Anthropology Around the Web, Friday 2/17

Happy Friday and welcome to a long-weekend edition of Anthropology Around the Web.

Will 20,000-year-old huts in Jordan challenge the accepted narrative of the development of human dwelling? A new open-access paper from PLoS One has the details.

Some call 3rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson ‘the first anthropologist’ for the detailed inquiries into local lifeways made in his Notes on the State of Virginia. In honor of Presidents Day, read some of his ethnographic observations in this vintage issue of American Anthropologist

Throughout history, people have used votive offerings in the shape of various ailed body parts such as hearts, lungs and limbs to solicit supernatural aid. Biological anthropologist Kristina Killgrove (@bonegirlPHD on Twitter) takes a look at these stylized anatomical components in antiquity to see what they might have to say about the medical knowledge of the cultures which produced them