RadicalAnthro

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to IceAge

Describing an #IceAge route for #Indigenous people migrating into #NorthAmerica

'Hiking through swamps, cutting across thick bush, and canoeing across open waters, archaeologists have identified a corridor through Vancouver Island where Indigenous peoples may have sojourned 18,500 years ago.'

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ice-age-route-indigenous-peoples/

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to london

An East #London launderette saved:

'Staff and customers say the launderette doubles as a space to get together, where lonely or older people can get a cup of tea while their clothes spin and buy cut-price donated books from the launderette’s informal library. They say romance has even bloomed over the tumble driers for one couple.'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/05/london-estate-laundry-celebrates-fresh-start-as-council-backs-down-on-closure

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Using multiple complementary forms of knowledge, we provide a scenario for #Blackfoot population history that fits with #oraltradition and provides a plausible model for the..peopling of the #Americas" by Dorothy First Rider et al. #Genomics

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl6595

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Lucy at 50

'Zeresenay Alemseged doesn’t remember the 1974 discovery of the famous fossil Lucy at Hadar in Ethiopia, because he was 5 years old, living 600 kilometers away in Axum. Later he saw Lucy’s name on cafes and taxis, but he knew little about her until he became a geologist working at the National Museum of Ethiopia. Then, she changed his life. In 2000, Alemseged was swept into Lucy’s orbit: He discovered “Lucy’s child,” a partial skeleton of a toddler of her species, at Dikika, 10 kilometers from Hadar. In 2015, by then a well-known scientist, he had the honor of showing Lucy to then-President Barack Obama before a state dinner at Ethiopia’s National Palace. Alemseged allowed Obama to touch the prized skeleton, telling him the fossil shows Ethiopia is the birthplace of humankind and that “every single person” on the planet shares an origin in Africa. “Including Donald Trump,” Alemseged joked to Obama.'

https://www.science.org/content/article/was-lucy-mother-us-all-fifty-years-discovery-famed-skeleton-rivals

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Is this a total f**kup by Israel and allies -- or perfectly intentional?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68728378

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to Israel

Three former Supreme Court Judges, 600 legal experts, 60 KC’s say selling #arms to #Israel puts the UK in “potential violations of the Genocide Convention".

Over 600 lawyers, academics & Retd. senior judges including 3 former supreme court justices, as well as the court’s former President Lady Hale, have warned
Sunak that his government is breaching #internationallaw by continuing to arm Israel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68729302

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to evolution

We think this attack on understanding #humanorigins by Stefanos #Geroulanos is junk. Almost everything about it is wrong.

The idea that our bodies, minds and emotions are only affected by the last 5000 years is profoundly stupid -- once again social scientists trying to pretend #evolution doesn't exist (Am looking at #Graeber/Wengrow there).

Take this bit 🤦:
'But in reality, our bodies, our economic systems, our social relations, our family relations, and our politics have very little to do with this longer history [=species life] and a great deal to do with the much shorter one [=farming/patriarchy]'

This is a real mashup: our bodies, minds, hearts and souls have been shaped through thousands on thousands of generations of egalitarian nomadic lifestyle -- we need to know about that to challenge the constraints of heinous inequality in emerging class societies. Yes these shifted gender, economic and social relations of the past 5000 years. But we don't lose the cognitive and emotional skill set of being human overnight, or even in a few thousand years of warfare and patriarchy..

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/march/why-are-we-obsessed-with-human-origins-.html

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to indonesia

#Nusantara the allegedly 'sustainable' new capital of #Indonesia being built in the forests of #EastKalimantan -- and the huge costs to #Indigenous lives and traditions

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/01/indonesia-balikpapan-bay-borneo-nusantara

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

From John Hawks on fabulous Middle #Pleistocene woodworking:
'Schöningen, Germany, famous in archaeology for its 300,000-year-old wooden spears, exceptionally preserved in waterlogged mud. New work led by Dirk Leder reveals dozens more wooden tools of many kinds, some with carving methods not previously seen before the Holocene.'

