Radical Anthropology

London's longest running evening class, studying What it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
#anthropology #socialanthropology #evolutionaryanthropology #archaeology

New term starts Apr 16, 2024
LIVE @UCL and on ZOOM
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/

Vimeo collection of previous talks
https://vimeo.com/user33365184

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2024-11-01 08:22:16

All about #aurochs!
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-ancient-dna-life-history-iconic.html

2024-09-20 10:42:48

🤣 #Womansart
#spreadleggedfigure
Trouble for #patriarchy!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c206e5qx82do

2024-09-19 07:50:08

This theatre needs boycotting. Utterly disgraceful refusal to support human rights.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33ve3rvej4o

2024-09-18 20:22:36

Horse and the harvest moon 🐎 🌝
https://www.racingpost.com/news/britain/gazing-at-the-supermoon-edward-whitaker-captures-astronomical-phenomenon-in-all-its-glory-on-the-gallops-aovXz7j35svZ/

2024-09-18 05:37:22

Full Moon partial eclipse
https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/113/156/935/116/467/124/original/9cccd0dfc177b6fd.jpg

2024-09-17 06:40:50

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@npub1la9…evj5 goes so well with that couch!

2024-09-16 07:45:09

White western colonization destroys #frankincense
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/16/frankincense-trees-extinction-resin-trade-africa-arabia-western-wellness-industry-fragrance

2024-09-15 05:46:55

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@npub1la9…evj5 oh no Skye, hang in there! How terrible, how cruel! 😢♥️♥️♥️

2024-09-14 19:51:34

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@npub1rqh…wkac oh dear!

2024-09-14 17:50:35

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@npub1243…qmek maybe men should not touch red, women's colour!

2024-09-14 17:45:54

'We wanted to understand First Nations stories of first contact with the British explorer rarely told in history books, and so we asked'
#Indigenous #Australia #FirstNations #Europeaninvasion
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/14/we-retraced-captain-cooks-journey-along-the-east-coast-of-australia-seeking-the-other-side-of-history-it-was-life-changing

2024-09-14 12:10:03

Highlighted by knowledgeable comrades as an excellent introductory interview for the ongoing revolution in #Burma/#Myanmar.
#revolution #anarchism
https://illwill.com/the-revolution-in-myanmar

2024-09-14 08:23:35

An artist's 'spreadsheet of emotion'.
Ghanaian visual artist Joseph #Awuah-Darko expresses and tracks #bipolar disorder
Interesting that #red stands for depression (different from many African cultures)
#art #mentalillness #colour
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce805y2z47jo

2024-09-11 12:40:30

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@npub17md…fk36 as an English speaker, not sure I agree with that interpretation. It's not putting people above, it's seeing people's responsibility.

2024-09-11 10:33:17

Nice discussions and podcasts from our very own #ChrisKnight who will be LIVE @UCLAnthropology in Sept 24, 6:30pm when we start our seminar series.
Here talking about #Graeber, a friend and comrade
https://youtu.be/VJW5LNnUmMM?si=DlRYjH1XskDtom3G
Here with #Farsi subtitles
https://youtu.be/7kQDcE-LAFw?si=82b1l3uXc2zt_MTA
And on 'How did we learn to speak?' at the #CommunistUniversity
https://www.youtube.com/live/ILr2P3b4bW4?si=A2BYBw84URNvelOd

2024-09-09 05:21:09

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@npub1qde…nk5g aww good to see him so relaxed

2024-09-08 17:50:27

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@npub1qde…nk5g
Is he out and about beyond his enclosure, socializing?

