Radical Anthropology<p>If these guys displayed such obnoxious behaviour in a civilized <a href="https://c.im/tags/egalitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>egalitarian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> society, they would be taken down mercilessly with <a href="https://c.im/tags/laughter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>laughter</span></a> and merriment -- almost always by older <a href="https://c.im/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>women</span></a>.</p><p>If they continued to throw their weight about with obnoxious <a href="https://c.im/tags/dominant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dominant</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/male" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>male</span></a> behaviour, they would be taken OUT. Certainly in the Kalahari that could be done by a child with a poisoned arrow. Most likely by a bunch of hunters doing it together.</p><p>But if these guys had grown up in such a society, it's extremely unlikely they'd behave like such assholes. For tens and hundreds of thousands of years, women simply selected against obnoxious male dominance. </p><p>It is only a recent historic aberration in the life of our species, and most normal human beings know it.</p>
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grateful wolf<p>termites and spirits and eland - oh my!</p><p>Rock Art and Hunter–Gatherer Landscapes: Iconography, Cosmology and Topography in Southern Africa [pdf, xml, epub 39pp] <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/RockArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RockArt</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/pictographs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pictographs</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/HunterGatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HunterGatherer</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/HunterForager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HunterForager</span></a> <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14/1/15" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">mdpi.com/2076-0752/14/1/15</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>7,000-year-old multi-component arrow poison discovered in South Africa</p><p>A groundbreaking discovery in South Africa’s Kruger Cave has uncovered early humans’ sophisticated hunting techniques. Researchers have confirmed that one of the oldest documented multi-component poison coatings on weapons dates back 7,000 years...</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/multi-component-arrow-poison-in-south-africa/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/01/mul</span><span class="invisible">ti-component-arrow-poison-in-south-africa/</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/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/poison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poison</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/KrugerCave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KrugerCave</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>A 🧵 for the hot topic of factors involved in <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/egalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>egalitarianism</span></a> here. Being friends and pupils of the late, great <a href="https://c.im/tags/JamesWoodburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JamesWoodburn</span></a>, we feel his use of 'egalitarian' reflects the dynamic quality of <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gender</span></a> relations (authors who discuss the issues are mentioned, off the top of my head! I will try to fill in details/sources later) </p><p>Woodburn had some brilliant stuff on gender buried in unpublished notes which we are getting some access to. In his classic 1982 article here, he's addressing egalitarianism among men</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gender</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://libcom.org/article/egalitarian-societies-james-woodburn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">libcom.org/article/egalitarian</span><span class="invisible">-societies-james-woodburn</span></a></p><p>1/</p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Day 9: <a href="https://c.im/tags/HelgaVierich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HelgaVierich</span></a> talks about ancient stories from the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kalahari" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kalahari</span></a>. This material is super important for anyone who wants to know about <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gender</span></a> relations.</p><p>How do children learn to be human? Adults model behaviour and instruct morals by examples, with the help of the stories. These can be original myths, biblical and folktales, or sometimes parables, coming-of-age adventures, and legends, that illustrate good as well as bad outcomes. Here one such tale is recounted, as told to an anthropologist by a Kua storyteller in the southeastern Kalahari four decades ago. This features the Creator, a termite mound, a Buffalo wife, foolish humans, and poisonous farts. Enjoy.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/13daysofXmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>13daysofXmas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RAGtoptalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RAGtoptalks</span></a> <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/egalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>egalitarianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndigenousCosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousCosmology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/703668006?turnstile=0.dTAaLPXqbTgk09m0a-WmaXvUCCiWVTKfPr2tffo1ssVTfcKvuFdSMcboGvNbwrgQqPM2UhkiLK4tXhIq7zvHZxvlcoxYcb8SzMc5yFQJYQkI6UqqWq1bNxh0LG4cE03k79pCnow0sG-B1Jk0as7kAsbyiV6OjUkQzsAzpi279lS7vbjEsxL1mWVFKrvZEEvkF3fhHxsMqSVYzXgY20iEJV_6aMsBoW5gxfCGGBdsGuBgGHaaluN427lAK5MPgWeSyfqLtcOWznIrRKkdSr8gjcahI57Kms-GFS-Hny-wbwhEgD1qT5QoR1IdtZWtw2wrhGD3nSBr9NfKsshnFeTljFtod9Urck9dX_V2wShHqXxP06TMNZ05cKu0DsN5QX6xQZvtIFg4sSqn_h7E4sTSVTtqTXXGNOka_g0cdkM0mlu-R8s3yyAI9kQ6o_iCvMKdVd_EbDPHTPlNR78tyjFXYFdmMyaUNkLAkmyjbRcom9R-E7Ua9xTnqGvyS-zgfFzJjtoQPmmuv-8wmyMzuw10QMTF9Drfbltwgp3shaRNx-3gC8T_6rWCxvUCqXvKE_GIgmKIDrVNc5jhJyJrLXxAl2QiQvv6hWj9DbW9HRQnnImBao5lfwerEVW0mgHKzl067e7Z5dLhHM_4E5QQT5SAZT0lEWat8ekn08qjLyA0Si3qzoDchmEIAENz7ewpDOu7ajbb0MxNOD0yVf91L8UAepWQU_x0s4mcDE-Wx8J-784wQp2jSG64_NCKoP52yWNu.GENHmX2V-3nSpgJRix8U8w.d2d81da8a5a6aba4d70fc8a3deb59fce2c115d4c840d8fd9cf9d1f06db31a1e3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vimeo.com/703668006?turnstile=</span><span