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to Israel

Happening now:

#Naamodniks, other Jews, and allies are blocking the entrance to the Foreign Office, London to demand that they fund aid not arms for #Gaza.

As #Jews in the UK, we demand that the government re-funds #UNRWA and stops arming Israeli war crimes.

mattotcha, 2 months ago to brazil

You mean . . . . ?? ! ! !
9,000-year-old rock art discovered among dinosaur footprints in Brazil
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/9000-year-old-rock-art-discovered-among-dinosaur-footprints-in-brazil #Brazil #precolumbian #RockArt #petroglyphs #DinosaurTracks #cretaceous #footprints #Kiriri

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to Rabbits

Hoppy Easter!

This is Jack 🐇's TWELFTH Easter Day -- and his ELEVENTH with #RadicalAnthropologyRabbits

Have a great Bunny Day! 🐇🥚🐥🐇🥚🐇
#RabbitsofMastodon

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

Holocaust survivors and their relatives are right at the front of today's march

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to random

So much for not vetoing the #ceasefire vote...

"The new arms packages include more than 1,800 MK-84 2,000lb bombs and 500 MK-82 500lb bombs, said the sources, who confirmed a report in the Washington Post."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/us-approves-weapons-bombs-israel

ncrav, 2 months ago to Rabbits

I love ear rubs 🥰🐰
#bunny #rabbit #bunniesOfMastodon #rabbitsOfMastodon #luaBun

Lua on the couch receiving ear rubs she has her nose towards the camera

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to Denmark

Demands that #Denmark reckon with the forced contraceptive coil trauma suffered by #Greenlandic #Kallaalit women.

#indigenous

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/29/danish-health-minister-women-greenland-contraceptive-coil

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to worldwithoutus

Where did #Homosapiens go on the way out of #Africa -- the 'Persian Plateau' , ideal stepping stone

https://www.reuters.com/science/where-did-homo-sapiens-go-after-leaving-africa-new-study-has-an-answer-2024-03-25/

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to history

#VincentBrown on the complex #history of 'Tacky's revolt'

'The full history of Atlantic slavery is scarcely taught in the US or the UK, and so it’s not surprising that few people in either country know much about Tacky’s revolt. Until recently, however, I didn’t realise that Jamaicans don’t know this history much better. I had assumed that in a country with a Black majority population, which had emerged from one of the most brutal slave societies in human history, basic education would have offered a much better understanding of slavery and its legacies than the one I had received in the US. I was wrong.

'While no one in Jamaica denies the importance of slavery’s history, little is known about antislavery uprisings. I asked my friend Sutopa, a high school teacher in Massachusetts who grew up in Jamaica, what she had learned about slavery and slave revolt in primary school. She paused and pursed her lips, then shook her head and smiled ruefully: “Almost nothing.”'

#Jamaica #slavery #uprising #Rastafarianism #Reggae #Akan #Maroons #BritishColonialism #anticolonialism #memory

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/26/historic-revolt-forgotten-hero-empty-plinth-jamaica-slavery-chief-tacky

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to Rabbits

#SundayBunday or is it #BundaySunday?
Jack don't care!
#RadicalAnthropologyRabbits #RabbitsofMastodon

RadicalAnthro, 2 months ago to Women

This is an interesting idea: that xtian #patriarchal control of #women especially attacked and belittled or shamed use of #cosmetics. This was particularly in the heritage of the #puritans but here the author argues it developed much earlier.

The very word 'cosmetic' in English connotes superficial, shallow, trivial. Yet the classical Greek etymology connects to a notion of beauty underpinning a morally ordered universe -- cosmos, cosmology. This is a concept frequently found in #Indigenous thinking.

Since our #FemaleCosmeticCoalitions theory argues for women's #ritual use of #bodypaint as fundamental to human #symbolic #culture, we think this suppression of body art is a likely pathway to patriarchy. Where women have power and freedom, they use cosmetics and adornment -- especially in solidarity -- to express that.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/23/medieval-christian-misogyny-shapes-how-we-judge-women-today-says-scholar