Frankly, I don’t understand what all the damned war is about.
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It’s not fucking Middle Earth, there aren’t monsters, you’re supposed to be the smartest animal on Earth, figure out how to live already, WTF. You already invented birth control, FFS.
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anthropology
The Globe-Trotting Scholar Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aztecs
Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica
By Merilee Grindle
Zelia Nuttall at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35649
Jane Goodall
An intellectual powerhouse and dedicated conservationist, Goodall showed generations of humans how to engage with—and take care of—the natural world.
By: The Editors
dear anthropologists:
when I stretch a word in spoken english, I stretch the last vowel sound, so "cute" becomes something like "cyuuut."
but when I *write* that word, I stretch the last *symbol*, so "cute" becomes "cuteee".
however, I make a special exception for the letter k. for instance, "steak" would become "steaaak", and not "steakkk". this is because the letters "kkk" are still associated in my memory with racist cultists.
hope this helps, thank you!
Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist James George Frazer died #OTD in 1941.
He is best known for his influential work "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion," which explores the similarities among magical and religious beliefs across diverse cultures. Frazer proposed that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, and finally replaced by science.
Books by James George Frazer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1241
Uncontacted Amazon tribe photographed in unusual sighting near logging area in Peru
NBC News reports: "More than 750 people strong, [the Mashco Piro people] are believed to be the world’s largest uncontacted tribe, having survived massacres and enslavement during the rubber boom of the 19th century."
American archaeologist and anthropologist Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was born #OTD in 1857.
She discovered two forgotten manuscripts of pre-Columbian manuscripts in private collections, one of them being the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. She decoded the Aztec calendar stone and was one of the first to identify and recognise artefacts dating back to the pre-Aztec period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall
Books by Zelia Nuttal at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35649
Edited 1y ago
The Discovery of Australopithecus Africanus by Raymond Dart That Changed History
"In 1924, Raymond Dart discovered the Taung Child in South Africa. The first fossil of Australopithecus africanus became one of the most important of the 20th century."
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Some more unusual acquisitions from 2025.
- I purchased the last copy of the definitive retrospective on the #palaeoart of Zdenek #Burian from Albatros Media. Volume 3 focuses on his artwork of prehistoric humans. All these books are written in Czech, but the artwork is just lavish, and I'm a sucker for period palaeoart.
- I found a second-hand copy of the reissue of #AlexanderVonHumboldt's Views of Nature, released by the University of Chicago Press.
- #Spookslot - 44 jaar te gast bij de geesten, a Dutch book I hunted down via a friend, which was released to commemorate the closure of one of the most beloved attractions, Het Spookslot (a haunted house), in De #Efteling, a well-known Dutch amusement park I used to go to quite often as a child. I know they have completely rebuilt it into a new ride now with nods to the classic panoramic show, but I haven't visited it yet.
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We Didn’t All Evolve From One Population Of Early Humans, New Research Claims
"We've arrived at a place where we can begin to address some key questions about our shared ancestry and even emerge with new questions we haven't known to ask before."
https://allthatsinteresting.com/human-evolution-population-groups
We now know much more about how our ancestor 'Lucy' lived — and died
"Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died."
A lesson in coexistence
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)
by Toby Green
Guinea at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=guinea
Excavating a Language at the End of the World
How an old dictionary is revealing new perspectives on an Indigenous culture
BY KATARINA ZIMMER
Deep in the southern hemisphere, where frigid waves lap against the toe of the South American continent, the sea has no single name.
Anthropology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4343
Why Field Research Remains an Essential Part of Scientific Inquiry and Inclusion
Sarah Boon on the Trailblazing 19th-Century Women Who Fed Her Passion For the Natural World
Natural history - outdoor books at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1572
We are wayfinders
Navigation and spatial awareness sustained humans for tens of thousands of years. Have we lost the trail in modern times?
By Michael Bond
Anthropology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4343
What Are You Reading?
I’m at the car dealership this morning for some maintenance. What are you reading? For me it is The Fall by Albert Camus. Here’s an early excerpt from the book: “Anyone who has considerably meditated on man, by profession or vocation, is led to feel nostalgia for the primates. They at least don’t have any ulterior motives.”
#WhatAreYouReading #Reading #Books #Literature #Camus #Primates #Anthropology
catching up on anthropology dot net, just heard," They didn't come with the farmers," and happy to report it's a story that separates farming from war, tells a story of agriculture beginning and spreading by not conquest.
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It's important to me to separate those things. These moderns talk as if eating and killing were all one thing. I mean they speak of the very opposites of peaceful farming and violent migration together, like both are "civilization." I think it's important to know they do not travel together, that there was an "agricultural revolution," but also a military one and it is not efficacious to blame the war on the farmers
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.
#Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Honestly I have wasted my life trying to explain the simplest causality and science to them. They’re just too far gone, I mean historically and prehistorically, they seem to have arrived already too far gone. They continue on their divergent trajectory, but it doesn’t look like anything ever could have stopped them, even at the start.
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I see their life cycle, such as it is, I don’t mean it’s functional, but how do you change a life cycle? It’s like asking a caterpillar not to pupate. The first caterpillar that ever did likely didn’t think it had a choice about it.
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I might try my failed life experiment again if I had time and was a billionaire, except this time I’d lose the mother and pack my kids off to Mars to do it. Still, the first failure kind of suggests that wouldn’t work either.
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I know, NT psych even has reasons it wouldn’t work, repression and whatnot, but there’s hints that even without repressed abuse and attitude transmission, that a normal child may be sort of automatically abused and bitter, the way my kid speaks and knowing who I am and what I did, it’s like they can’t imaging a gentle father and couldn’t see one right in front of them. They know my unimpeachable history, they lived with me, but they’re sure I secretly wanted to hurt them regardless. The actual literal abscence of a crime carries no weight, they think they KNOW there had to be malice, this looks like paranoia to me, I can’t put a dent in it.
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And everything I ever felt thought said and did got erased by it.
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