday the PUCP Humanities department will pay