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Here is a list with all our Vimeo recordings for last term (Jan-Mar 2025)
Enjoy!
Perspectives on human origins: language, body art, hunting, architecture
Jan 14 Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 'When Eve Laughed'
https://vimeo.com/1047955270
Jan 21 Camilla Power 'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’'
https://vimeo.com/1050011589
Jan 28 Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'
https://vimeo.com/1053040279?share=copy
Feb 4 Paulina Michnowska 'Notes from the forest – storytelling with the Penan of Borneo'
https://vimeo.com/1055179553
Feb 11 Sasha Farnsworth 'Architecture meets anthropology: Womb temple – Lunar rebirth'
https://vimeo.com/1057043706?share=copy#t=0
Feb 18 Chris Knight 'How we got stuck: the hunter Monmaneki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'
https://vimeo.com/1061208125?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-email&utm_campaign=44349
Feb 25 Erica Lagalisse and Chris Knight in conversation 'On anarchist anthropology'
https://vimeo.com/1063172694?share=copy
Mar 4 Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: a red RAG to patriarchy'
https://vimeo.com/1074465398
Mar 11 Chris Knight 'On Women and Jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'
https://vimeo.com/1073597720
Mar 18 Kit Opie 'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'
https://vimeo.com/1075096840
Mar 25 Ivan Tacey 'Serpentine cosmopolitics: a cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'
https://vimeo.com/1075098313
The New Giza Pyramid Conspiracy Is A Disaster
Miniminuteman w/ Milo Rossi
#Miniminuteman #MiloRossi #Science #Archeology #Anthropology #CitizenScience #Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYmREV6m-Fg
Study links a child's early #social environment to the development of the #brain
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Race isn’t a “biological reality.” For @TheConversationUS, professor John P. Jackson, Jr. looks at the evidence that says race was invented by humans, not nature.
#Race #History @histodons #Science #Anthropology #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
The ConversationRace isn’t a ‘biological reality,’ contrary to recent political claims − here’s how scientific consensus on race developed in the 20th centuryAn executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that’s exactly what modern science supports.
Seriously exciting! A robust mandible identified as that of a #Denisovan man from #Taiwan. #Proteomics were used in the study
'Although genomic studies suggest that they were widespread throughout Asia, fossils of this group have thus far only been identified from regions with cold climates, Siberia and Tibet. Tsutaya et al. used ancient proteomic analysis on a previously unidentified hominin mandible from Taiwan and identified it as having belonged to a male Denisovan. This identification confirms previous genomic predictions of the group’s widespread occurrence, including in warmer climates. The robust nature of this mandible is similar to that seen in a Denisovan one from Tibet, suggesting that this is a consistent trait for the lineage'
#anthropology #paleontology #humanevolution #EastAsia
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads3888
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@eryops our point is not so much about Greenpeace, good or bad, as the use of #blood red pigment #symbolic of #resistance to #male #dominance. We work on the #science of how old that is in #Homosapiens
Our fingers wrinkle in water due to a loss of blood flow our nervous system causes, and (they think) this is because evolution-wise, this would've allowed early humans to grip things better when their hands were wet (fish, tools, etc). 
https://www.popsci.com/science/why-do-fingers-wrinkle-in-water
Popular Science · Why do our fingers wrinkle in water? It's much deeper than skin.A study of polio patients almost 90 years ago gave scientists their first big clue.
