Anthropocene or not Anthropocene? https://aeon.co/essays/declared-dead-last-year-the-anthropocene-is-very-much-alive

Children's creativity among #ngogo #chimpanzees https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2025/11/03/the-kids-are-smarter-than-you-think

I'm afraid this is not a surprise at all. In our dysfunctional catholic nuclear family, both girls, self included, had some level of sexual abuse while my youngest brother had serious sexual trauma leading to grave psychiatric illness, by our older male sibling who may have been abused himself […]

Educated by the FBI: Marx101 https://www.warscapes.com/conversations/conversation-mahmood-mamdani

Tracking #Denisovan ancestry in East #asian populations with different histories of contact https://www.mpg.de/25634317/1030-evan-some-early-east-asians-did-not-meet-denisovans-150495-x

Please boost community Fediscience! 🌖Tues Nov 11🌗 6:30 pm (London UK) Chris Stringer New evidence from China helps to clarify the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution LIVE LG11 Lecture Room in Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

I so didn't realise that Mamdani's father was a Professor of #anthropology and his mum Mira Nair. So anthropology had a bit of a role here? https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a69136325/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-campaign-aunties/

Very early Stone tools in a long continuous tradition, 2.75 MA for300,000 years #namorotukunan #kenya https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8zn4ln85ro

Moonrise this evening waxing Full, tomorrow just waning https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cj97v84gyw0o

Free community fediscience, please boost! Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM 🌔Tues Nov 4 🌕 6:30pm 'The Fire of the Jaguar. Problems with perspectivism' Chris Knight LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Exploring the relationship of #socialinequality and #productivity during the #neolithic transition https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400697122

The brilliant Sheina Lew-Levy and colleagues 'found that intensifying market integration in Rep. Congo does not uniformly shape BaYaka and Bantu adolescent behaviour and consumption, and that adolescents may be contributing to shifts in norms regarding the sharing of money.' #BaYaka […]

'Murphy’s work focuses on Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority in China, being co-opted into forced labour programmes. Her research, and that of colleagues at the HKC, has been cited widely by western governments and the UN, and has helped to shape policies designed to root out goods made by […]

The one and only reason the heroic train guard was there at all to save so many people's lives was thanks to the resistance of the magnificent RMT to driver-only trains.

Milks and colleagues reassess the #Boxgrove horse #scapula which was interpreted as showing evidence of spear injury but looks more likely to be the result if hammerstone percussion to get at grease and #marrow #archaeology #MiddlePleistocene […]

Sleeping in two shifts, natural for human beings? https://theconversation.com/why-we-used-to-sleep-in-two-segments-and-how-the-modern-shift-changed-our-sense-of-time-267909

Always intelligent from John Hawks, tracing the 'ghost' lineages of #african #apes -- for whom scarcely any #fossil record https://www.johnhawks.net/p/genetic-histories-of-ghost-apes

This will be the good side of so-called #evolutionarypsychology talking to evolutionary #anthropologist actually, the excellent Karen Kramer on #cooperative breeding in human #Evolution https://youtu.be/u4GhmF9GovE?si=OB9Wdm3TDKpjha1M

OK this is one of my MOST read pieces....and it's worth reading! #cosmetics #consciousness https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Camilla-Power/achievement/6905a0b0f091cf17ee9b2aec

OK this is one of my MOST read pieces....and it's worth reading! #cosmetics #consciousness https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Camilla-Power/achievement/6905a0b0f091cf17ee9b2aec

Excitement over #neanderthal #crayons from #crimea https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-ochre-crayons-crimea-reveal.html

This was the version of 'Sleeping Beauty' we did at Hallowe'en 2 years ago...which was a bit special so enjoy! https://vimeo.com/881744570

This will be a good paper. We won't agree with all of it, but definitely on the right track to understand art in terms of social connection rather than determined by level of cognition. (We would argue with their representation of the ochre pigment record for example) @ochrewatts […]

Chimpanzees do science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb7565

Residence patterns in #neolithic largely #patrilocal -- the basis for 'the world historic defeat of the female sex', Engels. There are a few exceptions of course https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.0815

Residence patterns in #neolithic largely #patrilocal -- the basis for 'the world historic defeat of the female sex', Engels. There are a few exceptions of course https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.0815

Here's a very interesting piece on the value and importance of #menstrual #blood as a #health diagnostic https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/oct/27/menstrual-period-blood-testing-womens-health

