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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · Aug 02, 2026
How art invented humanity When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images by J F Martel https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b7b86a5cff-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_07_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972 #art #culture #anthropology
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jul 30, 2026
4,000-year-old Bronze Age “shaman” identified as a woman, not a man A 4,000-year-old burial near Stonehenge has changed the story of one of Britain’s best-known Bronze Age graves. Ancient DNA tests show the person known for more than 200 years as the “Upton Lovell Shaman” was a woman, not a man. The woman lived during the Early Bronze Age and was buried near the village of Upton Lovell... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/bronze-age-shaman-identified-as-a-woman/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #anthropology #bronzeage
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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @tksst@fediscience.org · Jul 30, 2026
💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧠🥩 A new #math model explains why #cannibalism keeps appearing and then disappearing across human #history. The #model shows that while eating human #meat provides calories, the epidemiological costs of disease transmission quickly outweigh any benefits and lead to #community collapse. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematics-reveals-why-human-cannibalism-keeps-reappearing #humans #anthropology #epidemiology #evolution #prions #pathogens #culture #science #biology
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jul 28, 2026
Tooth enamel reveals the origins of Africans freed from slave ships and buried on St. Helena Nearly 200 years after thousands of Africans rescued from illegal slave ships were buried on the remote island of St. Helena, scientists have traced where many of them spent their childhood. The findings offer one of the clearest pictures yet of the lives of people whose... More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/origins-of-african-slaves-buried-on-st-helena/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #anthropology #archaeogenetics #slaveryhistory #sthelena
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jul 27, 2026
Large precolonial villages in Brazil’s Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture, study finds A new study offers the clearest picture yet of how Indigenous communities lived in Brazil’s Cerrado before European contact. The findings challenge the long-running idea that people in the region either survived as mobile hunter-gatherers or relied on large-scale maize farming More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/precolonial-villages-in-brazil-practiced-maize-based-polyculture/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #precolonial
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jul 23, 2026
6,000-year-old infant from ancient Mesopotamia shows one of the world’s oldest signs of child abuse A 6,000-year-old infant buried in ancient Syria has given researchers what looks like the oldest known case of child abuse in the Middle East. The child’s bones show repeated injuries which fit physical abuse instead of disease or an accident. The findings appear in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.. More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/infant-mesopotamia-oldest-signs-of-child-abuse/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #anthropology
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Scientific American @scientific_american@robot.villas · Jul 23, 2026
Humans may have spoken 10 times as many languages 2,000 years ago https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-may-have-spoken-10-times-as-many-languages-2-000-years-ago/ #Linguistics #History #Anthropology
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homo hortus @homohortus31@mastodon.social · Jul 23, 2026
Clastres, la société et l’État : penser le social sans centralisation du pouvoir Chez Clastres, « société » ne veut pas dire État, ni simple communauté intime. Il s’agit d’une forme collective complète, organisée pour empêcher la concentration du pouvoir, la hiérarchie stable et la domination coercitive. #Clastres #anthropology #politics #commons #antiState Pierre Clastres est précieux parce qu’il oblige à sortir d’une alternative trop simple : soit la communauté… https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/clastres-la-societe-et-letat-penser-le-social-sans-centralisation-du-pouvoir/
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2026
Medieval adults and children buried together in Sweden were rarely related, DNA study finds Children buried beside adults in medieval graves have long been seen as family members. A new DNA study from Stockholm University tells a different story. The findings show that people buried together were rarely close biological relatives, even in places where many families lived near one another... More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/grave-with-close-relatives-was-rare-in-the-middle-ages/ @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #anthropology #bioarchaeology #medieval
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Scientific American @scientific_american@robot.villas · Jul 20, 2026
Neanderthals may have been just as smart as modern human peers https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neanderthals-may-have-been-just-as-smart-as-modern-human-peers/ #Science #History #Anthropology
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dallo @dallo@pouet.chapril.org · Jul 19, 2026
