Colour categories in a stone-age tribe
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The view that colour categories could be universal is not supported by research into colour categorization among the Berinmo, a hunter-gatherer tribe living on the upper reaches of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. Berinmo subjects used five basic colour terms when naming the 160 colours in the standard Munsell array. There was good intra-subject concordance in the range and boundaries of these terms. It seems that there is a substantial degree of linguistic influence on colour categorization, with place constraints on the type of neuron likely to underpin this influence.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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Evidence for stone age cranial surgery
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The skeleton of a man discovered in Sep 1996 at the stone age burial site of Ensisheim, France, provides evidence that cranial surgery was undertaken in the stone age. The skeleton, dated at between 5100 and 4900 BC, shows two trepanations, or surgically created holes in the skull. The anterior opening shows solid and full osseous restoration of the hole by bony healing, while the posterior opening is not completely healed. There is no doubt that these openings were the result of trepanation and were not caused in some other way, such as fracture or tumour.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Cranial surgery dates back to the Mesolithic
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Alt and colleagues have reported evidence for the existence of healed trepanations from Ensisheim, Alsace, dated to 5100 BC. There is also evidence that such surgery was undertaken at an even earlier date in eastern European during the preceding Mesolithic period. It is likely that similar finds will emerge in other areas, and accurate dating must be considered.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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