2024-09-08 12:51:48

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Yeah Eventbrite says 'Did matriarchy ever exist?' on Sept 24 is 'sold out' but it isn't!
Just come along if you can make it to UCL or else join on Zoom.
(Eventbrite just runs a racket for listing of free events)

2024-09-07 16:28:03

Gary #Younge interviews Diane #Abbott - top notch!
"I held out and held out, and it was a question of who blinked first. And they blinked first. You don’t become Britain’s first Black woman MP because you give in to being pushed around like that...I know my worth"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/07/diane-abbott-tory-attacks-racist-bullying

2024-09-07 15:42:39

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@npub17l5…za2f hmmn super-interesting

2024-09-06 18:14:47

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@npub186f…hphc phenomenal 😍

2024-09-06 08:28:51

'We left with nothing. We just ran for our lives'
#Sudan #Chad #ElFasher
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewlrxrk5p5o

2024-09-05 19:06:47

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New study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24003663?via%3Dihub

2024-09-05 19:05:34

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The #Stonehenge Altar Stone is NOT from Orkney!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/05/stonehenge-tale-gets-weirder-as-orkney-is-ruled-out-as-altar-stone-origin

2024-09-05 17:15:24

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Majority of those who died in the#Grenfell disaster were of BAME origin.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/05/grenfell-families-criticise-report-diverse-communities

2024-09-04 11:50:04

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JPS Uberoi taught over three decades at the Delhi School of Economics with Felix his student.
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/prof-jps-uberoi-instrumental-in-establishing-the-sociology-discipline-in-india-dies-at-90-9094351/

2024-09-04 07:22:43

#London news today: #Grenfell report
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c623vrw92rrt

2024-09-04 05:23:30

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@npub1kt4…0an6 London= University College London (UCL). This event is Islington North London

2024-09-03 18:44:03

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@npub1la9…evj5 sploot toot!

2024-09-03 10:27:58

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@npub1j75…5847 😘

2024-09-02 21:02:46

Happy New Moon tonight!
https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/113/069/973/881/170/109/original/04ab88dd4e7f8455.png

2024-09-01 02:34:25

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@npub1whv…g9hw @npub13d6…jvka but still not enough

2024-08-31 15:34:31

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@npub17l5…za2f it was a tough job, I was close to collapse. But we got there!

2024-08-31 14:28:38

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@npub13d6…jvka does he say much at all? All too little in our view

2024-08-31 12:12:09

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@npub1243…qmek true!

2024-08-31 11:57:55

Our banners fly at the front of the #XR Windsor demo calling for Revolution in the name of the King! (His words)
https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/113/056/495/511/809/534/original/4a7203069225e5de.jpg

2024-08-30 18:31:28

Kenya's #Maasai community blocks major #tourist road in protest against forced evictions from their ancestral lands for a #wildlife #conservancy, claiming it infringes on their rights and traditional land use.
#IndigenousRights #Maasai
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/maasai-block-tourist-road-protesting-forced-eviction-from-ancestral-land/

2024-08-30 12:57:01

We"ll be going on a picnic for this protest tomorrow!
We've got special banners with calls for #revolution by Prince Charles...
#XR #Windsor
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/30/olympic-champion-etienne-stott-joins-climate-activists-for-windsor-protest

2024-08-29 18:30:19

#Canada's #wildfires -- the world's 'fourth largest emitters'
#climatecrisis #greenhousegasemissions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/29/canada-wildfires-carbon-emissions

2024-08-29 12:14:13

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@Fillmore@eldritch.cafe we don't 'mythologize'.
We and close colleagues have lived and worked with NONpatriarchal hunter-gatherers. We do listen to what their myths say. In the case of the Hadza, working with my student on women's narratives is bloody important. We aim to publish this material with Hadza co-authors.