Bronze Age tomb in Turkey reveals sacrifice of teenage girls
Archaeologists have made an enigmatic discovery at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Başur Höyük in southeastern Turkey: a significantly high number of adolescent remains buried in elaborate graves...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/bronze-age-sacrifice-of-teenage-girls-turkey/
Follow @archaeology
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[CASPR 2025] Knowledge in Crisis: Navigating Science in Uncertain Times
May 2 11AM CDT
Join us for a roundtable discussion and Q&A with Alex Hanna, Emily Yates-Doerr, & Juno Salazar Parrenas, moderated by CASTAC Co-Chair Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes
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Tuesday May 20
18:30 London time
ZOOM only with #VivekVenkataraman
'The Meaning and Dividends of Man the Hunter'
Vivek writes: 'The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with sexist theories of human evolution, but wildly disparate use of the phrase has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this talk, which follows a recently posted collaborative paper with other hunter-gatherer scholars, I ask: what does Man the Hunter mean? I distinguish three historical meanings of Man the Hunter; first, the 1966 conference; second, popularized sexist theories of human origins; and third, the human behavioral ecology of hunter-gatherers. I then trace the historical development of these three meanings of Man the Hunter, situating their origins in evolutionary biology, ethnology, feminist studies, ethology, genetics, and other disciplines. This allows us to ask: how are these meanings connected intellectually? After presenting a surprising answer to this question, I conclude by offering suggestions for improving scientific and popular discourse regarding Man the Hunter.'
Vivek is a biological anthropologist who employs evolutionary approaches to the study of foraging behavior, energetics, and health. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. His present research focuses in Malaysia, where he is one of the Principal Investigators of the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OA HeLP), which studies the rise of chronic non-infectious diseases over time due to rapidly changing environments. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Hunter Gatherer Research.
Please join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
Pretty interesting study on nontrivial #compositionality in #bonobos -- a 'uniquely human' language feature
#languageevolution #greatapes #primatecommunication #anthropology #cognition
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Two second-hand copies of #PhysicalAnthropology books from Cambridge University Press: What #Teeth Reveal About Human #Evolution and Evaluating Evidence in Biological #Anthropology. Taschen had a sale on recently, so I bagged myself a copy of The Fantastic Worlds of #FrankFrazetta at less than half price
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #FantasyArt @bookstodon
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I heard Annihilation was about grief or relationships. I'm interested af in Scavenger's Reign.
I feel like we have a rough indentation / substructure of how we will process things from birth, but that every event thereon will shape it further.
As well, we know ourselves in reference to others: "I'm like A, not like B, but most like C. What lies beyond C? I might see myself reflected best over there."
"Rules do not exist to bind you; they exist so you may know your freedoms."
Parameters outline a given environment within which to experiment and explore. It's one antidote to Blank Page Syndrome, for example.
NebulaTale Foundry — Fiction About NobodyNot every story needs a main character. Some don't need characters... at all.
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I have to disagree entirely about personifying the automated house in There Will Come Soft Rains (fantastic name), but otherwise yes. This is exactly my understanding.
https://nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-fiction-about-nobody/
It's also a good description of why I feel so confused by others.
People tend to feel more secure (than I do) in their identities as individuals, group members, and (neurotypical / neurodefault / neurorigid) humans.
NebulaTale Foundry — Fiction About NobodyNot every story needs a main character. Some don't need characters... at all.
Scientists Found a 12,000-Year-Old Monument—Turns Out It May Be Humanity’s Oldest Calendar
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a64390408/oldest-calendar-ever-discovered/
Popular Mechanics · Scientists Found a 12,000-Year-Old Monument—Turns Out It May Be Humanity’s Oldest Calendar
Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen.
@ArsTechnica reports: "300 aspects of each call were cataloged, letting researchers estimate meaning."
Ars Technica · Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
»...the problem with entitlement and privilege is not that some people have it, it’s that other people don’t.«
https://davidgraeber.org/papers/anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class/
David GraeberAnthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class - David GraeberMany of the internal changes within anthropology as a discipline—particularly the “postmodern turn” of the 1980s—can only be understood in the context of broader changes in the class composition of the societies in which university departments exist, and, in particular, the role of the university in the reproduction of a professional-managerial class that has come […]
Studied linguist and cognitive scientist who transformed into a software engineer.
Interested in #Anthropology, #Nutrition, #Sports, #Cognition and #Psychology, #Japanese, #Literature, #Minimalism or rather #Simplification.
I enjoy making #Music and writing things #writing. It’s the little things that matter.