“we have taken the decision to phase out Anthropology, Art History, Health & Social Care, Journalism, Music & Audio Technology, and Philosophy/Religious Studies.”
Large Copper Age necropolis unearthed in Northern Italy
Archaeologists in the town of San Giorgio Bigarello, near Mantua, have unearthed a vast necropolis dating back approximately 5,000 years to the Copper Age. This finding has stunned researchers both for the sheer number of tombs uncovered—22 in total—and the wealth of archaeological treasures within them...
Another paper taking issue with the trendy 'Woman the hunter' arguments. #Martin et al say:
'...we strongly disagree with a central premise that appears to motivate this scholarship: that the idea of evolved gendered subsistence activities derives largely from incorrect assumptions extrapolated from patriarchal norms today and/or rationalizations of “implicit male superiority” based solely on anatomical gender differences. Such claims are belied by extensive ethnographic and human behavioral ecology research across multiple extant foraging societies. These studies document the near universality of gendered divisions of labor, with women's large-scale participation in hunting occurring only in specific societies (i.e., the Agta) or contexts (i.e., small-game hunting) (Bird, 1999; Hoffman, Farquharson, & Venkataraman, 2023).'
Nice piece by @parismarx about the importance of physical media. and the right to control, for equitable access. The cloud is by definition somebody else’s property and this has real repercussions beyond mere entertainment. Too many in #heritage#opengov and lots of other sectors think that putting something online alone makes it findable and reusable.
Grants for #anthropology of work, including our new engaged grants program! Students and those in non-tenure track positions especially encouraged to apply.
Not sure I can bring myself to watch this, with major redundancies at my university and others, and whole departments being closed down, because there are not enough students. The whole sector is breaking apart. I hope the series will consider this too.
Yes, your son should go, and even better if he chooses a subject like #Anthropology which is shrinking just as the world needs it more than ever #university#UK#TheCrumble
Ancient city site discovered in China produces fortune-telling relics
Recent excavations at a site in Puyang, located in Central China, have shed light on the mystery surrounding an ancient Chinese city known as “Gan,” which thrived from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty. The site initially thought to be an ordinary archaeological site, has turned out to be a significant discovery.
Scandinavia’s early farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population 5,900 years ago
A recent study conducted by Lund University in Sweden challenges previously held beliefs regarding the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies in Scandinavia...
Yo, so, I just put on this movie and then couldn't figure out what language they're speaking. Well, apparently it's a #conlang called Tola based on #Basque. I think that's pretty cool and makes sense considering the context.
Researchers from the University of Exeter have recently completed a comprehensive study shedding light on the early inhabitants of the Amazon Basin. Their investigation centered on rock shelters in northwest Colombia, which served as homes to some of the earliest migrants to South America approximately 13,000 years ago...
Some Radical Anthropology talk videos for #InternationalWomensDay starting with the wonderful artist and activist #DaiaraTukano on 'Existence as resistance'
“The blueprint for modern digital computing was codesigned by Charles Babbage, a vocal champion for the … industrial capitalist class who condemned organized workers and viewed democracy and capitalism as incompatible … His influential theories on how “enterprising capitalists” could best subjugate workers are well documented in conventional labor scholarship.”
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Working with the catalogue in Sellevold et al:s 1984 book Iron Age Man In Denmark, I am surprised to find a lot of information about whether the crania are brachiocephalic, mesocephalic or dolicocephalic in their proportions. On p. 184 the authors explain why they do this. It's because the measurements and indices in an influential 1928 study "are still routinely used by most anthropologists". Oh, right then?
#Budget#UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.
“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”
This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 5/n Adding here a piece a group of us co-wrote at an #anthropology
workshop, on “Understanding Growth”. This was experimental - co-writing on the spot! -, but i do come back to it: we distinguish between“Growth rooted in life” from “growth rooted in numbers”. Capitalism is pure number thinking.
Obviously there are many real experts on all this (Marx, Pikkety for a start), this piece is left field! But just thought of it again in this context.
Scholars routinely critique the Mughal Empire’s record on many fronts, but the Mughals have lately also attracted much cultural vilification, especially from Hindu nationalists. They allege that the Mughals persecuted and forcibly converted Hindus to Islam on a large scale, and indiscriminately desecrated tens of thousands of temples. Is that true?