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. We had a wonderful Menstrual 🛖 at dark 🌑 last night. Of course Indigenous cultures tend very […]

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

Radical Anthropology Group Autumn programme begins on Tues Sept 30, 6:30pm at UCL Anthropology Dept. Everyone welcome, we are LIVE and on ZOOM (details to follow) Sept 30 Chris Knight/Camilla Power How to resist alpha males Oct 7 Volker Sommer In praise of lying.The […] [Original post on c.im]

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

'New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less carbon than forests with healthy wildlife populations.' https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/animals-that-spread-seeds-are-critical-for-climate-solutions/

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

'A second female sexual figuration has been found in a cramped cavity shelter in a quartzitic sandstone megaclast at Courdimanche, some 10 km from that recently described in the La Ségognole 3 shelter at Noisy-sur-Ecole' #upperpalaeolithic #rockcarving […]

The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end More […] [Original post on c.im]

Humans were born to move and mix https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/claims-of-pure-bloodlines-ancestral-homelands-dna-science-says-no/

The Global Witness tally of deaths of #environmental #defenders is very grim: 146 in 2024. 'Latin America remains the deadliest region. Of the 117 killings documented there last year, 48 took place in Colombia, which has led the world in such murders for three years running. Guatemala recorded […]

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

I never want to put up twitter links and we have left that Nazi-owned platform, but this is one of the great accounts on there reporting on 'Ukrainian climate warriors efforts to decarbonize Russia's 😂 https://x.com/NotWoofers/status/1969180232742559909

Make trains great again! Coming up for the Bicentenary of the railway. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02980-2

It's a very floofy bunny butt for Friday #bunnybuttFriday #radicalanthropologyrabbits #rabbitsofmastodon

@zhgarfield in a careful discussion of the idea of 'reputation' as applied to #evolutionary environments. He starts with work by Kristen #hawkes on the #Hadza, a good place to start -- we need to think carefully what reputation means in societies which above all value egalitarianism […]

Adaptations in #Turkana people over the past 5-8000 years of nomadic pastoralist subsistence in very dry environment. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv2467

Make trains great again! Coming up for the Bicentenary of the railway. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02980-2

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

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

One of the truly excellent documentaries made by Hugh #brody, 'Hunters and Bombers' follows the campaign of the #innu, of the southern Labrador coast and interior, against the low-level NATO military flying that was impacting their lands and way of life […]

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

Apparently projecting a picture of one nonce standing with another nonce onto a castle wall is "malicious communication" This is what happens when the former DPP becomes PM. Massive overreaction and overreach Ridonkulous […]

We'll never buy #ben&Jerrys again, boycott #unilever (goes without saying). Not even the vegan offering... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g58xx1eero

Well, I really should put this on my beloved Mastodon! #megafauna https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/forensics-hunters-megafauna/

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

Small mammals give clues to #climate over past 200,000 years and probable #neanderthal refugia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25003736

Just days before Trump is set to arrive in the UK, a giant photo of the US president alongside convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been dramatically unfurled near Windsor Castle. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #gop #Politics #uspolitics #USpol […]

One of the truly excellent documentaries made by Hugh #brody, 'Hunters and Bombers' follows the campaign of the #innu, of the southern Labrador coast and interior, against the low-level NATO military flying that was impacting their lands and way of life […]

Can take or leave Redford (RIP) but fell in love at first sight with Rossellini's 'Green Porno' -- facilitated by Sundance https://youtu.be/A-CA9CNk_Xc?si=ZPWoR8sFFOMjpmH9

'The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory was established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021 to investigate all alleged violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. The three-member expert panel is chaired by Navi Pillay, a […]

Asian water monitors at home in #bangkok https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/15/little-godzilla-bangkok-reckons-with-its-giant-lizard-boom-aoe

'Here we make key progress by providing the first quantitative validation of a Pan vocal repertoire, specifically for wild bonobos. Using data comprising over 1500 calls from 53 adult individuals collected over 33 months, we employ machine-learning-based random forest analyses and describe 11 […]

How intonation affects children's understanding of verbal irony https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1672104/full

Detailed look at specific cranio-cervical features in #neanderthals and their function https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.70013?saml_referrer

Cats are not dogs, says science: "we believe it is time to change our research perspective on cats and find out more about what they can teach us about different ways of evolving mutually advantageous, but independence-based relationships with humans" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The majority of animals do show various forms of hierarchy - but is the concept of ‚alpha‘ relevant or even real? https://www.livescience.com/animals/are-alpha-males-real

Key paper on #knowledge transmission among #BaYaka hunter-gatherers by the excellent anthropologist Haneul Jang and colleague. #anthropology #culturalevolution https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/9/pgaf258/8249057?login=false

The film 'Young Mothers' by the #dardenne brothers looks a bit special. Ian Hunt tells me: 'It's set in a centre for young mothers. The film is, among much else, an amazing portrayal of a state-funded institution that works, relying on compassionate and also clear-sighted staff that are in the […]

Chris Knight with his family, kids, grandkids were on the #StanduptoRacism demo in Whitehall yesterday with the fascists slavering around them and trying to kettle them. Streetwise, they managed to slip up to Charing X but still fascists on the train (trying to say 'we're not fascists, just […]

Need to catch up with this book of archaeologist John Shea, since we often think on similar lines and he's a major expert of #neanderthal vs #HomoSapiens Middle East #Palaeolithic technology #archaeology […]

Looks a comprehensive review of #neanderthal Middle #Palaeolithic hunting strategies in #europe. The 'cow herds' they talk about are #bison, of which the Neanderthal did plenty of indiscriminate killing, then picking the best bits. #archaeology […]

Hard to beat this headline -- Cries into ties -- on oxytocin regulation of mouse pup vocalisations to make bonds with Mum https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea8966

This is an interesting paper on #luhya mourning #rituals, led by East African scholars #anthropology #prosociality #kenya https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.0213

I wonder why. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7dgd394kno

Dark #DNA of peacock #spiders could explain their extraordinary species diversity https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzl2zj72jo

We'll be starting our next series of LIVE and ZOOM talks at UCL in the autumn. Meanwhile please find links for Vimeo/YouTube recordings from the last two terms here ⬇️ https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/113040278455352994

This is a good piece on the fallacy of imagining that #egalitarianism among #huntergatherer forebears depended on women doing hunting. No, it doesn't! As argued here, women's role in gathering and childcare was more fundamental in creation of human society (language, ritual, art, culture […]

What can we learn from Language-trained #apes on #brain network plasticity #cognition #Neuroscience #communication #greatapes https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.70018

Early habitation of Central #iberia by #HomoSapiens adapting to a harsh climate. Evidence from the faunal remains points towards multiple human occupations between 36,200–26,260 years ago, during the #aurignacian and #gravettian periods […]