2024-08-29 09:56:02

#rainbowbridgeremembranceday
Fur the astonishing Rabbit Woman intellect Flopsy!
Fur Beach Bun Roo!
And scheming matriarch Molly!
#RadicalAnthropologyRabbits
#RabbitsofMastodon
https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/113/044/688/178/598/368/original/7fa9831d5740c3d6.jpg
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2024-08-28 18:46:16

This is the real story of the #Carnival
Gorgeous Summer Dance
#NottingHillCarnival
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/aug/27/i-feel-like-i-love-everyone-here-notting-hill-carnival-continues-to-defy-division-photo-essay

2024-08-28 17:56:08

50th anniversary of the #Lucy discovery
#amthropology #evolution #fossils #Hadar #DonJohansson
https://news.asu.edu/20240827-science-and-technology-tiny-bone-led-very-big-discovery-asu-lucy-skeleton-anniversary

2024-08-28 15:14:17

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Also details on Facebook here
https://www.facebook.com/RadicalAnththropologyGroup/events/

2024-08-28 15:12:59

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Details here on Eventbrite,
But there is loads of room for these FREE events either LIVE in UCL Anthropology Dept or on
ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
NO tickets needed! Roll up!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/camilla-power-10728753218

2024-08-28 15:09:24

Radical Anthropology Seminars start on
Sept 24, 6:15 for 6:30pm,
@UCLanthropology
Sept 24 Chris Knight 'Did matriarchy ever exist?',
Oct 1, Chris Knight & Camilla Power 'The Sex strike theory of human origins'
Oct 8, Tamas David-Barrett 'Gendered Species'
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Oct 15 Volker Sommer 'The Evolution of We-ness'
...more to follow ..
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2024-08-28 11:32:40

Notable #FirstNations journalist Brandi #Morin on #Wet’suwet’en chief #Dsta’hyl, also known as Adam #Gagnon, who is under house arrest for resistance to the Coastal Gas pipeline.
https://ricochet.media/uncategorized/meet-the-man-who-amnesty-international-calls-canadas-first-prisoner-of-conscience/

2024-08-28 07:14:10

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@npub1xya…mjdg 🤣I keep telling my partner that. Just not in the same league!

2024-08-28 07:13:10

Social workers get 1 hour total on their courses on #coercivecontrol and #genderbased violence!
'After five years in the job, social worker Cintia estimates about 90% of her caseload is linked to psychological and controlling abuse, yet her university course barely mentioned it.'
My recent experience of being violently attacked occurred when I came across gender-based, coercive control between my close neighbour and her violent partner. So this strikes home!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4970jdgq7o

2024-08-27 17:52:46

Jack 🐇 is shedding mountains of floof...and bears me a long grudge if I try to pluck any!
#RadicalAnthropologyRabbits #notouch
https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/113/035/246/312/655/124/original/6883a4fadeaa51d8.jpg

2024-08-27 11:45:41

The recent death of an Indian flower picker has put a spotlight on the slave-like conditions experienced by migrants living in #Italy.
#climatecrisis #WorkersRights #migrantsrights
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/27/indian-migrant-worker-death-heat-stress-italy

2024-08-26 13:06:20

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And here's the wiki on our model of 'Female cosmetic coalitions'. This model applies pretty well to girls going out together on a Saturday night!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_cosmetic_coalitions

2024-08-26 13:02:21

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Another Slovak genius Dasa Bombjakova has beautiful material in her stunning ph.D on #BaMbendjele women's use of cosmetics to create coalitions. Besides #African hunter-gatherers, there would be soooooo much to say on #Amazonian cultures. And it goes around the world.
https://www.dbombjakova.com/phd-thesis

2024-08-26 13:00:11

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Another great talk from Elena Fejdiova on cosmetic sales relations ' Sharing like sisters'
https://youtu.be/KDOaKQ2i54E?si=o37yol_lYxiPT0UP

2024-08-26 12:59:48

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Here a talk of mine on cosmetics as the first body art
https://youtu.be/Fh_heVDha70?si=DogIh72fl1_6so2j

2024-08-26 12:56:41

🤦
#evopsych people apply #WEIRD capitalistic, individualistic psychometrics to women's use of
#makeup. They really miss one of the key features of #cosmetics as medium for creating female solidarity and coalitions. This happens again and again in Indigenous cultures! These guys need to learn some #anthropology!
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-024-02974-7

2024-08-25 18:31:59

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 sad to miss out this year, we've been the last few. It's just the great London celebration of summer. Unbeatable!

