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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 **Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups**</p><p>“_We document an exception to this pattern in the wider Rhine-Meuse area in communities in the wetlands, riverine areas, and coastal areas of the western and central Netherlands, Belgium and western Germany, where we assembled genome-wide data for 109 people 8500-1700 BCE. Here, a distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry (∼50%) persisted up to three thousand years later than in continental European regions, reflecting limited incorporation of females of Early European Farmer ancestry into local communities._”</p><p>Olalde, I. et al. (2025) 'Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644985" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644</span><span class="invisible">985</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preprint</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genetics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Archaeodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeodons</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/archaeodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeodons</span></a></span></p>
Stan Carey<p>Reading this. It's a lot of fun, if you're into swearing, insults, and literary history</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/swearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swearing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AshleyMontagu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AshleyMontagu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/profanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>The aberrant 1950s model of the nuclear family has been set in stone as the 'traditional' form. But the idea that history began in the 1950s is weird: "the work and crucial roles women have played in society over time are being erased from history".</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/kinship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kinship</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://medium.com/exploring-history/the-1950s-and-the-myth-of-the-traditional-family-80d4032c044d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/exploring-history/t</span><span class="invisible">he-1950s-and-the-myth-of-the-traditional-family-80d4032c044d</span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>Oldest human face in Western Europe found in Spain, rewriting early European settlement history</p><p>A fascinating fossil find in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains has revealed that the beginnings of human habitation in Western Europe predate what scientists previously believed...</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/oldest-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/03/old</span><span class="invisible">est-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain/</span></a></p><p>Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeologynews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeologynews</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/homoerectus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homoerectus</span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>25,000-year-old mammoth bone site discovered in Lower Austria</p><p>An archaeological team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) has made a groundbreaking discovery in Langmannersdorf an der Perschling, Lower Austria, where remains of at least five mammoths, stone tools, and evidence of ivory processing were found...</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/mammoth-bone-site-discovered-in-lower-austria/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/03/mam</span><span class="invisible">moth-bone-site-discovered-in-lower-austria/</span></a></p><p>Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeologynews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeologynews</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stonetools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stonetools</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mammoth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mammoth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/iceage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iceage</span></a></p>
AnnaAnthro<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> annoyed the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithsonian</span></a> isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas </p><p>«&nbsp;New executive order slams the museum for recognizing "race is not a biological reality."&nbsp;» </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/museology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museums</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archeology</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/trump-annoyed-the-smithsonian-isnt-promoting-discredited-racial-ideas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/trump-annoyed-the-smithsonian-isnt-promoting-discredited-racial-ideas/</span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>Researchers uncover lost human lineage that shaped our evolution</p><p>A revolutionary study in genetics has upended the long-standing belief that modern humans originated from a single continuous lineage...</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/researchers-uncover-lost-human-lineage-that-shaped-our-evolution/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/03/res</span><span class="invisible">earchers-uncover-lost-human-lineage-that-shaped-our-evolution/</span></a></p><p>Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeologynews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeologynews</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Neanderthals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neanderthals</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/homosapiens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homosapiens</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>First burials: evidence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sharing culture 110,000 years ago</p><p>A recent discovery in Tinshemet Cave, central Israel, is changing the way we look at early human interactions. Archaeologists have found human burials from the Middle Paleolithic period, and they revealed that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens not only lived in the same region but also shared aspects of daily life...</p><p>More info: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/neanderthals-and-homo-sapiens-sharing-culture/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/03/nea</span><span class="invisible">nderthals-and-homo-sapiens-sharing-culture/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/neanderthal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neanderthal</span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>Most ancient Europeans had dark skin until 3,000 years ago, study finds</p><p>Dark skin was widespread across the continent for a considerably longer period of time than previously believed, according to a DNA study that has completely changed our perception of the appearance of ancient Europeans. In the study, 348 ancient human genomes from people who lived between 45,000 and 1,700 years ago were examined..</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/most-ancient-europeans-had-dark-skin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/03/mos</span><span class="invisible">t-ancient-europeans-had-dark-skin/</span></a></p><p>Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a></p>
Anne Fausto Sterling<p>Offering up a little science this morning as a corrective to all the sh-t that is taking up space in our brains. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04214-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-024</span><span class="invisible">-04214-3</span></a> 2,000-year-old DNA reveals that women in Celtic society stayed in their ancestral communities after marriage.</p>
Elisabeth M<p>Linguists, animal lovers, and infographic designers--this article is for you. A beautiful, scrolling animation providing a visual analysis of animal sounds across cultures. Meet: cat! duck! and pig! (if they spoke in IPA). <a href="https://pudding.cool/2025/03/language/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pudding.cool/2025/03/language/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/animation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cat</span></a></p>