class="invisible">0.dTAaLPXqbTgk09m0a-WmaXvUCCiWVTKfPr2tffo1ssVTfcKvuFdSMcboGvNbwrgQqPM2UhkiLK4tXhIq7zvHZxvlcoxYcb8SzMc5yFQJYQkI6UqqWq1bNxh0LG4cE03k79pCnow0sG-B1Jk0as7kAsbyiV6OjUkQzsAzpi279lS7vbjEsxL1mWVFKrvZEEvkF3fhHxsMqSVYzXgY20iEJV_6aMsBoW5gxfCGGBdsGuBgGHaaluN427lAK5MPgWeSyfqLtcOWznIrRKkdSr8gjcahI57Kms-GFS-Hny-wbwhEgD1qT5QoR1IdtZWtw2wrhGD3nSBr9NfKsshnFeTljFtod9Urck9dX_V2wShHqXxP06TMNZ05cKu0DsN5QX6xQZvtIFg4sSqn_h7E4sTSVTtqTXXGNOka_g0cdkM0mlu-R8s3yyAI9kQ6o_iCvMKdVd_EbDPHTPlNR78tyjFXYFdmMyaUNkLAkmyjbRcom9R-E7Ua9xTnqGvyS-zgfFzJjtoQPmmuv-8wmyMzuw10QMTF9Drfbltwgp3shaRNx-3gC8T_6rWCxvUCqXvKE_GIgmKIDrVNc5jhJyJrLXxAl2QiQvv6hWj9DbW9HRQnnImBao5lfwerEVW0mgHKzl067e7Z5dLhHM_4E5QQT5SAZT0lEWat8ekn08qjLyA0Si3qzoDchmEIAENz7ewpDOu7ajbb0MxNOD0yVf91L8UAepWQU_x0s4mcDE-Wx8J-784wQp2jSG64_NCKoP52yWNu.GENHmX2V-3nSpgJRix8U8w.d2d81da8a5a6aba4d70fc8a3deb59fce2c115d4c840d8fd9cf9d1f06db31a1e3</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Day 6: the brilliant <a href="https://c.im/tags/DenizSalali" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DenizSalali</span></a><br /> talks about her decade of fieldwork with BaYaka children and how they become active and autonomous people in an egalitarian <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> society of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Congo</span></a> rainforest.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/13daysofXmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>13daysofXmas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RAGtoptalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RAGtoptalks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndigenousCosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousCosmology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/911265804" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vimeo.com/911265804</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>The Planet's Melting Glaciers Are Releasing A Treasure Trove Of Ancient Artifacts<br>--<br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/the-planet-s-melting-glaciers-are-releasing-a-treasure-trove-of-ancient-artifacts-1.7413713" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/radio/quirks/the-planet</span><span class="invisible">-s-melting-glaciers-are-releasing-a-treasure-trove-of-ancient-artifacts-1.7413713</span></a> <-- shared media article / radio audio<br>--<br><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lisa-baril/the-age-of-melt/9781643261515/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hachettebookgroup.com/titles/l</span><span class="invisible">isa-baril/the-age-of-melt/9781643261515/</span></a> <-- shared link to book<br>--<br><a href="https://secretsoftheice.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">secretsoftheice.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <-- link to web site, Secrets of the Ice - The Archaeology of Glaciers and Ice Patches<br>--<br><a href="https://youtu.be/9bpGsHWckCA?si=FE66aJyNHX4pIuln" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/9bpGsHWckCA?si=FE66aJ</span><span class="invisible">yNHX4pIuln</span></a> <-- Secrets of the Ice overview video<br>--<br>[this post should not be considered an endorsement of this book]<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hunting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/artifacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artifacts</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/melting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>melting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glacial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glacial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/snow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snow</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/otzi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otzi</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/iceman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iceman</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/warming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/icepatcharcheology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>icepatcharcheology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/atlatl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atlatl</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/perennialice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perennialice</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancient</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/prehistoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prehistoric</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cultures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cultures</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glacialarchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glacialarchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/arrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrow</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tools</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/artefacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artefacts</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Huntergatherer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>children</span></a> doodling in the corner of an <a href="https://c.im/tags/IceAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IceAge</span></a> cave 14,000 years ago</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/childdevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>childdevelopment</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/enigmatic-cave-art-was-made-ice-age-children" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/en</span><span class="invisible">igmatic-cave-art-was-made-ice-age-children</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>This is quite an important paper: no other species than humans shows <a href="https://c.im/tags/Inequityaversion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inequityaversion</span></a>, the basic element of fairness. This is fundamental to <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> ways of life.