2024-08-25 18:19:23

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@npub1qde…nk5g she seemed so wise and happy with life. My current boy I got nearly 11 years ago, he's 12 and a quarter. But I am beginning to see arthritis signs.

2024-08-25 17:55:07

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@npub1qde…nk5g oh no, sad to hear this! Hope Larry is not too upset.

2024-08-25 12:24:19

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This is a beautiful 🧵 on twitter from Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo
https://x.com/WhiteRabbit36/status/1826683042527605112

2024-08-20 12:15:18

Concentration of sites in #hotspots like the #EastAfrican #Rift System biases our understanding of #human #evolution -- Scientists must take that bias into account when interpreting early human history.
#Africa #fossils
https://www.miragenews.com/african-fossil-hotspots-skew-human-evolution-1299223/

2024-08-19 20:07:06

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@npub1dwx…ehwg very good thought.

2024-08-19 18:36:54

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@npub1dwx…ehwg a special experience.

2024-08-19 18:35:29

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@npub1e7d…skfm looking good, quite a journey!

2024-08-19 18:34:54

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@npub17l5…za2f 😘thanks!

2024-08-19 18:34:37

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@npub12fr…qzly getting there thanks!

2024-08-19 13:24:43

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@npub18mf…urv2 this was my first post after coming round
https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/112927753712721426

2024-08-19 13:22:30

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@npub18mf…urv2 my time with the NHS has been transformative ..and friends and neighbours in my social housing building who literally saved my life. 😘 Love'em!

2024-08-19 12:51:02

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@npub18mf…urv2 getting better. I was five days on the Trauma ward, now getting out and about.

2024-08-19 12:49:04

Not sure who gets more reads from the UcL Anthro dept BUT I got third-most! Quite proud of this and facing the future of my #research given that someone tried to smash my brain in two weeks ago!
Am just off to see a Speech Language Therapist to nurture my brain regrouping, remapping!! Thanks above all to the skilled carers of the Major Trauma Ward, St Mary's Paddington
#NHS #fightfascismforever
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Camilla-Power/achievement/66c3231e0c4c4721dbcdc42c

2024-08-17 10:00:02

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@npub1n2s…3kuh can you explain more about your Indigenous identity (this should have nothing to do with nation state or settler-colonialism)?

2024-08-16 18:52:40

Strike by #Indian doctors against rape and murder of 31-year-old begins -- women mount giant picket line.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/16/indian-medics-strike-protest-doctor-rape-murder-kolkata

2024-08-16 16:17:42

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@npub1n2s…3kuh this is very important for us at Radical Anthropology. We feel the world's future needs to be guided by Indigenous elders and their special sustainable knowledge.

2024-08-15 13:54:18

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New paper here
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07652-1

2024-08-15 13:52:59

Mike #Pitts on the news about the altar stone coming all the way from Scotland to #Stonehenge
https://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/whats-new-about-the-stonehenge-altar-stone/
https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/112/966/358/927/362/846/original/00b9632a39d05053.jpg

2024-08-15 08:13:26

Abric Pizarro is one of only a few sites worldwide dating from 100,000 to 65,000 years ago during a period called MIS 4. #ANU researchers have gathered hundreds of thousands of artifacts, including stone tools, animal bones and other evidence, providing significant data about the Neanderthal way of life.
#Neanderthals #archaeology #Pyrenees
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-rare-archaeological-site-reveals-neanderthal.html

2024-08-14 20:12:14

#VivekVenkataraman, leading #huntergatherer anthropologist, analyzes gender and labour across cultures.
#anrhropology
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/labor-division-gender-human-orgins/

2024-08-13 20:48:40

When did humans first move into the #Pacific?
New research provides direct evidence that seafarers travelled along the equator to reach islands off the coast of #WestPapua more than 50,000 years ago.
#archaeology
https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-from-west-papua-offers-fresh-clues-about-how-and-when-humans-first-moved-into-the-pacific-231686

