Londoners are proud of Sadiq. Rightly so!

42,000 years ago on France’s Atlantic fringe, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared beads, pigments, and tools. A jewelry workshop at Saint-Césaire reshapes ideas of contact and culture. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals www.anthropology.net/p/shells-pig...

The oldest in Western Europe, please. Dating in Africa for shell jewelry goes back to 142 KA, Bizmoune, Morocco

Radical Anthropology Autumn Term talks, start Tues 🌓Sept 30🌔 6:30pm Chris Knight and Camilla Power 'How to resist alpha males' LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Radical Anthropology Autumn Term talks, start Tues 🌓Sept 30🌔 6:30pm Chris Knight and Camilla Power 'How to resist alpha males' LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Remarkable lack of #OsteoArthritis prior to European contact in a #holocene Australian First Nation population from Roonka, S #australia https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.70122?campaign=woletoc

A really excellent discussion on reframing #menstrual cycles by Dr Chi #Eziefula (starts about 4 mins in to 24 mins). She understands the cycle as a fantastic tool of insight into one's overall health. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Genoa dockworkers. Video shared by Nehemiah Stark on Instagram:

For all its problems, I think Graeber was really onto something in /Bullshit Jobs/ when he suggested that politics would come to be increasingly defined by the resentments of the unproductive segments of the economy towards the productive ones...

Didn't know about this but it's very interesting as a kind of cult of worship, with moral framework, offerings, pilgrimages etc. Important is the intersection of the virtual meme universe (and crypto) with the real life doggie, now sadly gone over the bridge 🌈, and real life happenings.

A really excellent discussion on reframing #menstrual cycles by Dr Chi #Eziefula (starts about 4 mins in to 24 mins). She understands the cycle as a fantastic tool of insight into one's overall health. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“The apes were particularly fond of figs, which contained some of the highest levels of alcohol the team recorded” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

From the archive. After a 60-year haitus, an Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna was seen in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. A poet-anthropologist reflects on the echidna’s message through the storied lens of the people of Yongsu Sapari. Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/paya...

Happy New Moon this evening! #lunarchy https://www.space.com/stargazing/dont-miss-the-beautiful-summer-milky-way-next-week-as-the-new-moon-goes-dark-on-sept-21

Across England, young people are being denied the play opportunities they need for healthy physical growth, mental wellbeing, and social development...

Harbin, denisovanos y el nombre de su especie wp.me/p4Bi9E-4Aj

What #neanderthals sounded like, with the very funny clip on the 'high-pitched' theory, analysis and performance. Those big, belting lungs, huge nasal cavity and squat vocal tract.... https://www.iflscience.com/what-did-neanderthals-sound-like-80857

More info on this from Mongabay news-mongabay-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/news.mon...

👇 This thread 🏺🧪 #Ötzi

Ancient DNA #Ötzi the Iceman and his neighbors had totally different ancestries Genomic diversity and structure of prehistoric alpine individuals from the Tyrolean Iceman’s territory 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Suggests local and non-local admixture events between HGs and Neolithic farmers

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The latest tally from Global Witness is a grim ledger. The organization’s report reads less like an activist’s briefing than a casualty list of a slow-moving war. Since 2012, the total no. of deaths and disappearances tally at least 2,253, a toll that turns acts of stewardship into mortal hazards.

This should be very interesting. Neanderthals were doing extensive burning 125 Ka so this should reach back a long way, certainly prior to #holocene https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00081-6

Sonoran Desert #toad nabbing some ant snacks. Caught on #cameratrap.

A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth. I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.

What Makes a Good Reputation? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol... #BehSci @psychologytoday.com

Bruce Winterhalder was once asked to share some professional insights. Here they are:

🚨 New paper led by ‪@asatsa.bsky.social‬! We show that participation in Luhya mourning rituals overall increases well-being and cooperation among the bereaved, yet qualitative findings show they can also be perceived negatively by some community members royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

US comedians would be advised to retool their craft by learning about what Soviet called "stiob." Here's a serious-minded place to stop: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Run down of our Autumn Term talks, starting 🌓Sept 30🌔 LIVE + ZOOM details to follow

The 8.6% waning crescent this morning at 5AM (UTC+7).

If you want to understand why a nation-wide resistance movement across the entire country against fascist dictators is struggling, watch this sarcastic video (Juice Media) that is highly informative on who supports the junta in #Myanmar - shame on all of them, esp “ARSEAN” 🤓 youtu.be/ERiZRUIlnaw?...

Hugh Brody will be giving us a talk on Oct 14 at Radical Anthropology!

This looks well interesting: the role of the #placenta in the #Evolution of human neurodevelopment https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250916/New-research-positions-the-placenta-at-the-center-of-human-neurodevelopment-and-evolution.aspx

#Denisovan protection from tropical diseases in our #DNA https://phys.org/news/2025-09-dna-ancient-denisovan-ancestors-tropical.html

It's a great paper ... BUT ... you might get the impression that smoke-dried mummification was common in the New Guinea highlands. It was not. There are only two recorded mummies amongst the Dani (Hubula) people, both of which have (inevitably) become tourist attractions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Centre for Ecology & Evolution autumn symposium & mixer www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word! #sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

Less than a quarter of a century after the completion of ‘the’ human genome, the astonishing UK Biobank database (includes my sister!) has completed the whole genome sequencing of nearly **half a million** participants. An amazing resource.

'This form of revenge is an attempt to silence the message by severing voice from body. However, what is overlooked is that a mentality that liberates cannot be destroyed by rope, prison or decree. Such orders are not signs of strength, but rather confessions of weakened legitimacy ...

Political prisoner sentenced to be murdered by the State for committing feminism, "Varisheh Moradi: ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ is a movement to reclaim the bodies, spirits and wills of women" anfenglishmobile.com/women/varish...

Run down of our Autumn Term talks, starting in 2 weeks, 🌓Sept 30🌔

Err, humans' greatest invention requiring cooperation among strangers was language. Hunter-gatherers did it.

Hallada industria tecnológica Quina en Longtan, SO China, ~55 ka. ¿Soluciones culturales convergentes, o un grupo de neandertales errantes en China? Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia

Yes, it is. We became human on the picket line!

Evidence of smoke-dried #mummification practice among SE #asian #hunting and gathering populations over 10,000 years ago -- oldest known to date? #archaeology #mortuarypractices https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2515103122

Necklaces from southern Spain, back to the #lastglacialmaximum (c.20 Ka) Made of scaphopod fossils, some shells covered with #red #ochre #archaeology #upperpalaeolithic #bodyart #ritual https://www.iflscience.com/prehistoric-humans-made-necklaces-from-marine-mollusk-fossils-20000-years-ago-80831

Hugh Brody will be giving us a talk on Oct 14 at Radical Anthropology!

RIP, Robert Redford. 🙏 He was a great champion of independent filmmaking. It's thanks to him that Isabella Rossellini was able to make her phenomenal series of short films about animal sex, Green Porno. They were produced for Redford's Sundance Channel. #tv www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-CA...