Woah, I know anthropology

Part 1: talking to someone who is not allowed to use any version of a symbolic language (no speaking, writing, or ASL).  The experiment proved to be a difficult situation for both parties involved that much was certain. The real problem was that we didn't plan on what to talk about in the beginning of the conversation once we started, but I was able to steer it at the start. My partner for the conversation experiment was able to understand what exactly I wanted to talk about, although the entire process envoled a bunch of trials and errors. To explain, I wanted to begin a conversation exploring a specific component inside his phone, and the process to even get there involved my partner focusing and figuring out what I was getting across  based on what I was pointing at and the body gestures I gave. It was mostly my partner figuring what I was communicating by being patient and attempted. As a result of this, I was in control of the flow of the conversations topics. Althou...

  In February of 1912, an amateur British archaeologist named Charles Dawson committed one of the most infamous hoax in modern scientific history. Dawson would make write  to London's Natural History Museum claiming that he had found fossils that indicated a common ancestor between human and apes, and to the excitement of the the British society, it was found in Sussex, in a little village called Piltdown. Dawson would then be aided by Arthur Smith Woodward, an establish figure of the Natural History Museum, and Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a french paleontologist. The trio would find more "fossils" that gave evidence of early man living in England, and by 1915 a year before Dawson's death, they had been able to avoid the few skeptics they had with their "evidence" until 1953. With new innovation in fossil dating through fluoride measurements finally disproving the hoax, it also revealed the unfortunate truth that scientific focus, time, and resource w...