Bronze Age ‘shaman,’ previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman | CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/17/science/upton-lovell-shaman-scli-intl #history #archeology #anthropology #feminism
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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · Jun 20, 2026
Strap in for another mega-thread of quotes and reflections folks. I just started reading The Dawn of Everything, by the late David Graeber, and David Wengrow. My first reflection is that whether or not institutions support them, we need more anthropologists like Graeber. Researchers willing to question entrenched narratives and go where the evidence takes them. If you're that way inclined, I recommend Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology; https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-fragments-of-an-anarchist-anthropology #anthropology
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jul 18, 2026
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared culture for over 20,000 years, cave study suggests Neanderthals and modern humans appear to have shared far more than the same landscape. A new study from a cave in southern Türkiye suggests both groups lived in strikingly similar ways and even shared symbolic traditions over thousands of years.... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/neanderthals-and-homo-sapiens-shared-culture/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #homosapiens #neanderthal
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jul 13, 2026
Atlatls likely appeared in North America around 10,000 years ago, after the Clovis culture For decades, archaeologists pictured North America’s first big game hunters using the atlatl, a handheld spear thrower that sends a flexible dart farther and faster than a hand-thrown spear. The weapon has long been linked with the Clovis culture, whose people lived about 13,340 to 12,710 years ago and... More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/atlatls-appeared-in-north-america-after-the-clovis-culture/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #anthropology #atlatls #clovis
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jul 12, 2026
Ancient Egyptian settlement from the Second Intermediate Period with tombs and silos found at Tell el-Ku’a Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a large settlement from the Second Intermediate Period at Tell el-Ku’a in Egypt’s eastern Nile Delta. The site includes tombs, homes, storage areas, ovens, and work spaces... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/egyptian-settlement-with-tombs-and-silos-at-tell-el-kua/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #egyptology #ancientegypt
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Archaeology News :verified: @archaeology@mstdn.social · Jun 30, 2026
Bronze Age cremated teeth help researchers estimate age at death, study finds More than 3,000 years ago, communities across parts of present-day Poland cremated their dead and buried the ashes in ceramic urns. For archaeologists, these burials have long posed a problem. High temperatures alter bones and teeth, making many standard methods for estimating age at death difficult or impossible to apply... More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/cremated-teeth-help-researchers-estimate-age-at-death/ @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #anthropology #bronzeage
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Carl von Lesquereux @cfnnm@mstdn.social · Jun 28, 2026
The bond between humans and dogs remains remarkably consistent across societies, cross-cultural study reveals https://phys.org/news/2026-06-bond-humans-dogs-remarkably-societies.html #Anthropology #PhysOrg #Dogs #Science
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Pauline von Hellermann @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · Mar 08, 2024
Replying to @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
#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. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2023/10/26/anthropology-and-degrowth-where-to-next/
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VOID INITIATION @void@mementomori.social · Jun 28, 2026
Religions were the first forms of governments. Let that sink in. Many countries and their laws are still affected by religious beliefs. Many wars are still initiated in names of religions. What is religion, other than a form of mass influence extortion, in the name of abstract and misinterpreted human values ? What is religion other than an excuse to extort political actions in the name of "God", to people who don't know better ? Primary value of majority of religions in the world is love. How possibly could we let media, governments and movements, distort it to the point where we use it as an excuse to kill, destroy, abuse and take away freedom ? #religion #socialscience #anthropology #freedom
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VOID INITIATION @void@mementomori.social · Jun 28, 2026
If there exists #corporations in our modern world, with net value/revenue equal to, or higher than some #countries and #governments, what makes You #think that those corporations are not part of, and do not have #influence over governments, or don't cooperate with them ? We need to wake up and see, that consumerism and corporations go far above selling and buying, and that they are equally a part of how our countries function, and how we are being influenced in variety of ways. #foodforthought #bigcorp #countries #socialsciences #humansciences #anthropology #consumerism #modernworld #freedom #money #economy
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