Archaeologists unearth earliest evidence of body perforation in Türkiye
Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of body perforation dating back 11,000 years at the Boncuklu Tarla excavation site in southeastern Türkiye. This finding, detailed in a study published in the journal Antiquity, represents the earliest known evidence of body piercing in Southwest Asia...
"Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation within lava tubes for the first time, in the deserts of northern Saudi Arabia."
@newscientist reports the "underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape."
AN EXPERT ON CARCERAL VIOLENCE and the system’s cruel injustices to poor and minority youth tells the story of a tragedy that happened in his own extended family—the loss of a bright, caring teen to imprisonment and then a gang-related murder. A MINUS
Tues April 23 18:30 (BST)
with #MarkJamieson
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'Shifts in kinship from matrilaterality to patrilaterality in a Miskitu village'
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online! Just turn up!
Mark Jamieson, Senior Lecturer at UEL, will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
We can now use the front door in Taviton St again!
You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
Earliest known stone tools in Ukraine are 1.4 million years old and were left by Europe’s first known humans
Archaeological excavations in western Ukraine have unveiled evidence of early human presence in Europe dating back 1.4 million years. The findings suggest that these early humans, likely Homo erectus or a related species, ventured far beyond their African origins...
The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs by Sabrina Sholts, 2024
Drawing on dozens of disciplines—from medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, and neuroscience—as well as a unique expertise in public education about pandemic risks, biological anthropologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tendencies that double as pandemic liabilities.
Abstract: The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other...
Tarini Monga joins one of the Imagination Walks in Panjim, Goa along salt pans and reflects on material interactions within marshy spaces. This short field note from her diary highlights thoughts around shifty matter, changing forms of ownership and systems of land use in Goa. Read more for a glimpse into how new questions emerge during a walk through the city: https://s-and.org/blog/the-city-s-salted-rim-a-walk-through-goan-salt-pans
Radical Anthro summer talks start up next
Tues April 16, 18:30 (BST)
with #ChrisKnight on
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online!
Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of 'Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture' is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW (the entrance may still be through the Archaeology Institute in Gordon Sq). You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
Chris will discuss myths of matriarchy, which are found all over the world. Is there any truth in the idea that women once exercised political power over men? Many feminists have dismissed such stories as ideological narratives invented simply to justify men's rule. Does biology prevent women from exercising real political power? Does sexism prevail everywhere? Has patriarchy always existed? He will discuss the ethnographic, archaeological and genetic evidence for and against these ideas.
I had this amazing discussion with Elizabeth Ferry on @newbooksnetwork about my Caribbean futurism scifi book, SORDIDEZ. We talked about being Anthropologists writing fiction, & the differences between scholarly + artistic styles of storytelling. I read a bit from the prologue and we also chatted about the peculiar naming conventions for Hurricanes. #scifibooks#anthropology#IndigenousFuturism#puertorico#taino#speculativeprose
"Since the 19th century, scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have obtained, studied, and stored more than 30,000 human remains, one of the largest such collections in the United States." A LOT of stolen bodies. #bioethics#anthropology
the only US citizens Americans should be taking protesting cues from are PUERTORRIQUEÑOS.
why? Puerto Rico is bound, muzzled & knee-capped by the USA constitution YET our people took to the streets, IN THE ISLAND & WORLDWIDE, and changed the government in 12 days of non-stop protests.
PROTESTS WORK.
so much so, USA media wants you to forget those 12 days of protests when writing of the global unrests of 2019.
WE ARE MORE AND WE HAVE NO FEAR;
somos más y no tenemos miedo.
I want a more current book on human evolution for freshman/sophomore college students to read that has the sensibilities of Chris Stringer's Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.
Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities#AcademicChatter#neoliberalism
.. discipline talks about the "wonders of anthropology". It really is a wonderful field! Adding here a🧵 on 8 reasons why the world needs #Anthropology. But really what I should have said: the world needs non-elite anthropologists and non-elite institutions teaching anthropology. It can't just be for the privileged at Oxbridge; it needs to be what we do at Goldsmiths - by and for everyone, especially those normally marginalised.
Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans (open access) (doi.org)
Abstract: The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other...