2024-08-12 13:08:48

An interesting piece on transmission of knowledge via the #body.
We have argued for dance, song, body paint, cosmetics but elementally Marcel Mauss' Techniques du corps with this article on 'Cosmetics, identity and consciousness'
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263156865_Cosmetics_Identity_and_Consciousness
#culturaltransmission
https://aeon.co/essays/how-do-we-transmit-culture-when-it-cannot-be-put-into-words

2024-08-10 04:31:15

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@npub1z35…5re2 thanks, it's quite an adventure!

2024-08-09 10:49:44

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@npub17l5…za2f yup terrible, but also surprising care here on the Ward. So many people from so many places it feels good and deeply antifascist! So it's a good experience.

2024-08-09 09:29:29

Research on #bonobo aggression, by Maud Mouginot, a biological anthropologist:
'The findings “support the view that contrary to male chimpanzees, whose reproductive success depends on strong coalitions, male bonobos have more individualistic reproductive strategies,” says the team, which, in addition to Mouginot, included Wilson and two other colleagues'
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/belligerent-bonobos

2024-08-09 04:16:32

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@npub1shm…6jwl thanks Robin, am getting lots of care from nurses and therapists here.

2024-08-09 03:54:30

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@npub1gd6…qnee thank you

2024-08-09 03:46:11

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@npub1lgd…weyh thank you, I,'m being provided with a lot of care from nurses and therapists. I woke up in the ward after I'd got taken in by ambulance.

2024-08-09 03:43:44

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@npub1gef…9de3 yes I am getting a lot of support from several nurses and therapists as well as doctors

2024-08-09 03:42:10

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@npub1z68…dgr5 thanks! Very good support from nurses here

2024-08-06 08:06:53

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@npub1fkc…datt magnifique!

2024-08-06 08:03:40

Shame shame shame on Belfast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2edd7gmjy2o

2024-08-05 18:43:50

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Paper here Kodaş et al
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003552124000645?via%3Dihub

2024-08-05 18:43:02

Recent study of a 12,000-year-old woman shaman #burial with animal remains. The burial was excavated in 2019 at the archaeological site of a #Neolithic settlement called ÇemkaHöyük (meaning the "mound by the water") in #Turkey.
https://www.newsweek.com/prehistoric-skeleton-female-shaman-lived-12000-years-ago-archaeology-1931648

2024-08-04 15:45:34

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@npub1cqh…4rf7 yes I know Kindred. Intrigued by Slimak

2024-08-04 14:44:24

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@npub1cqh…4rf7 I realize I need to read it

2024-08-04 14:32:38

An intriguing interview with Ludovic #Slimak musing on the difference between us and #Neanderthals. Author of The Naked Neanderthal, he probably has as much intimate knowledge of their material culture as anyone.
#anthropology #palaeoanthropology
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-08-04/ludovic-slimak-paleoanthropologist-weve-killed-neanderthals-for-the-second-time-by-not-wanting-to-understand-them.html

2024-08-04 14:07:26

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@npub1ke3…jaj2 oh cute nose! Cute bun!

2024-08-04 13:28:10

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@npub1ac7…ru53 bundad! Why are you acting dumb?! But why do they cut down the dandies? It's worth searching in shady corners, under trees and fences.

2024-08-04 13:21:36

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@npub1ac7…ru53 oh Lua, you deserve dandelion! I got some delicious fresh dewy dandelion for Jack this morning 🌄 🌱
Stand up fur your #rabbitrights!

2024-08-04 13:08:45

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@npub1h7p…uj03 this one entirely biodegradable!

2024-08-04 12:18:07

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Paper here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416524000448?via%3Dihub

2024-08-04 12:11:04

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A replica of ' Britain's oldest house's (8,500 years old) due to be built in York
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9e9zym10ngo