Here's a very interesting piece on the value and importance of #menstrual #blood as a #health diagnostic https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/oct/27/menstrual-period-blood-testing-womens-health

Free community fediscience, please boost! Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM 🌔Tues Nov 4 🌕 6:30pm 'The Fire of the Jaguar. Problems with perspectivism' Chris Knight LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Couple of days late this but here is a story of the restoration of #Uluru to Traditional Owners #FirstAustralians #LandRights […] [Original post on c.im]

'I am a young Xipai Indigenous man, and have lived my entire life in a village in the middle of the largest tropical forest on the planet, the Amazon. As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours. When I speak of the body of the forest […]

#neanderthals deep into #Asia. New #MtDNA from Crimea, Starosele https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-neandertals-traveled-asia

Couple of days late this but here is a story of the restoration of #Uluru to Traditional Owners #FirstAustralians #LandRights […] [Original post on c.im]

Free community fediscience, please boost! 🌒Tues Oct 28 🌓 6:30pm 'The science of mythology. "The Sleeping Beauty" and other tales' Chris Knight LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recognised Charles Darwin University-led research into the #Earth’s #Oldest #animals with the adoption of the ‘Longevity Conservation’ global policy principle […]

This study examines #craniofacial #development in early #pleistocene #homo #infants. Focus on a 'mandible (Omo 222-1973-2744) from the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia, attributed to Homo habilis, along with a mandible (KW 7000) from Kromdraai and a maxilla (DNH 83) from Drimolen, both in South […]

Another preprint discussed here on the problems of Neanderthal hybridization with our species. The idea is 'the Neanderthal variant of the PIEZO1 gene (dubbed V1) and the modern human version (V2) didn’t work well together during pregnancy. For a fetus to get enough oxygen from the mother, there […]

Summary of recent research on the effects of family structures: https://theconversation.com/rethinking-polygamy-new-research-upends-conventional-thinking-about-the-advantages-of-monogamous-marriage-267201 "Building healthier societies necessitates paying attention to the evidence and remaining […]

Analysis of the Dresden Codex shows the #maya predicted #solar eclipses for centuries by aligning #lunar cycles with their 260-day calendar and updating eclipse tables to correct for astronomical errors. A very good idea for human health to align your calendar to 🌒 LUNAR CYCLES 🌓 […]

A PREPRINT but very interesting paper on a high-coverage #Denisovan #genome. 'We estimate that modern and archaic humans separated 825-694ka, while Neandertals and Denisovans separated 585- 504ka. These dates are substantially older than previous estimates...and consistent with the time to the […]

New Irish President, backed by Sinn Féin in the campaign, has described Irish unity as a 'foregone conclusion' https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/09/27/presidential-race-irish-unity-a-foregone-conclusion-says-catherine-connolly/

We're doing a fun event, the day after 🌕 (Thur Nov 6) at Love Shack, on the #moon in human origins and #Hadza lunar #cosmology #lunarchy #HumanEvolution https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-full-presents-human-origins-under-the-sway-of-the-moon-tickets-1878902200059?aff=oddtdtcreator

Modelling comparison of palaeoecology for Last Interglacial #neanderthals and #mesolithic hunters in Europe 'this study provides strong evidence that both Neanderthals and Mesolithic foragers actively shaped European interglacial ecosystems, influencing vegetation dynamics long before […]

Stone tools track how ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become North America's First Peoples. #archaeology #firstamericans #Palaeolithic #northeastasia https://phys.org/news/2025-10-stone-tools-paleolithic-pacific-migration.html

Study of cross-species #antelope #fossil teeth from 3.2-1.3 MA shows consistent signal of grazers 'the evidence points to a more stable but varied landscape: a mosaic environment. Some fossil species even showed different feeding strategies from their modern relatives, highlighting that ancient […]

This looks like a very anthropologically informed article on a Western Cape painted cave site, full of female figures. These are interpreted as a women's ritual space (and time) 'we suggest Keurbos 4 was a place chosen by women for women in the context of ritual and didactic events' […]

Were #australian First People hunting now extinct #megafauna or doing the first #fossil collection and curation? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250078

OK now I stop shopping at Waitrose and start at Asda (But sorry why is anybody working unpaid? Is this modern slavery? Asda are offering paid shifts) #notneurotypical #neurodiversity https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98n53dpzx6o

Were #australian First People hunting now extinct #megafauna or doing the first #fossil collection and curation? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250078