</p><p>'Disadvantageous inequity aversion (IA), a negative response to receiving less than others, is a key building block of the human sense of fairness. While some theorize that IA is shared by species across the animal kingdom, others argue that it is an exclusively human evolutionary adaptation to the selective pressures of cooperation among non-kin. Essential to this debate is the empirical question of whether non-human animals are averse towards unequal resource distributions.'</p><p><a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1452" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rspb.2024.1452</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>A superb and scholarly analysis of <a href="https://c.im/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> pigment use by our very own <a href="https://c.im/tags/IanWatts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IanWatts</span></a>.</p><p>World expert on Middle Stone Age <a href="https://c.im/tags/red" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>red</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ochre" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ochre</span></a>, he is extending to <a href="https://c.im/tags/plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>plant</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pigments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pigments</span></a> in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/ethnographic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethnographic</span></a> record.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cosmetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cosmetics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pigment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pigment</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ritual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hunting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/initiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>initiation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/blood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blood</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/symbolicculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>symbolicculture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humanevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanevolution</span></a> <br /><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416524000588" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0278416524000588</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Great new piece from Vivek <a href="https://c.im/tags/Venkataraman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Venkataraman</span></a> on what we can learn from <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> decision-making processes </p><p>'For the vast majority of human history, people made group decisions through consensus. It is perhaps the most conspicuous feature of political life among recent hunter-gatherer societies, from the Ju/’hoansi to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia to the Indigenous societies of the early Americas. As an anthropologist, I have observed consensus-based decision-making myself among hunter-gatherers in the rainforests of Malaysia.'</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/decisionmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>decisionmaking</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/egalitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>egalitarian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ju" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ju</span></a>/'hoansi <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kalahari" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kalahari</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ju-hoansi-can-tell-us-about-group-decision-making" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/what-the-ju-hoa</span><span class="invisible">nsi-can-tell-us-about-group-decision-making</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>This research is really sweet -- showing the size and complexity of ancient <a href="https://c.im/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> networks, before farming.</p><p>Hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo maintained social networks across vast distances thousands of years before agriculture arrived. The cultural diversity is shown in musical instruments, specialist vocabulary and genetic analyses.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genetics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/culturalevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>culturalevolution</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2024/Hunter-Gatherers.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/</span><span class="invisible">2024/Hunter-Gatherers.html</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>This will be fascinating, on <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maloti" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maloti</span></a>-Drakensberg <a href="https://c.im/tags/rockart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rockart</span></a> dating to the Holocene <a href="https://c.im/tags/neoglacial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>neoglacial</span></a> in their montane environment, c.3500-2000 BP. </p><p>"As desirable game declined and hunting windows narrowed, we suggest that Neoglacial foragers sought to manage scheduling and social conflicts through enhanced spiritual negotiation with non-human entities in the landscape. Facilitated by the supernaturally charged nature of their elevated cosmos, this intensified spiritual labour may have found material expression in an elaborate new style of painting."