Elisabeth M<p>I get really fed up with ... let's call it caveman essentialism? This is everywhere and speaking as an anthropologist, it's pure horseshit. The idea that "when we were cavemen" or "hunter-gatherers" or "back in the stone age," deployed to explain (read: justify, throw one's hands up at) modern, culturally specific behaviors, in the name of evolutionary biology ... this really gets my goat.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/anthropology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anthropology</span></a></span></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>2,400-year-old puppets discovered atop pyramid in El Salvador</p><p>In San Isidro, El Salvador, archaeologists have unearthed a stunning set of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets atop a pyramidal structure. These findings shed new light on ancient public rituals and cultural exchanges in Central America...</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/puppets-atop-pyramid-in-el-salvador/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/03/pup</span><span class="invisible">pets-atop-pyramid-in-el-salvador/</span></a></p><p>Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeologynews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeologynews</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sanisidro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sanisidro</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/puppets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>puppets</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/centralamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centralamerica</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mesoamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mesoamerica</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AncientRituals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientRituals</span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>Archaeologists uncover evidence of Neanderthal habitation in Ghamari Cave, Iran</p><p>Iranian archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence of human habitation in Ghamari Cave dating back 40,000 to 80,000 years. The cave is located near Khorramabad in Iran’s Lorestan Province. Among the discoveries were stone tools, animal bones, and pottery...</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/neanderthal-habitation-evidence-in-ghamari-cave-iran/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/03/nea</span><span class="invisible">nderthal-habitation-evidence-in-ghamari-cave-iran/</span></a></p><p>Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ancientiran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancientiran</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ghamaricave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ghamaricave</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paleolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleolithic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Neanderthals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neanderthals</span></a></p>
Flipboard Science Desk<p>1.4-million-year-old skull fragments linked to mystery human ancestor.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Gizmodo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Gizmodo</span></a></span> reports: "The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/L-sAAR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/L-sAAR</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Human</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropology</span></a></p>
InarticulateQuilter<p>My favorite non-fiction book is Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. Johanson. I reread it often, but it is wildly out of date</p><p>I’d like to find a similar, popular science-y book that will bring me up to speed on what’s happened in the paleoanthropology field recently - any recommendations? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a></p>
Quercus ⚫🟣⚪🟡<p>The family group/tribe is built on mutual support, but the modern conservative version is transactional, based on membership and loyalty. Actions that look like kindness are in reality actions to reinforce tribal loyalty. I think this is why so many people in conservative communties, who are trapped in entirely conservative information spaces, have a hard time breaking free. They see examples of community support as affirmations of their community goodness, and this narrative is drummed into them constantly. Conservative leaders have the advantage of labeling any disruptive people or ideas as 'foreign' and a threat, even if from within the community, so that they never even have to engage with new ideas on merit.</p><p>Kindness isnt a relevant trait to their tribal functioning, because the ability to be unkind and cruel to people who arent toeing the tribal line is necessary to upholding 'family law'. Kindness in others undermines their attempts to police peoples behavior (this is why its so important that men are in charge). Therefore, not only is kindness devalued, it is actively persecuted as a threat to conservative values. And that is only treatment of your in-group. If you reject kindness internally, imagine how easy it is to subject an out-group to cruel inhumanity. You can literally justify anything. What is horrifying is the degree to which everyday members of conservative communities have become willfully blind to the terrible treatment of others in order to hang on to an image of community goodness. I have witnessed far too much of this in my life.</p><p>Its worth stating that the left has its own, different kind of tribalism. They embrace kindness but there is a lot of pressure to prove the right kind of worth. It has a distinctly multicultural, anti-authoritarian tribalism, where the rules of the tribe are under constant negotiation. This makes communicating a platform challenging. Its a lot simpler for conservative platforms whose rules come from demagogues and an old book.</p><p>The flaw of designing a system without compassion is that the cruelty eventually becomes impossible to hide from the tribe, and the cruelty comes for everyone. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kindness</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/geopol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopol</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>In research on this talk, drawing on <a href="https://c.im/tags/ReichelDolmatoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReichelDolmatoff</span></a>'s classic <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tukano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tukano</span></a> ethnography, 'Amazonian Cosmos', Chris came across this excellent blog from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@TootTropiques" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TootTropiques</span></a></span> back in 2012. This discusses Reichel-Dolmatoff's <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> history in relation to his enormous contributions to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Colombian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colombian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> rights. Many anthropologists have taken inspiration from his work.</p><p><a href="https://ethnoground.blogspot.com/2012/09/putting-reich-back-in-reichel-dolmatoff.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ethnoground.blogspot.com/2012/</span><span class="invisible">09/putting-reich-back-in-reichel-dolmatoff.html?m=1</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>A poet-anthropologist reflects on the resistance of rural women in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brazilian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brazilian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cerrado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cerrado</span></a> whose wisdom and knowledge help cultivate life amid the devastation of large-scale plantations.</p><p>'Pequi activates a sense of time, space, and materiality. It refers to a type of fruit that sprouts at a particular time of the year. Its trees grow exclusively in cerrado lands. Yet the smell spreads and touches people through cooking, and on the wind.'</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.sapiens.org/culture/pequi-winds-poem-jacqueline-ferraz-de-lima/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sapiens.org/culture/pequi-wind</span><span class="invisible">s-poem-jacqueline-ferraz-de-lima/</span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>New study reveals Neanderthals faced a population crash 110,000 years ago</p><p>A new study has uncovered a major genetic bottleneck in Neanderthals about 110,000 years ago, shedding light on their demographic history and potential causes for their extinction. The research was conducted by an international team of scholars and published in Nature Communications...</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/02/neanderthals-faced-a-population-crash/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/02/nea</span><span class="invisible">nderthals-faced-a-population-crash/</span></a></p><p>Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Neanderthals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neanderthals</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/neanderthal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neanderthal</span></a></p>