</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/southernAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>southernAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rockpainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rockpainting</span></a> <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2023.2244923" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10</span><span class="invisible">80/0035919X.2023.2244923</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>This analysis of animal <a href="https://c.im/tags/tracks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tracks</span></a> and human footprints in prehistoric <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rockart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rockart</span></a> of the Doro! nawas mountains (<a href="https://c.im/tags/Namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Namibia</span></a>) involved <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ju" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ju</span></a>|’hoansi San tracking experts Tsamgao Ciqae, |Ui Kxunta and Thui Thao <br /> <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289560" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.plos.org/plosone/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289560</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Watch this extraordinary film by <a href="https://c.im/tags/BruceParry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BruceParry</span></a> and RAG's <a href="https://c.im/tags/JeromeLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JeromeLewis</span></a> on <a href="https://c.im/tags/BaYaka" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BaYaka</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> gender relations. From 5:30 to 8 mins in this video, there's a precious sequence of women's <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ngoku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ngoku</span></a> ritual. Women don't just seize public space, they seize the collective means of <a href="https://c.im/tags/reproduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>reproduction</span></a> </p><p>Young Ngoku initiates come swaggering in, singing, dancing, incredibly rude about men's bits: ' Cunts win, pricks are useless!. They appropriate male ORGANS -- sugar-cane tubes used to accurately mine premature ejaculation. The grannies have taught them how to do it!</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/-SnI0PKXqhc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/-SnI0PKXqhc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Article of mine almost 20 years old on the linkage of women's 🩸and game animal 🩸in <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> ethnography and <a href="https://c.im/tags/rockart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rockart</span></a> from S/E <a href="https://c.im/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Africa</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/UpperPalaeolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UpperPalaeolithic</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/pdf/pub_power_rockart.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">radicalanthropologygroup.org/s</span><span class="invisible">ites/default/files/pdf/pub_power_rockart.pdf</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>In our view, the most significant book on <a href="https://c.im/tags/humanorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanorigins</span></a> from last century, focused on the emergence of <a href="https://c.im/tags/symbolicculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>symbolicculture</span></a> is <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChrisKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChrisKnight</span></a> 's<br />'Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture' (1991, Yale UP)</p><p>A <a href="https://c.im/tags/marxist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>marxist</span></a> and structuralist, Knight saw the domain of symbolism as critical to becoming human. He produced a comprehensive interdisciplinary volume combining <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherer</span></a> ethnography, <a href="https://c.im/tags/primate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>primate</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/behaviouralecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>behaviouralecology</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>archaeology</span></a> -- even early molecular genetics (this was when <a href="https://c.im/tags/AfricanEve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AfricanEve</span></a> was 1st dated). Following primatologists like <a href="https://c.im/tags/SarahHrdy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SarahHrdy</span></a> he put female strategies front and centre of his account.</p><p>From his <a href="https://c.im/tags/socialanthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialanthropology</span></a> background, Knight was aware of taboos on <a href="https://c.im/tags/menstruation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>menstruation</span></a> and initiation <a href="https://c.im/tags/rituals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rituals</span></a>, and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/totemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>totemic</span></a> logic of sexual and economic exchange in hunter-gatherer economics. He argued for a culture-creating <a href="https://c.im/tags/sexstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sexstrike</span></a> as source of human solidarity ✊</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/humanorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanorigins</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/sexstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sexstrike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humanrevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanrevolution</span></a> </p><p>You can download the book here<br /><a href="https://libcom.org/article/blood-relations-menstruation-and-origins-culture-chris-knight-complete-book" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">libcom.org/article/blood-relat</span><span class="invisible">ions-menstruation-and-origins-culture-chris-knight-complete-book</span></a></p>
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